The discussion revolves around fixing broken images on a Discourse forum after upgrading to the current beta version. justin_gordon shares a post from the Meta Discourse forum suggesting three rake tasks to resolve the issue: rake posts:rebake, rake posts:missing_uploads, and rake uploads:recover_from_tombstone. However, codinghorror is skeptical about the effectiveness of these steps, citing their own experience with permanently broken images.
Benjamin_D points to a Meta Discourse topic that may help with finding missing images. gerhard suggests that the only way to recover the images might be through an old backup file.
stance455 tries the suggested methods but is still unable to recover the images. They share example posts with broken images and one old post where the images work, seeking further assistance.
Unfortunately our track record here has not been good.. I have some permanently broken images in my own hosted Discourse as well, which is also circa 2014 or so
Not sure if @sam or @gerhard has any advice, but I would not get your hopes up. Sorry