Topic: Images not loading well - page 2. (Read 1961 times)

I've been using Chrome for quite some time, but this just started for me as well over the last couple weeks. I didn't notice a Chrome updates lately, but wasn't really watching either.

Seems to just be hit or miss, sometimes they load sometimes not.

This kind of problem is usually due to the image being located on some overloaded shared hosting provider.

There is a company that is mostly under the radar, that has acquired many domain and web hosting companies and moved their customers to unresponsive crappy overloaded servers that often don't respond for many seconds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group

That's the thing... it's intermittent.  For example, I clicked here from the notification e-mail - it was fine.  I refresh, it's broken. ( 16 refreshes later, still broken ... edit: and the very next refresh, working again ).

Edit 1: actually, I noticed that the thumbnails in my StickMiners thread also seem to either load, or not load.  Since that has quite a few, small, images in it, might be easier to test with.

Let me know if I can enable / check anything for more technical details.
That's the thing... it's intermittent.  For example, I clicked here from the notification e-mail - it was fine.  I refresh, it's broken. ( 16 refreshes later, still broken ... edit: and the very next refresh, working again ).

Edit 2: actually, I noticed that the thumbnails in my StickMiners thread also seem to either load, or not load.  Since that has quite a few, small, images in it, might be easier to test with.

Let me know if I can enable / check anything for more technical details.

Edit 3: The headers sent for the images that won't load appear to be incomplete;

vs successful


Will see what FireFox does.  Maybe Chrome's having a fit.

FireFox is fine.  Cleared Chrome's cookies, but that didn't help ( or made it worse, now no images load )
Will check if an addon is misbehaving.

Edit 4: Incognito window still has this problem.

Edit 5: old_chrome.exe also has the problem, so if it is a chrome issue, it's been there for a bit..

That works fine for me. Is it broken for anyone else?

Well, as per the example:


( Which, of course, resulted in the following preview: http://imgur.com/4xn3TpM )

Edit: Error message from the web dev tools:
Path: https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6I1u1XK.png&t=538&c=RmGD7MXuH0mLtg
Status: net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

If an image doesn't load consistently (or at least frequently), and it doesn't break any image rules that would cause it to be rejected by the proxy, send me a link to the image or proxied image.

Image rules are:
- Must be less than 2.5 MB
- The entire transfer must take less than 3 seconds.
- The proxied server must not keep the connection open for "a long time" without transferring data.

Actually I dont think size is an issue.

The tiny twitter logo won't load half of the time in the Hirocoin announcement.

No, seems to be an issue with the bitcointalk image proxifier - sometimes they load, other times they don't.. image size may still be a factor (as a bunch of thumbnails in one of my threads load just fine), but e.g. i.imgur.com/6I1u1XK.png isn't all that large ([email protected])

If the images are too large they won't show. Not sure if this is the problem or not.

Sorry if this has been posted about before. A search didnt reveal any prior threads.

I see a lot of images not loading in the altcoin section. Is this a known problem or is there perhaps some maintenance that needs to be done in the underbelly of the forum software ?

regards, J