I have been trying to troubleshoot the issue where PNGs are uploaded as JPEGs and everyone mentions these File settings (below)
but when I navigate through all my File settings, this doesn’t come up and searching for ‘quality’ also does not bring up any results.
Is this a limitation with the type of account you have or a feature you need to switch on?
This is now a hidden site setting
For reference the reason why it was hidden[1]:
In our efforts to increase the signal-to-noise ratio and discoverability of site settings, we’re hiding overly technical settings that few users override.
Ah, unfortunately I do not have the means to access our server via SSH
Someone does. You could ask them to change it.
Why has this been made hidden? It makes it impossible to share .png files via Discourse. I struggle to see how this is a ‘feature’.
It hamstrings using Discourse as a repository of .png files, and means reverting to email / Google Drive / some other platform for the pedestrian task of sharing images with a transparent background.
This seems quite nuts to me. At least I’m self-hosted, and can change this quite easily.
Most modern browsers now support WebP. If you’re looking to save storage space, converting PNG images to WebP today might be a good option.
In the past, storage space was a bigger concern. Today, server storage capacity is growing significantly, so there may be no need to compromise image quality just to save space.
On mucking about with it, I see that only .png files without transparency are converted to .jpg - now that makes more sense!!!
So maybe this is actually pretty sweet and I’ll turn that setting back on.
Hello, could you please let me know where to set this?
I tested uploading a transparent PNG, and it was automatically converted to JPEG.
Maybe I got that observation wrong then - it seemed to be the case, but I didn’t test it in detail.
The setting referred to above is a Hidden Site Setting. See this post:
