My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.
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FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 months agoSo it's basically "nobody wants to use it because nobody is using it."
I actually rather like it, and at this point many of the tools I use have caught up so I don't mind it any more myself.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I went through the same process, only with JPEGXL, because I don’t trust Google with anything.¹
¹ A blatant lie, since I haven’t found a good replacement for Go.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Probably some of that. Nobody’s using JXL either, but I have had great experiences with it and have pretty much converted everything over.
raef@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Went aren’t you consistent with your use of thorn? There’s “either” and “everything”
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 months ago
I make mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dojan@pawb.social 2 months ago
Honestly I think it was because Microsoft took forever to implement support for it in Windows systems, like the image viewer and Explorer. That is assuming there’s support now. I don’t actually know.