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Stop using .webp I'm tired of seeing it

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[–] owl_herd@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

there is this issue of people not realizing that images can be things like textures, large insanely large sets of collections of things. and yea sure .webp may not be supported in everything, but having a lossless format that takes less space than .png (yes i have tried avif its not worth it imo) can be a life saver. as someone who cares a lot about being sane about storage space (looking at u AAA games, my games shall never), .webp makes sense. for people running low bandwidth servers, it makes sense (servers should support low bandwidth low resource things like webp when its available, I dont want an internet that requires high bandwidth to use, we have powerful devices to load more complex things like .webp in a breeze); yes i do think browsers should have some way to convert when saving if need be, maybe apps too. but saying stop using .webp ignores why its used, its an amazing thing that lowers resource use (internet traffic uses more resource than the end point iirc), it lowers storage use where it matters

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh I am vaguely wondering what people are using that doesn’t support webp in 2025. Apple and google have supported it on their respective devices and computers for years, all relevant browsers support it, all major open source projects have supported it for years and apparently even Windows inbuilt apps support it now (according to wikipedia, I don’t run a windows system to test that anymore).

[–] owl_herd@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

i'll point out that i have to convert my webp to png/jpeg to upload it to blahaj lemmy (haven't tried on piefed yet). beyond that a lot of sites dont support webp uploads, even those that do hide it for some reason? like discord still treats all webp as gifs iirc. whatsapp will not recognize webp unless u force it. artstation doesnt support webp

since my work is in graphics, its second nature for me to convert images how i want but i think the current end user situation can be a pain if someone isnt used to image manipulation

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

Amen. Like, I get the initial annoyance with webp but it doesn't even take this sort of essay to agree that it just is a good format. The only problem right now is that not all sites and software support it, but I hope that will be solved soon enough.

[–] Truscape@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This post is meant to be more of a meme than anything, but this is mainly about end users complaining about the incompatibility of .webp with most software

[–] owl_herd@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

thats fair, i dont mean to imply its not a pain for end users a lot of the times still. but i just wanted to point out that it has a lot of benefits outside that space hence its perpetuation everywhere

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Stop using .webp I’m tired of seeing it

on ticktock it's webp, on discord it's fucking webp. I was in a server, right? and all of the images were just webp. I showed a picture of my underwear to my girlfriend, and the logo-I flipped it, and it saved as webp! I downloaded a fuckin' trashcan image, and I said, that won't open in this software! I look at my penis,

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What kind of evil am I when I send it to my phone, use image conversion app, and send it back to my laptop?

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

if you’re on Linux, there’s a very handy program to convert images: https://apps.gnome.org/en/Converter/

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That feels like a Chaotic Neutral. Unless you're transferring it via something like OneDrive. Then it's evil. Not sure which kind.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

KDE Connect.

[–] psychonova@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

what does it count as if you wrote a FUSE filesystem to convert a folder of images to JPEG on the fly on access?

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I ficking love imagemagick.

Magick mogrify -format PNG *.HEIC

Replace HEIC with whatever file extension you need to convert.

Add -q 6 or -quality 90 to reduce the file sizes.

Use -format PDF to bulk convert images to pdfs.

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

or just rename the file to a different file type, it works surprisingly often

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

Even renaming .mp4 to .mp3 works fine!

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chaotic Evil:

Print it out, stuff it in a green bell pepper, char the green pepper into ash, eat it, wait 3 days, take a picture of it with a nintendo dsi, transfer it via ftp to hannah montana linux, add green bellpepper watermark via GIMP, save as webp in root directory

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You call that evil, but where's the harm?

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Webp is definitely what makes it evil

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

the harm is to yourself from eating ash, think of the carcinogens!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy automatically converts other image types to webp when you upload them. Blame Lemmy devs.

[–] Truscape@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn. Guess I better convert all the stuff I download from Lemmy then. Which method though...?

Whatever you want as long as its JPEG-XL

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

True graphic designers are true neutral.

[–] happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Webp is annoying and never should have been a standard.

[–] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People not adopting standards quickly and correctly is annoying. In no way is this the fault of webp.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's MY fault most other programs and platforms don't recognize it?

It's like if all gas stations overnight suddenly decided they no longer provide gasoline but rather fermented lizard piss, and yet 95% of all vehicles still use gasoline, and then blaming the consumer.

[–] jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

No? It's those programs' and platforms' fault, obviously?

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's annoying with webp?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In my case, none of my image editing software supports it because it's old and I refuse to upgrade because I'm used to it. So I'll just open a .webp in paint and save it as PNG to use it. (True Neutral)