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@Friendica Support

I just ran on #mastodon into the fact that #webP has issues to be uploaded.
There was a general problem giving 500 errors that apparently was fixed recently, even tho not all servers have updated this problem.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23781

Actually I wanted to upload animated webP and that still doesn't work. The software extracts the first pic and serves it as webP.

So I tried to publish via #friendica into the fediverse the animated webP but at least the squeet.me friendica version (2023.09-dev) extracts the first pic and serves it as jpg image. 2021.01 and 2019.12 doesn't accept webP at all.

I guess this is known?

Any changes on this to expect?

I'm kinda astonished as I created the webP with GIMP and can display it in firefox, all free source software and animated webP is definitely higher quality than gif and way smaler size.

@…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup I assume it depends on the underlying installed gd or ImageMagick extension version.

We also create resized versions of all uploaded images to add as a preview in posts, but the original should still be shown when clicking on the preview.

WebP support isn’t put of reach as we are able to display Mastodon-generated WebP clips from remote accounts.