Questions tagged [images]
For questions about the images used on Stack Exchange sites or about using images in your own posts.
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Math mode in image alt text [duplicate]
I used math mode in an image's alt text. This had worked in the past, but now upon an edit, it is broken: the alt text now appears as a link after the image. See answer at What is the difference ...
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Adding GIF images or images is very laggy or provides errors [duplicate]
I never had these issues in the past (using BSE for years now), but in the last weeks I have massive problems adding GIF images or images into my answers. While images work (after waiting a loooong ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
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There's the new image hosting system and Super User (my main "playground") is trialling it.
My problem is I cannot see images hosted on i.sstatic.net. This is how it looks like:
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New tag for the internal image hosting
Now that imgur will soon no longer host our images, the imgur tag would become obsolete.
However, I doubt the new upload process, that would host the images internally in Stack Exchange, would work ...
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The new image uploader is slower than the old image uploader
Uploading an image with the new image uploader is slower than the old image uploader. Example below. Feature request: make the new image uploader as fast as the old image uploader.
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What changes were introduced in the new image uploader, and are not considered bugs?
I'm aware of:
160px minimum image size limit.
For PNG files above some KB threshold, the new image uploader attempts to compress them into a smaller PNG file (same dimension but higher compression), ...
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Remove the 160px minimum image size limit on Stack Exchange internal image hosting
This "image too small" limit is very frustrating:
For reference the image I tried to attach is 320px x 129px.
You're forcing me to add whitespace to my image, why?!
Please remove the limit, ...
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Why does the image with ID 0JRqu auto download when fetched with the "s" thumbnail suffix?
https://i.stack.imgur.com/0JRqu.png doesn't auto download, and is returned with Content-Type: image/png.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/0JRqus.png autodownloads, and is returned with Content-Type: ...
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On the stackexchange.com filters page, use a background color instead of having to load an external image
On the filters page on StackExchange.com, a static external image is loaded to force a background colour instead of applying a CSS background-color for the HTML element .filters-sidebar .filters ul li....
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Your gifs make me sick: Please disable auto-play
On Stack Exchange, gifs play automatically. See the lower part of this answer for an example without too much motion/flashing.
To many people, autoplay is merely an annoyance. However, to ...
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Periodically publish a data dump of all IDs in the image ID space (and make it available in SEDE)
I see that Imgur has an API to query for image IDs in its ID space, but api.stack.imgur.com is not an API endpoint (and SE is moving off Imgur anyway). Say I want to get all the IDs of images in Stack ...
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Mention the maximum image size for images uploaded in chat
The maximum image size one can upload in the chat is 4 MiB (at least for JPG and PNG files, one day someone should look at GIF files). The limit is not mentioned in the chat.
Feature request: Mention ...
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Why is the maximum image size one can upload in the chat twice larger than the maximum image size one can upload in a question or answer?
The upload limit for images and GIF files in questions and answers is 2 MiB, while the chat uploader has a size limit of 4 MiB for JPG and PNG (I haven't looked at GIF). In both cases, large images ...
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On which day did it become impossible to upload images via the SE mobile app?
Still trying to understand why some images and GIF files hosted on i.stack.imgur.com larger than 2 MiB, I wonder the following: on which day did it become impossible to upload images via the SE mobile ...
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Why are some images and GIF files hosted on i.stack.imgur.com larger than 2 MiB?
The upload limit for images and GIF files is 2 MiB. However, some images and GIF files are larger than 2 MiB, e.g.:
This 9.9 MiB GIF file posted in this question.
This 9.6 MiB image posted in this ...
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Why huge images?
I don't often put images in my questions or answers, and when they are large, I edit them for size first. But I've noticed that small ones are displayed much bigger than their actual size. The most ...
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Can i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].gif, i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].jpg and i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].png be different images?
I believe that i.stack.imgur.com supports only 3 extensions: .gif, .jpg and .png.
Assume these three URLs with the same [ID]:
i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].gif
i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/[...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur is ending - advance notice
Update on the Imgur migration, April 15th 2024
Due to an elevated error rate discovered at launch time, we delayed the network-wide deployment of the new image uploader from its planned time during ...
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Questions and answers containing copyrighted images
What is the official policy on questions and answers with embedded copyrighted photos? Does the fair use doctrine apply? Is there a difference between high-res "commercial" photos (like &...
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Could we get an image resizer built into image upload, please? Please! [duplicate]
Many users will want to load photos directly from their phones. With modern phone camera resolution, SE will usually block these and tell the user the image must be resized first.
Many cell-phone ...
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Out-of-date screenshot on "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" Help Center page
The beginning of the Help Center page "Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?" currently looks like this:
Could that screenshot be updated? It's......
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What issues does using the HTML width attribute for images create?
I read:
Using the HTML width attribute is known to cause issues when using some layout modifiers - I used to use it too but got complaints. Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
What issues does using the ...
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Change the attach-pictures icon to something more appropriate?
We spend a lot of time explaining to newbies that the "attach photo" button is the mountain-landscape icon.
Aren't we overdue to replace that icon with something more self-evident, like a ...
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Exactly what metadata is preserved when uploading an image on the network?
