Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”

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We can ask the same the other way around: why do you want to use jpg if it results in a bigger size and worse quality than png?

But that's patently untrue: take this 10 MB example TIFF file as an example.

  • PNG Compression, max compress (=quality 9):

    convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 9 test.png

  • JPG Encoding, 99% quality (=quality 99):

    convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 99 test.jpg

Final file size comparison:

9.7M Sep  5 13:21 file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff
1.7M Sep  5 13:22 test.jpg
2.5M Sep  5 13:22 test.png

PNG is significantly larger, and difference in quality between them is negligible

Dude. Did you even read what I wrote? PNG is bad for photos. Your example is a photo. Go ahead and try the same with a screenshot with text and menus showing.

png - jpg

156K Sep  5 23:06 Screenshot_20240905_230459.jpg
137K Sep  5 23:05 Screenshot_20240905_230459.png

jpg with 80% compression, via krita.

As B0rax said, for screenshots, png is better - it can represent line graphics and text more efficiently.

Thanks for this. Still, I would be curious to see this for a 4K level image. Also I wonder if your screenshot tool did a bitmap copy of the screen or intrinsically converted it to PNG first before pasting it into your paint editor.