Our forum is having problems displaying images. Sometimes they show, but most of the time they don’t. Not sure how to track this down, our image max display size is 860x860, max upload size is 4M. Here is a thread which shows the difficulties: https://forum.valentina-project.org/t/pngs-a-no-show/1…

Hi @sam , thanks for the suggestion, last night I updated last week’s release via terminal window (cd /var/discourse, git pull, .launcher rebuild app) and the problem still exists. We don’t use Amazon s3 storage.

[image] slspencer: We use a lot of screenshots (.png, .svg) and other images to provide software support. I don’t have any explanations for your problem, but note that you can paste images directly into the composer. You don’t need to first paste into some other application to create and imag…

Got the message that docker version not supported Installed docker-ce, now is my forum gone? After running the latest Discourse update a few days ago, clicking the the download icon opens .txt files in a browser instead of downloading them, yet no Discourse settings were changed. Yet now .png file…

Yes docker ce is what you want to use

Hi @Sam , Yeah I installed docker-ce, per https://askubuntu.com/questions/472412/how-do-i-upgrade-docker/473720 and https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04 Then ran .launcher rebuild app, which initiated a download of the base Discourse image. …

[image] slspencer: Logo-400.svg, 500 x 377 in (upload://vV2kqp94XodzHtRWyekld9ibchs.svg) I see a big black square in both the browser and inkscape which matches the source: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>  <svg x…

Yes. Your forum files are safe in /var/discourse/shared/standalone.

It is best not to muddy the waters even further at this point. Svg gets downgraded a lot if the text content is on our unsafe blacklists. Focus on pngs first.

SVG images are run through an XML whitelist, any non-approved elements are removed. lib/upload_creator.rb 5d528f0d1 require "fastimage" require_dependency "image_sizer" class UploadCreator TYPES_CONVERTED_TO…

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) October 12, 2017, 4:30am 27

This is a known bug. Spoke with engineering and it is believed to be the same issue as Upload file name not kept on download.

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