# Optimize images before uploading?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 3, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150 "2014-07-03T06:33:47Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimize-images-before-uploading/17150/11 "2015-01-17T08:07:09Z")

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To be honest the simplest fix is probably to just accept up to 10mb – it’s easy enough to adjust in site settings. We should make sure our nginx template allows this on the back end, and then the client can enforce smaller values if needed.

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