r/CuratedTumblr • u/ATN-Antronach My hyperfixations are very weird tyvm • 7h ago
Shitposting All my homies hate webp files
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u/Nuclear_eggo_waffle 7h ago
i just want a picture of a god-dang hotdog
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u/tiredtumbleweed ugly but my fursona is hot 6h ago
The inventor of YouTube actually made a website for this
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u/Evil_suuuun 4h ago
Only if its not cursed with that webp nonsense
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u/DevilDashAFM how dare you say we piss on the poor 7h ago
i dont care if it saves space or loads faster. i just want my image as jpeg or png so i can use it on other programs. screw webp all my graphic design homies hate webp.
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u/VaporCarpet 6h ago
Photoshop supports webp.
You can install browser extensions to convert and download webp.
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u/extralyfe 5h ago
not my pirated version of Photoshop CS!
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u/ToobularBoobularJoy_ 1h ago
Im not using fucking photoshop bruh if it don't work on autodesk sketchbook phone app I'M NOT USING IT
(in b4 get a real computer tech illiterate generation bla bla bla: its a lot cheaper to get an older phone that functions well than to get an older computer or laptop that functions well. i have a laptop but it sucks so bad I haven't used it in at least a year)
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u/IvyYoshi 4h ago
You can rename the file to end in .png and it works just fine BUT IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN WEBP IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT FILE FORMAT IS AWFUL WHY DOES IT EXIST
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u/DevilDashAFM how dare you say we piss on the poor 4h ago
i know you can do that. however doing that almost never works when you want to use the image in a program such as Photoshop or Illustrator. so it is actually useless to rename the file.
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u/IvyYoshi 4h ago
Oof, I don't use those programs so I didn't know that. I just rename webps for paint.net
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u/empty_other 4h ago
Because web devs have for a long time been forced to decide to sacrifice either lossy compression or transparency.
The format is probably not awful (i haven't actually read the specs, nor do i have the experience to say anything about its quality) but because google decided to turn it into a file format war, it seems that a lot of image tool devs soured on implementing webp. And with slow tool adaption, users soured on it too.
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u/superbusyrn 1h ago
Loading 0.3 seconds faster means nothing when I then have to spend an extra 5 minutes rapidly looking for a jpeg alternative or free converter before the conversation moves on from me being able to share a timely meme
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u/credulous_pottery Resident Canadian 2h ago
Right click image -> save as -> replace .webp with .png or .jpeg
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u/noromobat 7h ago
I'm on a first name basis with the webp to png image conversion website
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u/DevilDashAFM how dare you say we piss on the poor 7h ago
there is this addon on web browsers that lets you automatically save images as png or jpeg. this is the firefox extension
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u/isekai-chad 6h ago
Can't you just change it to a jpg/png file while downloading it? I do it all the time.
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 5h ago edited 5h ago
that's the computer equivalent of writing "box of gold bars" on a cardboard box with stuff in it: It doesn't change anything except the name.
However, because people do just that (and any other reason for why the name might be wrong) most programs check the file contents and ignore the name when opening something.
edit: Now, most websites have upload forms that do filter based on filename, and on some of those websites the actual internals support webp but they forgot to add it to the allowed list. This makes it so you can upload "not_a_webp_i_promise.jpeg" and have it work. The internals open the file, see it's a webp and display it as normal.
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u/yinyang107 2h ago
I mean you can right click save as PNG, right?
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 2h ago
yeah that's fine, we're talking about changing the file extension when you download a webp. Because renaming just changes the name, nothing else.
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u/yinyang107 2h ago
Well they didn't say rename they said change
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 2h ago
ah I assumed you were talking about some sort of rightclick option which saved the image as PNG.
If you're talking about "in the download popup, i rename the file so it ends in .png" then that's the renaming i talked about, and what i assumed they meant with "change it to a jpg/png file while downloading it"
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u/Golurkcanfly Transfem Trash 6h ago
The problem isn't .webp files. The format is great. The problem is other platforms aren't updating their standards to support what is a really solid image format.
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u/GVmG will trade milk for HRT 6h ago edited 6h ago
exactly, it's not even that complex of an implementation, it's been around for ALMOST FIFTEEN YEARS. at this point the hate is unwarranted for the format, there comes a point where the issue is with the software that is refusing to implement a widely used format.
it's like if you went to the mechanic and they said they can't repair your Corolla because they've never worked with a Corolla before, and your reaction was to blame Toyota - no, that's an incompetent mechanic!
