I have noticed that some image uploads always convert to jpeg, this creates ugly situations with images with transparent elements and dark/light mode. I couldn’t find a setting for this, can we somehow turn this off? I’ve tried uploading an image in webp, png and it always converts it to jpg, how s…

There are several settings which seem relevant: recompress original jpg quality (“Quality of uploaded image files (1 is lowest quality, 99 is best quality, 100 to disable).”) png to jpg quality (“Quality of the converted JPG file (1 is lowest quality, 99 is best quality, 100 to disable).”) compose…

[image] Matthew Miller: I am not sure how the last one relates to the first two Last one is about Faster (and smaller) uploads in Discourse with Rust, WebAssembly and MozJPEG | Blog while the first two are about a server-side image optimization pipeline, so while both are about images they ar…

Let me rephrase. I can see several separate concerns: page load time / viewer bandwidth server-side storage server load / performance upload speed image quality case one: diagrams, line drawings, etc., where JPEG compression is ugly and inefficient (theoretical) case two: a photography forum whe…

[image] Matthew Miller: (Also, note for any Discourse UX people reading this: inconsistent use of JPEG and JPG makes this harder to find.) That should be tweaked by UX: Change JPEG to JPG for search consistency by TheJammiestDodger · Pull Request #20698 · discourse/discourse · GitHub :+1:

First 2 are server side only changes. (that can run regardless of client side support) Last one is applied in the browser and means that you end up sending smaller payloads to the server.

Auto convert upload to JPG?

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piffy March 16, 2023, 1:15am 2

I’ve had this issue. I believe if you turn the compression off in the settings, it will upload properly. Not an idea place to leave that setting though for obvious reason

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Auto convert upload to JPG?

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