CUNY Academic Commons

Today I tried to attached a PDF to a party announcement. The PDF was 3.2M

The message wound up going through but the attachment was not allowed to post because it exceeded the file attachment size limit. I should have noticed that before I posted, but I didn't see that there.

I have two thoughts about this:

1. that's a pretty small file size limit given the size of typical PDF and image files these days. After going back to Adobe Acrobat and exporting to a reduced file size, it was still 2.3M. Is a 2M file size limit too small? Can we accommodate larger?

2. I would have preferred it if the post had brought up an error message and would not have gone through instead of what happened -- that the message posted without the attachment. Since it was cross-posted across two fora, I then had to follow up individually on each forum post to explain that the file I had said would be attached wasn't attached, and also (because I couldn't upload it) that it was available at a Dropbox link that I then shared.

This was all announcing an end-of-semester party about which I was trying to generate some excitement, so the need to double post in two different fora was kind of a downer ;)