Status Link does not Display Image in Certain Instances
By Josh Lewis on Monday, 15 September 2014
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I'll start off by saying that this is not the Stacked team's fault. Instead this is an issue created by a special scenario. When sharing a link to an external page of mine (I own the content, but not the site) the first 7 thumbnails are blank. Here's a screen shot to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:



The 8th image and beyond display just fine. You can test this yourself using the following link in ES:
http://www.summitpost.org/going-for-the-gusto-a-two-day-climb-on-the-torment-forbidden-traverse/875849

This is due to some sort of pagespeed that is being applied to the images themselves that do not use proper image paths. Here is a sample of one of the first 7 invalid images:

<img src='data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAkAAAAJCAAAAADF+lnMAAAAAnRSTlMA/1uRIrUAAAAYSURBVAjXY/gPAwyorA4MVgcI4JTFMAUAc51MgSsWyGIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=' pagespeed_url_hash="4028611926" onload="pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);">


So what we need is for a way to exclude images like this. Either parse out invalid images or check the other attributes in these cases.
Thanks for the heads up on this. This will be addressed in the next release.
Mark
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Monday, 15 September 2014 15:33
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Perhaps this didn't make it into the ES 1.3.3 release? No biggie, just giving a reminder for it in ES 1.3.4. I hope I don't sound too expecting.
Josh Lewis
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:50
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Josh, it's actually included in the release and it's probably not working for you because of the URL caches. Try purging the cache at the back end and see if that works for you?
Mark
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:37
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This works on my main site (I never linked to that page before on my main site). On my test site I'm pleased to see this working on other links, but it is not working on the specific example mentioned above. I cleared ES's cache, Joomla expired cache, and my browser cache. I even tried looking for it in the smart search.

The reason I want to resolve this is because I want to know where this data is being cached, and be able to clear it as needed when these cases arise.
Josh Lewis
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:00
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I realized that I don't have link image caching on, so this has me wondering even more why there appears to be some sort of cache issue going on.
Josh Lewis
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:49
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What is the URL that you are trying to share
Mark
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:51
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This one: http://www.summitpost.org/going-for-the-gusto-a-two-day-climb-on-the-torment-forbidden-traverse/875849

Note that the issue will probably only occur on my test site.
Josh Lewis
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 00:05
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Hello Josh,

I have just tested this locally and it seems to be working fine for me as you can see here, http://screencast.com/t/MasiCvDQ1 . Can you please advise?
Mark
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014 18:14
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