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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To be fair, it’s not terrible quality loss, it’s just worse than JPEG, the main format it was trying to replace. It’s way better than GIF though.

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GIF compression is endearing, though. It only has 256 colors, but it tries its hardest anyway.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The little format that could. 🥺

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People didn't really jif it a chance.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

A little format's jrand adventure

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's kind of terrible as JPEG is lossy af

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

That depends on the compression level