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Post by timberella April 13th 2018, 2:47 am

Many of the images that we use in our forum are hosted by Postimg and they have a URL address of ".org".

Recently there has been some trouble with Postimg, that is too technical for me to understand, but the end result is that all the images that had been hosted there are no longer visible. They suggested to replace ".org" with ".cc", and when I do that the image reappears.

We have one forum that has WAY too many images in it that would need to be edited by hand, so I wonder if there is some kind of code that I can put into the CSS or as a Javascript module that will change the ".org" to ".cc".

Is this possible?


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Post by SLGray April 13th 2018, 3:23 am

I really do not know if there is a code for this.  If there is, it would also change any link that ends with .org.


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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by BlackScorpion April 13th 2018, 4:08 am

Unfortunately, like SLGray stated above there isn't a quick fix script for that. I had a similar situation on my forum which had images hosted on Photobucket and Imageshack, both wanted you to upgrade to allow image hosting, in the end me a a few moderators, uploaded the images that were missing to the Forumotion image hosting (Servimg) to avoid all that mess took a few days but we got it done.


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Post by timberella April 13th 2018, 5:11 am

Thank you for the replies!

Would it work if I wanted to change "postimg.org" to postimg.cc"??

I would consider Servimg as a solution except the images that I'm referring to are PNG images and they get converted to JPEG when using Servimg, so they lose the transparency that is needed.
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Post by BlackScorpion April 13th 2018, 6:54 am

timberella wrote:Thank you for the replies!

Would it work if I wanted to change "postimg.org" to postimg.cc"??

I would consider Servimg as a solution except the images that I'm referring to are PNG images and they get converted to JPEG when using Servimg, so they lose the transparency that is needed.

Changing the extension on it won't work. If you want try it on 1 image, then you'll know for sure. You can also try TinyPic for your PNG files.
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Post by PoodleyPie April 13th 2018, 11:39 pm

timberella wrote:Many of the images that we use in our forum are hosted by Postimg and they have a URL address of ".org".

Recently there has been some trouble with Postimg, that is too technical for me to understand, but the end result is that all the images that had been hosted there are no longer visible. They suggested to replace ".org" with ".cc", and when I do that the image reappears.

We have one forum that has WAY too many images in it that would need to be edited by hand, so I wonder if there is some kind of code that I can put into the CSS or as a Javascript module that will change the ".org" to ".cc".

Is this possible?


I discovered the same problem within an hour of them changing their domain. This photo should make it easy to understand what they did and why the problem is: : https://postimg.cc/image/yy0595kib/

I emailed them and this is what they said:

postimg.ORG domain is locked by Registry, no prior notice. While we hope to resolve the issue, we chose postimg.CC as our new home. Please update codes embedded in your websites.

Sorry to disappoint you. We did what we thought was best. You can fix all images by contacting the forum administrator and ask to run the SQL query, example for phpBB

"UPDATE `phpbb_posts` SET `post_text` = replace(post_text, 'postimg.org', 'postimg.cc');"


As for why, this might explain it: https://malwaretips.com/threads/postimage-org-dead-end.64901/

Their financial problems date back to Oct 2017, and my best guess is they can no longer afford to host 1.8 petabytes each month. I had never even heard of a petabyte until I read this.

I think they used a software program to keep direct links to photos, but not hotlinks to sites or forums. I'm not an Admin at the forum where my photos and those of some other members were affected, and I contacted the Admin but he hasn't responded, so maybe he doesn't know how to 'run the SQL query", or is treating it like a Photobucket problem when they deleted pics on free users, which was to let them re-upload their photos.

Please let me know if the fix they sent works on your forum so I can tell my Admin at that site.







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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by timberella April 14th 2018, 4:48 am

BlackScorpion wrote:
timberella wrote:Thank you for the replies!

Would it work if I wanted to change "postimg.org" to postimg.cc"??

I would consider Servimg as a solution except the images that I'm referring to are PNG images and they get converted to JPEG when using Servimg, so they lose the transparency that is needed.

