Is anyone else noticing missing user-uploaded images in posts this morning? I’ve seen blue question marks in multiple threads on a couple of different devices, so it’s not localized to one machine or browser.
Yep. I have noticed broken images too. Guessing it is temporary due to a database upgrade or a cache wipe. We’ll see.
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I’ve seen this a few times over the past week or two, but when I click the broken/missing image area, the full-screen version of the image loads, for what that’s worth. Have you tried this? It suggests the image isn’t actually missing but something about the inline display is broken.
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That’s what first made me wonder if this was something on my end. The images are obviously still on the server since they load when clicked so I wanted to check and see if this was a me problem or a global one.
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My precious images!
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oh no not my thread!! 
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I wonder if they’ll ever come back
Definitely a hit to the quality of forum life.
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My pics from that thread are gone too. I clicked to enlarge the pics and it stated “the image could not be loaded”.
Tried on both iPhone and iPad iOS, no dice.
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I picked out a random thread from the screenshot project, and same thing (and they didn’t load for me when I clicked on them). I didn’t save these after I downloaded into the system, so hopefully this is temporary and fixable, hate to think all that work was lost.
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[Fires up the Lesley Signal, points it at a low-flying cloud.]
Hello, @Lesley ! Do you know whether this is a temporary thing or if that image content has gone bye-bye?
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This image (plus the music that goes with it from Robot Holocaust) really should be the Twitch channel’s go-to “technical difficulties” screen when something goes wrong.
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Well, this throws a monkey wrench into the fan art thread, for sure.
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Where’s booboo? 
https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/standard11/uploads/mst3k/optimized/2X/5/5bbb0bdbae95620d6d99d4e60d2252f876873904_2_690x388.jpeg
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I poked around some more as well. Large chunks of the images in the Mighty Fan Art thread are missing, but I can’t discern a pattern. Some images don’t appear inline, but they show up if I click them; others are visible inline, but clicking to enlarge gives the 403 error.
It’s possible they’re truly gone, but my guess is they’re not. I suspect Discourse is similar to WordPress, in that it’s periodically receiving pushed updates from the Discourse mothership, and these updates are sometimes breaking things. I bet this is what caused the previous breakages of notifications and whatnot.
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I’m HOPING they are uploading the pictures we used from screenshots to prepare the Gizmoplex, hence making the pics unavailable for now.
As I said, I’m hoping. I’m trying to be positive.
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