Automatically resize images and videos that are "too powerful"

prenetic
  • Edited

All too often when trying to paste in a screenshot from a game (print screen key, followed by Ctrl+V shortcut) the "Your files are too powerful" message appears. In other clients, for example Telegram (which is a great example for this), you are offered the option to send images and videos as-is, or you can choose to have the client resize/compress to send faster. The mobile client takes it a step further for videos, where there is a slider that goes up and down for the desired quality and output size.

If you are trying to send an image over the file size limit, it would be great if the client notified you and at least made an attempt to fit the file to the size limit. In this scenario, sending something is better than sending nothing, and would save users the hassle of opening another program just to resize and save the media for sending.

As a side note, given today's content 8 MB is absurdly small when compared to other free cloud-based chat platforms where hundreds of MB per file are permitted to be stored and forwarded.

72

Comments

37 comments

Date Votes
  • Sebastian

    Yeah, this is significant Dicord's weakness.

    0
  • CyberKiller

    This is hell, I can't post any photo from my mobile phone to a chat, because it's too big. Can't send XBox game screenshots, because they are too big. And I don't want to resize them by hand of shoot photos low res.

    Add an option to auto resize the images to fit. They can be 640x480 or 800x600, for the embedded ones.

    0
  • drlove

    My android app now offers to resize images that are too big, with an option to always resize.

    0
  • prenetic

    My android app now offers to resize images that are too big, with an option to always resize.

    Same here, not sure if it has been rolled out to everyone yet. Hoping they implement the same functionality for the web and desktop clients where this continues to be an issue.

    0
  • CrazyChucky

    Mine now offers that popup too. However, tapping the button to resize simply does nothing. No image gets sent at all.

    0
  • CrazyChucky

    Hey, now Send Compressed works! At least for me. Success!

    -1
  • Charles Whittington

    What gives? Discord recently updated and now the ability to resize images has been removed. It's neither available at time of upload, nor is it in my settings anymore. Suddenly it's back to just blocking any image larger than 8 MB.

    0

Please sign in to leave a comment.