Posted: 10/26/2025 5:57:00 PM EDT
| Now I can't upload photos at all. |
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| Are you using the Brave browser by any chance? Mine's doing that from time to time. If I close it and reboot my PC, it works again. Won't let me post or load pics. |
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Originally Posted By NvrBrdWes: What file type are you trying to upload? The issue is an unsupported file type like webp, but named with an extension for a supported type. Like a webp file but named file.jpg. On uploading a file like that, there's no error given to the user at all and the operation fails silently. It's just amazingly poor quality work. I get it that the board is more or less in maintenance mode now but they're still taking people's money for memberships. For $100 I feel like I've been scammed. And yes I know nobody cares. That's the scam part. |
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The board is by no mean "in maintenance mode" and we do care about our users and members. Regarding your issue, is your complain that you aren't getting an error message when you try to upload an unsupported file type? Was your solution to try to rename the file and try to trick the system? I would love to help, but I am struggling to understand your problem and it seems to be isolated to just our account. |
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I just don't understand why someone would try to rename a webp to a jpeg and expect a different result. There are plenty of ways to easily convert images to something the site will upload. For example: https://cloudconvert.com/webp-to-png Regarding that error message, that is something I will get with the devs about to see why you arent seeing an error message. |
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Originally Posted By Colt1860: An error condition should return an error to the user. You can reproduce this by renaming a webp image as file.jpg and then trying to upload it. It fails silently with no indication to the user what's going on. At the moment webp isn't a supported format. You can't just rename a file's extension to get it to display, you need to convert the file from a webp to jpg. The system is not returning an error because it's handling the upload of the file as if it was a jpg. We realize webp is much more common these days and will try to get it updated to make life easier. |
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Originally Posted By GoatBoy: At the moment webp isn't a supported format. You can't just rename a file's extension to get it to display, you need to convert the file from a webp to jpg. The system is not returning an error because it's handling the upload of the file as if it was a jpg. We realize webp is much more common these days and will try to get it updated to make life easier. I understand that, I have no need for webp support. The file I tried to upload was named incorrectly when I downloaded it from another site. The issue I'm reporting is that the upload fails with no error. If nothing else, my point is this: your code should attempt to handle errors. Error handling is a fundamental part of good coding practice. |
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