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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
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.
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):
https://imgur.artemislena.eu/gallery/zvliFhj
, it will not show a thumbnail because it’s not an image.https://imgur.artemislena.eu/61j8rC6.png
(note the .png extension), it will.Caveats:
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symbol + anything in the URL) do not work in some frontends / apps.That’s awesome information, thank you so much!
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.