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Image Uploading Complication

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by Renko, Jan 26, 2020.

  1. Renko

    Renko Look closer ~☆

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    It seems sometimes I encounter some problems when it comes to linking certain images to this site.

    When seen in edit and preview, the images are showing up fine.

    But once posted, they became broken links!

    Any of the Admins or the Mods here can tell me why is that?

    Is there like an image size restriction that prevents them from showing up properly?

    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    edit: It seems in my haste to find answers for my predicament, I failed to notice that I posted this in the wrong section. Would I appreciate if this thread can be move to the appropiate place.


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  2. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Do you have an example of an image that has this problem?
     
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  3. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    It is easily reproducible with gifs of large enough size. Things look fine locally in the edit window because of (I assume) browser caching.

    But it seems to have other causes as well, associated with some websites. I don't know about the specific causes.
     
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  4. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    Give an example of it happening so we can see it and investigate, pls.
     
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  5. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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  6. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Noted. I'll investigate once I'm not on mobile.
     
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  7. deathgeonous

    deathgeonous Not too sore, are you?

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    I've been trying to upload a pic from own PC for like, a week and a half with no go as well.
     
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  8. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    That's an attachment, and attachments aren't allowed. You must host it elsewhere such as imgur, and then link it here with the img bbcode.
     
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  9. deathgeonous

    deathgeonous Not too sore, are you?

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    I could before... sorry.
     
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  10. Forcy

    Forcy Getting sticky.

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    I am having the same problem myself with a chapter I just posted. All the other images and gifs worked just fine except for that one and I am confused as to why there was a problem there because I specifically did the process of uploading the images to postimages . org to get a direct link for all the other ones but only that gif is having viewing issues when I hit save changes. Any ideas as to what am I doing wrong?
     
  11. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Link the image?
     
  12. Forcy

    Forcy Getting sticky.

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    https://i.postimg.cc/Gm3zm5kG/Sansa-drinking-soup.gif

    Since it didn't became visible and I had the same problem with one image in the subsequent chapter I just posted, I ended up just putting the direct link up for those that want to check it out. Not the most ideal option though, given that there aren't any issues with mot of the images and I am using the same program on all of them to upload them.
     
  13. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    It may not actually be a gif. It's likely an mp4, which our software doesn't support linking.
     
  14. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    It looks like the problem is that that site plays silly buggers with its URLs -- when you go to that link, it redirects you to their HTML page with all their ads on it, and the QQ server cache doesn't know what to do with it. I don't know why it's inconsistent across different images, though.
     
  15. Forcy

    Forcy Getting sticky.

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    I find that a bit unlikely, given that I specifically turn the mp4 footage I will be using into gif files on ezgif . com.
     
  16. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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