Thread 9920

I humbly ask that the dev team adds support for WEBP images. Almost everything on Google images is WEBP format and as a frequent phoneposter (don’t laugh) I find myself having to spend unnecessary time screenshotting the image, cropping, and then uploading.

>>9920 (OP)
>and as a frequent phoneposter (don’t laugh)

>>9920 (OP)
>and as a frequent phoneposter (don’t laugh)

Can you not use a website or app to convert your webp files to jpg or png files? I'm genuinely asking, I don't know if there are bizarre restrictions preventing you from doing that on an iPhone.

>>9921
while it may be true that many nerd janis aren't phoneposters, if you're looking at 4chan from a business aspect, and billions of internet users are primarily phone users, it makes sense to accommodate the largest demographic.

>>9923
time consuming and annoying, especially for a post that has like a 5% chance of even getting a response from someone in a thread. particularly if you're posting frequent things, like I started a "games you remember from your childhood" thread on v and i wanted to find pictures of like 5 games to jumpstart the thread and having to screenshot and crop them adds 20 seconds to each post, converting them on a website would add 60 seconds to each post. WEBP are small and lossless anyways, theres a reason companies use them enmass now.

>>9925
What about an app that runs on your phone, can you use one of those?

It might make sense from a business perspective, but I hate the forcing of webp enough that I've tweaked firefox to claim "I do not support webp; please serve me the original image".

Pissed me off to open an image, see "cute_cat.jpg" in the address bar, right click the image to save, and see "cute_cat.webp" because the site has altered the image format to save half a megabyte.

I get why google wants to force them, but the same as AMP, it's disingenous bullshit and I want it gone.

>>9920 (OP)
Why does the mobile site suck so much?

It couldn't hurt right? I'll be honest in that finding the right image on google and getting a webp has discouraged me from the idea of posting that image

What if it accepted WEBP uploads but converts them to JPG? Or would that be a dumb/unfeasible idea?

>>9932
>I am not a webdev so I may be talking out of my ass
I assume on-site conversion is a higher server load than what we currently do (strip out image metadata except on /p/, strip out sound from webm except on /gif/),
How do you know what format the user wants the webm to be presented in?
What if the image is small enough to post in webm format, but too large to post in jpeg or png?

>>9920 (OP)
on a pragmatic level, you are right. but also, fuck webp. i hate webp. fuck supporting webp.

>>9930
by design
and it's a good thing