Just tried to add a Pin to my "Home and Beauty" board on Pinterest and received:
Opps! We're having some trouble talking to <website>. Please try again later!
Had a look at the image I was trying to pin and its resolution was 2282x2282 pixels making it an approximately 1.2MB file.
Downscaled the image to 320x320 and it worked fine. Also tested another image on the page and discovered that a 1280x1280 image would pin without an error.
So in conclusion I'm not sure of exactly what is the maximum image that Pinterest will scrape and convert from a website site but it's somewhere between 1280 x 1280 and under 2282 x 2282
I'm getting the same error with a WP site and the image I'm trying to pin is only 714x1000
I'm sure there's something happening at the database end ... ?
Thanks for your post by the way, if anyone can ever post a definitive solution to this it would be super appreciated!
Apparently my other comment came too soon. Jon, I'm responding to you so you'll see this, too.
For me, the problem was fixed when I went to my Jetpack settings, deactivated "Photon," and cleared my cache. Something about Photon was screwing up my pin buttons. I don't know if you have it activated, but if you do I hope that fixes it!
My image is 800x1200 and I compressed it so it's under 1 MB. I wasn't have any issues with it before today. Thanks for posting, hopefully someone can figure it out....
Thank you! It was Photon causing the issue for me, too. Pinterest is working just fine now.
I am so grateful I stumbled onto this site! I have been trying to figure out why Pinterest stopped working for me. I just deactivated Photon in Jetpack settings and boom - FIXED! Yay! Thanks.