On a very popular blog site I visit that uses Discourse for comments .. One-boxes of any/all links to on-line news publications (really the only ones I typically post there) have not worked for a week or so now. The one-boxes failed entirely for several days (no one-box - just a URL) and then one-boxes worked again but any images now only show up in the comment preview box, but once the comment is posted, the image is missing. All we see in the one-box is [Screen Shot 2022-06-26 at 22.45.44] Happens to links to The Guardian, Washington Post and others. Is this the same issues as referred to above? Seems like a generic Discourse issue rather than a local site issue. ETA - I may have to retract the above. Just posted a link from another newspaper and all was well. So perhaps it is something (well, two successive somethings) the newspapers in question both did on their respective websites? Sigh.

I was still seeing this on 2.9.beta6 - then reset to OFF (default) the following setting: Convert remote (hotlinked) images to local images by downloading them; This preserves content even if the images are removed from the remote site in future. Now it seems to have fixed that problem. Counter intuative much? :thinking:

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Fetching images from newspaper websites is failing

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JammyDodger August 16, 2022, 10:02am 8

I believe this has been sorted now:

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Oneboxing large images fails with no visual cue Bug onebox	46	2406	May 4, 2023
Reduced images from posted link Product Support	11	925	December 9, 2019
Discourse not downloading remote images anymore? Product Support	6	1023	July 4, 2022
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Strange ONEBOX issue Bug	12	952	August 11, 2022

Fetching images from newspaper websites is failing

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