I have a small photography forum and members who embed images from external photo hosts like flickr, Postimg or ImgBB are suddenly having problems. Images won't load until minutes later. An add-ons that two add-ons that should kick in upon saving the post don't work properly. And one of my members is getting these warnings when he is trying to hotlink more than one image in a post:
I've been testing, created an account at Postimg and ImgBB, uploaded a few images. I copy the BBcode, paste it in a post, save it and the image does appear but the add-ons do indeed not work. One add-on basically converts a hot link into an attachment upon saving the post and the other extracts the EXIF from the file and places it below the image. And these two add-ons now more often than not do not work. However, clicking EDIT and just saving the post again does the trick a few times and the add-ons kick in, but after resaving one or two posts, the trick stops working. But try again a day later and it works for those posts.
flickr too is problematic right now when members want to hotlink what flickr calls the "Original" file size. This is the file size a person has uploaded to flickr, so it could be any size. The BBcode for this Original file size goes through the hotlink process untouched by flickr and all the metadata is embedded. The Large file size can be smaller than the Original but if someone uploaded an image of say 1600px wide, both the Original and the Large file size can be 1600px wide. Problem is that the Large file size is heavily compressed and all metadata stripped in order to make the file as small as flickr can make it.
Copy/pasting the Original file size from flickr is very problematic at the moment. Here too sometimes a resave works once or twice and then it doesn't any more. But come back to the post the next day and do a resave, and the add-ons kick in. However, the relatively small Large version of a flickr image works flawlessly: add-ons kick in on saving the post and all is fine. But as the Large file size is heavily compressed and stripped of all metadata, image quality is compromised and there's no EXIF, which is unacceptable.
I have no idea what is going on because the behaviour I see is so erratic: sometimes the image shows right away, more often it doesn't and you have to wait many minutes. Sometimes the add-ons work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the workaround of a resave works until it doesn't. But come back to it a day later and it does work.
This has started happening only recently. I have a member who has been embedding images from Postimg for 18 months, without any hiccups. Now his older posts are all empty save for some text, if he included any. You wait for 5, 6 minutes and then the images start popping into the posts. Go back to that page a day later and images are all gone again.
Anybody experiencing similar problems with embeds too?
Anybody have any idea what it can be? What I can do?
@Painbaker
@Naz
I've been testing, created an account at Postimg and ImgBB, uploaded a few images. I copy the BBcode, paste it in a post, save it and the image does appear but the add-ons do indeed not work. One add-on basically converts a hot link into an attachment upon saving the post and the other extracts the EXIF from the file and places it below the image. And these two add-ons now more often than not do not work. However, clicking EDIT and just saving the post again does the trick a few times and the add-ons kick in, but after resaving one or two posts, the trick stops working. But try again a day later and it works for those posts.
flickr too is problematic right now when members want to hotlink what flickr calls the "Original" file size. This is the file size a person has uploaded to flickr, so it could be any size. The BBcode for this Original file size goes through the hotlink process untouched by flickr and all the metadata is embedded. The Large file size can be smaller than the Original but if someone uploaded an image of say 1600px wide, both the Original and the Large file size can be 1600px wide. Problem is that the Large file size is heavily compressed and all metadata stripped in order to make the file as small as flickr can make it.
Copy/pasting the Original file size from flickr is very problematic at the moment. Here too sometimes a resave works once or twice and then it doesn't any more. But come back to the post the next day and do a resave, and the add-ons kick in. However, the relatively small Large version of a flickr image works flawlessly: add-ons kick in on saving the post and all is fine. But as the Large file size is heavily compressed and stripped of all metadata, image quality is compromised and there's no EXIF, which is unacceptable.
I have no idea what is going on because the behaviour I see is so erratic: sometimes the image shows right away, more often it doesn't and you have to wait many minutes. Sometimes the add-ons work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the workaround of a resave works until it doesn't. But come back to it a day later and it does work.
This has started happening only recently. I have a member who has been embedding images from Postimg for 18 months, without any hiccups. Now his older posts are all empty save for some text, if he included any. You wait for 5, 6 minutes and then the images start popping into the posts. Go back to that page a day later and images are all gone again.
Anybody experiencing similar problems with embeds too?
Anybody have any idea what it can be? What I can do?
@Painbaker
@Naz
