I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit

  • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    In my personal experience, when downloading .webp files I wasn’t able to upload to the places I needed to much of the time. But I’ve always been able to just slap .jpg to the end of the file name as I used the save as function and that would make it work everywhere just fine.

    • minorninth@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Actually, just changing the file name doesn’t change the format. If it works, it’s because whatever place you uploaded to already supported webp.

      If you download a webp file and you really want jpg, you need to actually convert it, not just slap .jpg on the end.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        A pretty large amount of .JPG images are actually .WebP but people simply don’t notice for some strange reason. I’ve already seen several WebP images uploaded to WikiMedia with a JPG extension.

      • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        In that context: Websites may offer alternative image formats for the same image. They may offer jpg alongside webp. It’s just not easily discoverable by end users.

      • JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Just relaying what worked for me. Tried uploading with .webp and it didn’t work, tried with .jpg and it did. Didn’t matter to me whether it was a real conversion or not.