Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

  • 🔧 At about Midnight EST I am going to completely fuck up the site trying to fix something.
This WebP shit is out of control.
My internet photo gallery is slowly getting RUINED because theres a load of web pees in there now
WebP deserves active hate.
WEBP doesn't "intercept" other formats on my old toaster.

But on a newer system I use, even if the URL says it's not a WEBP, it can be a WEBP.

It is literally one of the most retarded ideas I have ever heard.
The less something is download, the more it's in one place - and easier to memory-hole.
 
Google's main reason is apparently that the less we have to download, the less energy it will take, and if you take all the downloads that are happening all the time and make them smaller, you use less energy, and get less carbon. It is literally one of the most retarded ideas I have ever heard.
The concept wasn't thought through since we don't even get the option to save as WebP by default (even Adobe PS requires plugins). 99% of people aren't even going to bother with the gay shit required to make one of these cursed files. They're fine in browsers, but once you download said WebP's, most people can't open them normally. Even if we could save as WebP without effort, WebP cannot replace all image formats.

Image downloads are a fraction of total downloads. It's videos and gaming that take up most of the entire bandwidth of the Internet. WebP is only 25% smaller compression. This might be saving a fraction of web bandwidth right now, but it makes very little global difference unless most of this block of 34.9% "other" Internet traffic is using WebP files.
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Google proposed it as a way to get web pages to load faster since the images are something like 24% smaller for the same perceptual quality. This would have been helpful for web 1.0 and people had dial-up, but web pages load fucking fast enough with JPG, PNG, & GIF these days. Even my phone can download shit fast enough for image sizes to be irrelevant.

Google's main reason is apparently that the less we have to download, the less energy it will take, and if you take all the downloads that are happening all the time and make them smaller, you use less energy, and get less carbon. It is literally one of the most retarded ideas I have ever heard.
it's still technically useful today, some people out there actually use bandwidth limited connections and wasting a good chunk of that on a 5mb image because some fag couldn't compress their assets. though when i check the services my ISP provides they no longer actually provide that cheaper bandwidth limited option anymore, so i may just be getting old here.

the problem isn't in the format itself, it's useful if you really want to minimalise the size of your webpage. the problem comes in when you save that image and its only supported by about a quarter of your software and declined by a surprising amount of social media platforms for avatars, banners, emojis, etc etc. google is of course trying to solve that, but the industry is very slow on accepting new formats like this, especially when adding support for webp would require some serious manpower to implement for whatever reason.

sure you can convert it over to a sensible and better known format, but that's an unnecessary step that just complicates the process; especially if you're trying to tell someone who knows nothing about technology how to do it and why their awesome dick pic cannot be used for their profile picture anymore.
 
I think another problem is websites and webapps that require more bandwidth than they should. But also, the video format and resolution part seems to be US centric. You might be wondering, how? Well, there is no 576p option on video streaming sites, only 480p! Likewise, interlaced video is basically non existent, despite broadcast digital TV using interlaced video. And of course, only HD resolutions have framerates higher than 30 FPS. Why not add 480p60? Or if smoothness is what you want, why not bother with 480i, 576i and 1080i as well? But the computational demands are also really stupid, probably a result of PyFags and PyTroons that don't bother with optimizing code. Fucking hell, why not make some desktop YouTube app that is optimized for YouTube and that mostly just requires resources for video decoding? If some crappy DVB-T converter box from maybe 2012 can handle 720p60 AVC video playback just fine, I am sure that even an old Intel Atom potato should handle 720p30 video. Actually, it would appear that there's one YouTube client that can handle 360p video fine on a Pentium III, something I saw a few years ago in a YouTube video.
 
...a crossover with Animal Control, but FurAffinity frequently got accusations of 'being stuck in the 90's'.
The one thing I liked abou the website was tha the website was light and fast. I could load the website through the DSi Browser!
The website still is, to som extent: even wi the new UI, everything can stil load in a smartphone in an organised format. The ads, which higher i number, still essentially stay out of your way, especially if you are in a main page or Journal entry.

Compare tha to deviantArt, where th Eclipse UI made direct communication with others more complicated. You have chat and Notes.
Let us not get started wit how Twitter is forcing logins with a big popup every other page. I need to refresh almost constantly if I were to see stuff there.
 
Let us not get started wit how Twitter is forcing logins with a big popup every other page. I need to refresh almost constantly if I were to see stuff there.
Every time I see this complaint I plug Nitter.
In the Current Year there's no reason to use Twitter to read Twitter, if you must read Twitter.
 
Every time I see this complaint I plug Nitter.
In the Current Year there's no reason to use Twitter to read Twitter, if you must read Twitter.
THANK YOU!!
Even search actually works properly now!
I wish I could give you the :semperfi:Semper Fidelis rating.
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...I feel Manic now.
 
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FFmpeg for an offline CLI. Handles images just as well as videos. Can't recommend that piece of software enough.
IrfanView, brah, best image viewer, best at a lot of things. It can easily batch convert/rename an infinite number webp's into anything you want, you can also change the scaling so 4k phone screencaps of 500x600 fullscreen twitter/instagram images don't look like ass.

