Hi All, totally confused after reading threads here about image resizing etc. I’ve set “client_max_body_size” to 102400 in admin->settings-files to allow uploading from cellphones. But I cannot for the life of me figure out where to set image resizing. I’ve read some thread: [image] …

Discourse will automatically create thumbnails for you (we call that process lightboxing). Is that not working?

Ues the thumbnails is working. But the thumbnail Links to the original file that is huge (by default from most phones nowadays)

Oh, you meant resizing the original uploaded image? The only way to do it right now is via the “max image size kb” site setting. Whenever a user uploads an image that is larger than this setting, we’ll try to downsize it to fit the setting. Since it’s CPU/time consuming, we’re only trying to down…

Ok cool. So back to my confusion. Where do i set this site wide setting?

Like I said, change “max image size kb” to a lower value.

Pretty much yeah. For nginx, you’ll need to change it via the app.yaml file in order to survive container rebuilds.

as far as I know, you should resize images yourself (in your desktop), and discourse will not resize huge images for you. the setting limits the size of the image one is allowed to upload.

You’re right. Any indication I got from meta is that max image size kb is the maximum allowed uploaded image size. Over this size and the image upload will simply be rejected. It has been said that Discourse will scale down very large images in the background; how large is very large, and how muc…

[image] schungx: It has been said that Discourse will scale down very large images in the background; how large is very large, and how much to scale down has always remained a mystery. It’s not a mystery if it’s written in plain text :wink: Ok, so here’s what happens when a user uploads an i…

Resizing images after upload settings

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TerminalAddict (Paul W) Octobre 27, 2017, 9:24 10

Right … so i set the Max upload in nginx. And the resized size in discourse ?

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