# Failed image upload blocks topic creation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-image-upload-blocks-topic-creation/36038>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [November 26, 2015, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-image-upload-blocks-topic-creation/36038 "2015-11-26T07:39:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-image-upload-blocks-topic-creation/36038/5 "2015-11-26T17:30:53Z")

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The only thing I could do here was to prevent the server from spending (_way too much_) time downsizing and optimizing images that were too large to begin with.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/09bfe49254534cca986ccb28d381fbf4807b8ba8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/09bfe49254534cca986ccb28d381fbf4807b8ba8)

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