Reproduction Steps
- Go to an old topic
- Observe the picture appearing
Expected Behavior
It should appear normal pictures
Actual Behavior
The Image doesn’t appear
Issue Type: Image
Impact: Low
AI-generated summary
The discussion revolves around the issue of Unable to see old pictures. VSCPlays reported that images in old topics are not appearing, posting a reproduction of the issue. However, Arkshine and VSCPlays later realized that the issue is likely due to the external image no longer existing. It was discovered by Canapin that the download_remote_images_to_local setting on meta was set to false for a couple of months, which could be the cause of the problem.
I don’t see any issues with old topics on my side.
If you mean this particular topic: I have access to bulk edit, it looks like the external image doesn’t exist anymore.
That image is a broken Dropbox link dating back eight years.
So why wasn’t it downloaded to local ? 
you used the wrong topic, you showed this one: Clicking on bottom of timeline causes formatting errors, I mean this one: I have access to bulk edit, also @Arkshine is correct, it looks like the external image doesn’t work anymore
It stated to reproduce, go to an old topic.
The download_remote_images_to_local setting on meta was set to false for a couple of months at this time 