The mighty systembot no longer replaces images, so they act as links

subscript_error

Continuing the discussion from New user indicators and post counts:

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I pasted in this awesome image by hotlinking to it. In the past, the system user would come along and edit my post to locally store the image. (This shows up as an actual edit, which is probably a bug in itself, but that's another matter.)

Doesn't seem to be doing that any more. And it treats these images as links, so they even have ~~spyware~~ click tracking:

YOU'LL HAVE TO IMAGINE THERE IS A NICE SCREENSHOT OF AN IMAGE WITH A CLICK COUNT HERE. UPLOADING IMAGES IS ALSO APPARENTLY BROKEN. WHY AM I SHOUTING

Three for one on image bugs today I see. Good thing I got a cart on my way in.

ChaosTheEternal

@subscript_error said:

YOU'LL HAVE TO IMAGINE THERE IS A NICE SCREENSHOT OF AN IMAGE WITH A CLICK COUNT HERE. UPLOADING IMAGES IS ALSO APPARENTLY BROKEN. WHY AM I SHOUTING

Weird, I have no problem uploading images, at least via pasting from the clipboard.

Also, here you go:

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I'm sure that part's IE-specific (I've had trouble on both IE9 and IE11). Thanks for the assist.

ChaosTheEternal

Aha, yes, it looks like it doesn't work with IE10 either (and to be sure, I checked IE11 on Win 8.1 and doesn't work there as well) so yeah, likely an IE thing in general.

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System user will edit your post and download the image locally, it is just that the queue is massively backlogged by the rogue bot.

DrakeSmith

@codinghorror said:

the queue is massively backlogged by the ~~rogue bot~~ brillant Paula Bean.

FTFY

PJH

http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/metabug-runaway-bot/793?u=pjh

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