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I think the general consensus of dissapointment is that WebP support in IPB is limited to file uploads. It doesn't automatically serve reprocessed WebP images to supportive browsers. Which is what would have been expected.

Yeah I was hoping to see images being served webp based on the user's browser to help with image loading speed. Its nice you can upload them now though, but I don't see any functionality outside of accepting webp images. I was doing this with mod_pagespeed but ran into some theme caching issues so I disabled it.

Hi all,
Now that 4.6 supports WebP I was wondering if anyone knows how I can reprocess all my forum images to WebP?
I've tried using Google's mod_pagespeed server tool before but had issues I couldn't resolve.
I've 
Cheers
Alex

Thanks, I was hoping for an automated method which would also update all the links in the forum.

True, but it's highly likely that those users are making up less than 1% of my traffic.
I wasn't looking to use WebP to give better images, I want to use WebP as from my other sites I've seen it reduce image size on average by about 30% with no trade off on image quality. This made a noticable improvement to page speed and also reduced my bandwidth.
I was hoping, well assumed, that the IPB implementation would support the actual serving and processing of the images just like many Wordpress plugins do. It shoudln't be reliant on a user to upload a WebP image, as who the hell would do that. There's free Wordpress extensions which dyamically process and serve WebP images only to browsers which support the format. I'm puzzled why this type of support isn't included in a paid platform.

AFAIK they've been a little vague about how support for WebP images works in 4.6.
A search for WebP in the AdminCP live search brings up no results. The quality setting is mentioned in Image Settings.
My server has support for WebP but if I go to upload a Logo in the theme settings it doesn't mention WebP at all, just gif, jpeg, jpe, jpg, png. Same if I go to upload a profile cover photo.
If I try uploading a WebP image, I get a message saying "Allowed file extensions are: gif, jpeg, jpe, jpg, png", even though I have Allowed File Types set to the default of 'All Files', Allowed File Extensions set to 'No Restriction', ImageMagick and GD2 installed with their PHP extensions.
I was interested to see how this would work because despite being around for a decade or so, it's only now that modern browsers support WebP, only Safari on MacOS has some remaining caveats. Using a picture html element is recommended to provide fallback PNG/JPEG etc images, but it gets tricky with background element images.
You might be better with an on-the-fly type service like Cloudinary or Cloudflare's offering at the moment, they have a free tier.

Based on https://squoosh.app you could try their CLI tool to batch convert a folder...
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh/tree/dev/cli

Or API:
https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
 
Or Google's own CLI...
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download

Hi all,
Now that 4.6 supports WebP I was wondering if anyone knows how I can reprocess all my forum images to WebP?
I've tried using Google's mod_pagespeed server tool before but had issues I couldn't resolve.
I've 
Cheers
Alex

Yes

Any updates to subscriptions?
 
Does it have WebP?

Safari 14 now supports .webp https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes 

I've got a new update ready that is just being tested a bit more by a few others and then will be released soon. (Because of the previous update causing problems, I'm a bit more cautious this release.)
These are the changes, if you've got any more bugs to report, please let me know now.
Bug fix for validate member. Bug fix with topic settings stopping new welcome alerts. Background queue to convert and then remove the legacy welcome member field. Only members who joined within 2 weeks will receive the time delay welcome.

It's supported across 78.37% of all mobile web users and 81.29% of global desktops.

How is webp still not a thing in IPBoard?
Google basically forces you into webp with optimisation recommendations.

Safari 14 now supports .webp https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes 

Safari 14 now supports .webp https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes 

Hi @Duken I'd recommend posting on the Google forum https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/adsense/eftgSJTTBg0;context-place=topicsearchin/adsense/auto%2420ads%2420appearing%2420over%2420content
The last response was as below:
 

Safari 14 now supports .webp https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes 

Safari 14 now supports .webp https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-14-beta-release-notes 

I run Ezoic, which are a publishing partner for Google premium ads. I make considerably more money with them than using Adsense directly. HOWEVER it slows your site, this may not be a tradeoff you want to make.
I too don't show ads to subscribed members, so their payment removes ads and increases page load speed.
Ezoic have a lot of tools for caching and increasing page speed, image optimization, critical css etc. but the key one as in caching isn't suitable for forums.

I run Ezoic, which are a publishing partner for Google premium ads. I make considerably more money with them than using Adsense directly. HOWEVER it slows your site, this may not be a tradeoff you want to make.
I too don't show ads to subscribed members, so their payment removes ads and increases page load speed.
Ezoic have a lot of tools for caching and increasing page speed, image optimization, critical css etc. but the key one as in caching isn't suitable for forums.

@bfarber check the animated demo on the home page of https://www.imgix.com/ 
They work completely different to a CDN such as Clouldfront, in that they allow one image to be dynamically rescaled, optimized and format served depending on the device/browser and connection speed.

Has there been any discussion around support of Image CDNs such as https://cloudinary.com/ or https://www.imgix.com/

Thank you - appreciate the reply

It'll serve an alternative, such as .jpg.