Why??? I probably need to delete all my current journal contributions? Without photos they don’t make sense at all! Look here https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/amzamz A shame…
Is this just temporary?
Any hints would help. Thank you,
amz
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This isn’t related to the recent software upgrade (to Rails 5), it’s related to the move to Amazon Open Data. The old photo URLs stopped working when iNat got rid of the duplicates, see here for a bit more info from staff.
There is an open request to fix journal URLs, but there isn’t much that staff can do at this point, see the response here.
It’s definitely a hassle, but I think it’s probably worth manually changing the URLs – just find and replace static.inaturalist.org with inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com.
It seems like a MUCH better option would be for some programmer to write a module to replace all URLs with the appropriate new URL rather than expecting all journal authors, some of which are no longer active, to manually edit things. As is, lots of journal posts are going to be forever broken. The module would simply loop through all journal posts (or other things) and check if each photo reference is valid. If not, it checks if the new version is valid. If the switch is seen as appropriate, the URL is replaced.