Earlier today I wanted to post a PNG file that was 7 Mb and burggit basically got stuck uploading. I ended up resizing it so it would be under 4 Mb and that solved it but ideally I would like to preserve the size and quality as much as possible.
That got me thinking of using webp instead but I’m not sure how compatible lemmy is with it (not to mention 3rd party apps). Could an admin enlighten me on what format I should try to use for still images? Much appreciated.
here’s an example of an embeded shota.nu image:
and here’s an image as to how I did that:
As far as images not loading, Shota.nu had a slightly rough start, did a decent chunk of fiddling the first like 2 days it was up, it should be more reliable now. It’s possible the images you saw that were having trouble loading was during a brief period of downtime or while I was having some troubles with it that I was trying to fix. They also might not have been the direct image links (which have /ss/ before the file name) those seem to have some trouble embedding properly in Lemmy.
This turned out to be the issue I think. I used url instead of direct_url in the config I made for sharex so I was posting the normal url. I’ll be trying to use shota.nu direct links from now on and see how it works!