Obsession (europe.pub)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

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[–] 14 points 9 hours ago

Love is fleeting. Doors are forever.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 hours ago (12 children)

    Do these show up weird like.zips or something? Or is it just my app?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago*

    The Lemmy.zip instance converts all images into AVIF format, which are not well supported by many clients/frontends yet.

    Curiously, this one loaded fine for me, when they usually don't. Wondering if it might have something to do with the format it is converted from.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago

    The instance it was posted from is lemmy.zip, so maybe the app is interpreting the domain as a file type, somehow? That'd be really strange, but if you're actually seeing them as a zip file, that's the best explanation I've got. If that's not what you're seeing, can you rephrase the question?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

    I'm on Mbin and the image doesn't show, moreover the .avif is a strange extension for a picture file.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    I'm on an instance using Mbin and have seen that extension, but there's usually a link I can click to show the picture. This one however showed fine, so maybe it depends on how it's linked. The ones I saw before like that were in the comments, not the post.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago* (5 children)

    It's a (somewhat) newer image format that has better compression than WebP. Some clients still don't support it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

    You'll probably be fine if you're using a Web UI of some sort, since browsers have pretty good support, but not all mobile clients can handle it.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Which is weird, because I remember seeing this comic in 2014, five years before AVIF. I only remember it because my wife and I joked about it in the hospital while our oldest son was being born, and he just turned 12.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    .zip uses an image proxy server which might be doing the conversion automatically.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

    Yeah it's very common for CDNs to transcode images (convert them to a different format) to save bandwidth. Your browser or app tells the server which image formats it supports using the Accept HTTP header, and the server returns the image in the best format it supports. There's been significant improvements to data compression technology in the last 20+ years, and an AVIF file is usually around 50% the size of a comparable JPEG file of similar quality.

    Cloudflare does this (although I'm not sure if it's only a paid feature or if it's available on free accounts too), and major services like Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc do it too. At those scales, halving the amount of bandwidth used by images is a significant saving.

    If an app gets an image format it doesn't support, it's likely not setting the Accept header correctly.

    Edit: There's also JPEG XL which is essentially supposed to be like "JPEG 2.0", but it's not widely supported yet.

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