Hello, I imported 80.000 posts from phpBB to Discourse. In the posts there are a lot of images linked from remote website like [img]http://www.domain.tld/image.jpg[/img] which are not there anymore. The post does not show anything there, which causes irritations, as the context breaks in some of these posts as it is not clear that between the one and the next text block there is/was an image. So my question is: Is it possible to get a placeholder image there if the original image is not available anymore? Regards, Roi

Does it show the default broker image icon? I think it should after the posts are baked. I customized mine. See (code included): [image] Third migration, once again for a niche forum (Volkswagen Campers vans) Praise The forum was old and users relied on external image hosting. They used a LOT of images in their forum. 40000 posts on 300000 contained at least 1 image, often way more. I even saw a post containing 150 images (!). Because old images hosting services are now down, the vast majority (maybe… 95%?) of the forum’s images are broken ad vitam (fun fact: even if 5% of the old images remain, they still take 10 GB of disk space after being uploaded to Discourse…), leading to a lot of broken image icons …

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: Does it show the default broker image icon? I think it should after the posts are baked. No, it does not show anything. But I am getting closer. I think it is caused by the [image] BBCode tag. If I edit a post and remove the tag, it looks like this. So I would need to remove all [img] BBCode tags and rebake the posts? [image] Coin-coin le Canapin: I customized mine. See (code included): Third migration, once again for a niche forum (Volkswagen Campers vans) - #8 by Canapin That looks interesting. I think I need that, too. :slight_smile: Thank you!

[image] Roi: So I would need to remove all [img] BBCode tags and rebake the posts? I’m not sure. If you remove an inline BBcode tag then you’ll have the image URL in plain text inside your text, and it won’t use the broken image icon. Maybe you could try removing the BBcode tag, but while inserting an empty line before and after the image URL. Do a backup first!

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: I’m not sure. If you remove an inline BBcode tag then you’ll have the image URL in plain text inside your text, and it won’t use the broken image icon. Yeah. Damn, you might be right. Well, what would I need to change to get the broken image icon - or the remote image (my guess then downloaded) if it still exists?

I’m not sure. I should have encountered this issue too since I’ve imported as well a phpBB forum with [IMG] tags and 95% of broken images, but from what I remember, after baking broken inline images were properly replaced by the broken image icon even when they were inline, but I could be wrong :thinking: I’m afraid I don’t have any out-of-the-box solution for now, but I’m sure there’s a way to figure it out. Do you have by chance a link to a message that would contain a broken inline image? Could you copy-paste the raw text as well?

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: Do you have by chance a link to a message that would contain a broken inline image? Could you copy-paste the raw text as well? Sure, this is an live example: [image] Grill-Shirts von 3Dsupply.de Andere Grillplätze Heißes Gelaber Hier wird sicherlich ungesund gegrillt. Die Grillshirt Saison 2008 der Beef Buddies of Germany. (Leider war es mir spontan nicht moeglich, via Google eine Seite zu finden, muss da nochmal intensiver schauen.) /edit: Scheint wohl alles von... Replies: 6 Author: Martin If you check the first post, there is a big blank space below the last line of text and the signature. In the sourcecode you can see the dead images, e.g.: “raw” from the database: [img]http://www.grillen-darf-nicht-gesund-sein.de/gfx/beef-buddies-2008_initiative.jpg[/img] “cooked” from the database:

Do you have download remote images to local setting enabled? The broken image icon appears only after Discourse tries to download the remote image and fails. If the setting is disabled, it leaves an empty line.

Yes, it is enabled. Always was, also before I imported from phpBB. Is it possible that the phpBB importer does not care for this setting? In my understanding the cooking should take place outside the importer and use the settings. Does recooking all posts do any harm?

I think there’s a setting in /var/discourse/shared/standalone/import/settings.yml where we can set remote image download to true or false, but the posts will be baked after the import whether this option is set or not. I see that your empty lines now show the expected broken image icon: https://forum.gdngs.de/t/grill-shirts-von-3dsupply-de/5515 [image] Instead of rebaking a bunch of posts, a good test is to rebuild a specific post HTML from the post admin options, since it triggers a rebake: [chrome_RLLvokErfg] And then trigger the UpdateHotlinkedRaw job by adding it to the queue: [image] I tried on my test instance using one of your broken images and inside BBcode. When download remote images to local was disabled, the empty line stayed. When it was enabled, the broken image icon appeared instead.

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Roi December 1, 2022, 2:43pm 10

I tried:

rake posts:rebake_match["[img]"]
      767 / 767 (100.0%)
767 posts done!

The post I mentioned above (and it looks like all other) look exactly the same…

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