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		minimaxir 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are so many images now in unusual file formats... WEBP is no longer "unusual" as it now finally has downstream support for the most popular use cases. The anti-WEBP memes are out of date and it's generally better than even a highly-compressed PNG.

Jtsummers 12 days ago [–]

At this point it's been around for over 15 years, too. I thought it was younger than that, but it was announced in September 2010.

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