This old question "Is EXIF data removed from uploaded SE pictures?" claims that
Imgur will strip the EXIF data once the image is uploaded to their server
Recently, a question posted on the ...
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Who is the original artist of the comic on the blog post "Do large language models know what they are talking about?"
The blog post Do large language models know what they are talking about? has the comic:
A: It is time to learn about magic circles.
B: ugh, why is it so complex? ... What does this symbol in the ...
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What are the factors that cause SE's Imgur instance to reduce the resolution of uploaded images?
I have been converting several images that are larger than 2 MiB to be less than or equal to 2 MiB to make them compatible with SE's Imgur instance, which has a 2 MiB file size limit. This is because ...
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Resizing a transparent image when a recommended method doesn't work
(Note: The wording of the question has changed to take into account information I did not know about when I asked it.)
I have an image that looks enormous in a posted answer. I have tried to follow ...
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When embedding image, making it small without making it blurry or keep the original? [duplicate]
If I paste a copied-screenshot in the clipboard, often the image is too big. I know I can append letters like l or m, to make it small, but then it becomes blurry, and clicking the small image does ...
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Could we support WebP image format when uploading images?
SE is a leading example of top multimedia streamlining for ease of use.
WebP is currently unsupported when attempting to upload an image. It's fast becoming a very common image format because it is ...
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Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
On May 15th 2023, Imgur will implement its new TOS, in which
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.
I, and presumably many other users, ...
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Please add image size options to markdown help
The markdown help page for images says nothing on how to make small, medium and large sizes as described here. This info is very handy. Please add it.
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Why are there so many images with alt text "a busy cat" on the network?
While reviewing the results of my script that repairs broken images across the network, I noticed there are many images where the alt text is "a busy cat". It might be an older version of ...
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How far do we need to go with unattributed images? [duplicate]
The CC licensing requires attribution for any content that isn't your own, including images. People often post unattributed clarifying images copied from somewhere else. It is clear from the post that ...
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Image markdown - remove to re-add isn't smooth
If I edit a post to swap a quick phone snap for a properly cropped version, straightened & punched up in Photoshop to be more legible, better exposed [a dozen reasons I edit many photos a day ...
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What percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text?
As a follow-up question of Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus, I wonder what percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text.
Edit: by meaningful, I mean useful.
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Improve error when uploading an image with the wrong extension
Yesterday I was trying to rescue a broken image with help of the Wayback Machine. When I tried to upload it, I got a generic error message:
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
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Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus
Upon image upload completion, the cursor focus is moved to the image tag (see example below). Feature request: don't move the cursor focus.
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Imgur link fails to render while adding an image in question: "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"
I have faced this issue 2-3 times. Whenever I paste an Imgur link in an image upload window, it gives an error:
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
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Any script that automatically deletes unlinked imgur images?
There's a comment to this great answer that remains unanswered:
Is there a script that automatically checks for images that are not in any posts (removed by editing) and purges the images from the ...
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Add magic link for image of code/data/errors
I just read about magic links for the first time from this Meta Stack Exchange post. The accepted answer had a good amount of useful magic links to help articles such as [mcve], [ask], and [answer], ...
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How can I save images of me in my hats as transparent PNGs? [closed]
I'm looking to get a PNG of my various hats on my profile pic for personal use (changing the hat I'm wearing and capturing an image of each setup somehow). I need a PNG that's either 32 × 32 or 128 × ...
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Enhance help on uploading images
On sites where images are helpful to answer a question such as Gardening and Landscaping or Home Improvement new users regularly try and upload images that are greater than the 2 Mb image limit. They ...
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What should we do with suggested edits that change an image to be embedded inline by uploading a new copy?
I occasionally see suggested edits only changing the image from a link to inline.
I have rejected a couple as "This edit causes harm", but now I just click "No Improvement".
The ...
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"Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server" is back
Image uploads in posts fail and give the following error message:
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server.
Tested on different computers, different connections and different SE sites....
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Image uploading fails with "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"
I can't upload images anymore: on the Ask Question page, the image upload dialog shows a red error message
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
See the screenshot below (uploaded ...
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Ngram Chart appears empty
A couple of hours ago I was reading an answer on EL&U, which was posted four months ago, when I noticed two Google Books Ngrams were completely empty. The two graphs are completely blank except ...
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Unable to add an image link from Imgur
I am trying to add an image to a question using Stack Exchange's image upload tool.
However, the link isn't accepted by the upload tool.
When I paste the URL of the image into my browser, it works ...
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Is there an elegant way to view the post images when my country is among the ones blocking Imgur?
Looks like my country is among the ones blocking Imgur. So, whenever I view the posts with images, I get only a partial view.
Is there an elegant way to view the posts (from Google Chrome or Firefox) ...
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Dragging/dropping or pasting an image in rich text mode results in the image uploader showing the same image twice
Dragging/dropping or pasting an image (into the new Stacks Editor) in rich text mode results in the same image being shown twice (side-by-side) in the image uploader:
Steps to reproduce:
Switch to ...
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Why do PNG images sometimes become JPEG after going though the SE image uploader?
Example:
Why do PNG images sometimes become JPEG after going though the SE image uploader?
As far as I know, SE doesn't resize images if too large (> 2 MiB).
I use this image. File information:
C:...
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