Hugging Face quietly added model file size display, a big QoL win
vboykis · x · 2026-10-21
vboykis spotted that Hugging Face now shows model file sizes directly on repo pages (e.g. 2.37 GB), a quiet but significant quality-of-life improvement: users can estimate disk/VRAM needs before downloading without digging through config files.
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