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Synaptic-Purge
Aiden | Drummer for [[BAND NAME UNINITIALIZED]] | Solo artist in the form of Synaptic Purge | 1/2 of
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| anti-capitalist | leftist

Age 21, he/they

Newfoundland, Canada

Joined on 11/7/23

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Not to be too pushy, but you 'got' supporter status. You can just post suggestions in a certain thread* till the cows come home. And I already know that Audio Portal Moderator ADR3-N will love the point you made above. ;)

That being said, most 'Art Portal-artists' get their work converted into .WEBP - which is proprietary Microsoft bullshit that nobody in the entire world should use, because it's only going to cause various "unforeseen" issues and it blurs like crazy. Do you see my avatar? I had to put a lot of work into making 'something pixelated' not have a ton of artifacting, just because of the crappy conversion. It's insane. We have .JPG, which can be set to produce great quality for quite a while now, if you're okay with minor loss. We have the lossless .PNG (which can also handle animation, btw)... Along comes Microsoft with a format that's a worse version of both of those combined and people actually use it. I don't get it...

* https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1407692/

Thanks for the thread, I'll make sure to post there soon!

And yeah .WEBP sucks, fuck Microsoft, but that's really weird NG forces that. I swear I've downloaded art from this site before and always gotten jpgs or pngs, never webp. I don't get why anyone would use Microsoft's thing willingly either.

Oh and you aren't pushy fyi! Thank you for the suggestion!

@Synaptic-Purge I "suspect" the use of .WEBP has to do with bandwidth.

As you probably heard a million times already, NG is run on about 99% supporter donations and 1% Ad-money on "A"-rated submissions. (Which a lot of users probably block.)

I cannot look into the heads of Mr. Fulp and his team, but I "suspect" that they are not super happy with this solution either. The original images/original formats are still being stored on the servers. You can access them by navigating to the original image and replace the .WEBP-file extension with .PNG/.JPG/etc. if you want to store an image in the better quality.
Like this:
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/cerulea-blue/magica-girl-s-peaceful-daily-life

https://art.ngfiles.com/images/5587000/5587328_646779_cerulea-blue_untitled-5587328.b05cb270c321275076d6e195ad36e7e2.png?f1712207529

(That's not exactly a 'documented feature', but feel free to share. I learned this from user @YendorNG, who sadly left the community.)