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Sometimes when I try to link to a PNG image taken by DxTory, usually in full HD, the site just tells me that the format is not supported, however, it's the same format I used for another image that linked just fine. If I try to upload the image, it uploads it, but freezes at some point, just showing the loading bar. It will just sit there, doing nothing.

I'd imagine there's some kind of size limit going on here. The images that fail seem to be few megabytes, while I'm not sure of the successful ones.

Did I just miss the part where it mentions a limit, is there nothing mentioning it or is it failing for some other reason altogether?

The image that made me make this post is this one.

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  • Can you upload the file to (say) dropbox and put a link to it in your question?
    – badp
    Aug 31, 2013 at 9:55
  • @badp Sure. I tried to link it from dropbox to begin with.
    – 3ventic
    Aug 31, 2013 at 10:00
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    Yes, I can reproduce. What's weird is that the image uploading service is provided by imgur, which accepted the image without breaking a sweat.
    – badp
    Aug 31, 2013 at 10:02
  • Ran it through OptiPNG and it uploaded just fine. It's a good idea to do that anyway, since your image is about 2x the file size it needs to be. Maybe the uploader just can't handle 32-bit PNGs or something.
    – a cat
    Aug 31, 2013 at 11:20
  • @lunboks Dxtory screenshots, and some work, some don't.
    – 3ventic
    Aug 31, 2013 at 11:27
  • What browser / OS are you using? Do you happen to know what mime-type is being used for the upload? We do check the mime-type to be one of several known types, but may have missed one.
    – Oded
    Sep 24, 2013 at 14:45
  • Also, as far as I know, the SO imgur service limits are to 5mb per image, 2mb for animated ones. Which fits with this image being 5.1mb
    – Oded
    Sep 24, 2013 at 14:46
  • @Oded Makes sense. Would be nice if it was mentioned while including a picture.
    – 3ventic
    Sep 24, 2013 at 15:00
  • Unfortunately, when imgur sends us error info, that's as detailed as it gets :(
    – Oded
    Sep 24, 2013 at 15:00
  • @Oded I meant something along the lines "Images must be less than 5 Mb, or less than 2Mb if animated." while you're selecting the image.
    – 3ventic
    Sep 24, 2013 at 15:02
  • This is only information we have after you have uploaded an image. When we try to upload to imgur, they send a very generic error message, not detailing the actual issue.
    – Oded
    Sep 24, 2013 at 15:03
  • @Oded Sad. I hope you get something sorted out with imgur in the future to get some better error reports.
    – 3ventic
    Sep 24, 2013 at 15:04

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If you just want to embed an image, you don't have to upload through the site's interface. Just link it normally (for example with Ctrl-L), then change the markdown from

[enter link description here][1]

...to:

![enter link description here][1]

This lets you embed images from arbitrary URLs. For example:

enter link description here

If you actually want to upload this image... then yes, this appears to be a bug with the imgur for Stack Exchange service.

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  • This is what I ended up doing, just thought I'd ask about it.
    – 3ventic
    Aug 31, 2013 at 10:08

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