Changing the extension on it won't work. If you want try it on 1 image, then you'll know for sure. You can also try TinyPic for your PNG files.

@BlackScorpion, thank you for the reply. I have tried your suggestion on a few of the images, and the solution given by Postimg is to edit the URL and change the .org to .cc. When I edit the URL, the image appears.

So it would be great if we can sweep through the whole forum and change "postimg.org" to "postimg.cc".

@PoodleyPie, thank you for the suggestion. I don't know what an SQL query is or how to apply it. That's why I come here LOL.

Our problem is not finding an image hosting site for our PNG images; Postimg will work fine. The problem is that the old replies with the .org URL will need to be edited to .cc and we'd have to do that by hand unless someone can provide some solution using code. It would be a tremendous time saver for our forum.
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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by SLGray April 14th 2018, 5:46 am

You could try using the censor option in the AP.


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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by timberella April 14th 2018, 9:47 am

SLGray wrote:You could try using the censor option in the AP.

Thank you, @SLGray, I was really hoping it would be that easy.

I added a word censor to change "postimg.org" to "postimg.cc" and it worked on the "postimg.org" text inside the message body, but it didn't convert to "postimg.cc" in the image URL.

Do you know how to run this SQL Query thing?
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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by Neptune- April 14th 2018, 11:57 am

Hi there


- Censorship feature isn't retroactive

- SQL queries work only on SQL databases, only on self-hosted websites.
Since here we do not have any access to database, we cannot run SQL queries. But maybe Forumotion dev could cat
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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by timberella April 15th 2018, 8:30 am

Neptune- wrote:Hi there


- Censorship feature isn't retroactive

- SQL queries work only on SQL databases, only on self-hosted websites.
Since here we do not have any access to database, we cannot run SQL queries. But maybe Forumotion dev could cat

Thank you, @Neptune!

Retroactive is what we would need, so I guess that solution is out.
What is Forumotion dev?
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Post by Neptune- April 15th 2018, 9:06 am

dev = developers (technicians). They won't just run the query on your forum, but if postimg.** is a very popular service maybe they will do something to fix that.




Can you try that javascript (placed on topics) and tell me if it works !

Code:
var censorship =
[
    ["href", /postimg\.org/g, "postimg.cc"],
    ["src", /postimg\.org/g, "postimg.cc"],
];

function censorNode(a) {
  if(a.nodeType == 3) {
    for(var b in censorship) {
      if(censorship[b][0] === "text") {
        a.nodeValue = a.nodeValue.replace(censorship[b][1], censorship[b][2])
      }
    }
  }else {
    if(a.nodeType == 1) {
      for(b in censorship) {
        a.hasAttribute(censorship[b][0]) && a.setAttribute(censorship[b][0], a.getAttribute(censorship[b][0]).replace(censorship[b][1], censorship[b][2]))
      }
    }
    if(a.hasChildNodes()) {
      a = a.childNodes;
      for(b = 0;b < a.length;b++) {
        censorNode(a[b])
      }
    }
  }
}
$(function() {
  $(window).bind("load", function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
      var phpbb3 = "body#phpbb", invision = "#ipbwrapper", punbb = "#pun-foot";
      $( $(phpbb3).length ? "div.postbody > div.content" : $(invision).length ? "div.postbody > div.post-entry" : $(punbb).length ? "div.post div.post-entry" : "div.postbody" ).each(function() {
        censorNode(this);
        for(var a in censorship) {
          censorship[a][0] === "html" && censorship[a][1].test($(this).html()) && $(this).html($(this).html().replace(censorship[a][1], censorship[a][2]))
        }
      })
    }, 600)
  })
});
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Solved Re: Image URL Change for Postimg

Post by peter59 April 16th 2018, 1:46 am

timberella wrote:Many of the images that we use in our forum are hosted by Postimg and they have a URL address of ".org".

Recently there has been some trouble with Postimg, that is too technical for me to understand, but the end result is that all the images that had been hosted there are no longer visible. They suggested to replace ".org" with ".cc", and when I do that the image reappears.

