forum metaquestion

[mwieder]

I can't find an appropriate forum for questions about this web forum, so I'll try here...

What's the maximum size attachment you can upload here? Even simple gifs give me a generic "too large" error.
I can't find this documented anywhere.

[FourthWorld]

I believe PHPBB's default maximum file size is 2MB, but that seems large for a simple GIF. Was it multi-frame?

[mwieder]

Yeah, that's looping multi-frame. And 2MB is what I was thinking, since I just tried a 2.1MB image and got rejected.

[bogs]

I think it is a lot less than 2 MB. Or rather, size alone doesn't mean anything.

For instance, This animated gif is 356.6 KiB,

1.21 GIGAWATTS !?!?

and you can see the result of trying to upload it.

It...won't....goooooOOOOOOooooo...

forumPicSizeLimit.png (7.1 KiB) Viewed 4056 times

I suspect it depends on a lot of things, like number of colors/frames/height/width etc. Applying that theory to this same gif, I reduced it to 2 colors and 28 frames, and it uploaded.

Reduced to 2 colors, and 28 frames.

but now doesn't play unless you click on it hah.

[richmond62]

256 Kb (i.e. quarter of a Megabyte).