MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.

Created for everyday people and designed to be easily shared with family and friends, it serves as an alternative to questionable “free” online tools.

See how you can easily self-host it here:
https://github.com/civilblur/mazanoke

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Highlights from v1.1.5 (view full release note)

The focus of this release has been to improve the core foundation and file format support, but I’m planning to expand with more features further down the road in order to improve the usefulness of MAZANOKE (while still keeping the UX simple).

  • Support basic authentication for Docker setups.
  • TIFF file format support.
    • Convert from TIFF → JPG, PNG, WebP, ICO
  • ICO file format support.
    • Convert from and to an ICO image.

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I also feel incredibly honored that MAZANOKE was recently featured on several of my favorite communities:

It’s been incredible to see the growth of the user base, with over 54,000 docker pulls for the previous release alone, and now reaching over 1400 stars! I never anticipated this at all and I’m truly grateful for the support!

I’d like to thank everyone who helped spread the word, whether through starring, word of mouth, community engagement, blog posts, or by packaging it for things like Unraid and NixOS, and everything in between!

    • lent9004@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      To preface a bit. I occasionally run my images through Sharp over CLI, and I am also a daily user of the Caesium desktop app. However, I haven’t explored the details of how Caesium is implemented.

      The biggest difference is that MAZANOKE targets a different user group, essentilly those who would use online tools over installing applications, which is something you see more of these days. I wanted my family and friends to have a safe drop-in replacement for those shady websites. For those who want to use a “native app”, installing MAZANOKE as a PWA is also a great option.

      In terms of core functionality, they are very similar and support the same output image formats. But at the end of the day, MAZANOKE is privacy-focused too, and have plans to add a simple image editor for obfuscation, cropping, and related features. You can also access MAZANOKE anywhere, whether it is self-hosted or on the official instance.

      Fundamentally, MAZANOKE relies heavily on the device, and the browser’s Canvas API. This means that the speed and quality could slightly differ depending on which device/browser you use. I believe Caesium’s performance would be more consistent.

      (I didn’t know where to put this, but my favorite feature is being able to paste to compress an image right away using MAZANOKE.)

      Edit: typo

    • jogai_san@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Its a hosted tool and everything runs in the browser. It would be interesting to compare results because it could be that c++ is better suited for these kinds of operations.