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There's no problem with a 30MB PDF or MP4
Because those are just links.
And we have photography threads, bike tag of bike... both cases where people do indeed want to take a large JPG or a flagship mobile camera image and just upload it.
It's such an edge case, this just doesn't bother me.
When it happens, if others cared, they could just reply to the thread enough to bump a new page 🤷 . It feels like a non-issue, when every action I could take is just a regression on the usability for the vast, vast majority of users and scenarios.
Velocio
Could you do this selectively for file types which render on load? There's no problem with a 30MB PDF or MP4, but hundreds of 5MB JPGs having to download and render every time you visit a page is a PITA even on devices which can handle it. Nobody needs to be attaching image files bigger than 4k resolution, they're just lazy and can't be arsed to do anything but fling camera files at your server🙂
Most files 30MB limit, images 3MB limit is more than enough.