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[Hambeast]

Any chance these all happen to be images hosted by facebook? Are you using a non-chrome browser or a vpn? I've noticed this issue and assumed facebook shittiness but maybe it requires further investigation.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Firefox browser, no VPN, but a typical array of uBlock, Ghostery, adblock. Just checked source of the last one I couldn't see and, sure enough, it's hosted on fbcdn.net, so it most likely is just Ghostery's tracker blocker doing what it's designed to do.

[Hambeast]

From a bit of testing it looks like everyone should be experiencing this issue no matter what their setup is.

Can a few people visit this thread and tell me if an images loads in the first post?:
https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?topic=3081.0

It looks like links to facebook images expire after a set amount of time. That post is trying to load the image below which no longer works:
https://scontent-otp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/482327897_1071511105020420_1987045167673751904_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=THpvpOfOOTQQ7kNvgEBk89q&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-otp1-1.xx&_nc_gid=AWVfpNIWVU9MnvljVeBox1c&oh=00_AYEy45yHw94zbEe4KxFkbEWCWHrdwdoFRcbHYpO5bw8ztQ&oe=67D5F1C5


If the above example is broken for everybody it means it's a facebook issue and I'll need to find a way to cache images before they expire.

Unrelated to this issue, but you probably don't need to be running ublock origin, ghostery, and adblock all at the same time. Ublock by itself will handle all your adblocking/privacy/tracking needs. Having them all installed can cause conflicts which can reduce privacy and slow things down.

[Carnage]

No image in the first post for me.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Unrelated to this issue, but you probably don't need to be running ublock origin, ghostery, and adblock all at the same time. Ublock by itself will handle all your adblocking/privacy/tracking needs. Having them all installed can cause conflicts which can reduce privacy and slow things down.

Good point. I installed uBlock and Ghostery on simple recommendation when I last updated my laptop a few years ago and have only recently begun to understand that uBlock does pretty much everything, making the others redundant. Should have occurred to me at that point that it could be worse than redundant to run them in parallel! Cheers man 

[Emphyrio]

No image in the first post for me.

Same

[ochoill]

No image for me either

[astfgyl]

Bit late to the party but I can see the image

Ah no I'm only pulling your leg..

Crucifixion for me

Can't see it

[Hambeast]

I've looked into this further and I'm not sure there's any simple workaround. Facebook constantly changes image URLs so a link posted now won't work in the future. They're also blocking the MW server from downloading the images and hosting them myself, and using any 3rd party proxy would be an endless game of cat and mouse since facebook are actively preventing their content from being scraped.

It seems like the only automated solution would be to have the forum intercept any posts containing facebook images and forcing the poster's browser to fetch the image and post it as data, but I feel like that's a breach of trust so I'm not willing to do it.

[ochoill]

There has to be something wrong here but I also noticed the site running a lot slower at the minute on mobile at least.  Any connection?

[Hambeast]

Jesus it's over 3000 now. I'll look into this

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Maybe Draiman tweeted about us 

[Hambeast]

It's mainly coming from South America. Not sure if there's any reason for that. I'll look into setting up anti bot measures.

[Hambeast]

The site is now runnning through Cloudflare. Guest numbers are slowly dropping so it seems to be working. You may see an occasional captcha. Let me know if it becomes problematic. I hope to dial it back once I'm able to figure out why it's happening.

[ochoill]

Nice one.  Yeah it seems to be running the finest here now too, mad that it was all bots.  Often seen a ton of guests when I logged in but never a couple thousand, thought it was the world's slowest ddos there for a minute lol

Maybe Draiman tweeted about us