I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit

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    1 year ago

    It supports features such as lossless editing and transparency but the compression is pretty bad.

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      1 year ago

      It’s lossless, it’s meant for 2D and drawn graphics. Can’t do that much with lossless compression.

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      1 year ago

      PNG compresses like nothing else when it comes to graphs, text, UI elements, digital drawings, comics, screenshots from apps etc. And doesn’t suffer from “mosquito” artifacts and other .jpg nonsense. It was never meant to be used for photographs and other statistically “noisy” images for which .jpg works much better.

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        1 year ago

        Isn’t it funny how the internet is full of Instagram screenshots in PNG, and Twitter screenshots in JPG?

        It feels like some extra-dimensional aliens are fucking with us and making everything backwards.