Update

Getting ready (at last) to start the next story here, but I’ve noticed something disturbing. You may have too if you tried clicking on an image to see the hires version and it went to a page-not-found error.

It seems Tumblr likes to change their servers (or server names more precisely) over time. 

So, for instance, I might have this in HTML (roughly speaking)

<a href=“67.tumblr.com/myimage1280.png”><img href=“67.tumblr.com/myimage540.png”></a> 

– that would take you to the 1280 image when you click the 540 image.  All fine and dandy.  But it appears that Tumblr sometimes changes their server names. so 67.tumblr.com suddenly becomes an invalid server name.  When they do this, apparently they’re kind enough to change all your <img> links to another server.  But they don’t change the links.  So I end up with:

<a href=“67.tumblr.com/myimage1280.png”><img href=“40.tumblr.com/myimage540.png”></a> 

I can still see the low res 540 image, so it doesn’t break the blog entry. But it does break the hires link.

This is even worse on Sofurry where I mimic the HTML and BOTH low and hires images get broken when they do this.  Fortunately, any URL pointing to a VALID servername works fine.  So the hires images are still out there, just their URLs have changed.  So I can go in and edit the above to this:

<a href=“40.tumblr.com/myimage1280.png”><img href=“40.tumblr.com/myimage540.png”></a>  

and it works just fine. (Till they shuffle the ‘40.’ server anyway!)

So lately I’ve been going in and updating the URLs so the hires images work again.

tl/dr? No sweat.  I’m working on fixing hires images first. That’s all.