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What's actually inside an image's DPI tag (and why changing it is lossless)

Explains DPI metadata handling and lossless changes for web images.

Steady

15

signal score

as of 1d ago

Too early

trajectory — needs a few more snapshots

Why this scored 15

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40 max

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+6.0 / 25 max

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25 max

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+9.6 / 10 max

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty0.2 / 30 max

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite15.4

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Signal history

7-day window (free)

Entities

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