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Calm Wind


We writers do not speak. We do not hear. We have no songs. We have no pictures. We only have scripture. From words we bring images. From words we bring emotion. From words we bring life.

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Dec
23rd
2019

Oh god not again (Pictures Updated 12/23/2019) (See Update 8 at the bottom) · 11:47pm Dec 23rd, 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?

:raritydespair:


(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.:twilightangry2:

(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 :applejackconfused:) In the end this was probably a good thing, because i had no idea all the animated images in chapter 97 were long gone :twilightoops: 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!!!!!!!!!! :raritycry::raritycry::raritycry:

(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. :twilightangry2:

(Update 8): Chapter's 87 back through 27 have had any missing pictures restored and anything else archived just in case. Going back that far mostly leads to fan art instead of art by Fox and i made sure all pieces were archived so those remain safe as well. There were 2-3 pics i could not recover unfortunately, but i think those were broken before this incident due to them being from a time i stupidly linked directly to the artists' page instead of creating my own upload links, the artists of said missing pieces had deactivated their accounts and the picture vanished with it. So only arc 1 left to go and most of them coming back this far have been fine. Still going to do a full sweep next chance i get. I checked 166-130 again before continuing to make sure everything was still up, but have to check 129-87 again at some point just in case. it looks like im close to fixing this up. I HAVE been working on chapter 167 btw, this has taken up some time, but ive been making sure to get cracking on that too. Once i finish fixing everything in PTH i will check all my other stories and then see how bad the damage is to the blogs. my main page and info blogs will be attended to first, but i dont know what im going to do about the art blogs if they are really messed up, that could take weeks to fix :raritydespair:

Comments ( 4 )

Damn. Sorry to hear it borked the pictures.

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Wait a tick... there’s a new chapter?!?!? :raritydespair:

*gets to reading*

I keep seeing blogs on this topic from you.

You have the absolute worst luck with image hosts/links, don't you? :raritydespair:

There is a lot of things that need fixing in this life

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I've just been reposting the original blog to make sure people are updated since this is effecting my writing process too.

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