Literally, I’ve had this happen on Fandom.com where I try to copy/save an image from a direct link that ends in “.png”, but realize it was a fake PNG when I try to upload it. It’s so annoying, IDK what the deal with all of these new image types is.
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Basically since the Wikia rebrand to fandom, they’ve been owned by venture capital vultures, and have unsurprisingly dropped off. Stupid little nonsense like this doesn’t surprise me
https://getindie.wiki/ -> a plugin that helps avoiding fandom.com as much as possible. Don’t give those leeches any visit if you can help it, their behavior towards the people creating their content is atrocious.
IDK what the deal with all of these new image types is
Well the reason is that all the old image files weren’t designed for the modern web (some of them have been around since the 1960s) so these new image formats have been developed that compress more readily, and have additional features.
I don’t know the exact details but an example is that a lot of social media sites strip metadata from images because it takes up space, so some of these new formats have more compressed metadata so that’s no longer needed.
Literally, I’ve had this happen on Fandom.com where I try to copy/save an image from a direct link that ends in “.png”, but realize it was a fake PNG when I try to upload it. It’s so annoying, IDK what the deal with all of these new image types is.
Fandom.com is bad. It sucks the fun out of every fandom wiki that it has in its clutches.
Use libredirect, or just manually replace fandom with breezewiki or some of the other helper sites.
Easy Breezy Fandom is helpful for automating the second way if you just use Fandom wikis, Indie Wiki Buddy is also helpful for getting every solution in one (Breezewiki, Official Non-Fandom Redirects etc)
Aaand the internet is wonderful for me again. Thank you.
Basically since the Wikia rebrand to fandom, they’ve been owned by venture capital vultures, and have unsurprisingly dropped off. Stupid little nonsense like this doesn’t surprise me
Wikia was never great to begin with, with all the useless JavaScript and floating shit all over the page, but its gotten even worse now yeah.
https://getindie.wiki/ -> a plugin that helps avoiding fandom.com as much as possible. Don’t give those leeches any visit if you can help it, their behavior towards the people creating their content is atrocious.
Well the reason is that all the old image files weren’t designed for the modern web (some of them have been around since the 1960s) so these new image formats have been developed that compress more readily, and have additional features.
I don’t know the exact details but an example is that a lot of social media sites strip metadata from images because it takes up space, so some of these new formats have more compressed metadata so that’s no longer needed.
The issue at hand is not that, it’s that even when you use an Uri into an image you get a webpage. Reddit does this, for example.