Conversation started Mar 8, 2017 at 13:25.
Zanna
Zanna
Mar 8, 2017 13:25
@muru I just noticed (oblivious as ever) that EP's query only looks for bit.ly/software-small. Fortunately all the software-large ones are in the http query. Should I just leave them for now?
muru
muru
@Zanna Until we have a solution for the HTTPS problem I think we should leave the package icon links alone
Dammit. The CMs could have given the mods a heads-up about the HTTPS image changes
Zanna
Zanna
I think it only got featured because of your comment!
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@muru its mentioned on MSE
and you do watch that right?
muru
muru
@JourneymanGeek yeah, I asked that post to be featured. However, that's not what I'm talking about. We recently had the devs change a bunch of links wholesale from bit.ly to another URL shortener.
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Q: Plenty of broken image links

E.P.This bug was detected in 2011: the original policy was to use software centre images from bit. ly/ software-small, but that mysteriously broke for some reason that doesn't really matter at this point. A quick query points to >500 posts that still link to this image, and which look sort of like th...

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If we'd known this was going to happen, we could have scrambled to get HTTPS support on the other shortnener before they made this change.
Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
@muru ah
@muru I think this may be a better topic for the other room
Grownup talk and all that ;p
 
Conversation ended Mar 8, 2017 at 13:39.