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[image] Jay Pfaffman: Try adding imgur to disabled image download domains. That will keep it from downloading the images. Hi Jay, I have disabled downloading all hotlinked images, because my forum has tons of them and I don’t want to deal with all the storage space. It still seems to me that Discourse shouldn’t fail to generate tags just because the link throws a 429 error. It’s treating it as if it were a 404 link, whereas a 429 by definition means that it’s a working link. If the link ends in .jpg or .png or whatever and it’s not a 404 then it should wrap it in tags and be done with it. It would even show up correctly in the post preview that way.

[image] rahim123: , I have disabled downloading all hotlinked images, Then it shouldn’t be trying to access them, i would think. What settings did you change?

Just download remote images to local is disabled.

Had it always been set? What if you rebuild html on the posts that have the imgur images? Oh! And it’s discourse that’s getting the error and not your local browser?

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Had it always been set? Yep. [image] Jay Pfaffman: What if you rebuild html on the posts that have the imgur images? Oh! And it’s discourse that’s getting the error and not your local browser? It happens as early as in the post editor, when pasting an Imgur link it tries to create a Onebox in the post preview but fails with a oneboxed 429 error that Discourse injects into the post preview. As I understand it, my Discourse server first tries to validate the naked image URL and hits Imgur, which in turn eventually rejected my server’s domain / IP because of many requests. Then Discourse fails to wrap the URL in tags because it couldn’t validate the image, and it just leaves the naked URL in the post. As of now the problem seems to have resolved on my server, i.e. Imgur has removed the rate limit, for now. I’m sure it won’t be the last time though, so this issue remains.

[image] rahim123: Then Discourse fails to wrap the URL in tags because it couldn’t validate the image Ah! I see. Then I think you need a plugin, or maybe a theme component that will handle those images without sending the request.

hello, I’m using google translate to understand the conversation, but it wasn’t clear to me (maybe it’s a translation without literal meaning) How did you solve the problem?

There is no solution yet. Imgur blocks Discourse from displaying the image preview, and Discourse does not properly handle that error and fails to create the proper HTML to display the image. As a workaround: [image] rahim123: ![](https://i.imgur.com/6IXPzY7.png) [image] BBcode also works: [img]https://i.imgur.com/6IXPzY7.png[/img] [image]

What language is your native language so I can translate that part of the conversation?

[image] rahim123: Discourse does not properly handle that error and fails to create the proper HTML to display the image. i’m not clear why you are implying Discourse is responsible for handling an error because Imgur is blocking images. this is an Imgur thing, not a discourse functional weakness or bug. it sounds like you may need a plug-in built to handle this if you need to have imgur photos.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) May 3, 2023, 8:06am 24

Ah! I see. Then I think you need a plugin, or maybe a theme component that will handle those images without sending the request.

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