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Cosmo Clock 21 · Nov 4, 2015

This has been a known problem ever since mobile GAF was launched, but in the past couple of months it's gotten especially bad due to the increasing popularity of certain image hosting websites that posters hotlink to.

The problem is that, even when you have all of the various "Show Photos/GIFs" options turned off in Preferences, images still show up hotlinked if the URL has one or more of the following properties:
1. the URL uses https instead of http (most common, happens with sites like Tumblr and Giphy)
2. the URL doesn't end in .gif / .png / etc (images from Twitter, for example, often end in something like *.jpeg:large)
3. the URL ends in .jpeg but is actually a GIF (Imgur does this, sometimes)

For whatever reason (I'm guessing a poorly defined regex somewhere) the images don't get assigned to the correct class. Here's an example of both "good" and "bad" GIFs in one post:

Again, this happens even if you have Show Photos/GIFs disabled on Mobile GAF. I've got a finite data plan, and it would be nice if reading a random page wouldn't suddenly sap 30MB from my available bandwidth cause some yahoo decided to link a huge reaction gif from wherever.

Spring-Loaded · Nov 4, 2015

Yep, it's horrible and I hope it gets fixed

I appreciate the criteria for which images show up regardless. Didn't know what caused it.

chaobreaker · Nov 4, 2015

This should get fixed as well as the lack of "search user's post" button that is sorely missing from MobileGAF.

Ooccoo · Nov 4, 2015

it won't, just like the cellphone-tips redirect

quesalupa · Nov 4, 2015

Evilore has abandoned us child.

Mohonky · Nov 4, 2015

Ooccoo said:
it won't, just like the cellphone-tips redirect

That thing is shitting me up the wall.

Also Yeh being able to turn off images would be nice so I don't have to download 50mb gifs without realising, on mobile broadband atm because I can't get an ass or NBN connection so those things are killing my data.

FriedConsole · Nov 4, 2015

dangerdays15 said:
Evilore has abandoned us child.

When was the last update to anything?

Frustrated_me · Nov 4, 2015

How about page redirection from current ad's running on mobile GAF? 5 threads and nothing, mods don't care.

co1onel · Nov 4, 2015

This has been bothering me as well. I didn't realize why it occurred though, just noticed that random pictures would load without me clicking "show pic"

Silver Arrows · Nov 4, 2015

Ooccoo said:
it won't, just like the cellphone-tips redirect

It's not reflecting well on them if they haven't even responded to the cellphone tips complaints, even though they have enough reports to fill a book. Not even a "Hey, we are looking for a solution, so sit tight"

Cosmo Clock 21 · Nov 4, 2015

Silver Arrows said:
It's not reflecting well on them if they haven't even responded to the cellphone tips complaints, even though they have enough reports to fill a book. Not even a "Hey, we are looking for a solution, so sit tight"

Mobile GAF issues have been known for years at this point with no progress. I'm not very optimistic about this particular bug getting fixed, but it on the surface seems like a relatively simple thing to implement.

woolley · Nov 4, 2015

chaobreaker said:
This should get fixed as well as the lack of "search user's post" button that is sorely missing from MobileGAF.

Isn't there an option in the advance search for that? Just put in the user's name.

Silver Arrows · Nov 4, 2015

Cosmo Clock 21 said:
Mobile GAF issues have been known for years at this point with no progress. I'm not very optimistic about this particular bug getting fixed, but it on the surface seems like a relatively simple thing to implement.

It's the lack of communication that bothers me about the entire issue.

Gromph · Dec 1, 2015

I dont take care of this, but i will have a look at it.

I think where the problem is.

Gromph · Dec 1, 2015

This solves one thing.

M3d10n · Dec 1, 2015

Thanks based Gromph!

Accoun · Dec 1, 2015

chaobreaker said:
This should get fixed as well as the lack of "search user's post" button that is sorely missing from MobileGAF.

Would be nice. Also, being able to search posts only in current thread.

FriedConsole said:
When was the last update to anything?

I don't remember when, but I remember they added the "show as posts/threads" in advanced search.

Silver Arrows said:
It's not reflecting well on them if they haven't even responded to the cellphone tips complaints, even though they have enough reports to fill a book. Not even a "Hey, we are looking for a solution, so sit tight"

Pretty sure Evilore responded at least once about the ads and it was something along the lines of "It's Google Ads that handles ads on GAF and it stopped being super conservative with what kind of ads they allow. All we can do is to report the stinkers".

YoungFa · Dec 1, 2015

Yes. Please fix this.

Stitch · Dec 1, 2015

So now clicking on View GIF doesn't work anymore. Can't see the GIF, only a broken image icon.

