Photos and images distorted at GTP

[JockeP22]

I'm not sure if something happened on GTP within the last 15-25 hours but
since then all photobucket images on the forum are distorted (only half visible, shrunk in size etc.).

Images / photos that have been uploaded to GTP as "Upload a File" or from other sources seem to be unaffected, but the photobucket ones are strange. They seem ok over at photobucket.com but not here.

 

[JockeP22]

I found this;
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-and-site-changes.296680/page-2#post-10516530
"Embedded images hotlinked from other sites (Flickr, Photobucket, Imgur, etc.) will all be resized retroactively, regardless of when they were posted."


It would seem that photobucket images hasn't just been resized but also become distorted as I mentioned above.

 

[Jordan]

Can you link to some examples?

 

[Legro]

I've noticed same sort of problem with pictures since the update. The bottom half of a picture doesn't load, but turns gray. Like this:

I think I've also seen it happen with other than Photobucket images, though.

In addition, some pictures do load at first and then disappear and turn corrupted. The last picture of this post does that for example.

 

[Ibonibo]

Yeah or here

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...s-gtr-s3-gone-to.231388/page-21#post-10517030

all images are cut, don't load fully ??

 

[Jordan]

Are you guys still seeing this? I just checked and all of the referenced images appear to have loaded normally.

Test:

 

[Legro]

It still happens for me, I'm afraid. Changing the browser fixed the second issue, but the distorting problem isn't gone. I also noticed that the pictures with the problem don't load at all on mobile device.

 

[JockeP22]

Are you guys still seeing this?

Yes, I still do unfortunately.

I noticed this error because I posted two photobucket images earlier today/yesterday and saw how they had become
distorted.


Here.

And image 3 & 4 here.

Here.


There are a number of other images too with the same problem.
Thanks for looking into it, Jordan.


EDIT;

Here.
And practically every thread where I have embedded photobucket images.

 

[JockeP22]

I found this;
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-and-site-changes.296680/page-2#post-10516530
"Embedded images hotlinked from other sites (Flickr, Photobucket, Imgur, etc.) will all be resized retroactively, regardless of when they were posted."

In fact, after this change the whole forum has become slower for me rather than the opposite effect which is the intended idea.
It it the same for anybody else?

 

[Bo]

Lots of people are reporting this with all images.

 

[Roo]

I've had the same issue but not exclusively with Photobucket. It also affects pictures posted some time ago; for example, on the latest page of the '50 Greatest liveries of all time' thread, hsv's picture of the flying red Escort no longer loads fully.

All the images load correctly when quoted.

 

[Jordan]

I'm a bit perplexed, because all these images are displaying OK to me.

Could you all share your OS and web browser information?

 

[Bo]

I haven't had any issues with any images, which confused me a bit, so just for the record I'm on Chrome on Windows 8.1...

 

[Legro]

Chrome on Windows 8.1 appears to work fine, but Firefox on both 8.1 and Mac OS X Mavericks fails to load the pictures properly, Safari on Mac and iPhone doesn't work either.

 

[R5]

I haven't either, on Google Chrome mobile browser too.

 

[Jordan]

I can confirm the problem only appears in Firefox and Safari for me. I haven't tested IE yet.

This is going to be a tough one to solve but I'll see what I can do.

 

[JockeP22]

IE Win7 Pro here.

 

[Aphelion]

What an odd problem.

My theory is that GTP is re-sizing them by limiting them to a certain amount of pixels, but something is stuffing up so instead of reducing the image resolution, it is just deleting a bunch of pixels from the picture until the picture has the maximum pixels for GTP. In other words, that top half of the image that has loaded contains GTP's maximum pixel amount, and instead of lowering the resolution, it is just deleting any pixels that appear below that point.

 

[Nexus]

Photos randomly not loading for me too, IE11 on Windows RT 8.1.

 

[JockeP22]

I will admit that I'm really going to miss the "click this image to view the full-size version"-feature a lot, but that's just my humble opinion.

 

[Roo]

Firefox version 36.0.1 on Windows Vista version something-or-other.

Firefox updated itself a few days ago and that's when the picture loading problems started for me.

 

[AMG.]

Mac OS 10.10.2 Yosemite, Safari 8.0.3.

All my pics on GTP are shown as ?

I host pics on my own website and they're 1200 px wide. Other forums where I post show them okay.

e.g
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/gtplanet-scale-model-thread.29704/page-339
page 338 post 10112
page 339 post 10143, 10168

 

[Wiegert]

Firefox 37.0 on Windows 7 Home Premium.

The majority of my Flickr images (uploaded here at 1024 px wide or more over the past year) have been cut off along the bottom. Taking the downsize to 800 px into account, the number of pixels are actually listed correctly. But the lower 20-30% still isn't visible.

 

[photonrider]

Chrome on Windows 8.1 appears to work fine, but Firefox on both 8.1 and Mac OS X Mavericks fails to load the pictures properly, Safari on Mac and iPhone doesn't work either.

Same here.

Also (FYI): all my images are uploaded via Photobucket - always have been.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

I'm also still having the same problem with only part of my images loading from Photobucket. I'm using the current version of IE.

 

[mazda787]

I face the issue as well on my main browser, Firefox version 36.0.1, and in Internet Explorer version 11. However, I don't have the problem in Chrome version 40. I use Windows 7 Professional.

 

[Aphelion]

Why do so many people use firefox? I thought it was terrible! Maybe i'm just behind the times.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

The concept of this new update is a great idea since some members post insanely large images. However, I am seeing the same problem. Most of the images I see have green at the bottom half. I am using Internet Explorer 11.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Google Chrome, Windoze 7 Home Premium and I'm getting the same kind of issue. Some photo's half load. Also, some photo's don't show up at all and I get this instead:

That's from my own post. I can go in and edit the post and the picture is there, no problem. Also, when I first go to that page on the thread, I can see the image, but in about 10 seconds, the image reverts to the icon for some reason.

 

[GTP_CargoRatt]

Just wondering @Jordan if you are looking for a fix to this issue as I am still having the same problem as I posted about earlier - IE, most recent version on Windows 7.