A Message to Thread Editors

[captain]

I’ve seen the question asked and answered a few times in-thread where it quickly gets buried by followup posts, so wanted to put this out in the open by itself.

When editing old posts you’ll see some images are either appearing as unembedded links or else as broken embeds. The broken embeds are down to a 429 error, i.e. imgur has received too many requests from our site. shane has advised that, when possible, we upload images here, to Discourse, since imgur embeds have a shelf life even when there isn’t the 429 error.

When editing an old post, open the link that was transferred here, copy the image to clipboard (or save to your computer, if you want) and paste/upload again so Discourse hosts the image.

straight from rejj

@rejj

I think the issue is that the forum software is trying to generate a preview for you, and imgur are blocking the server with HTTP 429 (too many requests). The software is then replacing the img tag because it thinks it is a broken image.

It does this even if you try to use html <img> tags.

You can copy the img to your clipboard and then paste it back, which will upload it here. I haven’t worked out a better workaround yet

[captain]

And concerning tables, long posts, and the 422 error:

@rejj

I got my table to save by copying the html that had been saved in to the post, pasting it in to https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables and then pasting back the markdown version of the table

Although I still get the 422 error when I do this with the film poll results tables.