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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 10, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Why do I see weekly wishes of violence towards the developers who created the WebP format, and never towards the developers who refuse to add its support to their software?

I wonder where you actually see this, I've never seen anything like it.

But the issue with things like a new image format is that introducing WebP breaks people's existing workflows. It should have a huge advantage to justify that. But the advantages over jpeg are only significant in a few specific use cases.

It's probably similar to 7z. I hated it when it first came out. Websites would try to force you to use it and from my POV it just resulted in having to use worse software to decompress things.