(This is my first post sent from Sync, so hopefully I don’t mess this up too badly…)
This might already exist, or might just generally be a stupid idea, but here we go:
I share images from Lemmy / Sync pretty frequently, primarily as direct images to Facebook Messenger. However, Messenger doesn’t like WEBP files, and quite a few instances seem to be using WEBP instead of JPEG or PNG.
It’d be a time-saver (literally minutes a day!) and reduction of friction if there was an option to convert WEBP to JPEG on-the-fly when sharing. Right now I have to check the image format, and if it’s a WEBP I need to download and edit / re-save before sharing.
I was going to say this would be a nice value-add for Ultra, but I’m already subscribed 🤷🏻♂️
I bet this issue doesn’t actually affect that many users (stupid North America and its reliance on Facebook Messenger), but it does ever so slightly annoy me, so I figured might as well shoot my shot and make a feature request.
It’s annoying enough that if Sync was OSS I would have submitted a PR already.
All that said: Sync is great and I’m so happy it was transposed from Reddit.
In the telegram app, webp is counted as a ‘sticker’, which will cause it to be rendered at a fixed scale, and you will be unable to zoom in on it. Stickers in telegram are used as reaction images that can be put into their own folders.
So if I share a webp image in telegram, you pretty much wont be able to read or see what’s going on due to the fixed scale.
Oof. I guess that’s slightly better than what happens with Facebook Messenger, which is a generic “an error has occurred” dialogue box.