More abject barista-turned-developer fuckery ITT
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@Robb M.
If I insert that specific set of image tags, with the .jpg? file type to prevent your server from re-uploading my image as its own, and I click on "Preview Post", everything looks great. I then click on "Post" and it breaks the link. I don't need to expand on the sheer stupidity of "preview" not showing the same thing as the post it previews
It is impossible to fix that post now, by the way. I have to delete this entire thread and re-post it without selecting "preview" first if I want to un-**** that link with the .jpg? file name.
I also can't fix it by selecting "source" and writing my own image bracket code, which is just ******* stupid.
Please fix all of this
If I insert that specific set of image tags, with the .jpg? file type to prevent your server from re-uploading my image as its own, and I click on "Preview Post", everything looks great. I then click on "Post" and it breaks the link. I don't need to expand on the sheer stupidity of "preview" not showing the same thing as the post it previews
It is impossible to fix that post now, by the way. I have to delete this entire thread and re-post it without selecting "preview" first if I want to un-**** that link with the .jpg? file name.
I also can't fix it by selecting "source" and writing my own image bracket code, which is just ******* stupid.
Please fix all of this
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For my own reasons, I'm not a fan of having every image re-uploaded and hosted on IB's servers. The only way to prevent your servers from detecting the .jpg link and doing that is to add a ? at the end. So I amend the URL to add that.
There's no issue if I just do that and then hit "post", but on my big long ZF6 pictoral thread I just posted in Drivetrain, I wanted to make sure all the images worked, were in the right order, etc. So I hit "preview", and it all looked perfect, and then I hit "post" and every single image link broke. I have no idea why "preview" doesn't mean exactly that, but that's what happens.
There's no issue if I just do that and then hit "post", but on my big long ZF6 pictoral thread I just posted in Drivetrain, I wanted to make sure all the images worked, were in the right order, etc. So I hit "preview", and it all looked perfect, and then I hit "post" and every single image link broke. I have no idea why "preview" doesn't mean exactly that, but that's what happens.
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I just tried it again and got the same thing - the preview looks fine, but the link breaks between "preview" and "post". I also can't fix it now, even if I go into the source HTML and manually add the [/img] at the end.
If I just hit "quick reply" or "post", it works fine - as below. On the below image, I added my own image tags and appended the URL, but I never hit "preview" for this post.
If I just hit "quick reply" or "post", it works fine - as below. On the below image, I added my own image tags and appended the URL, but I never hit "preview" for this post.
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ok, thank you for taking the tine to explain it. I am seeing the same thing. Going to preview from advanced reply and then submitting that as a reply adds a url tag to anything within img tags. this is also broken on other communities. I'll flag this and hope it can be addressed in short order.
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At some point in the past, IB started scraping and re-hosting all images that were hotlinked from other sources. I don't recall when this was, but it wasn't recent. I started adding the ? to my URLs at that point to prevent my images from being re-hosted.
Here's a quick reference of that:
https://www.miataturbo.net/front-des...ictures-85833/
Joe's post #10 is the workaround I use to prevent it from happening to me.
e: Both of your mars images are still hosted on imgur servers as of 8:48pm PST 12/1/18
Here's a quick reference of that:
https://www.miataturbo.net/front-des...ictures-85833/
Joe's post #10 is the workaround I use to prevent it from happening to me.
e: Both of your mars images are still hosted on imgur servers as of 8:48pm PST 12/1/18
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