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Why do people still use The jpg/jpeg format instead of PNG for photos in 2025? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by King@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@sh.itjust.works

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Especially when they use websites like Reddit which allows for unlimited space for photos.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ubiquity, mostly. And because despite not having lossless encoding, JPEGs can be so huge that even industry pros don’t care.

Conversely, JPEG 2000 and JPEG XL never caught on, so it’s not getting any better.

PNG was always good, and I liked using it too for a long time, but these days I just save things as very large JPEGs. I was also disappointed that animated PNGs never became a thing despite being developed.

HEIC/HEIF is the codec/format to watch now.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I thought JPEG XL was possibly about to make a second entrance with Google pivoting recently? Let's hope this is the case.