# "Afbeelding groter dan 4 MB" fout bij het plaatsen van een gif
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [29 januari 2025 om 11:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540 "2025-01-29T11:28:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/1 "2025-01-29T11:28:26Z")
As far as I was aware, posting a gif from a third party service doesn’t actually upload the image to the server, isn’t that right?
So when I try to post a gif, why does it complain if it’s larger than my image upload limit?
Or if it is trying to upload it, is there any way to stop that? I don’t want the server full of gifs when they could just link to tenor.
I’m not using any plugins, just posting the URL, eg:
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### Author:  [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/3 "2025-01-29T11:44:02Z")
Yeah here it is. It does this quite often, I have to pick gifs that are smaller.
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### Author:  [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/4 "2025-01-29T11:44:28Z")
I even changed the limit to 6MB and it doesn’t work despite the image being under 5
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/5 "2025-01-29T11:44:43Z")
I had to read multiple times and try on my forum to understand.
If you post a large ~~gif~~ picture that isn’t downloaded, then it shows this:
My file size limit is 10 MB.
I don’t know what is the limit on meta, here’s the 50 MB gif:
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/2022-01-15\_eruption\_of\_Hunga\_Tonga.gif(image larger than 10 MB)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/2022-01-15_eruption_of_Hunga_Tonga.gif)
(ah, the file size limit on meta is 5 MB then)
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### Author:  [@Shauny](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Shauny)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/6 "2025-01-29T11:45:33Z")
Ok that’s fair but I’d like to allow a bit larger gifs to display. 6MB should be fine. But I increased the limit to 6 and it still says this error.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [29 januari 2025 om 11:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-larger-than-4mb-error-when-posting-a-gif/349540/7 "2025-01-29T11:47:42Z")
> [@Shauny](#):
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> 6MB should be fine. But I increased the limit to 6 and it still says this error.
Did you increase the limit in `app.yml` as well?
> [@Change the maximum attachment/upload size](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-the-maximum-attachment-upload-size/26435):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to change the maximum attachment upload size for self-hosted Discourse instances. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Admin The default attachment upload size limit is 10MB If you are self-hosting Discourse and need to allow uploads larger than 10 MB, follow the steps below. Changing the upload size Connect to your server: Use SSH to access your server’s command line interface. Edit the configuration file: Navigate to the configurati…
As the site setting’s description says:
> The maximum image upload size. This must be configured in nginx (client\_max\_body\_size) / apache or proxy as well. Images larger than this and smaller than client\_max\_body\_size will be resized to fit on upload.