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I am unable to upload images with size around 1MB or larger in chat rooms
I guess the official limit is 3MB. But I can't upload them unless they are less than around 1MB. I tested multiple images in different browsers. Same result.
There is no error message in the UI (it ...
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How can one export an animated GIF for SE posting?
Following this decision to limit animated GIF sizes I don't agree with, I've been having a hard time knowing how to ask questions that require visual documentation on SE sites like Graphic Design, ...
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Mostly unable to see images on Stack Exchange sites
A few months ago I largely lost the ability to see images on Stack Exchange sites, but only on my office computer (and all coworkers have the same issue, so it's not my computer, but maybe our office ...
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Is there a way to align images to the top in a table?
I don't know if this question was answered before.
Is there a way to align images to the top in a table:
Picture one
Picture two
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Could we support animated WebP images?
Could we please have support added for animated WebP images?
I wanted to upload an animated WebP on https://blender.stackexchange.com/.
But it turns out animated WebP images are not supported:
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Image uploading isn't working
When attempting to upload an image, either via chat or via the main site, I'm shown "An error occured, please try again".
For (perhaps obvious) reasons, I can't upload a screenshot to ...
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The Stacks editor still enforces a 2 MiB image size limit, and doesn't support the automatic image resizing that the normal editor does
Stacks-editor has a hard limit of 2 MiB on image upload, unlike the default editor (10 MiB):
Feature request: Add automatic image resizing on image uploads over 2 MiB to the Stacks editor.
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Animated PNGs (APNGs) unexpectedly become static if over 2 MiB when using the image uploader
Animated PNGs (APNGs) become static if over 2 MiB when using the image uploader. Looks like the compressor that is triggered for uploaded files over 2 MiB doesn't support animated PNGs.
Example with ...
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Shorthand URLs for Images results in post-blocking error when writing a Post or Editing a post with existing shorthand URLs for Images [duplicate]
Across the SE Sites, you can use // to replace https:// for URLs in posts to shorten a URL. An example of this is this link (look at this post's source to see it).
However, if you try this with an ...
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How to get SE sstatic images for my website
I've written about 2,500 questions and answers in Stack Exchange sites. About half of them I scrape into my website on GitHub Pages for customized presentation and searching.
A short time ago all the ...
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GIF size limit is extremely small and easy to hit; increase it to allow for more practical uploads
Current limitation: One cannot upload animated GIF images with over 50 million overall pixels (resolution times frames).
Feature request: Allow GIF animated images with over 50 million pixels.
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Can't see the attached images in Stack Exchange questions in Sweden
Since last week, I can not see the images attached to questions in any Stack Exchange site. I have tried accessing the same thread from different browsers and different devices. The issue is ...
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Can you see images? Should I/we report an outage somewhere?
[Edit: I can again see the images today on 5th August '24]
[Edit2: Whoops, false start! Apparently I can now see the images under the link Realistically randomize Rubik's Cube that I reported here and ...
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It should be more obvious how to add titles to images
There's a related feature request from 2010, but I'm not sure that feature request is necessarily asking for the right thing.
Image tags have two attributes - alt text and titles. The alt text is used ...
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Could the new picture hosting system be bringing up thumbnails?
On some questions on DIY.SE, such as this one, when clicking on the decently-sized and detailed pictures in the question:
Very tiny and un-zoomable pictures like thumbnails show, instead of big-size ...
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How do I delete an image which was uploaded using the image uploader, but isn't included in any post? [duplicate]
If you copy an image and paste it into the Stack Exchange editor while creating or editing a Question or Answer, the image will be automatically uploaded to SE's image hosting service.
Is there a way ...
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Why are some images rendered correctly and some not?
Since yesterday (?), I noticed that some images show just fine on the Stack Exchange sites but some don't.
For example, the uploaded image of this question on Cross Validated is shown like this (the ...
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In which case(s) are the uploaded animated gifs being resized?
