>>1200927
thus first of all Im doing the english side of panda, Im well aware how disgustingly bloated some artists galleries are, some files goes over placebo levels of "quality" in their settings, the idea is re-encode a lot of shit, similar to how I have been reencoding some of the ultra bloated shit Japs uploads to their fantia pages, the main issues with boorus (like r34 and such) is people uploading the same pic dozen of times or bandwidth, the latter being the biggest issues since storage costs has been going down as the years goes on, a more careful encoding/compression will make shit more reasonable sized, it all depends though what format you are using and if you are find losing a 5% of quality (when I encode some some really bloated PNGs into JPG I leave it around 95% quality, if they are "reasonable" sized though I leave them be) , unless you are printing or actually working on it like translating it or something like that where you would ideally look for the highest version possible, a minimal loss that hardly would be noticeable should be accepted I guess.

tl;dr: We could get around to reasonable sizes, it just a big matter of lack of time/money/distribution of work(load)

>>1200935
Gallery-dl works perfectly for me on that regard, you need to put your login credentials (OAuth) on it to make it work
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/1304#issuecomment-778345448