Tag a user to update their broken image links

[EarnOnVictor]

Forum itself needs to enable image uploading feature so that we will not depend on any third party before we can upload image and also that there will not be any issue like thus that we should fix anything.

What about this legendary member Rath_ for his helpful posts on lightning network.

Tagging alone will not solve this problem and there are people who would be tagged but will not still respond to it as it might not be their priority for months even years as our focuses and commitments vary daily.

There are some that have a very good topic with images that would be absent for only God knows when as well, which is why I believe that the error shouldn't have happened in the first place instead of calling the attention of those who had forgotten they've even written a post to come back to it.

Personally, I will try the fixing advice of OP in my spare time, but my hope is for this not to persist as other image hosting sites are being threatened too. Some are now off and on with their images here, who knows what will happen soon again? Will users continue to be fixing and fixing?

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[joker_josue]

I have not been looking forward to fixing this issue.
I likely have 1000posts with broken links..

I suppose I could start

You should have already taken care of that! 

Doing it manually takes a while, but with the script in a few minutes or a little more (it really depends on the number of images), you can make this update quickly and with little work.

[HCP]

Firstly, amazing script... fantastic work. Made the image transfer and post modifications a mostly painless process. 

Although, I did have a couple of issues with the script... it was "hard crashing" on one post that had some "interesting" text in it. It didn't like all the URL text at all


So, I simply made a backup of the original post text, then removed all the url text, restarted the script and, once it finished, edited back in the original text.


Additionally, there were 2 or 3 other posts that ended up returning a "(403) Forbidden" when the script attempted the POST to edit the image URLs:


The posts in question definitely weren't in locked threads etc, as I was able to manually upload the images to TalkImg and then manually edit the image URLs into the posts, so I'm not sure what happened with those.

Thankfully it was only 2 or 3 posts out of my 10000+ posts over 514 pages that the script had to check and only about 3 or 4 pics in total, so it wasn't really a big deal.


Again, great work on the script... and a huge shout out to joker_josue for setting up TalkImg.

[sokani]

Forum itself needs to enable image uploading feature so that we will not depend on any third party before we can upload image and also that there will not be any issue like thus that we should fix anything.

Nice suggestion, but I don't think Theymos is going to listen to the request because this was asked when the imgur broken image issue came up. BTW, joker's talkimg is doing a fine job the forum.

Though from his explanation it seems very simple to fix broken images and one most not go one by follow to update their broken images due to his explanations. My concern is about those accounts that are ban, which already has some post with broken images is there a way to fix their broken images.

If you find the topic very interesting and you've the time, you can repost it with the broken links fixed and cite the user as the original author. Someone did that recently for a topic that the user is no more active on the forum, and it's a good way to keep those topics alive.

[Hamza2424]

Well, I partially agree with your suggestion of fixing it "manually". I wish to have it fixed automatically. Although we have been waiting for theymos to take some action, it looks like 'Do Nothing' has been selected, which I also agree with.

Tagging someone and requesting them to fix the broken images is a good idea, but it would be better if we tag and share the link to the particular post/topic that has broken images.

Hmm, Really good idea, I got your Tag alert last day, I was purely using Imgur for a long time and their sudden policy change impacted my posts for some of the Important topics I've updated the Images for the rest I'm not sure is it good to update them or not. Still I'll try the script in free time hehe currently going too busy these days.

For example, I want @Hamza2424 to fix the broken images in the posts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg61568821#msg61568821.

That's why I love TryNinja's "Single Topic" version.

This is the simplest and fastest solution to broken images. It will not update any of your old posts that you don't want to be touched. It will stay on a single page, and only the posts on that particular page will be updated.

Hmm, I've gone through this topic and found it helping but never tried haha, I'll manually update the posts from which I'll get tagged. Becasue almost most of the topics are still active and have shown some good responses in the past I've updated the Links.