I read:
The limitations are mostly imposed by third-party systems we use during the image upload process, and also when resizing animated gifs. [Troy Gould]
In which case(s) are uploaded animated ...
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What's the rationale behind placing a limit on uploaded gifs in terms of pixels? (instead of bytes or frame dimensions)
I read:
Image uploads are limited to 50 megapixels; please use a smaller image
What's the rationale behind placing a limit on uploaded gifs in terms of pixels? (instead of bytes or frame dimensions)
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Url protocol should not be required for image links
It is possible to write links without specifying the protocol, in this manner:
[This is a reference-style link][some-link]
[This is an inline-style link](//stackexchange.com)
[some-link]: //...
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WebP image thumbnails are unexpectedly converted to JPG format
I noticed a bug where the thumbnail versions of uploaded WebP images are being converted to JPG format.
For example, you might have an image at https://i.sstatic.net/12345.webp. However, when the ...
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Raise on-screen keyboard on touchscreen devices after image upload
Right after the image is uploaded to the site, i.e. "Add picture" is clicked, we see the text "enter image description here". That text is selected so the following keyboard input ...
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"Image uploads are limited to 50 megapixels" looks weird for animated GIF [duplicate]
I tried to upload animated GIF with the size less than 2MiB and dimensions 600 х 388, but got unexpected error message:
Image uploads are limited to 50 megapixels; please use a smaller image
It ...
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Remove `[Text]` from the no-alt-text warning message
Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message.
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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What does `[Text]` refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
What does [Text] refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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Some images uploaded in chat cannot be visited via the link
This is an intermittent failure and I cannot find a good way to reliably reproduce it.
Some times when uploading an image in chat it shows up but the link leads to a page that says "oh no, that ...
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i.sstatic.net is missing IPv6 DNS resolution
Cloudflare is about one of the easiest way to get a domain served over both IPv4 and IPv6. However the new image hosting domain doesn't have any AAAA records. Would it be too much to ask for images to ...
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Please enable hotlinking to images hosted under sstatic.net
I have just discovered that the new i.sstatic.net domain does not allow hotlinking. I assume it was done to prevent using the images outside of the SE network, however I kindly ask you to reconsider ...
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Cloudflare is causing i.sstatic.net images to return 429s
After loading a chat transcript with a large number of images, requests to i.sstatic.net have started returning 429s and a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, which... seems to defeat the point of a dedicated ...
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Uploading this .gif doesn't work
Uploading this .gif doesn't work:
An error occurred, please try again.
Tested on Meta.SE, SU, and AskUbuntu with Chrome on Win10.
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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024
The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration.
We're ...
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Could we revisit WebP support with the new uploader?
There's a feature request from last year requesting WebP support. I'd say the arguments made there were persuasive, and I'd encourage people to take a look at that post.
I'd say that with the new ...
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What was the rationale for expanding the ID space for i.sstatic.net?
The ID space for Imgur's IDs is 5 characters of alphanumeric characters. I noticed that i.sstatic.net has opted instead for 8 characters, while still supporting the 5 characters for images from the ...
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Bitmap compatibility appears to be broken with the new image host
(Originally posted here, SE image host -- bitmap extension)
Funny, uploading a somewhat less traditional format (Windows Bitmap), direct from file (drag and drop), I obtained this:
Poking around, I ...
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"Simulate this circuit" disappeared
Yesterday, in SE EE, I noticed that "Simulate this circuit" below schematics disappeared. See for example, this answer.
What can be the problem? Maybe it is somehow related to the new image ...
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Sharing code and images efficiently
Let me assume I would like to share a particular image that contains certain simplifications. I don't want to directly paste it to make the question short, simple, and straightforward. So, the best ...
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Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
I wonder the following: Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
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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
Problem
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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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.sstatic.net/0JRqu.png doesn't auto download, and is returned with Content-Type: image/png.
https://i.sstatic.net/0JRqus.png autodownloads, and is returned with Content-Type: application/...
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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 ...