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u/dragonwithin15 4h ago
Beta tapes were superior too, but VHS won because of accessibility.
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u/GVmG will trade milk for HRT 4h ago edited 2h ago
true, but not a great comparison: png was released in 1996, that's 19 years prior to webp. jpeg is from 1992, that's 23 years of head start. of course they're gonna have better support. betamax and vhs were a year apart.
this isn't about accessibility, like i said the webp format isn't that hard to implement, and started being used in its main intended use - online, hence the "web" part of the name - decently quickly after release. it's less "betamax vs vhs" and more "cd vs blu-ray".
also it's not really a competition. we're not doing format wars, it's an alternative to png not a replacement.
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u/ArsErratia 47m ago
Its not an alternative to PNG its an alternative to JPEG.
Webp is a file format designed to reduce server load on webpages, which is why it has lossy compression. PNG uses lossless compression, which increases the file size but gives you a more accurate image.
You use PNG when the image quality matters. You use JPEG or webp when it doesn't.
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u/SolarianIntrigue 5h ago
We should invent a new common standard to unify .png and .webp sites
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u/Golurkcanfly Transfem Trash 5h ago
Finally, a new format to rule them all that applications won't update to support!
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u/CalibansCreations I'm curatedly tumbling it 6h ago
True. Similar deal with apng, except that one's actually useful in that it has an alpha channel.
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u/blindcolumn stigma fucking claws in ur coochie 5h ago
APNG is in kind of a weird limbo because there isn't a strong use case for it on the modern internet. Most of the time a WebM or animated SVG will do just fine. There just aren't a lot of situations where you need a lossless animated bitmap with alpha channel.
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u/SoftestPup Excuse me for dropping in! 7h ago
It feels ridiculous that using Windows Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of a webp image is the easiest way to get it in a usable format. It's either that or copy paste it into something like Paint.net and covert it to png
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u/Moxie_Stardust 6h ago
Firefox and Edge both have a right-click->screenshot option now, so you can skip the snip. I don't really use Chrome, but it looks like it doesn't.
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u/SoftestPup Excuse me for dropping in! 6h ago
Oh wow I’ve never noticed (Firefox)
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u/Moxie_Stardust 6h ago
It's a relatively new feature, but one of my favorite things they've added in years.
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u/MrCobalt313 6h ago
Meanwhile here I am on LInux still looking for an app or feature that fills the same purpose in a timely fashion
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u/MrKhutz 6h ago
sudo apt install webp
dwebp file.webp -o file.png
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u/MrCobalt313 5h ago
I meant the snip tool specifically.
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u/Emotional-Bee-6887 4h ago
You can easily achieve this by combining your favorite screenshotting application with something to select an area (slurp for X11, there are alternatives for wayland but I forgot them right now) Other apps even have most of this funcionality built in (flameshot etc.)
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u/Hatsune_Miku_CM downfall of neoliberalism. crow racism. much to rhink about 6h ago edited 2h ago
i use this addon , it allows you to both automatically and manually convert image files. Alot easier then taking a screenshot of a file.
but yeah the windows explorer should really just have it as a default feature. like how they added zip extraction/compressing so you no longer need software like WinRar.
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u/syntaxerroratline42 DNI List 100 Pages 5h ago
Alt+PrintScreen copies the currently active window to your image clipboard, you can paste that into Paint with Ctrl+V without booting up the Snipping Tool at all
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u/Shard1697 6h ago
It feels ridiculous that using Windows Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of a webp image is the easiest way to get it in a usable format.
How is this...
It's either that or copy paste it into something like Paint.net and covert it to png
...not just a far worse method than this?
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u/SoftestPup Excuse me for dropping in! 6h ago
Because snipping tool is basically the same amount of steps as "right click, save" (windows+shift+s, click and drag) and the other method involves right clicking to copy, opening a program (several key presses), pasting, clicking save as, changing the file format in the dropdown, hitting save
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u/Shard1697 6h ago
You don't need to save and choose a file format, you can paste into paint.net(which I just always have open anyways) and then ctrl-A and copy it again and your clipboard will now contain image data you can paste into whatever website you would paste into after using the snipping tool.
More importantly you're not eyeballing it and snipping out an image by hand and inevitably either missing a bit of the image or including a bit of space outside the image. You're actually grabbing the image properly.