[Doan9269]

Fixing the image errors have been provided and the procedures are there, it's now left for someone to make a challenge to follow the procedures and fix them up or not, i believe a number had already done that, but some don't mind or care because their profile contains alot of these broken images and they think they don't have the time to create in fixing the images or feels it's unnecessary, the forum could also have it's own reasons for not allowing image upload, but since the solution to fix them are available, it's left to us to make decision on what next to do.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Forum itself needs to enable image uploading feature so that we will not depend on any third party before we can upload image and also that there will not be any issue like thus that we should fix anything.

What about this legendary member Rath_ for his helpful posts on lightning network.

Yes, this is actually a valid point, and I agree. I sometimes wonder why we don't have the feature to upload images directly to the forum apart from using third party site. There are some members who might create very quality and educational topics and add some pictures. If, by coincidence, the image hosting site has issues and the member who posted those pictures is no longer an active member of the forum, that means the image is going to be left unfixed, and this is the reason why the forum is supposed to have its own image upload features.
I have come across some broken images, but I can't actually remember the user who had them. If I find any, I will tag them.

[Mate2237]

_goes through your entire post history, finds Imgur links, uploads the images to TalkImg, and edits your posts with the new links

Refixing the broken image is a good idea if everybody understand what you are saying. As it is really I didn't get you and if I am to upload my image again to talkImg  then my question is where is the image? I don't have the image in my phone and I can only see the image Link in the post without the image so how do upload again. Please if it can be upload through the link only without the image then please can you show us the steps to do that because I don't have the images in my device.

I will prefer a pictorial image step by step guide to get it done so that nobody will say I don't understand. When I tried the process, I came to discover that I don't have the images in my device, I have deleted them so I can't do anything about so I have to leave it. So if you can show the process with image guide I will be very appreciated.

[Pmalek]

Forum itself needs to enable image uploading feature so that we will not depend on any third party before we can upload image and also that there will not be any issue like thus that we should fix anything.

But it doesn't have that feature and probably never will. Because of that other (3rd-party) solutions are required.

Tagging someone and requesting them to fix the broken images is a good idea, but it would be better if we tag and share the link to the particular post/topic that has broken images.

Why do one today, two tomorrow, and three next week if someone asks you, when you can automatically fix everything at once? It requires almost no work at all to get it done.

My concern is about those accounts that are ban, which already has some post with broken images is there a way to fix their broken images.

There is nothing we can do about banned and inactive accounts now. What everyone can do is fix their own image links.

How about the mobile users is there any chance to enable developer tools?

I really don't know. Try googling the issue and see what comes up.

My plan is to find all my posts with broken images instead of using the script to automate everything I'd like to manually reupload them.

I had hundreds of broken images. There is no way I would have spends days going through my posts and fixing those manually. I doubt many people would want to do that.

Btw, not everyone is using my bot or another tool that notifies you when you're tagged.

I know. But if we count your bot, LoyceV bot, and the fact that this thread is in Meta, which is a sub-board many people visit from time to time, it's a good start.

[joker_josue]

Refixing the broken image is a good idea if everybody understand what you are saying. As it is really I didn't get you and if I am to upload my image again to talkImg  then my question is where is the image? I don't have the image in my phone and I can only see the image Link in the post without the image so how do upload again. Please if it can be upload through the link only without the image then please can you show us the steps to do that because I don't have the images in my device.

I will prefer a pictorial image step by step guide to get it done so that nobody will say I don't understand. When I tried the process, I came to discover that I don't have the images in my device, I have deleted them so I can't do anything about so I have to leave it. So if you can show the process with image guide I will be very appreciated.

You no longer have the images you uploaded, right?
Then you can use the TryNinja script, on a computer where everything is done automatically without any intervention on your part.

If you want to do everything manually, you can download the images and upload them back to TalkImg, or drag the image link to TalkImg, and it will upload it.

