For those among us, who (like me) prefer to have their pics on their own rented webspace.
basicly there are two options of space - “free” or rented.
“free” means advertisement funded. Your pics are just the excuse for an advertisement-site. They usually have no obligation to you or your pics.
rented means you pay some money and the provider keeps your content as safe as possible - as long as you pay. (a back-up on your own PC makes sense anyhow)
when you rent webspace, they offer you something called security certificates. for a price.
supposedly these certificates “protect” your content.
in reality the modern ransom hackers are not even slowed down by these certificates, if they go after your content.
so, what do these certificates do? - they change the URL (the address) of your pics.
the normal beginning of an URL is : http
with certificate that changes to: https
let’s try a simple http URL:
i inserted the URL to this text box, but the forum software added brackets, or shows a placeholder instead of showing the pic.
(the reader can open the pic in an extra tab)
if i insert the URL and add a “s” to the http, there we go:
so, by adding an “s”, we can make our pics visible.
the same applies for repairing the old posts. adding the “s” and delete the round brackets.
only difference - there might be some more signs directly to the left of the opening round bracket. they need to be eliminated too.
to cite Mr. Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times
(btw. the same happens on mls and gsc. modern software…)