Accoun · Dec 1, 2015

Stitch said:
So now clicking on View GIF doesn't work anymore. Can't see the GIF, only a broken image icon.

Just tested it on a (small) gif and it worked for me. Are you talking about one that was OK before that?

Stitch · Dec 1, 2015

They all work with GIFs ON but I can't see them when they are OFF. Clicking on View GIF just gives me broken image icons now...

I've tested it in several threads :/

Edit: The broken image icon links to http://http.gif
😅

Cindres · Dec 1, 2015

chaobreaker said:
This should get fixed as well as the lack of "search user's post" button that is sorely missing from MobileGAF.

More than anything on the profile button it says "Users profile, posts, threads" but it doesn't actually have a button in there to view your posts.

Accoun · Dec 1, 2015

Stitch said:
They all work with GIFs ON but I can't see them when they are OFF. Clicking on View GIF just gives me broken image icons now...

I've tested it in several threads :/

Edit: The broken image icon links to http://http.gif

Getting those now, too.

Jimmyfenix · Dec 1, 2015

I can't view any picture on mobile gaf now. It just comes up as a broken image icon

Oppo · Dec 1, 2015

I'm not going to criticize it too much as the mobile site is a volunteer effort (I think Chris Kohler?).

I will simply say i'm sort of amazed at how... static NeoGAF is sometimes. It's like a fossil.

Last time I remember a feature change, it was "see who quoted me" and it lasted like 2 weeks before it broke. That was a couple of years ago.

But hey... site's free, what are you gonna do. I spend quite a lot of my GAF time on mobile so I feel your pain.

Cosmo Clock 21 · Dec 1, 2015

Jimmyfenix said:
I can't view any picture on mobile gaf now. It just comes up as a broken image icon

Works for me on iOS Safari.

BassForever · Dec 1, 2015

Everything is broken for me on safari ios, used to not have any problems till today. Iphone 6s on newest firmware

TheQueen'sOwn · Dec 1, 2015

Accoun said:
Getting those now, too.

Same. On Android/Chrome Mobile.

quesalupa · Dec 1, 2015

Errything's broken on Firefox android now.

m23 · Dec 1, 2015

Broken on Google chrome mobile for me.

also · Dec 1, 2015

Stitch said:
They all work with GIFs ON but I can't see them when they are OFF. Clicking on View GIF just gives me broken image icons now...

I've tested it in several threads :/

Edit: The broken image icon links to http://http.gif
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Same problem on Android Firefox and Chrome. Both GIFs and images.
Trying to view any image or GIF in a separate tab gives the following urls.
http://m.neogaf.com/view.php?img=http://http.jpg
http://m.neogaf.com/view.php?img=http://http.gif

Krappadizzle · Dec 1, 2015

Jimmyfenix said:
I can't view any picture on mobile gaf now. It just comes up as a broken image icon

Me either. iOS Safari here.

Netherscourge · Dec 1, 2015

OT: Q - will Gaf ever use HTTPS for logins and such?

zer0blivion · Dec 1, 2015

I think the biggest oversight is that spoiler tagged images that are hidden on the desktop version of the site, just show the same as any other image on mobile. For as serious as the moderation team is about spoilers, I'm really surprised the feature exists on one version of the site, but not the other.

If you can't hide the spoiler tagged images on mobile, for whatever reason, how about converting embedded images within spoiler tags to links?

RedToad64 · Dec 1, 2015

I cannot view images on Windows Phone's Internet Explorer Mobile browser either anymore.

TheAbsolution · Dec 1, 2015

All images qre broken for me now on mobileGAF

PtM · Dec 1, 2015

I kinda like it.

Brakke · Dec 1, 2015

Netherscourge said:
OT: Q - will Gaf ever use HTTPS for logins and such?

There was a thread recently, I can't remember if staff chimed in:

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1138439&highlight=https

Arkos · Dec 1, 2015

TheAbsolution said:
All images qre broken for me now on mobileGAF

Same here. Just happened earlier today. If I turn images and gifs on then I can see them, but if they're hidden and I click on them, they come up broken.

RedFalco · Dec 1, 2015

Arkos said:
Same here. Just happened earlier today. If I turn images and gifs on then I can see them, but if they're hidden and I click on them, they come up broken.

Same here.

Gromph · Dec 2, 2015

I detected an error, the images should be displayed now.

also · Dec 2, 2015

Images do work now, gifs are still broken.

Magwik · Dec 2, 2015

Gifs are still broken for me as well

Cosmo Clock 21 · Dec 3, 2015

Welp, I guess the solution to images being broken was to roll everything back to how it used to be

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