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Thread photos.
Why is it when we do a Google search for info related to a Corvette, the Google search shows a photo so you click it and come here, then the picture is gone.
Does the forum dump photos of old threads to save bandwidth or something? It's kind of frustrating, there are a lot of great old threads with pertinent info and as we know often a picture can say a thousand words, yet we can't access the old pic, so then we make a new thread wasting even more bandwidth, plus clutter up the forum with redundant threads. What gives?
Does the forum dump photos of old threads to save bandwidth or something? It's kind of frustrating, there are a lot of great old threads with pertinent info and as we know often a picture can say a thousand words, yet we can't access the old pic, so then we make a new thread wasting even more bandwidth, plus clutter up the forum with redundant threads. What gives?
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Case in point. Googled l98 tpi corvette windage tray bolt location and came up with this. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...locations.html Google shows the photo, but when you follow the hyperlink to here it doesn't show up, I've tried on my laptop and phone, it does the same thing.
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Why is it when we do a Google search for info related to a Corvette, the Google search shows a photo so you click it and come here, then the picture is gone.
Does the forum dump photos of old threads to save bandwidth or something? It's kind of frustrating, there are a lot of great old threads with pertinent info and as we know often a picture can say a thousand words, yet we can't access the old pic, so then we make a new thread wasting even more bandwidth, plus clutter up the forum with redundant threads. What gives?
Does the forum dump photos of old threads to save bandwidth or something? It's kind of frustrating, there are a lot of great old threads with pertinent info and as we know often a picture can say a thousand words, yet we can't access the old pic, so then we make a new thread wasting even more bandwidth, plus clutter up the forum with redundant threads. What gives?
Case in point. Googled l98 tpi corvette windage tray bolt location and came up with this. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...locations.html Google shows the photo, but when you follow the hyperlink to here it doesn't show up, I've tried on my laptop and phone, it does the same thing.
The thread you linked only contains 1 image, in post number 3, as shown in the screen capture. It's also hot linked. Meaning, the picture is not hosted by CorvetteForum but instead on another server. The poster was using another server to host their image and simply hot linked it to share it on CorvetteForum. CorvetteForum has no control over content posted outside of CorvetteForum.
I suspect the issue is your brower(s) are not displaying the image because of security - specifically because the image is hot linked on a server that doesn't use HTTPS while CorvetteForum does use HTTPS. Some browsers, by default, will not displayed "mixed" content. They will only display HTTPS content and non HTTPS content is not displayed.
You will need to adjust your browsers settings to allow it, or accept the default preference. For assistance adjusting your browser, you will need to see the browser's support. This is not specific to CorvetteForum and is how the browser handles, by default, any website that has both HTTPS and non-HTTPS content. When a website, like CorvetteForum, allows members to share content that's hosted outside of CorvetteForum and on a server that doesn't use HTTPS, this is the type of issue that can happen.
As to why it shows on Google's search results but not within CorvetteForum, it's due in part because Google is storing the image, too. Google is big and has resources that many don't.
