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For questions about the images used on Stack Exchange sites or about using images in your own posts.

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The automated image downsizing is sometimes too harsh

One thing I had mentioned in the meta post when we released this feature is that resizing is a best-effort solution. Which is not to say that we didn't / don't want to put in work to make it work well …
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Automatically resize images if their file size is too large

We don't want to open up an attack vector with users submitting ultra large 5GB images to resize and hammer our servers. But most consumers images should easily fall under the 10MiB limit. … Sometimes you'll see images well below 2MiB. There's not a direct method call to resize down to an exact file size. …
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22 votes
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Image uploading fails with "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"

It's not DNS There's no way it's DNS It was DNS This issue has been remediated. We've manually updated our DNS records to make sure the image upload service resolves correctly. It's currently just …
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18 votes
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"Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server" is back

Thank you all for the reports and attention. I genuinely love how much pride and effort the community puts into Stack Exchange. This has, again, been remediated by a band-aid fix on our web server ti …
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11 votes
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Meta's error image is missing

we did it again Fixed now. Enjoy an error-free error-page viewing experience!
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6 votes
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Some images uploaded in chat cannot be visited via the link

This was inadvertently broken when we upgraded chat to use the new image service. Copying from my comment: Ohhhhh - I know what's happening. The actual image is https://i.sstatic.net/kEIRuMKb.png. No …
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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MiB?

Update - The upload file limit is now 10MiB See Automatically resize images if their file size is too large for more details. …
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