# Photo references broken **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [August 23, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-references-broken/25787 "2021-08-23T22:19:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dan\_johnson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dan_johnson/32/1449_2.png) [@dan\_johnson](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dan_johnson)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-references-broken/25787/1 "2021-08-23T22:19:53Z")
Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. **Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): website **App version number** , if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): **Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : chrome **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: **Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)): **Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Step 1: Go to this URL: [https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/dan\_johnson/16497-how-to-photograph-crayfish-for-inaturalist](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/dan_johnson/16497-how-to-photograph-crayfish-for-inaturalist). This is a how-to guide suggesting best ways to photograph crayfish for identification purposes. It references numerous photos throughout iNaturalist. The photo URLs, however, no longer work. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/4/6/46b18451ca4b9a685f581d413fa8905e7b4366ee.png) It seems the format of the URLs has changed. I suggest that such changes are very dangerous and will break a lot of stuff. Is there any reason why the old URLs cannot be made functional again? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-references-broken/25787/2 "2021-08-23T22:25:10Z")
from another thread: > [@Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/fix-broken-photo-links-in-comments-and-journal-pages/25403/1): > > 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](https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/123) > has become > [https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/123](https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/123) > [@Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/fix-broken-photo-links-in-comments-and-journal-pages/25403/8): > > Going forward, I’d recommend linking to an observation or photo page URL rather than embedding an image URL. Page URLs are also not guaranteed to work 100% of the time (for example we have had a partner change domains leading to lots of broken links that required manual fixing), but they will be more stable than photos, whose URLs will change depending on the license of the photo. > [@Fix broken photo links in comments and journal pages](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/fix-broken-photo-links-in-comments-and-journal-pages/25403/8): > > While we try to maintain consistent URLs as much as possible, keeping things in the same place, forever accessible by the same URLs is not something we promise. If you embed URLs of photos, there is no guarantee they will always resolve, if the photos is hosted by iNaturalist or otherwise. As recommended above, I’d link to a details page instead of embedding an image. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-references-broken/25787/3 "2021-08-23T22:38:39Z")
Same issue as [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-links-changed/25705](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-links-changed/25705) so I’m going to close this one. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-references-broken/25787/4 "2021-08-23T22:39:13Z")