Why are everyone's pics disappearing?

Rustar · 25-10-2005 3:30pm #1

All of the pics stored on the board itself seem to be disappearing, including sig pics....is there some kind of new rule being enforced?
Doesn't seem to affect the images linked to elsewhere.

Kenny_D · 25-10-2005 3:36pm

They're working fine for me

Ancient1 · 25-10-2005 3:37pm

I think it's something to do with the recent upgrade.

feylya · 25-10-2005 3:46pm

Completely wrong forum for this. Moved to Feedback.

seamus · 25-10-2005 4:24pm

Give us an example.

Rustar · 25-10-2005 4:36pm

For example, their are 4 little red X's in your post, and Feylya's sig pic is also a red X. I know it's not just me, because Ancient 1 acknowledged its existence. My own sig pic, which is external, shows up for me.
Whenever I do a 'properties' on a red X, it proves to be something stored at boards.ie

GoneShootin · 25-10-2005 4:37pm

Try clearing your cache and reloading the pages. Working fine for me on FireFox. Are you running via a proxy?

Rustar · 25-10-2005 4:45pm

Running through a router, haven't had any problems til yesterday.
Tried clearing the cache, I generally do that constantly anyway, with lots of refreshes. I'm using I.E., maybe its a Microsoft issue.

seamus · 25-10-2005 4:51pm

Aha. http://members.boards.ie/ is borked.

So anyone who has links to images on members.boards.ie (e.g. me, feylya) in their sig, these images will fail to display. It does get a little tricky. I can currently see feylya's sig, but that's because the image is cached on my machine.
However, if I go directly to http://members.boards.ie/feylya/supersig.jpg, it fails.

You may have noticed images slowly and gradually disappearing, as your machine deleted items in the cache to make way for new ones. A lot of the rest of us wouldn't have even noticed this, because firefox doesn't tell you when a link is broken, it just doesn't display the image.

Rustar · 25-10-2005 5:05pm

...and now, for some strange reason, Feylya's sig pic is back...but not your pics. Hmmm. He must have refreshed it or something.

GoneShootin · 25-10-2005 5:33pm

Oh such a tangled web we weave.

Rustar · 25-10-2005 11:17pm

Cloud wrote:

Please do name names - I've written a script that ensures that all sigs are no more than 360 wide or 60 high - so if you've spotted a sig, that means that my script isn't working.

My guess is that the script works TOO well....and it's removing all boardsie-based pics.

Gordon · 25-10-2005 11:44pm

Actually I think you guys need to learn about 'gifs'. "Gif" files are a little strange, most users' sigs are made out of "gifs" but there is one distinct problem with them. It is a well known fact that "gifs" degrade over time. A "gif" can last for a good few months on a fair few downloads but after a certain level of "incubus" and "synchrometry" it will inevitably commit to 'downfall', a web developers nightmare (this is how they make so much money!).

The fact that so many users' sigs have been downfalled recently is due to the fact that they have been created around the same period in time. I think that we can safely say that the sig creation thread on the Digital Art/Animation board has a lot to answer for on this subject.

Hope that answers your questions.

Rustar · 26-10-2005 1:07am

Gordon wrote:

Hope that answers your questions.

Bahhh, tell me something new, willya?

That's why I *always* use jpegs.

rabbitinlights · 26-10-2005 11:25am

any sign of members.boards.ie coming back online?

CrowdedHouse · 26-10-2005 5:27pm

rabbitinlights wrote:

any sign of members.boards.ie coming back online?

Why is this not fixed yet ?

seamus · 26-10-2005 5:44pm

Becuase the admins delay by one day, every time you demand something be fixed.

CrowdedHouse · 26-10-2005 5:54pm

Would like to say 'what a dick' but won't

Gordon · 26-10-2005 6:03pm

What are you serious? Because you just did.

seamus · 26-10-2005 6:05pm

Bite me. You know where you can go if you're not happy.

CrowdedHouse · 26-10-2005 6:05pm

Apologies,am having a bad day.

seamus · 26-10-2005 6:11pm

And I'm sick

CrowdedHouse · 26-10-2005 6:12pm

Me too - tummy bug

RuggieBear · 26-10-2005 6:44pm

Calling one of the few people on boards who can actually site ban you, a dick is pretty stoopid tbh.

seamus · 26-10-2005 8:47pm

RuggieBear wrote:

Calling one of the few people on boards who can actually site ban you, a dick is pretty stoopid tbh.

Ah, I don't use my big banning stick to fight personal battles

RuggieBear · 26-10-2005 8:50pm

seamus wrote:

Ah, I don't use my big banning stick to fight personal battles

what a dick

aidan_walsh · 26-10-2005 8:50pm

RuggieBear wrote:

what a dick

regi · 26-10-2005 9:19pm

CrowdedHouse - we're rebuilding a new machine just for members, wiki - the other bits and pieces. Coming soon (!).

seamus · 26-10-2005 9:20pm

Yes, isn't it magnificent?

RuggieBear · 26-10-2005 9:43pm

seamus wrote:

Yes, isn't it magnificent?

wey hey

steveland? · 26-10-2005 11:40pm

Gordon wrote:

Actually I think you guys need to learn about 'gifs'. "Gif" files are a little strange, most users' sigs are made out of "gifs" but there is one distinct problem with them. It is a well known fact that "gifs" degrade over time. A "gif" can last for a good few months on a fair few downloads but after a certain level of "incubus" and "synchrometry" it will inevitably commit to 'downfall', a web developers nightmare (this is how they make so much money!).

The fact that so many users' sigs have been downfalled recently is due to the fact that they have been created around the same period in time. I think that we can safely say that the sig creation thread on the Digital Art/Animation board has a lot to answer for on this subject.

Hope that answers your questions.

Why are everyone's pics disappearing?

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