Timeline for Unable to upload gif image in question
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Aug 27, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | user364819 | Actually, it's probably good like this because it means that if you know markup, and you really want and need to, then you can manually with a bit of effort, do it, however most users won't be able to so normally. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 13:19 | comment | added | muru | @ParanoidPanda use better compression. Tone down the quality or resolution. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | user364819 | @muru: I don't normally, it's just I currently have the need to (in a while) post an image which exceeds the limit. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:59 | comment | added | muru | @ParanoidPanda don't post large images, then. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:55 | comment | added | Dan | @ParanoidPanda Personally I like it this way, because it makes it harder for people to post extremely large images. (BTW I'm one of those with small quotas, specially when I'm on mobile networks) | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:44 | comment | added | user364819 | Well, in my opinion, it just feels a little messy. You may not feel the same way about it, but that is how I feel. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | Oli Mod | What is "it" in your mind? The "it" that stops you uploading is Imgur. When you just post some Markdown, you're only interacting with Ask Ubuntu which doesn't do any checks on images. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:35 | comment | added | user364819 | So why does it allow you to manually have the image added anyway? | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:33 | comment | added | Oli Mod | I disagree. Just "knowing Markdown" isn't sneaky or undocumented. And you are hitting a limit that is there for a reason. Nobody wants a page that's bogged down with massive images. If you feel you need to post a many-megabyte GIF to ask something here, you're probably doing something wrong already. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | user364819 | I think that it is rather confusing though not to allow the user, and just to have some sneaky undocumented way of achieving it (by manually putting the link to the image), I think that if the image is too large and cannot be uploaded, but is a link, that there should be some way that the user can select to do a custom link, but perhaps there should be a limit to how many they can do in a certain time period or something, as I think that it is a little messy to just have this manual workaround that is just there, and nothing is done or really known (by many) about. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:22 | comment | added | Oli Mod | Because that's still "uploading it". When you provide a URL to the uploader it attempts to copy it and that passes through the same rules as standard uploads. The problem isn't that you can't upload it, it's that its error message should be a little clearer. | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:19 | comment | added | user364819 | Right, so why does it say that I am unable to link to the image on another site? When it allows me to do so manually? | |
Aug 27, 2015 at 12:17 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |