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Decline PSA regarding Wikia images

Nano

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Grab the Codex by the pussy Strap Yourselves In
Because apparently people haven't figured it out yet.

Hotlinking images from Wikia doesn't work anymore, it only results in a blank white square. Unfortunately, you can't just use the URL to upload pictures to Imgur instead, nor can you download them and upload them to Imgur from there - this is due to the WebP format that Wikia uses now.

There are two ways to get around this: (1) Find the picture you want to post somewhere else, or (2) use Internet Explorer to download the picture to your PC and upload it to Imgur from there - IE is too dumb and old to understand WebP and saves them as JPGs instead.

Alternatively, if you come across a post where someone hitlinked a Wikia image, you can just open the white square in a new tab to look at it, assuming you care enough.

Edit: Method number 3: Edit out everything after the .jpg or .png in the link. Example:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/p...st/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20200102175810

Turn that into this:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/plantsvszombies/images/6/63/PvZ2Logo-0.png

And it seems to hotlink just fine.

PvZ2Logo-0.png

Yeah, that's probably a lot less complicated.
 
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Wunderbar

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Boomers like stalin brando will continue hotlinking images from wikia without checking whether it shows up or not, and will keep claiming that it works on their machine.
 

Ol' Willy

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Boomers like stalin brando will continue hotlinking images from wikia without checking whether it shows up or not, and will keep claiming that it works on their machine.
The worst part about this if you try to embed the image with all the trash that comes after .file_format it actually imbeds just fine - until the first refresh, that is

latest


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Gastrick

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Method 4: Printscreen then crop only the image and save it as a JPG.
 

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