Consider raising the size limit of blobs #1740
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It's true that our documentation for the Technically, part of the Lexicon app schema "social contract" is that values like this can not be changed in-place. Either a new record version would be needed, or in this specific case a new version of the image embed (the post record I'm not sure what the latest product thinking on this limit is, but I remember that we came up with this number originally after some discussion, it was not a totally arbitrary number. cc: @pfrazee |
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Kind of frustrating is the difference in using the api vs the website. On bsky.app I can post much large images |
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What are the current image formats acceptable? I'm not able to find that in the Lexicon. JPG I know are allowed; other image formats I am not sure about (do they need to be converted to JPG). Is this correct? Thanks, Erik |
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Sorry, but have there been any changes as to the status of raising the limit from 1 MB? |
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Sorry, is there any update? |
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The discussion here is right about the limit in the blob lexicon...but I'm curious where and whether that's actually currently enforced. It seems like the AppView doesn't, at least? #2845 ...and I wonder about the main PDS too, since as @ElYaiko mentioned, bsky.app is happily uploading bigger blobs there. |
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When I was first working on my code that cross-posts to Bluesky from my website, I was surprised to discover an undocumented blob size limit of 976.56 kilobytes. This is… quite small 😅 Compare this with Mastodon which, as of v4.2.0, allows images that are up to 16 megabytes in size and approximately 7680x4320 in resolution.
Describe the solution you'd like
I'd really like Bluesky to be able to accept larger images.
Describe alternatives you've considered
The only alternative is heavy compression or size reduction for basically any photo taken with a camera or phone made in the last decade. I currently do this, but it seems reasonable for a modern social network to be able to accept photos taken with modern cameras without needing too much processing.
Additional context
I'm not necessarily suggesting that Bluesky raise their limit to something like 16 MB (Mastodon only recently raised theirs to this from 8MB earlier this year), but a limit that's under 1 MB feels artificially small to me 😅
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