Why do some images come up broken for me on this site? I have to hit 'reply' to see them.
Are you on mobile? It happens to me too but it seems to work fine on PC. :/
It's Imgur. It happens to me on PC when I use Safari too. Can't seem to get them to display at all.
from admin ratrosaw:
many members have reported that their images are not displaying on the page. We have been investigating this problem and came to the conclusion that one of the major image hosting services, imgur.com, has enabled hot link protection on us. In other words, any image on imgur.com linked using HTTPS protocol will not display on ResetEra.
It is still possible to use HTTP-based imgur.com image links, though we would like to advise against it as well, as theoretically speaking they could undermine existing security mechanisms on ResetEra. We are contacting imgur.com and trying to find out a solution to this problem now. Meanwhile, you may want to check out other image hosting services, such as
abload.de, to host your images. Thanks for your understanding.
Allow me to explain it a little bit more.
imgur.com detects hot linking (people linking imgur.com images from other sites) by checking a field,
referrer, in every HTTP/HTTPS request you sent. When you visit resetera and come to an image from imgur.com, your browser knows the image is not from resetera.com so it will send a request to imgur.com with the referrer field set to us, so that imgur.com knows it is us who are linking their images. That's how they block it as well. Normally imgur.com would block both HTTP and HTTPS request with a "suspicious" referrer field, but there is a complication here: when you are visiting an HTTPS site with HTTP images, your browser will set the referer policy to "no-referrer-when-downgrade", as a protection against the security pitfalls of rendering HTTP image on a HTTPS page. Consequently in that case imgur.com does not know who is referring to their images and has to display them for us. That's why you can link HTTP imgur.com images but not HTTPS ones.
Hopefully the explanation could be helpful.
#tech team
imgur works for me on PC most of the time but not on mobile. it's just not going to be consistent for everyone.