Red Alert: Report your Issues to your Superior Officer

[korofel]

Please let us know if there are any issues of spam, harassment, or general asshattery going on at bakerstreet.

Provide evidence if you're speaking against another player. This is not a venue for anonymous bashing just for the fun of it. Such comments will be deleted.

Anon is on, IP logging is on, and comments can be screened on request.


Previous reporting posts can be found here and here.

Comments

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted WOKE UP MARRIED (06 Mar) - Suddenly Married was posted on 1 Mar. 1 top level.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted THE unusual protector MEME (07 Mar) since there is Caretaker Role (06 Mar) on the same page. 6 top levels.

Deleted TOUCH MEME (07 Mar) since there is Affectionate Physical Contact (03 Mar). 5 top levels.

Deleted The self-indulgent fanfiction tropes meme (07 Mar) as there is overlap with several memes on the front and previous page. No top levels.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted 'I'd Date That' (08 Mar), 8 top levels, since Kissr (07 Mar) is still on the front page.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted Guess Their Best (09 Mar) since we have MOST ATTRACTIVE FEATURE (04 Mar) & WILD MASS GUESSING (06 Mar). 0 top levels.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted 'I'd Date That' (10 Mar) since Kissr was posted on 07 Mar. 0 top levels.
Deleted it again.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted SWORN TO THE SWORD (11 Mar) since Bodyguard Shipping (10 Mar) was posted yesterday. 0 top levels.

Deleted Blood and Glory (10 Mar) since THE FIGHT MEME was posted on 08 Mar. 1 top level.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted 'text start my heart' (14 Mar) since we have '
love letters + shipping texts meme' (12 Mar) which is still on the front page. 14 top levels.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted 'one word prompt meme'. Word Association just went up on 14 Mar. 0 top levels.

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/10731839.html

[(Anonymous)]

hearts meme images are all broken

mods, maybe a psa that imgbb isn't a good site to host images on would be useful? clearly it's not equipped to handle the bakerstreet traffic any more. this isn't the first meme that has had broken images.

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[thelongcon]

Are they showing up for you now?

Were only some of them not working? Are they showing up inconsistently? Are there certain times when images break more often?

Does anyone else encounter this issue and would like to chime in?

I don't have any issues with the images on the meme myself, so I wouldn't mind more input about what's behind this. (The image hosting site, browser settings not playing nice, etc)

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[(Anonymous)]

another anon here chiming in to say that i've frequently seen imgbb broken html or overtraffic markers where either whole meme images have been hosted on the site and overtaxed, and the heart meme has shown up broken for me half of the time this particular round. it's starting to look like a psa wouldn't be entirely out of order for that site, since i see it happening more often.

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[(Anonymous)]

sa

adding to say it's definitely an imgbb issue. it doesn't happen with any other hosting site (imgur/hosted on dw) and it's happening more often, so it depends on how often people refresh/open in new pages at what time. amount of traffic matters on that site and it's getting overburdened.

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[(Anonymous)]

sa yet again

but this is what i saw just scrolling down now at almost 8am my time. it's been either like this or half and half (half the hearts showing up).

https://i.imgur.com/7IMXioY.png

and this is what happens on a larger scale with the few that still use imgbb to host regular meme images or gifs on.

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[bigplace]

I believe this might be tied to region. I had friends in my geographical area say it was broken for them, but friends in Europe were seeing it just fine.

My recommendation is to switch to host sites like catbox.moe or Buzzheavier for those who don't want to make accounts. For account sites, Piczel and Imgur have never broken my images.

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[sockiness]

You don't even need an account for imgur. You can just upload and c/p the link.

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[bigplace]

Oh, I had no idea. Haven’t used them in years. Thanks for letting me know.

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[sockiness]

No worries. I found it by accident when I realized I had uploaded an image for something and had forgotten to log in and was still able to access the image.

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[(Anonymous)]

i'm in europe and it's broken for me

just upload to dreamwidth's image hosting. no need to use a different site at all.

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[thelongcon]

Thank you! I'll put something up so that meme posters are aware.

Second test - these are all HTML coded and not image links:
Do any of them display oddly?

♥ (No color indicated, white on black background. I am assuming it is black on white when not in dark mode)
♥ (blue)
♥ (red)
♥ (dark pink - set with hexadecimal code)

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[thelongcon]

Will add this to the possible alternatives list

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[thelongcon]

I'll add those as part of possible alternate sites for people to check out.

Thanks!

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[thelongcon]

Ty! Good to know how it looks.

I might be online at lower traffic times so haven't been hitting the same issues. Though it looks like there are a number of different reasons for different people.

As above, I'll let meme posters know, as well as round up some of the alternatives people have suggested.

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[(Anonymous)]

This looks good to me on both desktop and an iOS device! Which is surprising, actually - my phone usually turns hearts, including unicodes, into default-color emojis.

No-color heart is black on white background in default theme, white on black background in dark mode.

[fleurmortelle]

Deleted Taboo, 0 top levels since Incest and Daddy Kink were posted recently.

Pleade consider giving memes some cooling down time, especially when there was only little play on the previous post (68 commens, mostly top levels in Taboo memes case).

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[(Anonymous)]

It's technically against Imgur TOS to link off-site. They haven't started enforcing it yet but this has been true for a couple of years, and they've been making warnings lately that if people are caught doing this, they'll be banned.