@NordTheStarWizard naw, just kept hitting it by accident way back

@Glorfindel Can you please exempt your broken image fixer script from fixing old automatic bounty community promotion ads?

Those images were dynamic by nature and having them replaced with a static copy isn't helpful.

I've pinged the maintainer of that ad in a comment. If they don't respond or if they respond saying it's dead, would someone else like to make a new version? @rene perhaps?

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@starball too bad! ;)

@JourneymanGeek think it's finally dead for real, it didn't even onebox xkcd which is new (negative) record.

@Spevacus glad you like it! :D

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard yeah, @SPA is evangelist of it, which is fun to see, and some results aren't so terrible. ;)

@NordTheStarWizard the danger isn't the AI, it's the people misusing and abusing it in terrible ways. Using something meant for casual chats to write actual essays for you is clear example of that abuse, and it will only get worse.

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard it's not, it has been removed. But I think someone copied the code into some external site, will look later if I won't forget.

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what are you talking about? You commented on wrong post, there's no mention of any application so most likely that person won't have any idea what you mean either.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars It is about the application

Also, no edit was made to any of the posts there, so that just add to the confusion. Lack of coffee?

@ShadowWizardChasingStars One of my posts on Puzzling Meta (a post of that bounty ad to the 2019 Community Promotion Ads there) was edited by his script today

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog sigh.

What application???

@ShadowWizardChasingStars The server-side application that powers the bounty ad in the backend

SE app?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog what backend? It's image.

Anyway got to bail out, doesn't look like I'm going to understand, so hope you'll get whatever it is you want to get. :D

@ShadowWizardChasingStars No, it's not a static image. They ran an application that would serve a dynamically-generated image to indicate the number of active bounties on a given site. That application seems to have gone down, resulting in broken images on older Community Promotion Ads answers and the inability to use it in the future.

(as the people involved have a chance to actually understand the context.)

@ShadowWizardChasingStars basically there's some app someone runs that generates an image the ad picks up

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog on the other hand, is a 'wrong' static image 'worse' than a broken dynamic image?

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog yes, it is static image.

@JourneymanGeek If the application subsequently goes up again (if the original maintainer brings it online or someone else acquires the domain), these posts that were edited to have static archived copies will need to be mass rolled back.

There are two images in that Q&A thread. One, Two. Both static, even if you will say otherwise, you won't change that fact.

So no idea what's going on, cya!

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog If

Much better to replace it with text indicating it formerly contained a dynamic image but that it's broken now that the application serving it has gone down.

@ShadowWizardChasingStars puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/6607/revisions

First revision of that answer is serving an image from a Heroku app

also we have new community promotion ad posts yearly when they work

so a snapshot shows 'how it should work' rather than relying on an old and clearly unreliable external resource

and an automated script wouldn't know the difference

@JourneymanGeek Exempting images from herokuapp.com would work

He already has a system in place whereby the "source" links aren't added if the domain is in a list of given sources

Oh

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku "In August 2022, Heroku announced that its free plans would be discontinued, citing fraud and abuse as reasons for the change, leaving many customers upset.[14]"

I don't think its coming back

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@tripleee is gone already

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@ShadowWizardChasingStars Heh, I'll be honest, I've used Dall-E before to generate some background references and things, and it works quite nicely, but other than that...well my mixed feelings lean slightly towards the negative :,)

Oh also! I finished vocals for that song I sent the other day, if it's okay for me to send here?

@Pandya what is that?

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard sure.

@JNat another one for for the backlog stackexchange.com/users/27129856/musicbazzar?tab=accounts

Here's the song ^_^;; it kind of ties in with the story I've been working on... my voice still needs work though tinyurl.com/eleeza-cannot-sing

@JourneymanGeek we don't have a way to know if a status review is actually on the board for the team, right? Like this one for example: meta.stackexchange.com/q/295173

hm

@rene in theory anything we re-tag since the process started should get a ticket

okay, I cross-linked those reports now and status-review-ed on my site.

let's see what happens

@rene also Adam retagged it so... uh

SOMEONE was aware of it at some point.

But that was re-tagged before "The Process"™ ... all bets are off ....

@rene but staff tagged it

so your retag should create a a ticket, which is good enough

and if someone forgot, well that's a good reminder :D

I hope so.

I don't want to become an annoying factor in stand-ups of the dev-team. The flower did tag another 42 questions as [status-review] again

@rene meh where's the fun in that?

:D

More seriously - if its a bug, its a bug

so retagging's the right thing to do

We are essentially providing free QA :D

true that.

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard to my untrained ears that didn't sound bad at all. Thanks for sharing.

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard you sound fine

Thank you! ^_^;

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog so you want Glorfindel to leave broken images around just because it's dynamic? I don't think that's a good idea. It does not matter why it's broken.

If whatever generates it is ever fixed, you can always edit back the dynamic image.

@EleezatheOtherWorldWizard awesome!!

@rene with 4200 items network wide, it really won't matter, it's just a drop in ever growing sea.

And it's literally months since I saw even a single bug fixed outside their planned projects.

So as time goes by, I can see how the whole concept of the review queue is dwindling into the void.

So, there is only one possible conclusion, one thing to do. Last resort. I hate to do that, but....

goes to sleep

@ShadowWizardChasingStars tho... unless you're keeping track of all the retags (and they could miss some) how will you know?

@JourneymanGeek I look for status-completed tags. They do fix bugs in the new features they push, true, but there are hundreds of other bugs awaiting a fix, with status-review on them, and it just keeps growing, never shrinking.

In the past they had developer on 'bug watch", who could pick bugs from the queue and fix them, that's simply gone.

Also, some monthly stats about the percentage of status-review being, well, reviewed, and needless to say that also stopped, they won't put "0% done". lol

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@ShadowWizardChasingStars they might still, and they're occationally tardy with retagging

@ShadowWizardChasingStars nope, I am simply making my own fanart that are missing. Since there is basically 0 japan style MLP-EG....

also... have fun.

that said, even if it is not perfect, I prefer this one.

I love the Christmas Duck.

or maybe it is Snow Infinite.

ive dismissed the same notification 5 times now in the past 20 minutes