Progress towards implementing automatic image compression?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨main@sh.itjust.works⁩

Follow-up to previous post (5 months prior).

I still get an error if I try to upload a picture larger than the upload size limit:

{“data”:{“files”:null,“msg”:“Too many pixels”},“state”:“success”}

From the comments in the previous thread, it seems like implementing automatic image compression is contingent on a newer version of pict-rs, maybe? There was mention of a test instance, but I’m not sure if anything came of that.

Is there any progress which has been or could be made on this front?

I think that this is feature especially important for onboarding new users, who might not be aware of the upload size limit and just think “Lemmy doesn’t work, I guess I’ll go back to Reddit”.

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Tagging @InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works and @TheDude@sh.itjust.works.

Any updates or progress towards this? What would the next steps be?

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- InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hey, basically, I’d need to test this in a test instance first rather than testing live to avoid breaking everything.
  I don’t have an ETA on that, sorry, I know it’s been a while now.
  
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  - threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    I’d need to test this in a test instance first rather than testing live to avoid breaking everything.
    
    That sounds prudent :)
    
    I don’t have an ETA on that, sorry, I know it’s been a while now.
    
    No worries! Anything I can do to help?
    
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