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.