Forum:Image Issue

Hi. For some reason, on this article, the image on the left is appearing as broken, yet when you click the image, it is clearly there. Help please? --LordTBT Talk! 04:59, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * All images are showing for me right now. I think it's some kind of cache issu. It happen a lot on fr.guildwars. I'm not sure how to solve it. — TulipVorlax 01:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It's working now. I guess it got fixed. --LordTBT Talk! 19:40, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No, it does not. This problem is always occuring from time to time, here and there, all over Wikia. I upload some image and the thumb dont show up. If i go see the same page immediatly with another browser, it show. I refresh in many manners with the first browser and nothing work. But a few days or weeks later, all is well. — TulipVorlax 02:27, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Did you try bypassing your cache? — 恋こい する  08:44, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It's not a cache issue. Or, at least, not a client-side cache. Opening the thumbnail image url in a new page gives a HTTP 404 - Not Found error on the server. Maybe the thumbnail takes some time to be generated. After some minutes (yes, minutes, not seconds) the image is rendered. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 08:59, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

bingo, thats it. when you "resize" an image with an inline size in the  link, the image systems have to generate a NEW image at that size. its not just the normal image resized in the browser. but sometimes if the servers slightly more swamped then usual, then sometimes those images take a while to get created. then take into account that your not really getting the images from the wikia servers directly, they are routed through a CDN (a content distribution network) that copies the images to more local'r servers. well if theres enough lag that the images are taking longer to get created, then theres probably some lag getting those files out to the CDN. --Uberfuzzy 09:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Sometimes it doesn't take a few minutes but hours or days. But, i already know it's no big deal in reality. And just to clarify, when i said "I refresh in many manners" that meaned F5 and CTRL+F5 plus clicking the button with and without CTRL. And i know that every thumb of every new size need to be generated on the server. I know how the wiki software works. But this is mostly not the case for other visitors. Otherwise it would not be a problem. — TulipVorlax