The missing images seems to be something with the backend S3 storage of the forum, the images have either gone missing or the permissions have changed.
@ChrisGammell, you will probably want to look into this and check on the forum hosting because this could be a problem if we’re going to have images in posts go missing.
Hey @ChrisGammell, I’m not sure if it’s related or not, but I noticed one of the pics Matt posted on his build log today is missing: Matt’s Build Log. Then in the Building out your Lab discussion, the pic I posted of the storage shelving is missing: Building out your lab. It seems like they were showing for a little while, and then just vanished. I noticed at least with the picture I posted it’s throwing an “Access Denied” error from the web service.
Yes, like @jonthomasson mentioned the picture that Matt posted went missing very quickly, the ones that Jon posted took a few days. I had some images cached, but when I cleared my cache they were gone and I would get “Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)” in the browser console and “Access Denied” from the S3 bucket.
BTW, @algoritaville’s build log starts off mentioning he’s in IT, maybe can trade services there
I took another look at this and it looks like you’re right the actual image is there, but the preview/optimized version is broken. It isn’t showing access denied or forbidden for the preview, it is actually responding with an ‘OK’ 0 byte response:
It would be interesting to see if there is a file in the S3 bucket that is 0 bytes, or if it is missing but the server is responding with OK even though there is no data.
Since we haven’t seen any issues since, I’m going to close this topic. I am guessing there was a blip when the images were uploaded. If people are very concerned, I would recommend downloading the image and trying uploading again. I realize this isn’t an optimal solution, but it seems limited in scope to not worry too much right now. If people see it happen again, please let me know ASAP.