Images and GIFs on my profile arent showing up?

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http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/63242.jpg /

here is one

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Aug 1, 2014 8:58 PM

Paul

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_Okazaki_ said:
http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/63242.jpg /

here is one

Image isn't even being found. I'd highly suggest you avoid using image URL directly from MAL and simply save and reupload them on anther site and use those ones instead.

Aug 1, 2014 9:00 PM

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I'd recommend uploading to imgur.

Aug 1, 2014 9:09 PM

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Paul said:

_Okazaki_ said:
http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/4/63242.jpg /

here is one

Image isn't even being found. I'd highly suggest you avoid using image URL directly from MAL and simply save and reupload them on anther site and use those ones instead.

It showed the picture back then and ive used it since i joined MAL.. this only happened a couple of days ago when i added another img

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Aug 2, 2014 1:25 AM

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There are two problems with the image (link) you're trying to use:

1. Like others said the image doesn't exist anymore. Sometimes pictures on DB entries get deleted, for example if there are not enough image slots left to upload newer and better images.

2. Your link ends with /. I had this problem some days ago when I edited a club but I'm not sure yet if the person who made the layout used a code where images ended with / and it was fine in the past, or if after the img tag was re-enabled this / was added to some images for some reason. Since your link looks exactly the same as it looked for me in the club but is a picture from MAL directly I'm assuming it's the latter. Anyway, your images must end with a proper image file extension like .png, .jpg, etc. so you need to remove the final / if there is one.

Aug 2, 2014 2:18 AM

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Adding to Luna_'s post, it is not only the ending slash that prevents the image from appearing. Any other type of direct URL's ending than the extension will not grab. In your case, the issue only appears to be with the ending slash. Removing it does not change the path to the image, so feel free to remove it. If you're wondering why it appears in the first place, it is because there could be possible sub-folders/paths from that site onward, and the browser doesn't know that there aren't any, so it gets a slash for the next path ready at-place.

As suggested, the next time you find the image, make sure to save it and upload it to an image hosting site like Imgur. There, make sure that the image ends with an extension. I've had cases where it has ended with a "?1" after the extension, and if that happens, simply re-upload it.

Aug 2, 2014 5:55 AM

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Subpyro said:
I've had cases where it has ended with a "?1" after the extension, and if that happens, simply re-upload it.

...simply delete "?1" at the end of the link

Aug 2, 2014 6:58 AM

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Already tried, but it cannot find/access the image when doing so, which results in the image not displaying. But in the end, a re-upload takes 5 seconds approx, no need to complicate it.

Aug 2, 2014 8:17 AM

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Luna_ said:
There are two problems with the image (link) you're trying to use:

1. Like others said the image doesn't exist anymore. Sometimes pictures on DB entries get deleted, for example if there are not enough image slots left to upload newer and better images.

2. Your link ends with /. I had this problem some days ago when I edited a club but I'm not sure yet if the person who made the layout used a code where images ended with / and it was fine in the past, or if after the img tag was re-enabled this / was added to some images for some reason. Since your link looks exactly the same as it looked for me in the club but is a picture from MAL directly I'm assuming it's the latter. Anyway, your images must end with a proper image file extension like .png, .jpg, etc. so you need to remove the final / if there is one.

Thanks!! I just removed the slash and the gif showed up again..

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Aug 2, 2014 8:40 AM

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Thanks!! I just removed the slash and the gif showed up again..

That's probably because the image is still in your browser cache, so when you visit your profile now the image is not loaded from the servers but is used from the cache. So don't be surprised if it disappears again in a few hours/days when the browser tries to get a new version of the image, which is not possible. If you use Ctrl + F5 on your profile you can force your browser to get new versions of all images on this page immediately.

Aug 2, 2014 9:14 AM

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Luna_ said:
That's probably because the image is still in your browser cache, so when you visit your profile now the image is not loaded from the servers but is used from the cache. So don't be surprised if it disappears again in a few hours/days when the browser tries to get a new version of the image, which is not possible. If you use Ctrl + F5 on your profile you can force your browser to get new versions of all images on this page immediately.

Well, I can see it as well, even with Ctrl + F5...

Aug 2, 2014 9:32 AM

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Then I'm guessing it was deleted very recently and we have the same phenomenon that we have with profile pictures and other images on the CDN servers: that if they get changed, some people still see the old version and some see the new version and it has nothing to do with the cache in that case. What happens if you remove the cdn. from the link? Then you should get a 404 page not found error page as well.

Aug 2, 2014 10:12 AM

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Luna_ said:
Then I'm guessing it was deleted very recently and we have the same phenomenon that we have with profile pictures and other images on the CDN servers: that if they get changed, some people still see the old version and some see the new version and it has nothing to do with the cache in that case. What happens if you remove the cdn. from the link? Then you should get a 404 page not found error page as well.

Is it just me, or did you misunderstand the OP's issue? He is referring to the images on his profile. In other words, him about me. The images posted there do not have the cdn. as they are they are only redirected and not hosted on MAL. The OP's only issue was that the images didn't show up when using the images tags, purely because the direct URL has to end with an extension. By simply removing the ending slash, everything should appear on the profile, not resulting in a 404 error. That's what I think the issue was about, nothing beyond.

Aug 2, 2014 10:47 AM

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I don't know how many images he had problems with and which ones exactly, I was referring to the picture he linked in post #3 in my posts. That's a character picture which is located on the CDN (he links these pictures in the "favorite male/female characters" section on his profile). If he meant something else than this picture in #11 then it wasn't clear enough for me.

Aug 2, 2014 11:33 AM

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I see and understand what you were referring to now. Well, if he will have any further issues, I guess we will know at that time, unless he explains exactly what he has meant further before that can happen. Until that possible moment, I think we can see this issue as cleared.

Aug 2, 2014 1:47 PM

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