# Discourse intermittently demotes a URL referenced image from a rendered image to a link

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**Created:** [September 5, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-intermittently-demotes-a-url-referenced-image-from-a-rendered-image-to-a-link/4130 "2023-09-05T12:13:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-intermittently-demotes-a-url-referenced-image-from-a-rendered-image-to-a-link/4130/1 "2023-09-05T12:13:33Z")

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One of my postings was just awarded a ‘popular link’ by Discourse today. But when checking that posting, it had nothing that should had remained links, just images posted by URL reference on the wiki: in [https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images).

Discourse was pulling the add and share button image data from the gramps-project dot org domain rather than converting it to a local `upload://`

It showed the actual url as the hotlink:  
[https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/20/Stock\_add.png](https://gramps.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/5xXqYu260qUTJUa9IlG6kyrexmI.png)

And while writing this posting, the following link unpredictably showed the either the image or the URL when serving the example and quoted posting. And since there were 2 URLs with different follow counts of 50 & 46, it is certain that some visitors to the site aren’t getting the same experience as others. (In 8 visits to that posting, 2 had images, 6 showed linked URLs with ‘followed’ counts.)

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/2X/2/26e19314bb749799c6149be55c5a1bddbf5e1604.png)  
Elsewhere in the thread, the URL is converted to  
`![](upload://u3hWMwmeQasCVjlI7LuzyA11nkQ.png)`  
And rendered as

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/d2a0694162ddff70a96670fade17d3541d0f97f0.png)

> [@How to enter a marriage-date?](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-enter-a-marriage-date/1130/2):
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> [https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/20/Stock\_add.png](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/20/Stock_add.png) Add the Marriage Event to the Relationship rather than to individuals within the Relationship. To open the Family Editor: click the Edit button on the Family line in the Relationships category view; or, double-click the Family line in the Person Editor; or, double-click the Row of that Family in the Families category view. [https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/e/eb/Stock\_index.png](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/e/eb/Stock_index.png) Alternately, if you share that existing Marriage Ev…

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**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-intermittently-demotes-a-url-referenced-image-from-a-rendered-image-to-a-link/4130/2 "2023-09-06T04:21:15Z")

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Sam Saffron [replied](https://meta.discourse.org/t/remote-pngs-intermittently-showing-urls-instead-of-rendering/277931/3):

> This can happen for files such as:
> 
> ![](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/images/transparent.png)  
> [https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/20/Stock\_add.png](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/20/Stock_add.png)
> 
> If we can not access the file when we are trying to download it cause `gramps-project.org` blocked us temporarily.

Unfortunately, without knowing our server settings, he didn’t have any suggestions for giving their server higher prioity.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/2ac1e712b7adf612e31ca08a55419f4cf37c0158.png) [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:21am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-intermittently-demotes-a-url-referenced-image-from-a-rendered-image-to-a-link/4130/3 "2023-10-06T04:21:49Z")

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