Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-30064728-20161221144435/@comment-168424-20161221185033

Complain to Wikia at Special:Contact/feedback.

The limit used to be lower, so it could be worse. You can do plenty with a 300Kb limit. Remember this is a background image, so it should never need to be so complicated or detailed that it distracts from the article content.

Take a look at this very complicated background I made for Gotham wiki, that looks fine within the 300Kb limit and is 1600x1000:

Show me an image more complicated than that that you think can't fit under 300Kb.