Can’t wait until the next one!
Hey there! Lemmy cooperates better and users engage more if you actually upload the image instead of posting a link. Just a thought, feel free to edit if you like!
Everything I try to upload directly is rejected for being too big or some other error, even as webp. These aren’t some hi res memes or anything. Pretty frustrating tbh, if you have a recommended happy path I’d love to hear it, I’d say 75% of the images I try to upload get an error
You don’t need to upload the image, you can use a direct link to the image.
This is how is works on the default frontend (web):
- If you post the link
https://imgur.artemislena.eu/gallery/zvliFhj, it will not show a thumbnail because it’s not an image. - If you post the link
https://imgur.artemislena.eu/61j8rC6.png(note the .png extension), it will.
Caveats:
- URLs with querystring params (
?symbol + anything in the URL) do not work in some frontends / apps. - Even when done correctly, it doesn’t always work everywhere, some frontends / apps are more finicky than others.
- EDIT: I would also encourage to add the source in the body of the post when linking directly to an image, but that’s up to you.
That’s awesome information, thank you so much!
- If you post the link
Ah! Yeah, sometimes I have trouble with that that as well. I think it’s just trouble on the back-end, because sometimes if I wait a few days and try again with the same file, it uploads just fine. I’m not super technical, so I have no idea what’s actually happening, but the actual file doesn’t seem to be the actual root of the problem.