Just press 'b' when it is running and you're almost done converting a thousand images to jpeg.
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I think another problem is websites and webapps that require more bandwidth than they should. But also, the video format and resolution part seems to be US centric. You might be wondering, how? Well, there is no 576p option on video streaming sites, only 480p! Likewise, interlaced video is basically non existent, despite broadcast digital TV using interlaced video. And of course, only HD resolutions have framerates higher than 30 FPS. Why not add 480p60? Or if smoothness is what you want, why not bother with 480i, 576i and 1080i as well? But the computational demands are also really stupid, probably a result of PyFags and PyTroons that don't bother with optimizing code. Fucking hell, why not make some desktop YouTube app that is optimized for YouTube and that mostly just requires resources for video decoding? If some crappy DVB-T converter box from maybe 2012 can handle 720p60 AVC video playback just fine, I am sure that even an old Intel Atom potato should handle 720p30 video. Actually, it would appear that there's one YouTube client that can handle 360p video fine on a Pentium III, something I saw a few years ago in a YouTube video.
Broadcast TV is sent interlaced, but is displayed progressive on any modern TV/monitor. The inherent design of LCD/OLED makes interlacing unreasonable. You can only display interlaced fields on a CRT or other similar technology. The reason you can't get enhanced definition above 30 Hz is just due to the fact that there was never a standard created for 480 that was 60 Hz for media/video. The original standard for HDTV in America topped out at 30 FPS, and the extensions that support 60 Hz were only implemented for 720p and 1080p since 480 was no longer considered relevant. So, since 480p60 as a standard was never created, no one creates content in that format. It is kinda dumb, since they should be creating content thinking of monitor/computer standards, rather than broadcast/media/video these days, but the people making the content are broadcast/media/video so they tend to stick to the dogma of what they know.
 
Broadcast TV is sent interlaced, but is displayed progressive on any modern TV/monitor. The inherent design of LCD/OLED makes interlacing unreasonable. You can only display interlaced fields on a CRT or other similar technology. The reason you can't get enhanced definition above 30 Hz is just due to the fact that there was never a standard created for 480 that was 60 Hz for media/video. The original standard for HDTV in America topped out at 30 FPS, and the extensions that support 60 Hz were only implemented for 720p and 1080p since 480 was no longer considered relevant. So, since 480p60 as a standard was never created, no one creates content in that format. It is kinda dumb, since they should be creating content thinking of monitor/computer standards, rather than broadcast/media/video these days, but the people making the content are broadcast/media/video so they tend to stick to the dogma of what they know.
Actually 480p60 would be Enhanced Definiton (EDTV) TV. Likewise 576p50 would be the European version of EDTV. Besides, with interlaced video you can always just emulate how it would be on a CRT. You just update every other scanline and then switch between odd and even scanlines after each cycle.

*Edit* Well here's another potential web woe, that is happening on THIS VERY FORUM, and it isn't a DDoS. Though it could just be me being a nigger retàrd (what faggot keeps replacing r e t a r d with exceptional individual? Is it recent or am I an exceptional retardividual?).
The jannies be like "no double posting, use multiple quotes instead" which is a reasonable thing to ask and do. However, if you find another post to quote or reply to after making the post, you can't really insert quotes the same way as when you're first writing, which kind of forces you to double post. Now, it is likely that I am overlooking something and that it isn't really like that, in which case correct me if I'm wrong.
 
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The jannies be like "no double posting, use multiple quotes instead" which is a reasonable thing to ask and do. However, if you find another post to quote or reply to after making the post, you can't really insert quotes the same way as when you're first writing, which kind of forces you to double post. Now, it is likely that I am overlooking something and that it isn't really like that, in which case correct me if I'm wrong.
They also get mad if you multi-quote "too many" people.
 

I know we all have adblockers and extensions but it's insane this kind of shit is the default browsing experience for normies. My work don't allow installation of extensions which is why I use my phone if I want to browse the web at work.
 
My work don't allow installation of extensions
Depending on just which permissions they have locked down, you can sometimes sleaze your way around this by editing the registry directly and putting your extensions on the whitelist.
 
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I know we all have adblockers and extensions but it's insane this kind of shit is the default browsing experience for normies. My work don't allow installation of extensions which is why I use my phone if I want to browse the web at work.
The autoplay video in the corner shit is the worst trend on websites. Its really terrible in mobile where you struggle to find the little x button as your phone is all of a sudden blaring out some ad or 'news' in public.

But the way that site loaded it really brings me back to the bad old days of pop ups in the late 90s. It's every bit as intrusive as those were and with sound, even more so.
 
...a crossover with Animal Control, but FurAffinity frequently got accusations of 'being stuck in the 90's'.
The one thing I liked abou the website was tha the website was light and fast. I could load the website through the DSi Browser!
The website still is, to som extent: even wi the new UI, everything can stil load in a smartphone in an organised format. The ads, which higher i number, still essentially stay out of your way, especially if you are in a main page or Journal entry.
Not sure if you're a boomer like myself, but SomaFM's website has remained largely intact since its inception in 2000. The site loads so damn fast, I just hit F5 to get a rush of nostalgia.

Another thing that I absolutely love about them is that they're still maintaining their 128kbps AAC streams, just like the old days. Just plug the .pls URL into your favorite media player of choice and bam - Spotify can get fucked.

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>Let me guess, you need "more"?
 
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