# Some linked images not displaying/show as broken

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**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-linked-images-not-displaying-show-as-broken/142177 "2020-02-20T20:38:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-linked-images-not-displaying-show-as-broken/142177/1 "2020-02-20T20:38:01Z")

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I’m migrating a load of content, about 15k worth of news stories to Discourse via the API and these topics have links to images in. The images have just been uploaded to blob storage and are fully accessible publicly.

Most topics have the images shown correctly and get hotlink downloaded and uploaded into Discourse as you’d expect. Some though either do not get past the point of showing as links in the topic, or end up getting shown as broken images for some reason.

i.e.

Just staying as links:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/3/c31b0980056e5b3ef4466b3884ada41d0834f345.png)

Getting broken:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0a700d489713c99810d46f3c51be7dd761441f71.png)

In the broken case, the topic shows as this when editing:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/3/1383684f65db57382239958e8e48124e4d9de0b0.jpeg)

Config is:  
Virgin Discourse install just for testing the migration  
S3 storage of images

I’ve had no problems just creating posts as a user and uploading issues, it seems to only occur when I migrating posts via the API, i.e. in bulk and in quick succession (am using the `skip_validations=true` parameter). So far I’ve only migrated a maximum of 1,000 topics before clearing down and starting again.

Any ideas for what might be causing this? Or any tips on how to diagnose? All the Hotlink Sidekiq jobs seem to schedule and run as you’d expect.

`rake posts:rebake` doesn’t help

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