Marketplace images: what is the situation? Not seeing information in subfolder...

I made a thread in the Marketplace subfolder two days ago to consolidate information about all the ebooks and paperbacks I’ve made threads about in the past five years. For most of those threads, image links are broken (partly because I didn’t become a paid member of the image-hosting site I used to use when it was free, and partly because some of my images had been hosted on an old Google Site that had to be migrated when they changed from http to https.)

At any rate, when I made the new thread, images did show up. When I came back the next day (yesterday), they were gone. But I was able to put them back up in new posts.

Today they are all gone.

So of course I read the three pinned threads. No information there. I looked through this subfolder and don’t see a thread discussing this. Images ARE still visible in other people’s threads, so it must not be the case that images are now not allowed in the subfolder.

Here’s one of the image links that did work on the 11th but did not work on the 12th:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/VTTK0ON6V7-gJSBbeQP6z7YCUX7VKrjtfVGXW2dT19Y0sy8hUsQIs01IFbMcO1Ht6v0sOHLD=w371

(Of course I put that inside the usual

tags.)

Here’s an image link that worked both the 11th and 12th, but that’s gone now:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h481jUaIA1Qv6G-OiQ9K8D4WzNi49FoABQ3rNvfFxcbhntNnxvQamVvN4AkF0CwW05S_9esEWRRTszh71aYRXyfePukKhtSc-d4VkVNjUAt4-1cfuaEy=w371

…Back when avatar-images were enabled, there was an issue some had with commas in the file name (which resulted in the image not working). That doesn’t seem to be the problem here—no commas in those URLs.

Does anyone have any information on this?

For what it’s worth, clicking on the links created from the two image-addresses I put in the OP generates this error message:

I didn’t put them ‘raw’ in the Marketplace, thread, of course—I put them inside IMG tags. So I’m not sure if this is relevant or not.

Apologies–here’s the thread in the Marketplace:

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=865408

It looks like the error is on google’s side of things. Are these images hosted by google or is there some other layer of image linking involved?

ETA: Nothing has been intentionally changed in the Marketplace. You should still be able to post images.

Okay, thanks, engineer_comp_geek. At least I know where I am—probably having to pay for an image-hosting site.

Not sure about the question of ‘hosted by google’ or other layers intervening; the site I had the images on is: https://www.duerpress.com/

…which is what used to be called a Google Site, and may still be (they transitioned all the old Google Sites from http to https recently, and I’m not sure if they changed the branding).

If you come back into this thread and have the time to answer: do you know why some of the images I posted did show up when I posted them (over the last two days), and then disappeared? I’m just wondering if that changes your understanding of whether the problem is ‘hosted by Google’ versus not hosted by them.

If I try to load directly from the links in your thread (bypassing the SDMB completely), google returns the same 403 error that you are getting.

The links are loading the images from googleusercontent.com, not directly from www.duerpress.com. However, when I go to www.duerpress.com and copy an image location from one of the images, it gives me a googleusercontent link.

Maybe they are trying to avoid hotlinking and only give out temporary URLs for images?

If that is the case then you’ll probably have to find an image hosting site somewhere that allows hotlinking.

Many thanks (again). I spent a while searching for answers and found this same situation was a big problem for people trying to do things such as put an image on an eBay sales page, an image that they had hosted (they thought) on their Google Site.

It wasn’t working, and a variety of possible remedies were floated—but all that discussion dates from 2010 or so. I’m not seeing the same type of problem posted recently (but of course my search terms might need refining).

I may continue to look on the Google Sites forums for a while, but as you suggest, the only answer may be a membership on an image hosting site.

There are sites like Imgur that are free and don’t require a membership (or even registration) to host an image. It’s used extensively (by Reddit users, for example) for this exact purpose.

I’d offer to “host” your images at my little hobbyist site, but I’ve never read the fine-print of my user agreement. Does anyone know: Would this likely be against their rules?

It’s possible to post an image in-line (if it’s small enough to fit in SDMB’s message size limit), as I discovered recently when a Doper posted a photo of a tardigrade.

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OK, I squinted and moved slowly away from my screen and now I see Batman!

There’s no way in hell anyone should be posting random data URIs into their browser.

That’s what I’m going to do—after wasted 90 minutes trying to log into my old ImageShack account. (Some of that was spent trying to find out if ImageShack still gives you the ability to link to an image posted there–I still don’t know!)

But Imgur has a lot of people vouching for it, so I’ll do that. (With thanks to septimus for the thought of letting me use a personal site–that was kind, even if not allowed by the TOS).

I did it, but I’m at work. That way I don’t risk screwing up my own computer!