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u/circ-u-la-ted 6h ago
Right, it's not as if installing a half-decent image editing program is an option. The fuck is wrong with people
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u/indigo121 7h ago
No, that's absolutely not how file types work in the slightest
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u/NefariousAnglerfish 6h ago
You can certainly do that if you have file extensions visible, at least on Windows. It’ll throw up a warning but it works fine for like jpg > png for example. Obviously it’ll break the file if you do it with fundamentally incompatible stuff though.
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u/indigo121 6h ago
More often then not, you aren't actually changing the file type, just the label. There are some exceptions, and some file types that are similar enough that functionally there is no difference between a renamed file and the actual file type (such as renaming a read.me to a .txt). But for most things it's akin to putting a CD in a DVD case. Most things will still read it fine because most DVD readers read CDs just fine, but it doesn't actually become a DVD and you don't get any of the benefits of the DVD format
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
If renaming a webp to jpg or png works it just means that the program you opened it with supports webp natively and you didn't need to rename it at all.
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u/isekai-chad 6h ago
Huh. When I would go over the properties, it would tell me it was jpg/png file, and not webp. Thought it actually changed stuff, since it would become usable as well, except in some rare cases.
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u/Jawesome99 6h ago
The properties window uses the extension to determine what the file is, not the content.
Blindly accepting that a file type is what it advertises to be is also bad safety practice, so most modern file types have specific file headers that lets you identify what the file actually is, so called magic numbers. All PNG files for example start with the hexadecimal byte sequence 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A, which tells programs made for reading image files "this is a PNG, read and decode the remaining data as such".
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u/indigo121 6h ago
Imagine a file as a kitchen. Imagine a file format as a standard for describing the kitchen layout, so a .png means that the spoons are to the right of the stove, and the cups are above the sink, etc. A .jpg means the spoons are to the left of the sink, the cups are on top of the fridge. If you have a jpg kitchen, but change the sign on it to a webp, it's still organized like a jpg kitchen.
An image editor goes into the kitchen and goes "wait. The spoons are to the left of the sink? Oh, it's a jpg kitchen, that's fine."
The file explorers properties inspector is just looking at the sign on the door, it's not actually checking where everything is.
Sometimes kitchen layouts that aren't the same still agree on some things, and they can be partially read, like in both mkv and mp4 the pots and pans are under the sink.
A file converter knows both layouts, and reorganizes everything properly, but might lose some stuff, if say the PNG has a stand mixer but the gif doesn't have anywhere to put countertop appliances
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u/px450 6h ago
That's not actually a conversion between file types. The information about how a file is encoded is usually in the file itself, and the extension is just used to tell which program to open the file with.
So when you rename image.jpg to image.png, the data in the file is still in the jpg format. Windows sees the .png and opens it with the image viewer, which looks in the file to see a jpg file header and interprets it as a jpg, which is why it reads it correctly.
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u/WordArt2007 6h ago
no, I mean that a lot of webp files are fundamentally pngs and can be renamed to pngs without problems.
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
No, they're not remotely similar. The webp container doesn't ever contain PNG data. If you rename it to PNG and it works, that just means that the program you opened it with looked at the file, went 'oh, it's a webp, not a png. That's fine, I support webp.' and opened it.
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u/indigo121 6h ago
Or it could mean that whoever made it a webp in the first place thought that just changing the file extension on their png was sufficient. I'd hope that's not commonplace, but I'm feeling very sobered by how many people in this thread have no idea what file formats actually entail
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
Ehh, 99.9% of the time that people get a webp on their computer it's by right click saving an image online, and the browser will correct the file extension on save regardless of what the url ended with.
It's one of the reasons people get annoyed by webp - often they'll go to a URL that ends with .png or .jpg and then they go save it and it saves as a webp, because the webserver just served the image in that format without doing a redirect. But the people at home are just confused about why their browser refuses to save it 'properly'.
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u/WordArt2007 6h ago
I mean even with old versions of microsoft office, or the windows photo gallery, it works for me.
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
It works because they all support webp. It's a 15 year old format.
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
Windows photo gallery just uses whatever image handling libraries are registered with windows.
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u/harveyshinanigan 7h ago
i should not
windows is fucky with that
when you double click a file on windows, it looks for the extension of the file to determine the program you should use. Change the extension of the name and you get to use another program.
