# Surprising behavior: This image is too large to display; click here to view
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [05.Ноябрь.2017 13:28:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456 "2017-11-05T13:28:58Z")
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 13:28:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/1 "2017-11-05T13:28:58Z")
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](http://blog.mural.co/remote-design-at-trello-interview-with-chris-kimbell).
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:
> **[Blog | Mural](https://www.mural.co/blog)**
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> View insights, event recaps, and how teams transform work with visual collaboration. Read articles on remote work, facilitation, design thinking, and more.
Preview screenshot:
After post screenshot:
After image is replaced screenshot:
_TODO_
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 13:59:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/2 "2017-11-05T13:59:26Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> After image is replaced screenshot:
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> TODO
Looks like the problem isn’t happening here. Maybe it’s a site setting I need to adjust to work around this issue?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 14:28:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/3 "2017-11-05T14:28:50Z")
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-too-large-to-link/69954/16?u=trash](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-too-large-to-link/69954/16)
What’s the value of `max image size kb`?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 14:47:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/4 "2017-11-05T14:47:55Z")
Currently it’s 4MB (4096 KB). Looks like that image is 35 MB.
What have others set that to nowadays?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 20:27:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/5 "2017-11-05T20:27:26Z")
This is in @vinothkannans list of things to improve. The behavior is correct but the UI could use some work.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [05.Ноябрь.2017 21:23:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/6 "2017-11-05T21:23:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [06.Ноябрь.2017 15:25:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/7 "2017-11-06T15:25:18Z")
[PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5291) created. The new UI won’t create confusions.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [06.Ноябрь.2017 15:36:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/8 "2017-11-06T15:36:49Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> 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.
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [06.Ноябрь.2017 15:50:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/9 "2017-11-06T15:50:00Z")
Cool, thanks. What happens in the new UI?
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### Author:  [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [06.Ноябрь.2017 16:02:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/surprising-behavior-this-image-is-too-large-to-display-click-here-to-view/73456/10 "2017-11-06T16:02:02Z")
As you can see it will have some explanation.