Surprising behavior: This image is too large to display; click here to view

[mcwumbly]

I find this behavior surprising:

1. I post a link to an image on it’s own line, like the one below from the article.
2. It shows up in the preview fine
3. I create the post
4. It shows up fine in my post for a while.
5. Later, it gets replaced with a thumbnail saying: “This image is too large to display; click here to view”

Onebox link:

https://blog.mural.co/hs-fs/hubfs/image1.gif(image larger than 4096KB)

Preview screenshot:

After post screenshot:

After image is replaced screenshot:

TODO

[mcwumbly]

After image is replaced screenshot:

TODO

Looks like the problem isn’t happening here. Maybe it’s a site setting I need to adjust to work around this issue?

[Dax]

Image too large to link?

It was indeed the link to the GIF Give it a few minutes, the processing happens in a background task which runs 5 minutes after the post is created. EDIT: I manually ran the job, and it’s broken… EDIT 2: Actually it’s not broken If you hover over the image, it says This image is too large to display here; click to view Which means we tried downloading the image but it was too big.

What’s the value of max image size kb?

[mcwumbly]

Currently it’s 4MB (4096 KB). Looks like that image is 35 MB.

What have others set that to nowadays?

[codinghorror]

This is in @vinothkannans list of things to improve. The behavior is correct but the UI could use some work.

[mcwumbly]

If there were anyway to make it clear this would happen in the preview, that would make it a lot less surprising.

Also, it wasn’t clear to me what “too large” meant, as there are site settings both for file size and for dimensions. I wasn’t sure which setting would need adjusting with the current language.

[vinothkannans]

PR created. The new UI won’t create confusions.

[zogstrip]

If there were anyway to make it clear this would happen in the preview, that would make it a lot less surprising.

The issue is that we’re doing some magic server-side to automatically downsize big images which we can’t really do client-side.

Also, it wasn’t clear to me what “too large” meant, as there are site settings both for file size and for dimensions. I wasn’t sure which setting would need adjusting with the current language.

I agree. One setting is only used to create thumbnails, the other is to prevent mobile users from wasting their bandwidth downloading a gigabyte GIF.

[mcwumbly]

Cool, thanks. What happens in the new UI?

[vinothkannans]

As you can see it will have some explanation.