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It kinda fit with where i believed atheran was going, when you introduce a filter to add grain, which he does on many of his images, compression and downscaling are the worst things you can do to the image. But the post was intended just to pass along a bit of information that maybe others might not have known about the jpeg format. Jpeg is also the easiest format to compress and everything supports it, so a lot of people upload the easiest format. Looking back at atheran's post it seems he always uploads PNG files, so it wasn't a answer he could use. PNG files do compress losslessly so the file you create is the file F95 can display, without any other manipulations.I must be honest here and admit that I am not very sure why you introduced all this technical information about the JPG format. I did not even mention that in my reply to atheran. But it's interesting information in any case.
PNG is almost universally better to upload to a message board than jpegs, and a lot of people don't know that. I always upload PNG files unless for some reason I can't (bad source, etc). But I also render in 8k then downsize to 2.5k (approx) so my images on F95 are never the same as what I created.