Automating Image Compression

A designer confessed their portfolio was crawling under 100+ giant images and blamed Figma’s default PNG exports for being chunky. Their fix: automate compression so they stop manually re-exporting forever. Cue the comments: one camp cheered the automation, another slammed the plan as naïve. “You’re oversimplifying image optimization,” scolded a skeptic, warning that the proposed workflow doesn’t even commit optimized files and could leave pictures looking weird. Translation: if you don’t squeeze images before adding them to your project, you’re just kicking the can down the road.

Then the “just click the button” brigade showed up. “Figma literally has a quality dropdown,” one user pointed out, linking to the official Figma settings. It’s the internet’s favorite trope: the quick fix vs. the Rube Goldberg pipeline. Adding spice, a sharp-eyed commenter caught a copy/paste mix-up in the post’s sample files and posted their own results, turning this into an impromptu fact-check. The vibe? Team Automate vs. Team Use the Tool Properly vs. Team Pixel Police. Jokes about the “Dropdown Defense” flew, and someone coined the perfect meme: “Have you tried turning your PNG down and back on?” The only thing smaller than those compressed files was the patience in the thread.