Discord Image Link Integration is completely broken right now

[AdrianDogmeat]

I don't know if something happened on discord's end or the forum's end, but it resulted in thousands of pictures being deleted and replaced with "this content is no longer available", which makes reading mission reports and other forum threads a lot worse

Especially for others trying to maintain a forum thread using discord image links (me included)

[Geonovast]

Moved to Kerbal Network.

This sounds like something on Discord's end.  I don't know if Discord servers have privacy settings to prevent hotlinking to images uploaded to it (IMO if they don't, they should), but that could be a factor.

I would recommend using an actual image hosting service for sharing images instead of Discord.  It might work to some degree and they might allow it, for now anyway, but that's not what Discord is for and therefore you can't really count on it always being a thing.

[adsii1970]

7 hours ago, AdrianDogmeat said:

I don't know if something happened on discord's end or the forum's end, but it resulted in thousands of pictures being deleted and replaced with "this content is no longer available" [snip]

And:

1 hour ago, Geonovast said:

This sounds like something on Discord's end.  I don't know if Discord servers have privacy settings to prevent hotlinking to images uploaded to it (IMO if they don't, they should), but that could be a factor.

This is precisely what it is. Discord is not meant to be a permanent repository for images or posts. Everything shared and posted there has an expiration point. It can be the date of the post or the amount of data shared within the stream (what is the deciding factor is the age of the post and/or the amount of data within the conversation stream.

We have this issue on the campus where I work with online college students where I work. Students do not seem to realize the more data they dump into Discord, the more it shaves off the stream's older history. So, rather than copying and pasting or saving relevant parts of the conversation for her personal use at a later time, she assumed it would be there for her to use at a later time. Nope, the more conversation there is, the more likely something will get lost as the conversation progresses.

[AdrianDogmeat]

2 hours ago, Geonovast said:

Moved to Kerbal Network.

This sounds like something on Discord's end.  I don't know if Discord servers have privacy settings to prevent hotlinking to images uploaded to it (IMO if they don't, they should), but that could be a factor.

I would recommend using an actual image hosting service for sharing images instead of Discord.  It might work to some degree and they might allow it, for now anyway, but that's not what Discord is for and therefore you can't really count on it always being a thing.

Yeah I didn't know what category this belonged in