Hi! I am kicking the tires on Discourse looking at adopting it for a new forum project. I have built a fresh environment using the latest version (2.0.8.beta6). While testing image uploads, I am running into an issue where small image uploads work fine, but larger image uploads show a “Processing” message that never seems to progress and resolve to an actual imbedded image. Instead, the post retains these blue links instead of the image - and clicking the links produces no response.
the screenshot below is of 3 images, 2 largish and one small. In my limited testing, the size threshold between success and failure seems to be about 400 kb.
@anon73664359 thanks for the heads up. I just tried disabling " composer media optimization image enabled" in settings and uploading larger files now works. Sounds like this is a client-side component. I am not seeing any errors in the browser JS console. I think that I saw this might be a new feature in the release I am running. Is this a know issue? Or should I file a bug?
I’d prefer have image compression enabled. Sounds like a really good idea .
I just tried enabling “force https” and now it works properly. So possibly this is a prerequisite. @Falco , can you confirm. Odd that no sign of trouble seems to be logged in JS console.
New intsalls start with “force https” disabled. The guide does instruct you to enable it once you confirm htttps is actually working. I had not done that yet. All good
I just ran into this problem with the Processing step never completing as well, but turning on force_https did not solve it for me (using the current version of Brave in macOS 11.6 Big Sur). I worked around the problem by converting the 3.5 MB PNG image to a 524 KB JPEG.
Interestingly, the dashboard suggestion for the day was to turn on force_https, so I wasn’t perturbed to do that, but I’m guessing it wasn’t in the default instructions when my tech guy installed as well.
I managed to fix the problem by disabling the image optimization feature described in the post here, and now it works.
Since it’s a client side feature, make sure you do a hard refresh in the browser before attempting the upload again - that’s important, otherwise it’ll continue to fail