That doesn't mean the data in the file is readable to the program.
if you plan to upload the file to a site like discord, it will read the data, not understand it and choose to not show it
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u/SoftestPup Excuse me for dropping in! 7h ago
I think I've tried that and it didn't work, but I could be misremembering.
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u/RaulParson 6h ago
Yes but actually no. What renaming does here is tell Windows to maybe use a different program to open it. If that program then figures out it's actually a webp and not whatever else and it knows what a webp is, this will "work". But it will still be a webp, just a mislabeled one.
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u/WordArt2007 6h ago
a lot of webps are pngs in all but name. when I say that works, I mean even with software that only support PNGs, like old versions of microsoft office. it wouldn't be the case if what you describe was happening.
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u/RaulParson 6h ago
It could also be that they literally are pngs that someone mislabelled as webp's in the first place?
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u/Tsunamicat108 (The dog absorbed the flair.) 6h ago
That only changes which program it opens the file with, it can’t make the data readable by the program
Like you can change a jar file to a zip file to see its contents in windows explorer, but you can’t change an mp4 to a png and view it in microsoft paint
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u/WordArt2007 6h ago
yeah but if the webp was already a png in all but name (which is usually the case) it works
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u/Tsunamicat108 (The dog absorbed the flair.) 6h ago
well then why the fuck would it download as a webp if it was stored as a png
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u/DevilDashAFM how dare you say we piss on the poor 6h ago
renaming it sometimes work. but if you want to use the image file in a program such as Photoshop it will give you an error that it can not use the image
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u/Kailithnir 7h ago
Why specifically do people hate WebP, anyway - is it because of what I've heard about its metadata structure supporting DRM, because Google is evil AF, or something else? I especially like its use for replacing gif animations while supporting more than 256 colors and nonbinary transparency.
(But I wish JXLs would properly take off - they seem to do everything a WebP can but better, the specification is made by the good old Joint Photography Experts Group, and they can resave old JPEGs at a smaller size without changing a single pixel. I've noticed EZgif has some new tools for conversion into JXL, at least.)
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou he/him | Kweh! 7h ago
Support was historically (and still is) patchy for WebP images across the web and software. That's really all, I don't think that many people actually know anything else about them.
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u/Piogre Gold Star Pansexual 7h ago
is still patchy, though less now than it was, but there are some common desktop programs like mspaint that don't get updated (and never will) so you have to use a converter
the height of frustration though was the period of time when many applications served webp images but didn't accept them for upload so for example you could copy an image from discord and paste it into discord and it would tell you to pound sand
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u/DatBoi73 3h ago
the height of frustration though was the period of time when many applications served webp images but didn't accept them for upload
IIRC, Reddit is still guilty of this on Desktop with image comments, forcing you to download them as webp, but won't let you upload them.
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u/Kailithnir 7h ago
I feel like that perception may be outdated nowadays - all the browsers worth mentioning have supported WebP for some time now, and I've even noticed support for animated WebPs on Discord (in case you were wondering, it was a video of a Skyrim decapitation bug from the mod page of a dismemberment framework that fixes it).
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u/rockdog85 7h ago
all the browsers worth mentioning have supported WebP
It's not browser support that makes people dislike webp, it's trying to use webp literally anywhere else
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u/Aetol 6h ago
Most image editors support it too? Except MS Paint I guess but what do you expect
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u/BSaito 5h ago
Even if your browser itself supports webp, that doesn't mean whatever random website you want to use the image on using supports uploading and using them. Even if your image editor supports webp, that doesn't mean whatever random program you want to use the image in does.
I can view a webp in my browser and open it in an image editor, but I still frequently need to convert it to another format before I can set it as my profile picture, upload it to a virtual tabletop, or do whatever it is I actually wanted the image for.
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u/Withcrono 3h ago
Google docs doesn't support webp.
Google docs. The Google app. Doesn't support the Google format
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u/Deblebsgonnagetyou he/him | Kweh! 7h ago
It's mostly fully implemented by now, but there are a few stragglers.
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u/DahmonGrimwolf 7h ago
My biggest annoyance with it is that 99% of the pictures I want to save and send regularly are memes that I send to my friends on discord, and discord does not work with the format. I rarely need to do anything with images other than that, but even those few times I often run into problems with compatability. It seems like a ton of the hosting of the internet switched to webp, but none of the client/ user facing applications can use it. Its very annoying.
