Broken image links and link status

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I noticed three issues today:

  1. Links to recently uploaded images are broken: “The image could not be loaded.”
  2. May be related to #1. Sometimes the [px] logo disappears and only the alt text shows.
  3. There is no difference between visited and not visited links for users that are not logged in.
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Can you point to some specific images?

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I did update the forum earlier, it may possibly have occurred at the same time?

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Yes, it was in the past hour or so. A second ago, everything was back to normal.

The greyed out links when you aren’t logged in still remains.

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I see that the topic list is less than good (light gray topic titles) when not logged in. I’ll see if they did something upstream intentionally. Thank you @afre!

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I did some more sleuthing and it looks like some older images are inaccessible, but as with the others, perhaps this will resolve itself in a few hours.

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@afre can you point us to some of these missing images? We can track down what’s going on…

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Sure. I was doing that but some of those images popped up :slight_smile: as I was linking them.

Certain images on these threads, e.g.:

Edit: and they are back!

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grayed out links might be the dark theme… are you using it?

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Nay, when users or visitors aren’t logged in, they cannot select the dark theme anyway.

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Try visiting the main page of discuss in an incognito session - the topic titles are all a lighter gray when they should probably be darker.

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This is the case for me on mobile and desktop Firefox two days ago and not necessarily in private mode. It is off-putting because it wasn’t like this before.

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:sunglasses: :face_with_monocle:

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The link issue should be fixed.

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Thank you so much for getting this updated, @darix!