(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.

  • Bob@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    10 months ago

    For sending as a message attachment, compression is not nearly as needed since the image is only distributed to one or two people and it’s only one image, so the webp could be transcoded directly to jpeg to have the same quality and the difference wouldn’t be much, I think OPs idea is kinda good