There are several posts in this thread that appear emptry to me, even though there obviousley should be a picture of some sort. Does anyone know why this is and what I can do about it?

 

It means that the picture isn't loading because it doesn't exist at that address anymore, or you don't have permission to view it [eg. hotlinking], or the image host is blocked on your network, etc.

Use the 'quote' button to examine the picture urls in the blank post. Try loading the picture in its own browser window [maybe it just didn't load the first time for some reason]. Use the pic name in the URL to google for it. That doesn't work well with randomised file names like Imgur uses, but maybe you'll get lucky. Other than that: No pic for you.

 

I just checked and all the pictures seem to be from the same website, sphotos and then some stuff, like the picture in the post above mine. I already noticed it was almost always the same posters whose pictures I couldn't see. Is there any reason I can't see pictures from this website? When I load them in their own browser, they work fine, but it's a bit of a hassle to do it every time.

 

Also being hosted on Akamai. I wasn't aware that there was any crossover between Facebook's CDN and Akamai's CDN until now.

ViolentRed, CDNs work well most of the time, but they aren't always the fastest or most robust of services. If the pics load in separate browser tabs, then perhaps your browser is partly at fault here [eg. timing out the pic]. Try viewing the thread in another browser.

Also, you might live in a shitty part of the world or have a shitty ISP.

Another possibility is that the CDN is sending you a pic from a very distant cluster rather than a close one. That'd be caused by you changing your DNS Server settings or just having a bad DNS server.

 

Similar to that, yeah. I doubt they've been removed, seeing as the last one was posted by Castiel 2 hours ago and I'm pretty sure I saw that one minutes after being posted.

This is the one Castiel posted. I copied it directly from the quote from his post. I tried to see if the image would show up if I posted it myself, but it didn't show anything in the preview.

http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/182527_435195049875192_1781628256_n.jpg

EDIT: I live in Italy, so who knows. I recently moved to a different part of town and it is possible I didn't have trouble with these pictures on my old netwerk. I don't really remember, to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if it was somehow connected to my new netwerk, seeing as it has been having some other problems as well.

Ah well, thanks for looking into it guys. I appreciate the help.

 

@Violent, I usually re-upload pics I post to imgur but I got lazy this time around. ^^ Anyway, you could just copy and paste the URL of the image you are unable to view in a remote-uploading feature of an image-host. The image host will retrieve the pic for you can you can see what it is. Like I just did with the pic I posted: http://i.imgur.com/nqlYM.jpg

 

The images work when I open them in a different window, so that's no biggie. They just don't load when posted on a different website. I get a blank post, like someone just pressed the spacebar a couple times. And it's not just DLP. When I hover over the link of a picture on Reddit for example, it won't work either. With Imgur or other hosts, it does show me the image when I do this, but not with this one.

 

I get it with Chrome.

 

Ah, yes, thanks for the split.

And yes, Chrome for me too.

 

Good idea.

The quickest way to do this is to open a "New incognito window" in Chrome and load the thread in there. All extensions are automatically disabled in an incognito window by default.

 

Is there a way to turn off defaultly going to HTTPS:// ? I think it might be that.

 

Go here: https://forums.darklordpotter.net/profile.php?do=editoptions

Set 'Force SSL' to off.

 

Thanks for all the help. After messing around with my extension for a bit, I've figured out it's this extension that's the problem.

It blocks Facebook from tracking me, which apparantly blocks those images as well. Simply disabling the Facebook block for a moment solves the problem, without having to turn off the extension all together.

 

Ah yeah, I was having this problem as well...I was simply resorting to using incognito to view those images. Good to know the solution though.