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Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
no worries, webp is a confusing bullshit format since they're always labeled as something else. I see it used more and more on various websites lately. I'm sure there's some way they're convenient for the site owners but they sure suck for the end user just trying to save or edit an image.
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The biggest reason for the issues is that WebP is a relatively new image format... Firefox only added support for it in January of last year, and IE and Safari don't support it at all.

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The pros of WebP are pretty substantial, though:

- supports animation like GIF
- supports lossy compression like JPEG
- supports full 8-bit alpha (transparency) like PNG
- all while having significantly smaller file sizes for the same images

So it basically combines the best of all of the existing formats.
 
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for some reason i thought i was the only person who noticed or actually cared about everything being automatically compressed into a webp file. its slightly aggravating but it isnt annoying enough to really rustle my jimmies

however i tried saving a bunch of images from here again just to make sure im not being paranoid - i dont actually know why but only some of them were being saved as disguised webp files while some of the other ones i saved were actual jpg/png files. shits weird

irfanview can automatically rename webps with an incorrect file extension and batch convert them to other formats though, thank fucking god
 
Ponchik said:
however i tried saving a bunch of images from here again just to make sure im not being paranoid - i dont actually know why but only some of them were being saved as disguised webp files while some of the other ones i saved were actual jpg/png files. shits weird
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I assume it's based on file size so images over, for example, 150KB get compressed with a visually unnoticeable pass through a WebP encoder to try to save some space on the server.

@Null, fancy swinging by and enlightening us?
 
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I was archiving a video (this one if it matters) and it's a black screen rant so I figured why not just use mp3. The mp3 uploaded fine, but no button appeared to insert or attach it in the post. unsure if it's just me. Chrome
 
SAVE TWINKIE! said:
I was archiving a video (this one if it matters) and it's a black screen rant so I figured why not just use mp3. The mp3 uploaded fine, but no button appeared to insert or attach it in the post. unsure if it's just me. Chrome
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Mux it as a mp4 file (no video track) to get around this.

ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -c:a copy -vn destination.mp4
or
ffmpeg -i source.mp3 -c:a aac -b:a 96k -ar 48k -vn destination.mp4
should work (you can tweak the audio bitrate).
 
Trying to upload images and put them in the post is proving to be difficult on mobile.
 
jellycar said:
Trying to upload images and put them in the post is proving to be difficult on mobile.
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lol, imagine using forums on mobile, next you'll be asking for an app

You getting any error messages when you to try to upload images?
 
jellycar said:
No lol I just cant upload and place in the post, that's all.
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What error message are you getting? If you look at the last page or so there are other people having what may be the same issue, plus workarounds.
 
jellycar said:
No lol I just cant upload and place in the post, that's all.
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Oh, I think I get what you meant now, but I'm an alpha autist and never leave my PC, so I can't help with your peasant mobile issues.
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What error message are you getting? If you look at the last page or so there are other people having what may be the same issue, plus workarounds.
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I think the problem @jellycar's having is finding it hard to move an image around their post after they've added it to the post (I assume uploading an image on mobile sticks it on the end of the post and it can't be moved); we alpha desktop users can drag it around to where we want it to be, but the mobile site doesn't support that.
 
Bender said:
Oh, I think I get what you meant now, but I'm an alpha autist and never leave my PC, so I can't help with your peasant mobile issues.

I think the problem @jellycar's having is finding it hard to move an image around their post after they've already added it to the post; we can drag it around to where we want it to be, but the mobile site doesn't support that.
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No what I mean is that I can upload the file however the thumbnail button doesn't work to put it in the post.
 
jellycar said:
No what I mean is that I can upload the file however the thumbnail button doesn't work to put it in the post.
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It's working for me on android. What happens when you press thumbnail, just nothing? Have you tried this with different images?
 
SAVE TWINKIE! said:
It's working for me on android. What happens when you press thumbnail, just nothing? Have you tried this with different images?
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Can confirm Firefox on Android didn't insert thumbnails of attachments when I pressed the Thumbnail button, it also didn't do anything when I tried to directly add an image to the post. @jellycar I assume you're using Firefox and @SAVE TWINKIE! you're using Chrome?

Anyway, here's the photo of a hecking cute guy I used to test this on mobile.
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Edit: Just checked in Chrome mobile, poking "thumbnail" worked instantly, this is looking like a Firefox mobile-only issue.
 
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I've been trying to archive two videos via desktop Chrome for the past few days - the videos will generally begin uploading to the first 3-5% before giving me the "Something went wrong. Please try again or contact an administrator."

The files are both .mp4 files & run at 67.4 MB & 34.6 MB each (not super sure what the file size limits are). Not sure if i'm being a tard or if there's a work around for this?
 
Woah, is it bad that I can apparently see what I presume are people who've set their profiles to private in the members list (when they're supposed to be "invisible" I guess)? They're showing up in gray now:
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Sure enough, I tried turning my profile status and online activity indicator off, and it didn't do anything except make my name gray in the list too.
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Yotsubaaa said:
Woah, is it bad that I can apparently see what I presume are people who've set their profiles to private in the members list (when they're supposed to be "invisible" I guess)? They're showing up in gray now:
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Doesn't apply to T&H holders.
 
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