Is it possible for me as an admin to fix a user’s post that contained this error? [Screenshot_20191211-210616_Chrome] How, if so?

Simplest thing is just to download the image, and then to upload it, then our logic for resizing huge images will kick in. Other options are raising the limits of maximum upload sizes but on hosted instances that needs to be coordinated with us.

The simplest thing worked! Thank you :blush:

[image] sam: Simplest thing is just to download the image, and then to upload it, then our logic for resizing huge images will kick in. Someone is trying to post this giphy image https://media.giphy.com/media/N6703c4xj9koo/giphy.gif(image larger than 10 MB) Initially it loads an…

Yeah, I’m getting the exact same issue. I just haven’t had the time to bump this. The solution above works briefly, but then it doesn’t.

Try using a video link instead of a ginormous, inefficient animated GIF – that really punishes people on mobile. Applies to both you and @smrtey

Fixing an image larger than 4096kb?

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smileypants707 (Chad Smiley) December 12, 2019, 6:29am 3

The simplest thing worked! Thank you

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