Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-4970747-20200217215949

Andrewds1021 wrote: Guyus24, if an anon is so involved with a wiki that they need to download images, I would expect that they are knowledgeable enough to either already know or use once taught the easy solution to the webp issue. Just add "format=original" to the image's URL's query string and it should download correctly.

Are you for real here? You expect your average internet user to magically know how to add an extension to an image to fix it? The amount of mental gymnastics you are going through to try and justify this change is astounding. It's a broken system, stop trying to defend it.

People who visit my wiki are in no way versed or experienced with mediawiki. They're looking for an image for whatever reason. Downloading images is a bare requirement, not something you should need in-depth knowledge about. Heck, I've been editing for 5+ years and wouldn't really know to do that. They're either going to get a tiny thumbnail that's no good for anything, attempt to save the image from the lightbox and get blocked, or get a webp image with no major support off browsers, and if they're using Chrome it's semi-corrupted anyway.