It has been pointed out that i have quite a few broken links in comments and journal page. All appear to be due to the move of the photos from the static pages to amazon: so - https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/123 has become https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/123 Is it …

They seem to map directly so a server side redirect would be very easy to implement (but they don’t implement easy feature requests unless lots of people vote for them). [Another option would be to remap the DNS for static.inaturalist.org but I’m not sure what Amazon would support there. I tried ch…

Great idea, this issue has been pretty irritating…

This seems also to be affecting the species pages: so https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/580375-Askidiosperma-andreaeanum has two pictures - both of which are not displaying: https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/21055419/small.jpg?1531140473 https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/21055419 I will add…

I just noticed that too - some species’ images are broken (still pointing to static.) while most are working - so that would really be a bug report? Frustrating.

[image] reiner: so that would really be a bug report? the bug report for taxon photos already exists: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/representative-pictures-not-showing-on-all-species-pages/25401 . it doesn’t include the item about journal pages though. so i’m not sure how the folks who need…

add to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/representative-pictures-not-showing-on-all-species-pages/25401 guess we can close this then?

Is it not possible to redirect the old (broken) links to the new - instead of generating a 403 ERROR (## The request could not be satisfied.) and displaying the “alt” text It is unfortunately not possible. Some images have been moved, others have not, and there isn’t any way to apply logic to re…

Oh well, I spent a long time making my journal posts (like this one ) look nice but probably won’t write make any more journal entries as nobody reads them anyway. Making journal entries with links to observations instead seems like the primitive early days (literally) of HTML before images could be …

Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Representative pictures not showing on all species pages Bug Reports web	9	1493	September 3, 2021
Photo references broken Bug Reports	2	454	August 23, 2021
Photo links changed? Bug Reports	8	672	August 24, 2021
Thumbnail image on taxon page broken/all black Bug Reports	6	342	June 29, 2023
Embedded images in journal posts broken only for some users Bug Reports	12	256	November 14, 2024

Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages

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