Why are all the photos older than a year ago broken?

[PFDarkside]

I keep looking for examples of woods, finishes, shapes, etc. and it seems nearly every photo older than a year ago is gone. The Photobucket ones are just low resolution like across the internet but it seems like the ones hosted on the forum are all gone. Are there any workarounds to see these photos?

 

[Rick]

Let me check

 

[Rick]

I looked at mine from two years ago, the only change is I have to click on them to make them bigger.

 

[PFDarkside]

For example can you see these photos?

12 String Tele

I've always wanted a 12 string, been curious about Warmoth stuff for years, and love Teles. This wonderful guitar killed three birds with one stone! I don't know much about it besides it has Fender Texas Specials, looks awesome, and absolutely smokes.

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Transparent Turquoise Thinline Tele

Hello all, I received my first Warmoth neck and body yesterday, and got right to work assembling it. I should say thanks to everyone here, I haven't posted much but I have been reading the forum for a while, and reading/learning from the folks here made me a lot more comfortable making my...

unofficialwarmoth.com

 

[Bruce Campbell]

For example can you see these photos?

12 String Tele

I've always wanted a 12 string, been curious about Warmoth stuff for years, and love Teles. This wonderful guitar killed three birds with one stone! I don't know much about it besides it has Fender Texas Specials, looks awesome, and absolutely smokes.

unofficialwarmoth.com

Transparent Turquoise Thinline Tele

Hello all, I received my first Warmoth neck and body yesterday, and got right to work assembling it. I should say thanks to everyone here, I haven't posted much but I have been reading the forum for a while, and reading/learning from the folks here made me a lot more comfortable making my...

unofficialwarmoth.com

I can see them once I click on each one and it takes me to Imgur, but on the Warmoth forum post they are X'd out.

 

[PFDarkside]

I can see them once I click on each one and it takes me to Imgur, but on the Warmoth forum post they are X'd out.

I see, maybe past a certain date Imgur stops embedding. I didn’t realize clicking would take me there. Duh.

Wait here’s another one that clicking does not work for…

Transparent Turquoise Thinline Tele

Hello all, I received my first Warmoth neck and body yesterday, and got right to work assembling it. I should say thanks to everyone here, I haven't posted much but I have been reading the forum for a while, and reading/learning from the folks here made me a lot more comfortable making my...

unofficialwarmoth.com

 

[Bruce Campbell]

I see, maybe past a certain date Imgur stops embedding. I didn’t realize clicking would take me there. Duh.

Wait here’s another one that clicking does not work for…

Transparent Turquoise Thinline Tele

Hello all, I received my first Warmoth neck and body yesterday, and got right to work assembling it. I should say thanks to everyone here, I haven't posted much but I have been reading the forum for a while, and reading/learning from the folks here made me a lot more comfortable making my...

unofficialwarmoth.com

Same, clicking broken on that one.

 

[stratamania]

All the photos older than a year are not broken. This is related to some Imgur links due to embedding changes at Imgur, and it could also be that a particular forum user has deleted their photos.

 

[NedRyerson]

Another possibility is that with the change in the forum software, so too did the file location paths for images that were uploaded rather than hotlinked externally. The old forum software may have stored pics in something like "unofficialwarmoth.com/images/somewhere," and the new forum system just doesn't have that URL. Cost of doing business.

 

[PFDarkside]

Another possibility is that with the change in the forum software, so too did the file location paths for images that were uploaded rather than hotlinked externally. The old forum software may have stored pics in something like "unofficialwarmoth.com/images/somewhere," and the new forum system just doesn't have that URL. Cost of doing business.

That’s what I was thinking. Are all the old files just deleted? How long ago was the migration?

 

[stratamania]

Another possibility is that with the change in the forum software, so too did the file location paths for images that were uploaded rather than hotlinked externally. The old forum software may have stored pics in something like "unofficialwarmoth.com/images/somewhere," and the new forum system just doesn't have that URL. Cost of doing business.

I have not seen evidence of that. On the old forum there was not so much possibility to show images in threads and most were externally hosted.

The title of the thread is a false premise, as not all photos in older threads are broken.

 

[PFDarkside]

I have not seen evidence of that. On the old forum there was not so much possibility to show images in threads and most were externally hosted.

The title of the thread is a false premise, as not all photos in older threads are broken.

More often than not when I click an older link it seems like it’s just boxes. I just want to see wonderful guitar builds!

Soloist curly maple top w/ pink/purple stain, wenge neck and matching headstock

I FINALLY finished this Soloist build with Warhead neck for a friend. Here the's build thread: https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=33114 The time-lapse staining the curly maple top: https://youtu.be/GgdMKQV1oYc and the beauty shots of the assembled guitar (no knobs because he...

unofficialwarmoth.com

Razorback Silverburst

Hello all. I recently finished about a year long project for a friend of mine... It took so long because I had to do many things with this project that I've never done before and didn't want to screw up his very expensive Warmoth parts.

unofficialwarmoth.com

Soloist in "Dragon Breath" finish

WIP thread including some color ideas and staining timelapse can be found here: https://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=31846.0 Big thanks to Jeff Bridges and the shop's foreman at Warmoth for taking the time to help me locate a tubular quilt top figuring and orientation that matched...

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Transparent Turquoise Thinline Tele

Hello all, I received my first Warmoth neck and body yesterday, and got right to work assembling it. I should say thanks to everyone here, I haven't posted much but I have been reading the forum for a while, and reading/learning from the folks here made me a lot more comfortable making my...

unofficialwarmoth.com

Also. I very much appreciate all the advice you’ve given me. I use hyperbole often in my speech.

 

[stratamania]

Hyperbole aside, most of those threads linked when you look at that them and right-click on the boxes to copy the image link, it will show they are for the most part pointing to Imgur who have changed how they allow embedding.

Unless the user who posted those images edits the thread to renew the links to something that works, they will be gone.

A similar thing happened with Photobucket some years ago. In my case, I hosted the photos on Flickr mainly and updated the links.

You could try asking the forum users if they may be willing to update the links, but of course, there is no guarantee they will have the time etc to do so.

 

[PFDarkside]

Hyperbole aside, most of those threads linked when you look at that them and right-click on the boxes to copy the image link, it will show they are for the most part pointing to Imgur who have changed how they allow embedding.

Unless the user who posted those images edits the thread to renew the links to something that works, they will be gone.

A similar thing happened with Photobucket some years ago. In my case, I hosted the photos on Flickr mainly and updated the links.

You could try asking the forum users if they may be willing to update the links, but of course, there is no guarantee they will have the time etc to do so.

Searching through some older posts I also see a few other hosting services that are no longer around. When Photobucket did its major overhaul it really dinged a lot of forums unfortunately.

Do you go back and edit to relink your Flickr images?

 

[stratamania]

Do you go back and edit to relink your Flickr images?

Yes, most photos I had local backups of and uploaded them again to Flickr, then went back to each thread and edited each post so that the photo links were pointing to the images on Flickr rather than the previous hosting.

One example of an older thread where I had to edit from Photobucket to Flickr.

Natural Ash Tele

If you saw the out of the box thread yesterday the discussions of tea and a T type guitar continues in this work in progress diary thread. I will try and give some tips as I go so it may be useful to someone at some point. Here is the out of the box thread for reference...

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Since the forum software updated, I have also had to edit numerous hyperlinks between threads so that cross-references etc continue to work. One such thread where I did a lot of this was the Welcome to the Forum thread in my signature, which is well worth checking out if you have not done so.