Can't attach files to posts in Firefox

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Post by spacemonaut » 3 years ago

I cannot attach files to posts when using Firefox. Attaching works fine in Chrome.

There are no console errors and there is no network activity. Simply nothing happens if I try to attach a file.

When I hit "Add files" my file explorer opens and I can pick a file to upload, but once I pick the file, nothing happens on the page at all to acknowledge the upload. When I drag a file over this text box it does get the dotted outline, but once I drop the file simply nothing at all happens.

This was occurring last month as well, but I forgot to report it at the time.

Attaching files was working fine in Firefox on February 17, I used that feature in a post here: viewtopic.php?f=88&t=23622&p=63524

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Post by Feyd_Ruin » 3 years ago

Usually a "nothing seems to happen" upload is because the file size is too big. Our current limit is 256kb. Could you make sure the file isn't over this size?
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Post by spacemonaut » 3 years ago

I ran into this issue trying to upload a PNG card mockup, which on imgur is 147kb. Perhaps it applied some compression though and the image was originally over 256kb - I can check and find out next week and confirm. : )

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Post by Feyd_Ruin » 3 years ago

Please do. I've tested and everything appears working, but some bugs are setup specific :/
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Post by spacemonaut » 3 years ago

@Feyd_Ruin Looks like the file I was trying to add was 480kb. Everything's OK, just some missing UI feedback.

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Post by Feyd_Ruin » 3 years ago

Awesome thank you.
I'll see if it's something I can easily push into PHPBB. I definitely agree it should at least tell you what happened.
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Post by Feyd_Ruin » 3 years ago

Alerts up and going. :)
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Post by spacemonaut » 3 years ago

Hooray!

Any chance the 256kb limit could be mentioned somewhere?

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Post by Feyd_Ruin » 3 years ago

Added and extended.
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Eventually I'll make it prettier too, but I'm tied up with other things I need to finish before I go down that rabbit hole lol

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Post by spacemonaut » 3 years ago

Thank you, that's brilliant!

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