#Universal download button

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median mica
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There should be a download button on emotes that allows you to choose which file format it's saved as. although AVIF and WEBP save bandwidth while being used in chat, most programs or websites (discord, adobe software) still prioritize GIF support. It would be nice to have a "download-as" button so that you don't have to use an online converter to get an emote as a gif.

I understand that some people may not want to have their emotes be easily used off-platform, so maybe allow users to toggle the download button on emotes that they upload.

cunning valley
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right click > open image in new tab > in the link you change the format from .avif to w/e you want

median mica
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damn i guess that's pretty easy. wish i had thought of that. would still be cool to just have a button for it tho

north oak
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The fact that this has that many upvotes saddens me. Please don't use gifs. Use a program or plugin that lets you edit webp directly. Get software devs to implement webp or avif support (Discord could easily support webp but they deliberately don't). Using gifs to make edits introduces a massive and unnecessary quality loss in many emotes. If the emote originally came from a gif, chances are you can find the original on BTTV or elsewhere on the internet. If the emote didn't originally come from a gif, then it probably has an alpha channel, or some other facet that will look horrible if you try to convert it to gif. That said, doing the gif conversion yourself affords you more control over how it looks than the automatic 7tv gif conversion (only intended for embed previews).

cunning valley
north oak
cloud sage
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m0xyBased advice (mostly for AfterEffects users): If your program doesn't support export to webm, webp (i.e. nothing related to vp8), you might be able to export to mov (quicktime) which supports lossless+alpha (QT-RLE, argb pixel format). Thus you don't touch gif at all. At least AfterEffects supports this format. The file might get big since it's uncompressed though.

north oak