April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
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Legachu
MemberNo this version is superior
anguirus12345
Memberzoom in on both and see the difference
ebea57
MemberDithering vs color banding. We must choose wisely.
ZombieHunter
Memberthis one is the better version as it done have lines on it like the other has. It like people dont open there eyes and look at things lately it like they just look at something and think i need to be deleted with thinking and looking.
Mairo
JanitorUuugghhhh
I would fucking hope that people would just start to use the fucking APNG, so you wouldn't have to choose. Fuck GIF files.
Like if I do some basic denoising, the filesize is gonna be huge, but you get the idea how APNG version would look like with this animation: https://puu.sh/HD8n0/2a0b9513cc.png
I'm just going to keep this one, because it does have technically more color detail which could be restored and the source now is color banded version.
user 109888
Memberwow people are actually upset about dithering in a lossy, high filesize archaic format like gif?
actually whats really going on is the usual "my version is superior, haha yours got taken down" warzone argument. Who gets to keep the sexy, hot new furry animation and who has to have theirs deleted? :DDDD
ebea57
MemberMany people still don't know APNG is a thing. If only developers of popular digital art software (like Photoshop) took APNG seriously and add an option to export animation in this format, we would see high quality animations more often. For now, creating APNG requires a separate tool or a plugin, which doesn't help in making the format popular.
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