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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How can one even get annoyed this much by WebP lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

at this point i will take any open image format newer than png

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it affects your workflow at your job.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason half of us have jobs is because of workflows being affected by things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha you too thanks champ

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It supports transparency like PNGs, and animations like GIFs, and is generally not a bad format on its own due to its balance of quality and file size.

The issue is that support for it is lacking; a large number of major media applications don't have any WebP functionality, meaning that an image being WebP format only adds an irritating extra step where you have to convert it to PNG to use it. The other issue is that the adoption of the format online is disproportionately high, compared to its adoption by major app developers. It's bizarrely common to download an image, only to find that you can't use it because your software (I.e. Photoshop, Clip Studio, OBS) doesn't support it, so now you have to either convert it to PNG somehow or hunt down a new file that isn't a WebP. For visual artists of all kinds, this is a tremendous pain in the ass, and it's pretty obvious that it doesn't need to be that way in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

By having a sheltered and otherwise empty life.