Hi,

I just tried to upload an image to a (remote) community via the sdf instance and got a JSON syntax error message.

Also tried using Jerboa and got a “network error”.

Is something broken?

Thanks

  • prokyonid
    2•1 year ago

    I had the same thing happen a couple days ago, trying to upload an image to lemmy.ca from this account.

    • @vext01OP
      2•1 year ago

      I don’t know if it’s relevant, but I was posting to feddit.uk.

      • @vext01OP
        2•1 year ago

        Is there a file size limit?

    • @vext01OP
      1•1 year ago

      There appears to be a 1MB(?) upload limit. See my reply below.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
    2•1 year ago

    Try to compress it. So far all that I compressed below 1MB went through, but I don’t know what the actual limit may be.

    • @vext01OP
      1•1 year ago

      I was able to post an image by making it smaller, so yes, there appears to be some kind of limit.

      That’s going to be a pain for users. Wouldn’t it be better to allow a larger upload and have the server scale it down?

      At the very least, a proper error message, instead of a JSON parsing error!

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
        1•1 year ago

        I’d rather not see that done on server side.

        Instead it could be already implemented in the website so that you only actually upload the processed image.

        • @vext01OP
          3•1 year ago

          If it’s possible to resize an image on the client side, then whatever, but I can’t imagine getting “normals” on board with lemmy if we are giving them an obscure error message and (if they figure out what happened) then asking them to resize images manually.