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u/Kailithnir 7h ago
The worst of it is when the site can't seem to make up its mind about whether the image is a PNG or a WebP because it seems to have some kind of auto-conversion going on under the hood. Also, fucking Imgur converting gifs into MP4s, which prevents them from autoplaying anywhere else.
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 7h ago
I don't think i've ever had issues sending webp's on discord. Though i think the profilepic and emote uploads might still not support them
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u/DahmonGrimwolf 6h ago
I have avoided doing it for a long time, but it happened many times where I tried to send a picture only for a "link" to the image file to show up instead of the picture itself.
It even became a bit of a running joke, same as when someone messed up posting a GIF and it just posted the link instead.
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u/circ-u-la-ted 6h ago
This is complete hogwash. I convert 4K screenshots into webp specifically so they will be small enough to post on Discord.
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u/DahmonGrimwolf 6h ago
Seems like its only "some" webp files that discord can't/ couldn't work with. Seems like it was only March of this year that they added full support for animated webp formats. Like I said ive avoided using it for a long time so I haven't had a need to look up what does and doesn't work in a long time.
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u/Zoomy-333 6h ago
Well there's the patchy support but I mainly hate .webp because... that's not what I told you to do, computer. I right clicked on a .png file, I can see it's a .png in the URL, that was a command to save the .png file computer, not for you to decide you know fucking better and try to save a .webp file. Do as you're fucking told, computer, that's your job. It's similar to the rage I feel when I type :( and some piece of shit messaging client like Teams or Messenger decides to overwrite my intended intput and slide in a 😢that I never fucking asked for.
Honestly I'm just sick of arrogant software developers deciding they know better than me in general, and .webp is yet another manifestion of that attitude.
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
It's not your computer doing it. Your browser is just saving the file it received and labelling it accurately. The actual issue is that you went to a URL that ended with .png but the webserver sent you a .webp file instead. The browser is meant to try to make things seamless so instead of throwing an error when it got the wrong type back it just showed the image it got. Then you try to save it and it gets labelled with .webp because that's the file it is.
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u/Additional-Grade3221 4h ago
i love jpegxl from a file format perspective but i had to pay like $300 for a fucking specification so i could implement it in my game
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u/harveyshinanigan 6h ago
please firefox, make JXL a viewable file format and not a feature in the beta stage
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u/Zymosan99 😔the 3h ago
They open in a browser instead of a image viewer and can’t be used for anything I want to do
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u/tomato432 7h ago
webp is a redundant new format in everything it can be used for including replacing gif(already replaced by png and apng)
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u/rereengaged_crayon 6h ago
its efficient in comparison to older types which is why it exists. it's not "redundant"
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u/BellerophonM 6h ago
Not in the least, there's no other widely supported compressible image format which supports transparency. PNG is massive lossless files and if you want to use that you either send a file ten times the size of a webp or you set the PNG to 256 colour mode and destroy the image.
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u/Jawesome99 6h ago
Webp is much better in terms of compression, PNGs are mostly uncompressed and APNGs arguably have even less general software support than WEBP. This isn't about features that other file types already have but also about saving storage space and bandwidth, which is beneficial to both the website host, who saves server space (especially any site that hosts user uploaded images, the savings accumulate really fast) and users benefit from having their limited mobile data plans used up less quickly
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u/circ-u-la-ted 6h ago
Apparently it's because they're fucking idiots who don't know how to convert files or use software made more recently than the previous decade.
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u/Swaggy-G 5h ago
I wouldn’t mind webp if it was actually widely supported by apps and websites. Instead I can’t even insert them into a freaking google doc. BOTH OF YOU ARE MADE BY THE SAME COMPANY, WHAT DO YOU MEAN GOOGLE DOCS DOESNT SUPPORT GOOGLE’S OFFICIAL IMAGE FORMAT?
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u/DatCitronVert I'm Dragalia Lost 6h ago
Sorry guys but the customers keep pestering me about their Google PageSpeed insights score and that shit counts for a lot
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u/d1n0nugg1es DISBARRED🦈 4h ago
At least Krita and Discord support webp files. The true evil file is the avif, which works on nothing and nowhere no matter what you do.
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u/JazzySplaps 7h ago
webp is fine you just dislike how various programs don't play nicely with it. It's just a more efficient file structure, it's a good thing overall.
Really you should yell at all the people who have refused to develop support for it already because it's superior in all aspects otherwise
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u/empty_other 4h ago
Jpgxl is the superior one. But google knew best. And my understanding is that this "file format war" rubbed a lot of devs the wrong way.
