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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Use "Review your question" for something useful: Encouraging accessible images [duplicate]
When you use the image uploader, it creates something like this:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
This text is invisible to most people in the preview and serves no obvious purpose, so many ...
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Why do images in questions and answers open by navigating to another URL?
It happens in all of them, but to give a concrete example, if you go to see this answer and click on the image to take a closer look, we are automatically redirected to a new URL, specifically to the ...
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Why did this uploaded image disappear?
A post on Super User was deleted. Its final revision contained an uploaded image, which has since been deleted from Stack Exchange's image host (Imgur):
Why did this image disappear?
The original ...
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A gallery for a project which will involve multiple Stack Exchange questions
My project is fixing up an old bicycle, but I think the question could apply to lots of sites, not just bicycles.
I am starting a project which is probably going to require (and be worthy of) several ...
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An error occurred in the server after trying to upload an image that I downloaded from Reddit
I use Chrome on a Google pixel 6 with Android 11.
When I download an image via the Reddit application and try to upload to a Stack Exchange post, I get this error message:
Demo:
https://youtube.com/...
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Is there a way to differentiate between transparent and white parts of images?
I saw an answer that displays a transparent image with a white circle in the center. Is there a way to differentiate between the two parts?
I know that I can right click on the image and open the ...
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Do I include way more images in my posts than others, (or do I just post way more)? Can SEDE address this?
The inclusion of images in posts has up and down sides. They convey information and sometimes the question is specifically about the image. At the same time they also consume bandwidth, make for slow ...
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Cannot see image on stackstatus.net in environments where Tumblr is blocked [closed]
On stackstatus.net, the image is invalid on the right part of the screen. You should update the image so it shows.
My school's firewall blocks Tumblr. Maybe you could make it so stack exchange hosts ...
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What is the retention time of images uploaded to https://i.stack.imgur.com?
I sometimes use SO to upload images to i.stack.imgur.com, but without posting any questions. I found this trick very convenient when I need a permalink to previews or thumbnails.
What is the risk that ...
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Searching for animations
I spend most of my time in Stack Exchange in either Stack Overflow or Cross Validated. Over a number of years I have seen numerous beautiful animations -- mainly GIF animations I think -- that make ...
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Cannot upload Wikipedia images: By design?
When I try to embed an image, a convenient way to do so is via the "landscape icon" in the edit UI. For at least some Wikipedia images, for example this one, I consistently get an error that ...
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User Popover avatar img element in chat has no alt text for users
I was trying to figure out what hat smokie was wearing, and I noticed one of the instances of the chat avatar is missing any alt text.
I've snipped out the svg source for the hats, so you'll have to ...
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Big grey area in my profile image on the top banner [duplicate]
No explanation needed (I hope):
If you need explanation:
Why is it grey?
Here is the direct link:
https://i.sstatic.net/JGCOn.jpg?s=32&g=1
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Did someone disable the minimum rep check for posting images to questions? Things are getting a lot spammier now [duplicate]
Seems like we're getting a smidge more in the way of network spam in regards to users posting images in their questions with only 1 rep, most of it spam-oriented.
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Images not loading in all Stack Exchange websites [closed]
I just started noticing (I don't remember when it started) that all the images (profile pictures, uploading images, basically all images with a i.stack.imgur link) won't load. I originally asked the ...
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