I understand that this would be a huge undertaking, and I really don't know if it's feasible at all. I just wanted to bring it up as a concern of mine.

Recently, I upgraded to a MacBook Pro with Retina display. Ever since, Subeta honestly hasn't been as fun for me. Since the images on Subeta are really tiny, when they get scaled up for the double-pixel Retina resolution (1280 x 800 from 2560 x 1600), they look blurry and horrible. It takes all the beauty out of the art :( I can run the screen at its native pixel resolution of 2560 x 1600, but then everything is unbelievably tiny on my laptop screen and, although Subeta images are sharp, they're almost too tiny to see.

I'm just thinking towards the future of displays here, and wondering if there would be any way to push towards having at least some images gradually uploaded in both regular size and doubled size for higher resolution and/or Retina displays. I know that the artists generally work in images bigger than the ones that are actually put on Subeta.

I guess it's really hard to keep resolution compatibility on a site that's so many years old... obviously 8 years ago screen resolutions were completely different, and no one would have imagined a 2560 x 1600 px display on a laptop, or the Retina technology that makes everything but lo-res images look amazing.

What are you browsing the site in? DIfferent browsers have different rendering, which, when coupled with an over-the-top resolution, could compound the problem.

I would also recommend playing around with some more of the scaling options. 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 1200 (whatever is available, not a Mac owner) would probably be more of a 'mid-line' option for you. Also, adjusting your browser zoom settings in conjunction with the resolution might find you the sweet spot. Most browsers natively save the zoom setting by website, so it wouldn't affect the rest of your web experience. Similarly, there are apps/extensions that can help tweak zoom even further (changing only text or certain images, or giving you zoom on hover capability).

The rest of the net looks bad too, an aspect of it is what you get for upgrading so far ahead of the curve. XGA 1024 x 768 is still the 'standard' (as much as there is any such thing) even though many consumers have upgraded to minimum 1920 x 1080. Subeta is just fairly visual so it suffers even more than other, primary-text websites. The Retina resolution is nice, but it is not going to become anything close to commonplace/standard enough to be designed around any time soon. It would be great if the site could look nice in any res, but in the meantime I don't have a problem with them not immediately jumping to reach each new milestone.

Yeah, I totally agree with you. I don't have a problem, exactly, with it either. Because Subeta is not a site where you only need to change a couple images to fix things. I guess I'm just thinking of the future and having it as something they could keep in mind down the road - like you said, with so many consumers updating to 1920x1080. I wasn't presenting it specifically as a Retina thing but as generally a hi-res thing (because in hi-res on a smaller screen, the images may not be blurry but they are tiny).

The site actually does look somewhat better in Firefox than in Safari. I use Safari for everything, but I'm thinking of playing Subeta in Firefox instead. I think Safari tries to smooth the images out, which does not look good for things like Subeta item images. Firefox doesn't try to apply any smoothing. So things look kind of pixelly and mildly blurred, but not as terrible where it looks like I need glasses. Chrome does the same kind of smoothing as Safari, and oddly that's because it's supposed to support Retina displays, but to me it makes things look worse.

I'll try and look for some of those extensions. :) I'm mainly interested in trying to get Safari to stop smoothing images out when it scales them up, because I like Safari.

Unfortunately this just isn't something that is possible at the moment :(