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The component of the SE post editor that allows users to upload images to i.sstatic.net (previously i.stack.imgur.com) and display them in the post.

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Feature request: make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable (the new Ask page is used on some Stack Exchange Sites such as Super User and Ask Ubuntu). Rationale: that is the behavior of the ...
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I think it'd be better to place focus on the "Add image" button after pasting an image in the new Ask page, so that pressing enter uploads the image. The current behavior (tested on Chrome+...
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On most Stack Exchange sites, if you upload a image that is too high a resolution, (or a gif with too many animation frames), the uploader shows a descriptive error: Image uploads are limited to 50 ...
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Last month, Imgur started blocking users from the United Kingdom from their site. For British users, a stub image with "Content not available in your region" is served instead, meaning that ...
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When I try to upload a ".gif" file larger than 50 megapixels in the Question section, I see the correct warning message in the UI. However, when I upload the same ".gif" file in ...
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It would be great to have .avif supported in image upload. It's a modern format, allowing for superior compression. You can have either image or video in the this format. It is already fairly well ...
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I've had problems adding images to posts in the last ~1 week. Workflow which used to work: Adding the text and code to an answer, copying and pasting a plot from Spyder IDE to the post. A link is ...
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I'm trying to upload an image onto a post I'm writing to make the post more clear, but I keep running into the same "An error occurred, please try again." error. It's annoying. I've tried to ...
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Starting around a couple of hours ago, attempts to upload images via the image uploader onto SE's image servers have been failing. This has been confirmed across multiple SE sites (so it's not SE site ...
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Raise the upload size to allow for today's cell phone cameras. Note that a diffusion downsizing algorithm is not much more complicated than one which discards pixels, and produces fewer human-annoying ...
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Bug: I'm getting "Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB)" for an image that is exactly 10 MiB (not over 10 MiB). Your image is too large to upload (over 10 MiB).
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Note: this is not a duplicate of Error uploading a specific image, even after format conversion or "An error occurred when uploading the image:" for a large image, since I can upload these ...
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Note: this is not a duplicate of Error uploading a specific image, even after format conversion, since I can upload the other image without any issues (I've just tried now), but not the image ...
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While writing this question I stumbled with an (apparently) bald error message. Hovering the mouse over the read question mark does not add info. The image in question is here. It is a 302 kB JPG ...
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How can one know if an SE image got compressed by the SE image downsizer? Comparing the original image's hash with SE image's hash could work but only for the uploader (since they are the only one to ...
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Uploaded >2MiB images are resized down, which is a great feature, but sometimes they are too harshly resized down, e.g. this 4817 KiB image got resized down to a hard-to-read 761 KiB image, while ...
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Does Stack Exchange keep the original images of the uploaded images or at least keep some information that aren't publicly exposed such as metadata, file names or >2MiB images? Regarding Exactly ...
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On meta.stackexchange.com, like I'm posting this now, uploading a WebP file seems to work. But on blender.stackexchange.com, posting the same WebP file results in an error with the following message.: ...
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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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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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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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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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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) 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 seems ...
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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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This is a two-part bug report. We had a flag on 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest that the avatars weren't loading, and because it was meta, a user couldn't edit it. All the answers ...
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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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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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The image uploader isn’t working today (3rd of May 2024). I’m trying to upload an PNG image that is 400 px wide, and only 46 KB. The uploader tries for about 20 seconds, but eventually gives up: An ...
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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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(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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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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Admittedly, I pretty much tried to fit a square peg into a round hole, but I accidentally used the image upload button instead of the link button when trying to post a link to a question. Current ...
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I wonder the following: Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
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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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sstatic.net images aren't displayed on (some?) other sites outside the SE network. E.g. from https://redd.it/1by90jk: and: That's a regression compared to https://i.stack.imgur.com/ images, ...
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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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E.g., it doesn't work on http://serverfault.com/, https://askubuntu.com/ and https://superuser.com/questions/ask: I first noticed the issue ~10h ago on http://serverfault.com/. I use Chrome + Win10. ...
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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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I tried to upload PNG image with size about 1.3 MiB, but image uploader says that an image size is more than 2 MiB: Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB). Possible explanation for this is ...
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Image upload is broken: (image is on imgur.com itself.) Can this please be fixed so we can upload our lovely pictures again?
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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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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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