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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Make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable
Feature request: make images uploaded with the new Ask page clickable (the new Ask page is used on some Stack Exchange Sites such as Super User and Ask Ubuntu).
Rationale: that is the behavior of the ...
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Place focus on "Add image" after pasting an image in the new Ask page so that pressing enter uploads the image
I think it'd be better to place focus on the "Add image" button after pasting an image in the new Ask page, so that pressing enter uploads the image.
The current behavior (tested on Chrome+...
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Alt-text for images on Stack Exchange chat
Please provide a mechanism for image alt text in chat. Possible syntaxes:
Markdown: 
Quotey: https://example.com/image.png "Alt text"
Multi-line:
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Image uploader on new ask page gives hidden generic error message for large images
On most Stack Exchange sites, if you upload a image that is too high a resolution, (or a gif with too many animation frames), the uploader shows a descriptive error:
Image uploads are limited to 50 ...
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"403 Forbidden" for images on i.sstatic.net
I'm getting "403 Forbidden" for images loading from https://i.sstatic.net
I first noticed it for profile pictures, including mine here on meta (which is the link in the image above. When I ...
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Imgur is now blocked in the UK - should images embedded from Imgur be re-uploaded in posts?
Last month, Imgur started blocking users from the United Kingdom from their site. For British users, a stub image with "Content not available in your region" is served instead, meaning that ...
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Problem with images loading on Stack Exchange pages
I've recently observed broken images on any page on any site across the Stack Exchange network.
Not sure if it's a problem with my browser or site settings.
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OS: Windows 10
Browser: Google Chrome ...
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Support for .avif for image upload
It would be great to have .avif supported in image upload. It's a modern format, allowing for superior compression. You can have either image or video in the this format. It is already fairly well ...
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How to find a workaround (without VPN or proxy) to make images to show up
More often than not, i.sstatic.net refuses to deliver images to my browser.
The request:
GET /kOAkw.png HTTP/3
Host: i.sstatic.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 ...
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What is the community's opinion of having animated demos of bugs in posts?
Today, a user filed a bug report. The user had attached an animation of reproducing the bug in the post. However, after receiving comments from multiple users stating that the post should only consist ...
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Broken image thumbnails on i.sstatic.net in older question
In 2019, I posted an answer on EE.SE. The answer contains a number of image thumbnails linking to larger images, all hosted on SE's image hosting (i.sstatic.net).
Today, this answer came to my ...
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Why would I be blocked from viewing i.sstatic images in answers (but not questions)?
I'm currently unable to view images in answers, although images in questions are still loading. For instance, for the question Remove IEs compatibility mode button from SE sites (bumped today for some ...
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How to fix "An error occurred, please try again." message when uploading images [duplicate]
I'm trying to upload an image onto a post I'm writing to make the post more clear, but I keep running into the same "An error occurred, please try again." error. It's annoying.
I've tried to ...
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Uploads to SE image servers have started failing
Starting around a couple of hours ago, attempts to upload images via the image uploader onto SE's image servers have been failing.
This has been confirmed across multiple SE sites (so it's not SE site ...
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Font rendering issue on stackoverflow.co preview question image
On stackoverflow.co, there is an image (to the side of the highlighted paragraph), which renders code blocks in a Times New Roman font. See image:
This may be due to the fact that the image is an SVG,...
