summary: all photo links I used in my “journal” have changed, apparently. The photos are no longer visible. The links used to be https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/109459718/original.jpg?1610029400 but now they look more like https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/109459711/larg…

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 sta…

interestingly enough, the photo links used in my projects are still there see https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/noctuid-moths-engadin-switzerland-historic/journal I don’t understand. They are all stored in the same location here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/59448143 ???

I can’t find it now, but I remember reading here about change of image hosting server or something. I think your problem might be related to that.

[image] amzamz: I probably need to delete all my current journal contributions? 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.

thank you for all the answers! Will make the change manually then and hope links will be stable in the future.

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a module to replace all URLs with the appropriate new URL rather than expecting all journal authors, some of which are no longer active, to manually edit things.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…

Checking older journal posts, and updating them, is part of the author’s responsibility. The internet is plagued by dead / broken links.

Photo links changed?

Bug Reports

marina_gorbunova August 19, 2021, 7:14pm 4

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/fail-whale-on-certain-links/25629

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Photo references broken Bug Reports	2	463	August 23, 2021
Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages Feature Requests	8	1313	August 13, 2021
Representative pictures not showing on all species pages Bug Reports web	9	1497	September 3, 2021
Photos in my Journal Keep Breaking General question , journal-posts	6	353	February 9, 2024
Photos linked from iNat not showing in project journal Bug Reports	2	430	August 29, 2021

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