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.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
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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Adarmalik
Member2016.. not using WEBM...
Mairo
JanitorWas about to say that. There was also WebM uploaded so I added it as parent post.
Because this has lower frame rate and whopping over 50x larger filesize of 52 MB! Even took my connection a minute to load up fully.
Gif wasn't ever meant to contain full HD material (1920x1080 gif lol) and it basically can't because of color space limitations. Of course I can't tell anyone to stop this and site allows this large files, but I assure you that far more people will be happy with ~10 MB file with under 1000px dimensions instead of this.
You can optimize the gif as well if it doesn't ruin the artistic vision by disabling camera sway, because less differences between frames, means MUCH lower filesize as well and at that point mobile users (who can't see WebM for some silly reason) will also thank you. Then just keep the sway on video formats, maybe even give tiny bit boost to bitrate.
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