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WebM support on 4chan

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Re: WebM support on 4chan

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Post by valarauca1 »

This is a very big moment for WebM. I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. With VHS vs Betamax the largely deciding factor was which standard porn supported (this was again to a lesser extent with bluray).

The general lack of adoption of animated png's is often pointed squarely on 4chan. Since it generated most of the web's viral funny content. And since most of it was in .gif, who needs to support .apng?

Hopefully we will see the opposite with WebM. More general funny content, more drive for it to be adopted on sites like reddit (which already to some extent uses gifcat on some subs), and imgur. Which will snowball its general adoption.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

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Post by moot »

valarauca1 wrote: post #3

This is a very big moment for WebM. I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. With VHS vs Betamax the largely deciding factor was which standard porn supported (this was again to a lesser extent with bluray). The general lack of adoption of animated png's is often pointed squarely on 4chan. Since it generated most of the web's viral funny content. And since most of it was in .gif, who needs to supp…

> I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet.

This is the most flattering thing I've ever read about 4chan.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

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Post by aspensmonster »

valarauca1 wrote: post #3

This is a very big moment for WebM. I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. With VHS vs Betamax the largely deciding factor was which standard porn supported (this was again to a lesser extent with bluray). The general lack of adoption of animated png's is often pointed squarely on 4chan. Since it generated most of the web's viral funny content. And since most of it was in .gif, who needs to supp…

I'd say Google has its own share of responsibility for the lack of adoption of APNGs. Chromium doesn't support them out of the box.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

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Post by heydenberk »

moot wrote: post #4
valarauca1 wrote: post #3

This is a very big moment for WebM. I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. With VHS vs Betamax the largely deciding factor was which standard porn supported (this was again to a lesser extent with bluray). The general lack of adoption of animated png's is often pointed squarely on 4chan. Since it generated most of the web's viral funny content. And since most of it was in .gif, who needs to supp…

> I feel 4chan has become the 'porn' industry of the internet. This is the most flattering thing I've ever read about 4chan.

It's kind of hilarious how much easier it is to summon moot on HN than on, say, 4chan.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

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Post by deanclatworthy »

moot wrote: post #5

More details here: http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan

Nice to see this rolled out. In the notes it's mentioned that you won't offer a fallback. Was this a bandwidth consideration or that you decided simply not to try and support the remaining 14%? Or that you didn't want to maintain the infrastructure for transcoding the fallback file. In my experience at work I've found that whilst webm is generally smaller the difference is minute especially when you are dealing with files as small as 3MB.
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