Imagehost Problems, Imagebam, Imagevenue, PimpAndHost, PixHost, ImgBox etc

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by Al Gebra

Sorry for seeming impertinent, this image is also corrupted on my side. I used different browsers (Firefox, Opera) and download helpers (DownThemAll!, Image HostGrabber). I'm not a computer geek, does anybody have an explanation how this can happen (antivirus software, browser add-ons, windows 10)? I never experienced something similar previously on any image host.

Originally Posted by beutelwolf

I have seen that sort of thing myself before. Not quite sure what precisely causes it, but I suspect that one download partially failed at some time, and the partial failure was at some level (not necessarily your computer) cached as "this is the picture". As long as the cache is not cleared that corrupt result will be repeated.

Accessing the thing via a proxy may circumvent the problem.

Just for the record and a matter of info, both open for me in their entirety with no problems.
I use Mozilla Firefox version 48.0 and Kaspersky anti-virus.

[buttsie]

These 2 pages show how complex the modern browser with its extensions, plugins
and settings really is...thats before you start thinking 3rd party software conflicts

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...o-fix-problems

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...s-fix-problems


I'd think a lot of these issues are one offs

If its anything at your ISPs end good luck
especially if you have ageing infrastructure about

[Fleabag]

Anyone else having problems logging in? Have been unable to gain access for the last 72 hours; continously timed out. Ideas/ suggestions?

[The Wolf Man]

Originally Posted by Fleabag

Anyone else having problems logging in? Have been unable to gain access for the last 72 hours; continously timed out. Ideas/ suggestions?

No problem logging in on my end. Using Firefox browser and located on east coast U.S.

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by Fleabag

Anyone else having problems logging in? Have been unable to gain access for the last 72 hours; continously timed out. Ideas/ suggestions?

No log in problems, but on a few occasions last week I was getting a "Server Not Found" pop-up which prevented me from navigating and even logging out.

[Sirch]

ImageBam says the images I uploaded " Has been banned from ImageBam". This happened before with a couple of images in another upload. But they weren't all "banned" so I don't think its a meta tag or file name issue. I can't think of another reason for this.

[The Wolf Man]

Originally Posted by Sirch

ImageBam says the images I uploaded " Has been banned from ImageBam". This happened before with a couple of images in another upload. But they weren't all "banned" so I don't think its a meta tag or file name issue. I can't think of another reason for this.

I have experienced that problem before, not much that can be done to remedy the problem that I know of.

[Clark Kent]

I'm having a big problem with imagevenue right now. On both my Android tablet and Windows 7 laptop, A LOT of links give me this error message:

Error 503 Service Unavailable

Service Unavailable

Guru Meditation:

XID: 980147698

Varnish cache server

[Sirch]

Originally Posted by The Wolf Man

I have experienced that problem before, not much that can be done to remedy the problem that I know of.

Thanks for your response. Just to double check I opened the images in Adobe Bridge and checked the Metadata in the images. There's nothing there. No producer name, model name, copyright, watermark. Image sizes are around 1.5 MB each so below the file size limit. Nothing for the host to read, which is the only way it could automatically "ban" images if they have a blacklist.

[The Wolf Man]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I'm having a big problem with imagevenue right now. On both my Android tablet and Windows 7 laptop, A LOT of links give me this error message:

It may be a temporary system glitch with imagevenue. I think all of these image hosts are flaky at one time or another, just hang in there.