ThumbHash: A better compact image placeholder hash
I hate these blurry image thumbnails, much prefer some sort of hole, and just wait for a better thumbnail (look at youtube for this, or basically any site).  I'd much rather see engineers spending more time making the thumbnails load faster (improving their backend throughput, precache thumbnails, better compression, etc).  The blurry thumbnails have 2 issues 1) trick person into thinking they're loaded, especially if there's a flicker before the blurry thumbnails are displayed!!!  so then the brain has to double back and look at the new image.  2) have a meaning that content is blocked from viewing