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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Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos
Once conveniently posting photos at imgur.com was introduced I see many users uploading photos right from their camera. For example, here the second photo is 2,5K by 2K pixels and has size of 680K.
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Is it possible to horizontally center an image on Stack Exchange sites?
Since we can only use Markdown and a limited subset of HTML/CSS is it possible to center an image, or any block element for that matter, on the Stack Exchange sites?
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Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
On May 15th 2023, Imgur will implement its new TOS, in which
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.
I, and presumably many other users, ...
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Disallow new embedded images from hosts other than the SE imgur account
There are two issues with embedded images in posts that link to outside hosts:
These images are likely to expire at some point, which can render the post meaningless
External images allow users to ...
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Is stack.imgur currently down?
I just wrote a question before this one and had trouble uploading a screenshot. The drop your image dialog throws no warning or error, but after uploading it won't show.
I also noticed that other ...
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Any details about stack.imgur.com?
Since May 2011, images uploaded through SE sites are uploaded to stack.imgur.com. It seems that removing that stack part does not get one (the same) image, so it seems to be a standalone installation? ...
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Make all i.sstatic.net links protocol-relative
Stack Overflow has HTTPS in some places! However, this breaks most existing image links. Could those be made protocol-relative, or react to the requesting protocol, or just always use HTTPS?
The same ...
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Making a better image uploader
For those who don't know me, I'm a product designer here at Stack Overflow.
Currently I'm working on a project called Teams (for more information about Teams and other projects, read Tim's post on ...
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Warn new users earlier that they cannot post links or images
First impressions are important, and one specific restriction SE places on new users can easily lead to a very bad first impression (see here for a recent example). If you add more than two links or ...
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Knowing Your Limits: What is the maximum length of a question title, post, image and links used?
There's one question in SO I'm planning to answer with a really long answer. While I'm still baking my post, these questions dawned to me:
What is the maximum character length of a post?
How many ...
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Image hosting for Stack Overflow answers? [duplicate]
I'm sure this has been asked before but a quick search on Stack Overflow didn't turn up any result.
I've put images on my own site for now but it's quite possible I'll restructure or move hosts at ...
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Is it possible to add images to comments?
I was wondering if it is possible to post a comment with an image.
Recently, during a question about data-visualization in Cross Validated, there was a controversy about using one type of chart for ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
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There's the new image hosting system and Super User (my main "playground") is trialling it.
My problem is I cannot see images hosted on i.sstatic.net. This is how it looks like:
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Can we get a paste feature added to image uploads in chat?
We've already got it for questions and answers. Let's get it for chat too! Most of my images come from screen captures so this would be really great!
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