One Discourse forum that I use has the default setting to only allow “image files”, however .svg files say that they are “not authorized”, while .svg files are images, just vector ones instead of raster ones, that means they can be scaled without losing quality. Also, the sizes are comparable too, if not smaller, when I converted a .png to a .svg:
The .png file had 8190 bytes.
The .svg file had 4273 bytes.
So is there any reason as to why a .svg file isn’t treated as an image file?
An admin sets the accepted file types. Svg isn’t in there by default, but it can be added from the authorized_extensions setting. If you ask your admin, they may consider it?
Is there a site feedback category that you can make those kinds of requests in? Or maybe contact them from the email address on the forum’s /about page?