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 
codinghorror
(Jeff Atwood)
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