what is the max gif/image file size

[Bobmeboi]

I have been trying to post a gif for the last like 30m and It keep saying file size to big
its 2.6 mb large?

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Yeah, I think we have it set at 2MB max.

That said, tools like PostImage and PicResize (both online) can get your images back to saner sizes while retaining their quality -- that's what I use.

 

[Sumea]

I just use irfanview, knowledge about JPG's, PNG's WEBP's even JPG-XL in general, maybe a little XL converter and even handbrake to make the images and videos I wanna post. The limit could be higher but it could be a problem easily if it were. GIF's are very unoptimized you could likely convert them to commonly supported video format of some kind and post it as a sub 2mb GIF. Like really, my friend hates it when "GIF sites" have them as videos but when GIFs ballooned and video codecs like H.264 and beyond that VP8, VP9 (A.K.A. Webm) and AV1 have come out, you usually save a significant slice of space by encoding the GIF to video without sound.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The limit could be higher but it could be a problem easily if it were.

Yeah, everything's on the same server here -- letting people run wild with (generally) one-time use GIFs would be a nightmare scenario.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

It’s 2mb for videos but I never hit the limit for images so I wouldn’t know.

 

[Sumea]

It’s 2mb for videos but I never hit the limit for images so I wouldn’t know.

Same more or less, just a general size limitation.
I also think it is a total limit in post if you got multiple images but I am just going by vibe memory rather than hard hit confirm with that.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Same more or less, just a general size limitation.
I also think it is a total limit in post if you got multiple images but I am just going by vibe memory rather than hard hit confirm with that.

Now that this is mentioned, I actually do vaguely remember something like this, I tried uploading multiple images but it only gave me a size error for one of them.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

It's pathetic that's the size

 

[diapered]

Same more or less, just a general size limitation.
I also think it is a total limit in post if you got multiple images but I am just going by vibe memory rather than hard hit confirm with that.

Huh, I never thought if there was a total size limit between all the attachments. I know there is a 15 attachment limit (learned that hard way for a review). I got curious and checked my image folder for that post, and they all added up to 1mb together (well under the limit for even one image), so that doesn't help answer that question >_< I guess that means the theoretical limit for a post is 30mb?

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I just use irfanview, knowledge about JPG's, PNG's WEBP's even JPG-XL in general, maybe a little XL converter and even handbrake to make the images and videos I wanna post. The limit could be higher but it could be a problem easily if it were. GIF's are very unoptimized you could likely convert them to commonly supported video format of some kind and post it as a sub 2mb GIF. Like really, my friend hates it when "GIF sites" have them as videos but when GIFs ballooned and video codecs like H.264 and beyond that VP8, VP9 (A.K.A. Webm) and AV1 have come out, you usually save a significant slice of space by encoding the GIF to video without sound.

Cool! It's all gimp and ffmpeg mostly for me. gifs can take extra effort: I will also use imagemagick and gifsicle to optimize and do other stuff.

@Bobmeboi
If you are on linux try gifsicle (I forget what package it is, maybe it is standard on most?) you can try this

gifsicle -O3 --lossy=20 -o output.gif input.gif

iirc, in my experience this can get about 1/3 reduction, so if your gif is unoptimized that should get you under the limit. However, from my notes, it looks like I did other things in imageMagick before that to optimize (I don't make gifs often, so don't really remember), so maybe not that much reduction alone But that still might get you there.