# Show image file size limit on user#preference page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-image-file-size-limit-on-user-preference-page/41707
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [29. März 2016 um 11:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-image-file-size-limit-on-user-preference-page/41707 "2016-03-29T11:34:10Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [28. Februar 2017 um 17:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-image-file-size-limit-on-user-preference-page/41707/24 "2017-02-28T17:13:01Z")

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In my screenshot example above, it was a 8mb file (a photo being uploaded as profile pic) that caused the upload interface to just hang, without an error notification of any kind. Incidentally this time it was on a normal connection in Washington DC, not like the situation we ran into last summer in Tanzania. There I assumed it was mostly because of slow connections.

> [@On slow connection, often pictures are not uploaded and "Uploading..." link remains in the post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/on-slow-connection-often-pictures-are-not-uploaded-and-uploading-link-remains-in-the-post/51844):
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> We’re introducing a group of people in East Africa to our discourse as part of a [learning exchange](https://community.namati.org/t/learning-exchange-in-kenya-with-namati-community-land-protection-clp-program-october-2016/25594?u=tobiaseigen), and I have to say discourse has been holding up well! Even on slow 2g connections I am able to keep up on discourse and manage topics and users etc. I’m even doing an upgrade right now. rocket One area where we seem to have trouble, however, is with uploading pictures. Some participants have been trying to upload one or more pictures at a time and the composer then takes a long time to upload t…

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