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I don’t really care but someone brought this up to me. It seems post counts have gone down for some people. I don’t know about mine as I haven’t looked in a long time, but I do know something changed. Is this a bug or a feature?

 

That could be a side effect of the recent Community split, yes. Unexpected things can and will happen during this week.

 

Yep did some sleuthing there seems to be a problem with “fun” marked posts in community. Hope this helps you guys. Although I don’t really care. Just wanted to know if it was intentional

 

Again I wouldn’t know I only learned about it when Viking told me. Weirdly it doesn’t seem to effect your likes as I just got the trophy double or nothing.

 

I didn’t realize until now just how many posts that free association thread had 162k sure like 14k are mine but that’s still a lot.

 

I lost 10k.

 

Checked I was about 40k off 200k which is sorta sad. Who has 160k posts on a forum Star Wars forum when they aren’t that interested in Star Wars. Me. That’s who.

 

Just noticed some of the emotes have suddenly stopped working for me on chrome.



all show up with the broken image icon. The others seem to be fine.
(PC, Chrome 86)

Strangely enough, they're all fine on Edge.

 

The ones in your post are also OK on Firefox. Have you updated Chrome recently? You could try clearing your cache to see if that helps.

 

I haven't used Chrome - been fairly happy with Firefox so far.

 

Latest version is installed. Tried clearing the cache but that didn't do anything.
I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling later, when I've got the energy for it.

It's better than my school's server, which is a mess of legacy programs, defunct commands and broken desktop icons. I have two icons for chrome on my desktop at work, one for version 86, one for version 35. But they're identical so every time I click one its a pot-shot of 'will this website work?'. Also our desktop shortcut to the staff email opens in chrome 35. Urgh.

EDIT: not to mention half the links in the start menu no longer work.

 

It could be an add-on as well. In the Firefox forums they say if you think you are having a problem with an add-on or extension to try disabling them one at a time and see if that fixes the problem. If it does than you've found the culprit.

 

Good call, I'll try that first.

 

Sounds easier than reinstalling Chrome.

 

I'm also seeing it on my Android phone using Chrome. Same thing. I'll try the native browser later today.

 

No luck with disabling the extensions. I wonder if a chrome update has 'broken' something.
I'll fiddle about with it more later.

 

Are you seeing similar behavior on other sites or is it just here? It does sound like an update screwed something up.

 

Could it be your phone needs updating? That happens to me when IOS needs an update.


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Deliberate change by Google: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4926989725073408

To put that in layman's terms: Basically, the JCF is served securely over HTTPS (which is a good thing), but some of the emoticon images are hosted on a server which doesn't support HTTPS (which is not a good thing), so they are served over insecure HTTP. However, when an HTTPS page includes HTTP content, it weakens the security of the page.

Beginning with Chrome 86, released this month, Google Chrome is taking steps toward blocking all insecure images on HTTPS pages by default. (More precisely, it will attempt to load them over HTTPS anyway, and not fall back to HTTP if that fails.) This means that the emoticon images hosted on the non-HTTPS server will break by default on the newest versions of Chrome. While the user might be able to re-enable so-called mixed content, doing so is not recommended because it weakens security. Instead, the recommended solution is for the website owners to remove HTTP content from their site and include only HTTPS content in HTTPS sites.

I notice that many of the emoticon images are already served from this server (boards.theforce.net) and over HTTPS. I would suggest that the remaining non-locally hosted images be copied to and hosted on this server as well, and the problem will be solved.