Clipping still loads the whole image, but I've never held the reason as "think of the poor!" It's mostly a "we don't want image clutter everywhere," while still allowing image-style expression.

Places that allow massive images aren't all that cool. As for increasing width 50px, uhm... I have no particular reason to say no to that, but... not at this time.

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