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Since yesterday (?), I noticed that some images show just fine on the Stack Exchange sites but some don't.

For example, the uploaded image of this question on Cross Validated is shown like this (the image is not rendered):

screenshot of image not being rendered

and when I click the link, instead of the image, I see an error message:

oh no, that request didn't look right
RayID: 8a5f31156a098622

But on the same site, the uploaded image of this question is shown just fine:

plots comparing RMSE and MAE

I first thought it might be related to image size but the second image is fairly large. Why are some images shown correctly while others aren't?

The same thing happens on Stack Overflow too. For example, the images of this post show up just fine, but the images of this post don't.

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    For what it's worth, all the images that you say are not rendering, are rendering just fine for me. Commented Jul 20 at 1:44
  • @CaveJohnson so could it be a caching issue
    – cottontail
    Commented Jul 20 at 1:47
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    Probably another dupe of this.
    – user1502910
    Commented Jul 20 at 2:14
  • I actually think it is a dupe of that. I would guess something needs to kick a cache somewhere, but it's strangely hard to reproduce for staff to fix it. Commented Jul 20 at 3:57
  • @JourneymanGeek staff can't fix it, it's a CloudFlare bug. And if the rather small imgur couldn't care less for bugs affecting SE, good luck with the big CloudFlare. (i.e. this won't get fixed.) (On the bright side, at least they appear to not have critical bugs like e.g. CrowdStrike. ;-)) Commented Jul 20 at 6:02
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    One of the key-points of Stack Overflow was "make the internet a better place". That ship sailed with CoudFlare. It might work against a ddos attack but I have the feeling regular users are impacted more often then they wish to admit.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Jul 20 at 7:57
  • @rene true, SE pretty much lost control over its own content and the files it serves. Commented Jul 20 at 14:57

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