Image Uploader bugs and requests

1. Uploaded images get renamed to a long string of letters and numbers. (Example: inspector-javert_the-fugitive.png gets renamed to ff66a1037e9ab3ec78ea46e36c077fd6.png.) This makes the Images List tool useless, and there are other advantages to having filenames that are meaningful to humans. It would be nice if the files retained their name.
2. The crop/resize dialog comes up every time. It would be nice if there were a separate submission button, or a choice (checkbox?), for images that don't need to be cropped or resized.
3. The Image Uploader page doesn't say anything about 350 pixels wide being the maximum width, or that images wider than that will be scaled down to 350 pixels wide.
4. If you upload an image that is wider than 350 pixels, the image gets resized, but the "markup to use" on the "Upload was successful" page does not reflect this change. Example: if you upload an image that is 1000 pixels wide, it gets shrunk to 350 wide, but the markup displayed on that page is [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/(filename)]] and [[caption-width-right:1000:Some caption text]]... if a user does copy this markup, it results in a lot of empty whitespace on the side of the image and a 1000-pixel-wide caption box.

edited 8th Nov '15 3:27:23 PM by rodneyAnonymous

5. All images (as far I can tell, all images on the site, not just page images) display as missing the (four) pixels at their corners.

edited 8th Nov '15 3:28:10 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Noting here that #4 in rodney's post has already created a number of issues with overly wide captions.

Addendum to #2: you can not touch the cropping boundaries at all, but it'll still perform the crop one way or another. While the resulting image will not lose any data from the crop command (because, well, you didn't change the boundaries), the resulting image can have a larger filesize. For instance, I can control the filesize of a PNG on my end by using OptiPNG; I get no such control over an image that's cropped server-side. The image in post 10 of this thread of a Garfield strip came out at 111.46KB, while the copy of the image on my hard drive that I submitted to the uploader is 96KB.

I don't know if we're still beholden to a 200KB limit (I think that was lifted?), but it can be annoying.

edited 24th Feb '15 10:32:45 AM by ShadowHog

WRT issue #1, the search should at least include the image description. Otherwise you can only find pictures you yourself have uploaded.

6. I often get an ""Error uploading to edgecast" message when trying to upload an image. I don't know what that means, but the upload fails.

While we are talking about images: The picture on Crusader Rabbit is named crusader_rabbit.gif, but you don't find it in the images list - neither by looking for "crusader" nor "rabbit".

The full URL of the pic is: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lt/crusader_rabbit.gif

Maybe it's the /lt/ directory messing things up?

edited 31st Mar '15 9:45:35 AM by FELH2

The images list has always been screwy. I think we need a proper image lister instead.

I can't seem to upload images at all. I'm trying to upload an image for a new page, but every time I click "DONE" (which doesn't even look like a button), the entire thing vanishes without uploading.

Working on it.

It did work for me, just now. Although the uploader looked a bit weird when I did so.

Whenever I click done, the image uploader randomly crops part of the image out. It's weird, and makes the entire tool unusable. Cropping is weird and sticky too.

Actually I don't even see a "done" button now.

7. Instead of shrinking them or simply not letting them in at all, the uploader allows large images to be uploaded, but articles display them shrunk to 350.
8. The "Submit Cropped Image" button does not look like a button, it looks like it's just text.

edited 17th May '15 12:31:00 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I have the same problem as Achaemenid. I used to be able the crop the images *before* I uploaded, but now all my crops are negated and the TV Tropes cropper is driving me buggy buggy buggy!!! A little help would be prime.

8 has been fixed.

Re-emphasizing #7; people are uploading enormous pics but we can't tell it because of the pages' auto-resizing function. #3 is tied to this.

edited 17th May '15 7:56:04 AM by Willbyr

Also, I've had complaints in ATT of oversized images causing problems with the page loading.

So the uploader is not shrinking images at all, anymore; even if the image is huge it is displayed at 350 pixels wide by the page, though it still takes a huge image's worth of data transfer.

This is a somewhat serious problem.

As an example, the uploader allowed someone to upload a 564-pixel-wide image and post it on the Bigend Books page, and also told them the markup should be "[[quoteright:564:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/24bb1d9826ad03c94c105e224c778316.jpg]]". Among other things, there are two major issues: the page displays the image at 350 pixels wide anyway so the extra resolution/bandwidth/serverspace is wasted unless you right-click and choose View Image (which almost nobody does), and that markup results in a 214-pixel-wide blank white space to the right of the image (which looks ugly on the page). If it had a caption there would be a third problem: the returned markup would be "[[caption-width-right:564:Some caption text]]", which would make a too-wide caption box. (Here is what the page looked like before I fixed it: Sandbox.Bigend Books.)

I realize there is probably a better image uploader being developed for the 2.0 wiki, but I don't think this should just wait, in the mean time. The uploader should resize images (or not allow them at all) if they're above 350 pixels wide, and the markup it returns should never have a number higher than 350.

edited 6th Jul '15 1:26:44 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I've put a request in for that issue to be fast-fixed, but from responses I think we'll have to wait until the end of the month.

When I try to upload an image, it says "Error: no file name", when though it clearly has a file name and it was working just fine a few hours ago.

I seem to have the same problem, but only with Internet Explorer. It seems to work with Chrome, at the very least.

I also have this problem in IE that when the preview picture comes up, if the picture is too long, I cannot click it out. It isn't usually a problem as I can still submit the picture, but you know.

The uploader doesn't work at all on Firefox either, same error message.

I also cannot upload images on Internet Explorer with the reason being given as "no file name". This problem has been going on a couple of days now.

I can't upload images on my IPad. It always times out. But I can do it on my phone and computer.

edited 10th Jul '15 8:07:35 AM by WhirlRX