Oh god not again (Pictures Updated 12/12/2019) (See Update 7, watch out for flames of anger) · 12:37am Dec 20th, 2019
Just want to check to make sure this isnt just a problem on my end. Have all my pictures in the story suddenly vanished with some sort of "Upstream response not supported" message for everyone?
(Update): Strangely, it appears that not all of the pictures have been screwed, though i dont know why the ones that got broked are borked and why those that aren't aren't. I don't know what the hell Postimage did this time, but it looks like i have to fix their crap AGAIN. Apologies to all readers and anyone currently reading. I will do my best to go through and fix all of this tonight when i get home from work.
(Update 2): Just contacted postimage and tried my best to ask what's going on without breaking my foot off in their ass. Will update when i get a response.
(Update 3): Havent gotten a reply from post image, but it looks like this might be a fimfiction problem. Images all over the site are not working.
(Update 4): Looks like postimage changed the way their url's work, several images are linking to a page instead of the picture itself now for some reason. Im going to fix the latest chapters for now, but ill be doing a majority of fixes tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience
(Update 5): well i checked from the most recent chapter back through 143 and this is just plain weird. Aside from 164-166 barely any of the pictures were missing from the chapters back through 143 save for one or two chapters where they were all screwed. there doesnt seem to be any distinct cause, some are still there, some are messed up and sometimes they are right next to each other (I checked my baby chapter 130 and literally every picture is still there, but almost ALL of them are missing from the stupidly long chapter 129 right before it.) So tomorrow i plan to sit down and run through every chapter going backwards from 142 to make sure they are all fixed. Then from there i'll go about fixing my main page... and then hopefully my other pages aren't too broken. My info pages wont be that hard to fix, but if the fanart blogs are bad... oh man thats gonna be a chore.
(Update 6): I have now gone in reverse all the way back to chapter 90 and everything from there through present has been fixed. Several chapters along the way were perfectly fine with all pictures still there, but others were completely broken. (And of course some of said broken chapters were the longer ones with more pictures 
) In the end this was probably a good thing, because i had no idea all the animated images in chapter 97 were long gone 
they have all been fixed as well. As for chapter's 90 through the start, ill be taking care of those later, most likely next week. I'm not as worried about those because save for a dozen or so chapters starting from 90 going down, that was before i really started making the pictures a major part of the storytelling experience and more of it was fan art than anything else. I'll get them fixed up as soon as i can, and whoever was reading chapter 100 while i was fixing it up (live reader counter), SORRY!!!!!!!!!! 
(Update 7): im about to rage in my chair. So i came back today to finish fixing the broken pics only to find that the pics that weren't broken when i was fixing them before now ARE... so now i have to start from the top AGAIN and make my way down. this is incredibly frustrating, but i can't just leave the story without the pictures because the pictures server as part of the narrative. So bear with me i guess because i can't continue with the next chapter until this is fixed entirely.
Sucks, man. Absolutely sucks.
Would hosting the pics on a Google Drive be feasible? I’ve had pretty good luck with that for blog images.
I'd honestly expect a full crop of expletives to be ready to harvest right now.
Man, what a absolute pain...
That'd drive me nuts. Thanks for working so hard to fix it though!
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im knee deep in fixing them all through my usual site, but if the problem arises again, i'll definitely look into that
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I usually use Google photos to store images but Fimfiction doesn’t seem to support that.
If you're looking for a stable alternative, I could host your images on a folder on my site. That's where I link to for all my illustrations like this:
http://www.furry.org.au/chakat/Pony/CrimsonBlaze.png
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Nah for the time being im just going to restore them on the usual site. This may suck, but out of the 7 years ive been here on fimfiction this is only the second time something has gone wrong and the first one was not so bad since it was just a domain change. I dunno what the hell happened this time, but the links are all suddenly leading to a site with the picture instead of being direct links, something went awry i just dont know what. thanks for the offer though
Chapter 166 all the way back through 87 are now COMPLETELY fixed. i Will be taking care of the rest later.
Oh god.
I feel so sorry for you - I know I wouldn't like to have to fix them!
Good luck with the rest!
I've had this happen with DA. They just like to move stuff around for some reason, and it changes the image address.