We have one forum that has WAY too many images in it that would need to be edited by hand, so I wonder if there is some kind of code that I can put into the CSS or as a Javascript module that will change the ".org" to ".cc".

Is this possible?

I looked at that, it seems they want you to add a plug-in. I'm not sure I want to do that? Where I have a lot of images, I copy the codes to word. Then search for the word org, then replace we cc, then copy and paste back to forum. I have done about 500 images so far.
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Post by SLGray April 16th 2018, 1:49 am

peter59 wrote:
timberella wrote:Many of the images that we use in our forum are hosted by Postimg and they have a URL address of ".org".

Recently there has been some trouble with Postimg, that is too technical for me to understand, but the end result is that all the images that had been hosted there are no longer visible.  They suggested to replace ".org" with ".cc", and when I do that the image reappears.

We have one forum that has WAY too many images in it that would need to be edited by hand, so I wonder if there is some kind of code that I can put into the CSS or as a Javascript module that will change the ".org" to ".cc".

Is this possible?

I looked at that, it seems they want you to add a plug-in. I'm not sure I want to do that? Where I have a lot of images, I copy the codes to word. Then search for the word org, then replace we cc, then copy and paste back to forum. I have done about 500 images so far.
I believe you posted in the wrong topic.


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Post by timberella April 16th 2018, 4:53 am

Neptune- wrote:dev = developers (technicians). They won't just run the query on your forum, but if postimg.** is a very popular service maybe they will do something to fix that.




Can you try that javascript (placed on topics) and tell me if it works !

Code:
var censorship =
[
    ["href", /postimg\.org/g, "postimg.cc"],
    ["src", /postimg\.org/g, "postimg.cc"],
];

function censorNode(a) {
  if(a.nodeType == 3) {
    for(var b in censorship) {
      if(censorship[b][0] === "text") {
        a.nodeValue = a.nodeValue.replace(censorship[b][1], censorship[b][2])
      }
    }
  }else {
    if(a.nodeType == 1) {
      for(b in censorship) {
        a.hasAttribute(censorship[b][0]) && a.setAttribute(censorship[b][0], a.getAttribute(censorship[b][0]).replace(censorship[b][1], censorship[b][2]))
      }
    }
    if(a.hasChildNodes()) {
      a = a.childNodes;
      for(b = 0;b < a.length;b++) {
        censorNode(a[b])
      }
    }
  }
}
$(function() {
  $(window).bind("load", function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
      var phpbb3 = "body#phpbb", invision = "#ipbwrapper", punbb = "#pun-foot";
      $( $(phpbb3).length ? "div.postbody > div.content" : $(invision).length ? "div.postbody > div.post-entry" : $(punbb).length ? "div.post div.post-entry" : "div.postbody" ).each(function() {
        censorNode(this);
        for(var a in censorship) {
          censorship[a][0] === "html" && censorship[a][1].test($(this).html()) && $(this).html($(this).html().replace(censorship[a][1], censorship[a][2]))
        }
      })
    }, 600)
  })
});

@Neptune, that's awesome!  Smile

I added the Javascript Module (in topics) and checked to see if the Postimg images were restored.  None of the images are loaded at the outset, but after the script finished running, the images became visible.

I'm sure my forum is not the only forum that will be having trouble with this Postimg issue, so if anyone knows how to suggest this to the Forumotion Developers to modify the image source URL, that would be ideal.  I noticed that when I edit one of these messages, the image that I can see on the topic page is no longer visible in edit mode, so changing the image source URL would be great.

