I just changed a setting from 5 to 12, that may allow uploading more files at once.
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This is environment-specific. What operating system and browser? How many pictures at a time?
Same answers as always. iOS (both iPhone and iPad). It doesn’t matter whether it’s Verizon 500G WiFi or cellular. And it’s only this site. Anything more than one pic is a problem.
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What error do you get?
It stalls and times out at an arbitrary upload percentage like 63%, even though it had uploaded fairly quickly up to then (a few seconds). See below. Sometimes it will have successfully uploaded some images at the stall point; sometimes none. In this example, there was no image successfully uploaded out of the five I selected, despite it saying upload is 63% complete. (I recognize that the 63% figure may be phony, as some coders display faux download percentages / hourglasses / download bars so that users feel progress is being made and don’t cancel download prematurely.)
Can you try uploading only three images?
3 vs 5 isn’t the issue. Both have the same results. Sometimes all 3 or 5 photos upload. Sometimes they stall and time out like I explained above. I just tested this four times for sets of three photos. Three times it worked; one time it stalled and timed out.
Even 2 photos can stall and time out.
@PeonyWarrior can you try to replicate the problem on File upload issue - #9 by HAWK - Support - Discourse Meta?
Very busy … maybe this weekend.
even just trying to refresh the site on an iphone is painful sometimes let alone trying to upload a single picture. about 40% of the time the site just hangs. never happens on my android or laptop.
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Cannot upload more than 2 photos wtf is going on with the site
What device / operating system and what browser?
I think it’s iOS generally that’s the problem.
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Let’s be real: whoever programmed this board architecture fucking sucks at their job.
Discourse is actually the best conferenciing software but iOS image uploads might be outside of their core competency. Claude, please help 'em.
It’s maddening. I would say that on average the photos I post on here are third or fourth attempts. Sometimes I just give up, like with Mother Wolf just now. I’ve tried different devices, different browsers, different cities, WiFi versus cellular. It just plainly doesn’t work right
There is also a bug where sometimes the cursor that shows where I’m editing is several lines below the place where the edits occur. But that’s minor compared with all the time I’ve wasted with photo uploads timing out.
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Yeah from iOS lots of annoying upload failures lately
@robert are you saying macos is the better choice for apple?
Yes same here. Lot of issues with photo uploads from my iPhone as well. Almost never works unless I’m on WiFi.