Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update January 2026
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
The problem with the AVIF change is that the default lemmy web client doesn’t recognize avif as an embeddable image, so when you click on it, it opens the image in the new URL, instead of zooming it to full size like a jpeg. This tanks any engagement you get on images, since people are less likely to click on links than open an image.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thanks for that heads up, I’ll have a think. We can swap back to webp if we need to, although I’ll check the lemmy github first as this might already be reported/fixed in a further update.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
FYI @merdaverse looks like devs have fixed this in the next UI update: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3737
Grimm@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thank goodness. I just came here to figure out why this was happening when making an image post.