is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

  • LillyPip
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    1 year ago

    No it doesn’t.

    This may be hard to understand if you don’t know how it works, but nothing is being converted. It’s like opening a .docx in a .txt editor. It will show you the data it can, and there’s lots of crossover in image formats.

    Sorry, I can’t explain it better without getting more technical than you can probably understand, but it’s not converting anything.

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      1 year ago

      I know it doesn’t convert, lol. It’s a loophole to get around places that don’t accept webp as an extension. It still reads it just fine. Thanks for the condescending attitude though, it made me laugh.

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        1 year ago

        Sorry, I didn’t mean to be condescending. Glad it made you laugh, tho.

        I’m only trying to educate because most people seem to think everything should be a jpg or think it’s all magic (this thread is full of that), and this is one of the few topics I know quite a lot about.

        Didn’t mean to offend.

        e: rereading my last comment, I see what you mean. What I meant was it takes understanding of several scientific papers detailing the algorithms (which took me a bit to understand), and I can’t easily condense that into a comment online. Sorry for how that came across.

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          No problem, you’re still a 100x better than most of reddit. I realize that I wasn’t changing the file type, it’s just that some sites don’t accept webp. It doesn’t make a visual difference so I don’t really care and change it. You’re right in that I don’t know what it actually does though and why some sites don’t want them.

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            I don’t miss Reddit. XD

            You shouldn’t have to care, honestly. It should just work.

            I had to learn all this because I was chief designer for one of the main companies that came up with these formats, but nobody else should have to care about this shit. The fact that this is a post in 2023* makes me feel like we’ve failed.

            You shouldn’t even have to think about this.

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              1 year ago

              Isn’t that a marketing problem? You can make the best format in the world but if no one knows about it. Cool job though.

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                No, everyone knows these formats, just not what they’re for. Like people use jpg for everything when they should be using png. Like in this entire discussion.

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                    Okay, inasmuch as everyone in this thread not understanding the difference between png and jpg is a marketing problem.

                    Instead of thinking it’s a user issue, it should be up to developers to make sure the user doesn’t have to care. I promise they won’t either way.

                    It’s a development problem.

                    e: extra word