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[Feature Request] Convert WEBP to JPEG when sharing? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by MrGG@lemmy.ca to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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(This is my first post sent from Sync, so hopefully I don't mess this up too badly...)

This might already exist, or might just generally be a stupid idea, but here we go:

I share images from Lemmy / Sync pretty frequently, primarily as direct images to Facebook Messenger. However, Messenger doesn't like WEBP files, and quite a few instances seem to be using WEBP instead of JPEG or PNG.

It'd be a time-saver (literally minutes a day!) and reduction of friction if there was an option to convert WEBP to JPEG on-the-fly when sharing. Right now I have to check the image format, and if it's a WEBP I need to download and edit / re-save before sharing.

I was going to say this would be a nice value-add for Ultra, but I'm already subscribed 🤷🏻‍♂️

I bet this issue doesn't actually affect that many users (stupid North America and its reliance on Facebook Messenger), but it does ever so slightly annoy me, so I figured might as well shoot my shot and make a feature request.

It's annoying enough that if Sync was OSS I would have submitted a PR already.

All that said: Sync is great and I'm so happy it was transposed from Reddit.

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The entire point of webp is compression for the web, it's literally in the name. It compresses much better then jpeg, which is the point of why it was created. All modern image viewers can handle webp just fine.

[–] GarrettBird@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the telegram app, webp is counted as a 'sticker', which will cause it to be rendered at a fixed scale, and you will be unable to zoom in on it. Stickers in telegram are used as reaction images that can be put into their own folders.

So if I share a webp image in telegram, you pretty much wont be able to read or see what's going on due to the fixed scale.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

Oof. I guess that's slightly better than what happens with Facebook Messenger, which is a generic "an error has occurred" dialogue box.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know what WEBP is, why it is used, and why some instances would prefer to use it. But sharing WEBP to Facebook Messenger does not work, it returns an error.