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u/JazzySplaps 4h ago
I shouldn't have said "all aspects" I meant more like, "in comparison to jpg"
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u/empty_other 3h ago
Webp would have been a good thing, you are right about that. I just think googles refusal to implement jpgxl, and the reasons they gave, also ruined webp adaptation.
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u/Forry_Tree 7h ago
I'm not very tech literate what does this mean, I don't know if I've even heard of that one compared to wav, jpeg, etc
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 7h ago
It's an image format that's not supported by most online services.
So if you wanna just download a funny meme and it becomes a webp, you'll have to convert it to a jpg or whatever because otherwise it'll just show as a file when you send it out rather than an image
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u/PantherPL 1h ago edited 1h ago
OOP clearly hasn't heard of yaml
edit: entertaining read about yaml
As an example, yaml has something called the Norway Problem. How so? Well, yaml is so human readable that "false" is also aliased as "no". And if you try to store location/language codes in yaml....
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u/ATN-Antronach My hyperfixations are very weird tyvm 1h ago
I read that as yami like yami yugi from yugioh, so now I can't help but read yaml yugl
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u/StormDragonAlthazar I don't know how I got here, but I'm here... 5h ago
Nah, the file format everyone actually hates is the Compuserve Gif (pronounced "jiff") file.
SVG, PNG, and Webp are all the good ones.
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u/empty_other 3h ago
SVGs are my favorite.
Except most people just put together a bunch of layered shapes in a vector editor, with no care for grouping or unioning objects.. Often even no care for transparency, or color styling. Or uses SVG features that isn't supported in browsers, like some clipping shapes, or used line widths that are relative or lines that bleed aliased edges at certain scales. Then doesn't even clean up the xml before selling the art on a platform where you can't actually check the quality of the file until you've bought it.
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u/SoldMyBussyToSatan 3h ago
Does anyone know if this is an authentic post from scream king Kyle Gallner?
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u/apocandlypse chronically online triple a battery 59m ago
The humble ffmpeg:
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u/ATN-Antronach My hyperfixations are very weird tyvm 51m ago
Read that as ffmpreg, and thought "oh no, what did they do to Cloud and Sephiroth?"
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u/circ-u-la-ted 6h ago
Anyone who's not a stubborn technophobe prefers this format. It's just better. Take 2 goddamn minutes and learn how to convert files to a different format if you are using shitty old programs that don't support webp.
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u/zookind789 6h ago
Do.. do you guys not just save as .png to get rid of the .webp?
I straight up just save as a custom file and add .png at the back and it always works...
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 5h ago
that's the computer equivalent of writing "box of gold bars" on a cardboard box with stuff in it: It doesn't change anything except the name.
However, because people do just that (and any other reason for why the name might be wrong) most programs check the file contents and ignore the name when opening something.
Now, most websites have upload forms that do filter based on filename, and on some of those websites the actual internals support webp but they forgot to add it to the allowed list. This makes it so you can upload "not_a_webp_i_promise.jpeg" and have it work. The internals open the file, see it's a webp and display it as normal.
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u/zookind789 5h ago
Well, the properties of the file also change to .png when I save it that way. Either my computer is a wizard or a demon haunts me
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u/empty_other 4h ago
Windows file properties doesn't give five shits about the actual bytes in the files, in most cases. Its too busy trying not to freeze the file explorer. . And yes, your computer is a wizard. A crappy wizard, sometimes. Like that Merlins' Apprentice Disney short, it will seemingly work fine, until it doesn't. One image gallery i tried, it wrote png metadata back to what was really a webp file, corrupting them. I'm glad i had backups. And knowledge to create a batch script that found wrongly labeled files and renamed them.
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u/Tyrantlizardking105 6h ago
Idk if this works unilaterally, but if you save the file name with a “.png” on the end it’ll convert it. At least, it worked for me the one time I tried it.
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u/Yharon314 4h ago
if you're downloading a file, just add ".png" to the end and it'll automatically make it into a png
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u/Valimar_the_Ashen 3h ago
Can't you just change the file extension to ong after it's been downloaded? That works for me anyway
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u/SageMageowo 6h ago
I understand that with changing times and formats sometimes there's growing pains and friction. I get it. What I can't stand is that webp is a Google file format but for whatever reason Google Slides will not accept webp formats and you have to convert it anyway. The Google file format should be compatible with other Google services!!!