# Oneboxing large images fails with no visual cue

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-large-images-fails-with-no-visual-cue/259377>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** onebox\
**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-large-images-fails-with-no-visual-cue/259377 "2023-03-25T09:25:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-large-images-fails-with-no-visual-cue/259377/19 "2023-04-14T13:06:27Z")

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Hey Richie!

I don’t know about Discourse being able to download very large remote images.

However, I remember that previously, when you hotlinked a large image, it displayed a message like “This image is too large to be displayed in the forum”, with a link to the external picture.

It seems it doesn’t happen anymore.

Pasting an external, large image link ([https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/New\_cyclic\_large.gif](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/New_cyclic_large.gif) - 11 MB GIF) , I can repro your issue:

It looks very much like a bug and possibly a regression.

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