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by Dylan16807 315 days ago
Avif is cute but using that as an excuse to not add jxl is a travesty. At the time either one of those could have been added, jxl should have been the choice.

The biggest benefit is that it's actually designed as an image format. All the video offshoots have massive compromises made so they can be decoded in 15 milliseconds in hardware.

The ability to shrink old jpegs with zero generation loss is pretty good too.