Why do thumbnails sometimes fail to load? Saidit will display a thumbnail image for a JPG at a given URL on some days, and at other times the thumbnails fail to generate or display. Is it the image host or Saidit that blocks the thumbnail from being generated?

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[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you for your response. I'm glad it's not Saidit blocking certain hosts.

For awhile Saidit could generate thumbnails from certain hosts.... and then thumbnail generation suddenly stopped working. I guess someone looked at the server logs and didn't like how their service was being used. Even Imgur has failed at times.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yup. It might just be them wanting to reduce their bandwidth usage by turning off hotlinking or who knows, there's a million possible reasons

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hmmm. At this moment it appears Saidit will not generate a thumbnail for any host, not even YouTube.

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