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Why did you build this for Facebook as opposed to other messaging clients or even email? It's pretty cool btw :)
by mansigandhi 14y ago
Why did you build this for Facebook as opposed to other messaging clients or even email? It's pretty cool btw :)
- gibybo 14y agoI suspect it was the technical challenge involved. If he did it for other clients or email, he may not have had to support JPEG re-compression which is both technically difficult and necessary for Facebook compatibility.
- owencm 14y agoHundreds of steganography tools already exist for making images which can be shared on any medium where recompression is not an issue (http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html http://www.jjtc.com/Steganography/tools.html). In this case I wanted to provide a simple user experience and also handle Facebook's recompression specifically. In the future this tool could be extended to other sites which recompress images when they're uploaded although it would certainly be a more confusing user experience.