Thanks so much for your assistance!  It's greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Is it possible to add something to this code so that the javascript will target a specific forum rather than applying it in all forums in all topics?
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Post by Neptune- April 16th 2018, 6:56 am

timberella wrote:that's awesome! Smile

Ea, staff member on french official support is awesome too

Full tutorial there -> Censure des messages en javascript

I noticed that when I edit one of these messages, the image that I can see on the topic page is no longer visible in edit mode, so changing the image source URL would be great.
I told you to use that script on topics ! But if you place it on All pages it will work also on preview for sure. I just have a doubt about the editor's textarea in reply/edit/quote mode.
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Post by timberella April 16th 2018, 7:53 am

Neptune- wrote:
timberella wrote:that's awesome! Smile

Ea, staff member on french official support is awesome too

Full tutorial there -> Censure des messages en javascript

I noticed that when I edit one of these messages, the image that I can see on the topic page is no longer visible in edit mode, so changing the image source URL would be great.
I told you to use that script on topics ! But if you place it on All pages it will work also on preview for sure. I just have a doubt about the editor's textarea in reply/edit/quote mode.

Thank you for the link, @Neptune; I'll check it out!

I installed the code "on topics" as you suggested. Since I don't know how to read javascript, I clicked the Edit button for one of the replies with one of these images to see if the javascript had changed the img URL inside the message body and that is when I noticed that it didn't. So the image URL remains ".org" and the javascript makes it possible to see the images in the topics pages.

For now this is a workable solution to our image problems, but at a later time I would probably want this javascript to run in only one of our forums. This is the forum that I didn't want to edit every reply to change the image URL.

Is this doable?
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Post by peter59 April 16th 2018, 9:28 am

SLGray wrote:
peter59 wrote:
timberella wrote:Many of the images that we use in our forum are hosted by Postimg and they have a URL address of ".org".

Recently there has been some trouble with Postimg, that is too technical for me to understand, but the end result is that all the images that had been hosted there are no longer visible.  They suggested to replace ".org" with ".cc", and when I do that the image reappears.

We have one forum that has WAY too many images in it that would need to be edited by hand, so I wonder if there is some kind of code that I can put into the CSS or as a Javascript module that will change the ".org" to ".cc".

Is this possible?

I looked at that, it seems they want you to add a plug-in. I'm not sure I want to do that? Where I have a lot of images, I copy the codes to word. Then search for the word org, then replace we cc, then copy and paste back to forum. I have done about 500 images so far.
I believe you posted in the wrong topic.

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Post by TheCrow April 16th 2018, 10:36 am

The topic was posted in the wrong section, so I have moved it to the correct section.
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Post by Walt April 21st 2018, 7:27 pm

Hello,

For your information, in order to ease the transition for Forumotion users, and to avoid any loss of images hosted on Postimages.org in case of service closure, all images that have been hosted on this service and posted on the forums are automatically re-hosted on our own servers, without you having to make any changes. Wink

This change concerns both the domain postimg.org and the domain postimg.cc. For example :
https://s18.postimg.cc/4vr9xdvjd/notif_PM.png
https://s18.postimg.org/4vr9xdvjd/notif_PM.png
automatically become:

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Post by timberella April 23rd 2018, 12:17 am

Thank you, @Walt, for the information and fix!

I have removed the Javascript module that I had in place and checked the images hosted by Postimg and they are all there, so this is fantastic.

I noticed today that this fix was also applied to images hosted at Photobucket, i.e. "photobucket.com", and now those Photobucket images are no longer visible.  So if you can report this to whomever needs to know so they can remove "2img.net/h/" from the photobucket.com images, that would be great.

This Photobucket issue is being discussed here:
https://help.forumotion.com/t155598-only-topic-cannot-see-photos-posted-from-photobucket
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Post by brandon_g April 23rd 2018, 12:49 am

@timberella I have already made a ticket on the photobucket problem and will report when there is an update in the only topic for that issue.

Just to confirm, the postimg issue is fixed for you right?

If so, may we consider this solved?

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Post by timberella April 23rd 2018, 1:58 am

brandon_g wrote:@timberella I have already made a ticket on the photobucket problem and will report when there is an update in the only topic for that issue.

Just to confirm, the postimg issue is fixed for you right?

If so, may we consider this solved?

-Brandon

Thank you, @brandon_g, yes, this topic is solved.
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Post by brandon_g April 23rd 2018, 2:20 am

Topic solved & archived
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