[Woodie]

Actually thought this script only edits a post that has the Developer Tools window open, not until I realized it goes through all posts made by a user nice nitty tool,  thanks @Pmalek for the easy-to-use guide, thanks @joker_josue for the API key & image hosting service, and finally thanks TryNinja for the script, the forum can look colorful once more without the "bitcointalk.org image proxy invalid image" message  

Using @Pmalek message template..

Code:

@Hhampuz
@Royse777
@Igebotz
@buwaytress
@cryptofrka
@Trofo

Check below for more information and how to use the script.

[Script] Imgur to TalkImg - automatically fix your broken images
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5452662.0

Tag a user to update their broken image links
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5474066.0

[Rath_]

What about this legendary member Rath_ for his helpful posts on lightning network.

The user was last active four months ago and posted last almost 8 months ago, a tag will not draw their attention.

Or will it? I will update my all of my Lightning Network threads soon. Thanks for tagging me.

[buwaytress]

Thank you for the tag. I don't otherwise peek in Meta and wouldn't have known. I'll fix this tomorrow, good sizzle.

[Zoomic]

]Tag a user to update their broken image links

I read this thread title literally and understood it to be negative tag a user to update their broken image links. I was just wondering whether the problem at hand is worth a neg tag. But after reading the full body of the post, my curiosity was quenched.
You would have used the word "mention" instead of tag. Like mention a user to update their broken image links

[1miau]

Good idea!

Would like to mention @1miau - while I know you've already updated most of the threads, I stumbled across a thread that couldn't be more appropriate at this point in time.
I am referring to the "So wählt ihr die passende Gebühr für Bitcoin-Transaktionen" thread, which is about determining the right transaction fees considering the mempool.

I will keep this thread in mind and will gradually tag people when I come across their helpful threads with broken image links.

Hey 

I've updated all of my important topics recently, so looks like I've forgotten to edit one of it.
Topic contains all re-uploaded pictures on TalkImg now. 
"So wählt ihr die passende Gebühr für Bitcoin-Transaktionen"

In case anyone will come over more important pictures not being displayed correctly in my topics, please let me know.

[joker_josue]

Although there has already been a lot of talk and requests to change the images, in several topics, it seems that this has given new impetus to the update.

All together, let's make the forum a more enjoyable place to read. 

[Pmalek]

Actually thought this script only edits a post that has the Developer Tools window open, not until I realized it goes through all posts made by a user

There are different codes for both of those options. If you read TryNinja's thread, you will find the main code that corrects all broken links. But there is also one that works for specific threads/posts made by a user, and a correction code for mistakes that occurred with older versions of the code.

I read this thread title literally and understood it to be negative tag a user to update their broken image links
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You would have used the word "mention" instead of tag. Like mention a user to update their broken image links

Yeah, I see how it can create confusion. But I think I will stick with calling it 'tagging' a user. I have heard of 'tag' in the context I used it many times on the forum. And we use a similar style of communication at work to get the attention of specific work colleagues. 

[Pmalek]

@Ratimov
I can see that you have a lot of broken images, but some of the topics I checked don't have images from Imgur. The domain is i.ibb.co/. That's ImgBB, is it not?
If those images are still available on that host, TryNinja script can surely upload those links to TalkImg.

[SamReomo]

It's a great thread which can be very helpful for the all members of the forum and especially for the OP's who have created their posts and added that imgur embedded images which doesn't work anymore.

I have been thinking about this problem for sometime and I believe it needs to be tackled down. A great initiative by @Pmalek and I must tag and mention @Hhampuz so he can fix the broken images in his threads. Most of the old threads of @Hhampuz has broken images which need to be fixed and I believe after seeing this post he'll fix his threads.

[Pmalek]

A few users updated their broken Imgur image links in the last weeks. Let's see if we can continue down this road and get some more people to do it with a simple copy/paste of a piece of code with very little manual intervention. Tag someone if you have noticed that they have broken images and tell them it's easy to fix.