Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-5528834-20191222080501

I gotta say, that is one royally f'ed up change you guys at Fandom have made. I can understand not allowing hotlinking, and to re-direct incoming visitors to articles with more informaion, but to, essentially "disable" images when you're ALREADY BROWSING THE WIKI ITSELF because you didn't sign up and log in, is wrong on SO many levels.

I say this from personal experience with browsing the site on a new tablet I just bought. You see, I'm a co-admin at the Ghostbusters Wiki (https://ghostbusters.fandom.com), and in the past I've always been permanently logged in on all of my devices. Being that I just set up the new tablet a week ago, of course, I wasn't originally logged in. I didn't even notice that I wasn't logged in because I was not doing any editing; just browsing.

What happened with me, is that whenever I clicked on a thumbnail to view an image on the Ghostbusters Wiki from the Gallery section of an article, or the Recent Wiki Activity page, it would go to the article the image is "linked" to instead of the image.

To put it another way... Due to your change, you DISABLED IMAGES ON ALL WIKIS FOR USERS ALREADY BROWSING THE WIKI(S) just because they're not logged in. These visitors are not coming in from Google, they are ALREADY ON FANDOM. You might as well have put a blockage on each Wiki page saying, "If you want to view this Wiki properly, you need to sign up and log in." - because that's what your change has done for all Wikis.

-- Paul R.