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.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Mairo
JanitorNah, can immidiately see there's no dither or banding like with that post.
Fureezy
MemberI'm going to keep in mind about how the edits were made for next time, like how the APNG version is now the parent, as opposed to the GIF version, for one.
I'm still getting used to parenting, so I'm taking notes on this wherever I can.
Mairo
JanitorGenerally speaking with differend animation fileformats, keep highest quality/primary as parent and rest as child posts.
APNG is fully lossless format, GIF is limited to 256 colors, WebM is lossy fileformat so there's visual video compression. I also added description just to double make sure to users that what they are watching as even though for me these things visually are obvious, I can definitely see how users might not see any difference between these especially on something like tiny mobile screen.
But yeah, animations are exclusion where dublicates can be uploaded if it's differend fileformat. Alternatively you can also just upload the most superior version and just link to external sites for other versions in description because even if in case something like GIF version dies, it can always be re-generated from APNG, where if APNG is lost it cannot be regenerated from GIF at full quality.
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