Questions tagged [uploader]
The component of the SE post editor that allows users to upload images to i.stack.imgur.com and display them in the post.
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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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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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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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Capitalization for image placeholder
I found out that in process of posts improvement by this user, the phrase "enter image description here" used as a default image description placeholder is often (always?) being capitalized ...
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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
In ...
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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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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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"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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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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Can we strip preceding whitespace out and check for "https://" being present when pasting a URL for an image upload to prevent prepending "https://"?
On sites where there is reputation restriction for embedding images, I (and others) will often edit posts from new users that include only a link to an image to embed the image (mostly this is on ...
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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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New Stacks Editor doesn't let me upload images at first try
It used to be possible to drag & drop image files from Finder (and perhaps Windows Explorer as well) to the new Stacks Editor. However, that isn't working anymore for me on the latest Firefox and ...
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Given an imgur image URL, can one see which user uploaded it, and if so, how?
Given an imgur image URL (e.g., https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZZRVq.png, I uploaded it just for the example), can one see which user uploaded it, and if so, how?
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An error occurred in the server after trying to upload an image that I downloaded from Reddit
I use Chrome on a Google pixel 6 with Android 11.
When I download an image via the Reddit application and try to upload to a Stack Exchange post, I get this error message:
Demo:
https://youtube.com/...
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Pasting from Microsoft Excel defaults to pasting an image via the Uploader™ [duplicate]
I'm trying to make a markdown table in Microsoft Excel, I copied multiple rows then went to paste the text into a post, and I get this result:
Whereas I'd have expected the table to have been pasted ...
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The chat image upload "from the web" is broken for sites that use the new R3 Let's Encrypt SSL certificate
Let's Encrypt expired their X3 root certificate and started issuing certificates with their R3 root certificate at the end of September.
The image uploader in chat offers an option to provide an url ...
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Not enough horizontal space for image uploader on some localized sites
For instance, on Stack Overflow in Spanish as well as on Stack Overflow in Russian there's not enough horizontal space for the image uploader in responsive design on my phone:
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Unable to position my cursor by mouse inside the image textboxes in the Answer section in the Firefox browser
In the Mozilla Firefox browser, I'm unable to position my cursor by mouse inside the image textboxes in the Answer section. If I want to modify any text, I can only use the keyboard.
GIF image for the ...
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Automatically resize images if their file size is too large
I posted this in 2018 here and it was marked as status-deferred. It's almost three years later and this is still an issue on Gardening and Landscaping and any site where photos are used to help ...
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Can I upload an audio file? [duplicate]
Not sure where else to ask. There is no help or support forum?
Anyways, is it possible to upload an audio file, or how can I create a link to my machine, or is there a website to upload it to and then ...
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Image upload sometime fails silently when upload is attempted quickly after loading the ask question page
Demo (I loaded the ask question page, pasted an image, hit "enter" and the image upload sometime silently failed):
This happened to me a few times (Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate + Google ...
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Missing error description failed after image upload attempt
Missing error description after failed image upload attempt (there is a ":" followed by )
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Typo in "An error occured when uploading the image". occured -> occurred
When an image upload fails, there is a typo in the error message:
Zoomed-in version:
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Do we really need linked images?
I had posted a question, What is the correct way to insert images to Stack Exchange posts?, where I asked what the correct way to insert images into Stack Exchange posts was. I included the default ...
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Increase the file size limit for animated GIFs (currently 2 MiB)
Currently, the file size limit for animated GIFs is 2 MiB, the same for still pictures. As a result, users are often posting low-resolution animated GIFs, and waste quite some time trying to make them ...
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Site-specific need for image uploader to paste EXIF exposure information into post along with image URL
(This is a feature request following this Meta Photo-SE post: Is there some way that we can help new users to add EXIF data to their photo?)
At Photography Stack Exchange, when posters ask questions ...
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Self hosting of integrated thumbnails for photos on SE sites
I think it'd be a good idea to start including integrated low res thumbnails on images in questions, as at least for the case of my school, Imgur is blocked and half of the sites are just broken image ...
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"Max 2 MiB" and "Provide a link from the web" strings overlap in the profile-pic uploader on SO in Russian
On SO in Russian, the "Max 2 MiB" and "Provide a link from the web" strings overlap in the profile-picture uploader:
And when actually uploading the picture. It's fine on SO in ...
