For the past week or so (after the most recent upgrade?), I’ve noticed that some users’ uploaded images are broken. It is clear that they are pasting an image, as the code in their post looks like that, but the files are missing. For example, this post ( raw version has three broken images in it. I …

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Old image uploads become broken images

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michaeld (Michael - Communiteq) February 24, 2017, 9:33am 5

We have seen this happen a few times, immediately after an update.
Since we found this out, we have been disabling Sidekiq during the upgrade and this issue never happened again.

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Old image uploads become broken images

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