Yes, I do think a bunch of my pictures are linked from Discord...

Discord hotlinks will break later this year - should we archive? by Tomash on 2023-10-07 01:57:47 UTC Reply

It's been widely reported that Discord has started doing some stuff to stop using folks from using Discord as a filehost for images. Specifically, you'll always be able to go look at an image in Discord, but if you open it up in your browser, that link will only work for 24 hours. This will apply retroactively.

There are (from a preliminary and very coarse query on the database) various Board posts that point at Discord images. I could go through and grab all said images (while I still can) and put together some sort of big list with thi link, which post I got it out of, and the image, which we could put ... somewhere.

Is this something we should do?

If so, any theories about where somewhere is? (A subdirectory of the Board is an option, or stashing them somewhere in case somebody asks)

Initial archival pass done by Tomash on 2023-10-14 04:03:40 UTC Reply

There were 130 files (all but one of them images) spread over 90 posts, which isn't nearly as many as I thought there'd be. I haven't made them publicly available, but I did upload them to plotprotectors.org, along with a spreadsheet of post ID, subject, author, body, the URL that was detected, and the filename I used for it.

This means the data itself is safe and we can figure out what to do with it later.

Also, Linstar, since you mentioned it, uploading images to the Board is something it might make sense to do eventually, but I've got much chaos (yay moving, and job, and so on) so who knows when/if it'll actually get done.

Also, in fun facts, there's a two way tie for most Discord links in a post at 6. This 2018 post linking some interesting Tolkien illustrations, and Nesh showing off character heights

Well, I for sure have my agent height charts on Imgur. by Neshomeh on 2023-10-14 21:58:47 UTC Reply

In this album, though I'm not sure if the link will work. Let me know if not.

Looking at it, those images were split over two posts, though. {= )

~Neshomeh

Link doesn't work for me. (nm) by Linstar on 2023-10-15 13:25:05 UTC Reply

Phooey. Okay, here's individual links. by Neshomeh on 2023-10-15 22:37:52 UTC Reply
~Neshomeh

If there's anything of mine, I can rehost it myself. by Neshomeh on 2023-10-09 20:19:11 UTC Edited Reply

Either on Imgur or my site.

I'm not sure if it would be within Imgur's TOS to use it for collective PPC hosting, though.

I'm also not sure about doing so if permission from the original poster can't be obtained. Personally I'm all for preserving things for posterity*, but I anticipate someone raising this point eventually, and it's worth considering.

* To which end, if there's a use for any image on the wiki, it could be put there--but only in a clear case of it being fair use and not violating Fandom's TOS, of course.

~Neshomeh

(Edit: Rehost, not repost, though I get where auto-suggest was coming from.)
Yes. by Linstar on 2023-10-09 14:11:44 UTC Reply

I would definitely be on board with that. Especially if I could just upload pictures to the Board!

--Ls
Yes, I do think a bunch of my pictures are linked from Discord... by Lily Winterwood on 2023-10-07 03:19:06 UTC Reply

I think archiving them in a subdirectory on the Board would be nice if there's the space for it. I've also been using Squidge Images and Tumblr as hosting sites, but I would prefer to keep the pictures not that easily viewable by internet randos...