Buttery Inkling
patreon
February 2025 Rant
🕑 Added 2025-02-27 04:17:17 +0000 UTCUpdate: It was a bug. Fixed now!
Okay so, this is gonna come off as unhinged, but like...fuck Patreon???
I pledge to other content creators and some of the photos CAN ONLY SAVE AS WEBP FILES. YOU KNOW, THE FORMAT NOBODY LIKES.
THIS DOES THIS ON MY MOST RECENT PIC TOO!
WHAT THE FUCK. HOW DO I CHANGE THIS. CAN I CHANGE THIS???
Comments
Buttery Inkling
That's absolutely atrocious. Some artists use Patreon so that their art is uncompressed, not so that they GET compressed.
ScocksBox
I think that's just because the app doesn't support WebP. Seems like they are using WebP if (1) the client supports it and (2) the size savings are significant enough.
Buttery Inkling
Okay SO, I think it's maybe a bug, because the phone app still saves as PNGs.
ScocksBox
Yeah that's incredibly fucking stupid. Only thing I can think is to upload all the pics as attachments for people who don't have an image viewer that supports webp. If it's any consolation though, I checked and they are lossless webp files, so you're not getting overly compressed garbage at least. I get they're doing it since webp offers a significant file size reduction in most cases, but I don't think they considered the ramifications for a platform where people typically save things for later viewing.
