Yeah, I was having that issue. Now that I read the comments here I realized that I was trying to upload a 3200x3200 image, which is pretty unnecessary for a picture of a pizza. Changed it to 1000x1000 and it went through with no problem.
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This is the way.
Seems like it might be due to file size. Anything more than a few hundred kilobytes fails to upload.
Got same error, solved by reducing size. The error message would need some improvement, though...
Yeah ok this was indeed the solution, compressed the image down to ~600KB and it uploaded fine.
Yeah it's a file size issue. I had the same problem trying to upload a gif.
Haven't tried uploading an image today, had same error as you, didn't work on jerboa, did work on mobile site.
Will try again later (when I have something to post)
Ah ok. I shall attempt some image compression and see if that works shortly.
@[email protected] was saying a while ago that storage is gonna be a problem. Why not just link your image instead of uploading it? Format is 
Tell your instance admin to increase the maximum file size.
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