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BMP files were never a format that was accepted for upload I believe. Mostly because they are usually umcompressed images, so are huge. Conversion isn't a problem, it just not an image format most folks are using. JPEG, GIF and PNG are the lion's share.

I learned a long time ago to save photos I care about in a lossless format such as TIFF or BMP as they will degrade over time as JPEG and GIF (not sure about PNG) as they re-compress over and over every time they are saved, renamed or edited in any way so eventually become very pixelated. On my sites, BMP is one of the upload choices but, of course, it gets converted, resized and compressed appropriately in the upload process.