So we messed up our “manifest icon” a while back and now we are unable to upload a PNG file to fix our API problem. Whenever I upload a Png it auto converts it to Jpg. I have tried all three of these settings in hopes of finding a solution but nope… Nothing seems to work! [SmartSelect_20210314-1…

Use TinyPNG to reduce the size of the PNG icon will fix the problem. I have the same problem before, I spent hours to debug and searched for solution. Finally I found out that it was caused by the size of the icon. Reduce the PNG size (by reduce resolution or bit depth) will fix the problem.

This comes up from time to time. There are many times when something is a png for a reason.

I actually want to use PNG… It just won’t allow me. Is there a way to stop the conversion?

[Bild] Tom_Eagle: Is there a way to stop the conversion? The settings from your screenshot look correct. I’m fairly sure that if you copy/paste a PNG image into the editor, Discourse automatically converts it to a JPG. If that’s how you have been adding the image, try using the editor’s uploa…

[Bild] simon: It would be good to find a way to make the settings that control this behaviour more obvious. If you’d like to check in a copyedit to the setting descriptions that makes this clear, that’d be great! WARNING: mostly-lossless PNGs take many times more storage space than lossy JPGs…

[Bild] lhkjacky: Use TinyPNG to reduce the size of the PNG icon will fix the problem. I’ll give it a shot and report back! Thank you for the suggestion. [Bild] simon: try using the editor’s upload button to add the image and see if that makes a difference. Sorry I should have been mor…

Thanks for the details. We probably shouldn’t ever convert PNGs to JPGs when uploading site settings images.

[Bild] lhkjacky: Use TinyPNG to reduce the size of the PNG icon will fix the problem. [Bild] Tom_Eagle: I’ll give it a shot and report back! It worked :tada::tada::tada: Thank you so so much! [Bild] simon: We probably shouldn’t ever convert PNGs to JPGs when uploading site settin…

[Bild] simon: We probably shouldn’t ever convert PNGs to JPGs when uploading site settings images. I agree with this, @techAPJ is this a change you can make? Appears to have happened to quite a few admins already.

FYI (I’m with Thomas) regarding our use case – this has never been an issue for us except recently, because this JPG broke our PWA (as discussed here ).

Done via: FIX: do not convert format for site setting uploads (#12410) committed 02:44PM - 16 Mar 21 UTC (UTC) [Bild] arpitjalan +9 -4 …

Png wird zu Jpg, egal was!

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John_Lehmann (John Lehmann) 15. März 2021 um 14:16 12

Zur Info (ich arbeite mit Thomas) zu unserem Anwendungsfall – das war für uns bisher nie ein Problem, außer kürzlich, da dieses JPG unsere PWA beschädigt hat (wie hier diskutiert).

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Png wird zu Jpg, egal was!

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