My Images Are Dithered | Hacker News

Hacker News users debated image dithering and concluded it helps only in limited cases for lossless formats.

For photos, JPEG and especially WebP were described as offering better compression than palette reduction.

Commenters framed dithering mostly as an aesthetic effect rather than a superior compression strategy.

The discussion highlights a common tradeoff in web images: visual style versus file size efficiency.