Questions tagged [images]
For questions about the images used on Stack Exchange sites or about using images in your own posts.
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Remove `[Text]` from the no-alt-text warning message
Feature request: Remove [Text] from the no-alt-text warning message.
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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What does `[Text]` refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
What does [Text] refer to in the no-alt-text warning message?
Screenshot taken on https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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Improve upload error message for animated WebP images
Animated WebP images are not supported. The error message is misleading (test file):
Not a valid file type: please upload a bmp, gif, jpeg, png, or webp file.
Feature request: Improve upload error ...
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Some images uploaded in chat cannot be visited via the link
This is an intermittent failure and I cannot find a good way to reliably reproduce it.
Some times when uploading an image in chat it shows up but the link leads to a page that says "oh no, that ...
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i.sstatic.net is missing IPv6 DNS resolution
Cloudflare is about one of the easiest way to get a domain served over both IPv4 and IPv6. However the new image hosting domain doesn't have any AAAA records. Would it be too much to ask for images to ...
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Please enable hotlinking to images hosted under sstatic.net
I have just discovered that the new i.sstatic.net domain does not allow hotlinking. I assume it was done to prevent using the images outside of the SE network, however I kindly ask you to reconsider ...
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Cloudflare is causing i.sstatic.net images to return 429s
After loading a chat transcript with a large number of images, requests to i.sstatic.net have started returning 429s and a Cloudflare CAPTCHA check, which... seems to defeat the point of a dedicated ...
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Uploading this .gif doesn't work
Uploading this .gif doesn't work:
An error occurred, please try again.
Tested on Meta.SE, SU, and AskUbuntu with Chrome on Win10.
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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024
The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration.
We're ...
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Could we revisit WebP support with the new uploader?
There's a feature request from last year requesting WebP support. I'd say the arguments made there were persuasive, and I'd encourage people to take a look at that post.
I'd say that with the new ...
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What was the rationale for expanding the ID space for i.sstatic.net?
The ID space for Imgur's IDs is 5 characters of alphanumeric characters. I noticed that i.sstatic.net has opted instead for 8 characters, while still supporting the 5 characters for images from the ...
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Bitmap compatibility appears to be broken with the new image host
(Originally posted here, SE image host -- bitmap extension)
Funny, uploading a somewhat less traditional format (Windows Bitmap), direct from file (drag and drop), I obtained this:
Poking around, I ...
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"Simulate this circuit" disappeared
Yesterday, in SE EE, I noticed that "Simulate this circuit" below schematics disappeared. See for example, this answer.
What can be the problem? Maybe it is somehow related to the new image ...
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Sharing code and images efficiently
Let me assume I would like to share a particular image that contains certain simplifications. I don't want to directly paste it to make the question short, simple, and straightforward. So, the best ...
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Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
I wonder the following: Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
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