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Imgur image processing after uploading an image is slow again
Imgur image processing after uploading an image is slow again: it used to be below 1 second for the past few weeks, and now it is back to over five seconds. Tested on different connections, different ...
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Focus stolen after image paste completed resulting in mistyping and retries
Here's the scenario:
Start editing in the Markdown editor (question or answer text).
Paste an image from
your clipboard with Ctrl+V.
The image starts uploading - and can take a while.
While ...
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Different syntax for uploaded image between full and mobile web
I just noticed that if I upload image via full web editor it looks like the following in code:
I.e. description with a link to the separate link list at the end of message body. But if I use mobile ...
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Image uploader close button is not responding on election nomination page [duplicate]
In the election nomination page, the image uploader section have the old UI. The close icon on the page is not responding, so unable to close the uploader page.
Screenshot for reference:
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How to find the deleteHash of an inserted image hosted on imgur?
When I edit an answer I have used the toolbar to insert an image, that is hosted on imgur then. As found in this Q&A Imgur delete anonymous upload (Greenshot) there is presented a deleteHash that ...
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Close button in image upload dialog is not tabbable and does nothing on user profile and in tag wikis
When editing a profile’s “About me” section, or a tag wiki, and hitting CtrlG, or clicking the “Image” button from the formatting bar to insert an image, the Imgur upload modal dialog will appear.
The ...
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Imgur image processing takes too long
Image uploads are slow. It takes at least 6-8 seconds to upload one image (demo: https://youtu.be/laNmsiLhcFY). This is not due to upload speed, but because Imgur processing is slow (in the YouTube ...
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Failed to upload image; couldn't reach imgur (2020 edition)
I'm unable to upload any image due to the following error:
Failed to upload image; couldn't reach imgur
https://imgur.com/ itself looks working. And I can upload image via their site. So here's ...
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Allow users to edit their post while an image is being uploaded, instead of forcing them to wait until the image is fully uploaded [duplicate]
Since image uploads are slow, it would be convenient to allow users to edit their post while uploading an image. I.e. do the upload + image processing in the background.
Currently one has to wait ...
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Alignment of text when adding an image is off on responsive site
When drafting my latest question on my mobile I saw the following when inserting an image:
The "powered by imgur" text appears to be aligned with the wrong border.
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Image upload and hyperlink tools fail to generate markdown until you type something into the text editor
The image upload and hyperlink tools in the markdown toolbar don't seem to be uploading images/posting link markdown until something is entered into the text editor.
The failure for the image uploader ...
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"Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MB)." vs. "(max 2MiB)"
Contradictory disclosed max size for images: 2 MB != 2 MiB.
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Improve error message when submitting an edit while an image is uploading
When you click 'Save Edits' while an image upload is still processing, an error message is partially visible under the uploader:
Body is missing.
Is it possible to
improve the visibility of the ...
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Why is an uploaded picture still viewable even if I cancelled my post?
I inserted a picture in one of my Stack Exchange accounts to ask a question, but regretted it and copied the picture's link, then closed the ask question page (I didn't publish it).
When I inserted ...
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Edit question offline including in particular pictures, title and text
I often prepare a Stack Exchange question when I am offline (for example in a train) with my Emacs and then copy and paste it if I am online again.
Now if I include several pictures I have to upload ...
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why cant a publicly accessible image not be posted when I press fetch image [closed]
I wanted to post an image link in this thread
how to use recovery usb created by hp recovery tool to re install windows 10
since my image of BIOS boot options of my laptop was taken from a camera its ...
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screenshots from snipping tool should be saved in what format so that google drive links can be fetched as image in stackexchange sites
I keep facing a lot of problems on my systems. So I keep posting on stack exchange sites. I take a lot of screenshots from snipping tool
for example this one
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/...
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Allow edit to be continued during imgur's image load
Can we have a functionality that will insert corresponding line immediately:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
and allow us to continue editing of a question or an answer while actual image ...
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Images inserted in a question using Chrome on Android via the image uploader are always placed at the end of the question
Images inserted in a question using Chrome on Android via the image uploader are always placed at the end of the question, instead of being placed where the cursor was when clicking on the "add ...
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Images inserted in a question using Chrome on Android via the image uploader aren't clickable
The images inserted in a question using Chrome on Android via the image uploader aren't clickable.
Example of non-clickable images: Why did Myanmar get removed from the list of countries on the ...
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