Too Clever By Half: Blogger Gets Harder to Use

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A Major Problem with Images Not Showing Up On Blogger!

A Major Problem with Images Not Showing Up On Blogger!

As of today April 18, 2020, many images (but not all) in recent Blog entries have become inaccessible, do not display and are replaced with a "no go sign".

Such as here https://horolex3133.blogspot.com/2020/04/blog-post_16.html

Never happened before, and I have plenty of space on my Google disk.

Images were all uploaded through blogger.

It has nothing to do with my computer or browser or provider as I checked it on a different one of each with the same sad result.

Also it appears no images are accessible at all through the From this Blog and Google Album Archive tabs when adding them to a new post.

Anybody know what's going on?

 And here is a reply from whoever:

Hi guys..

Thank you for the reports. Blogger is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. 

No timeframe given. Please wait patiently.

We've been waiting for three full days already.

I just hope that people's images have not become irrecoverable because, in addition to the loss of years of efforts, that would mean millions of broken links for Google bots to sift through and they aren't too clever to do that without further mucking things up.

Problem with Thumbnails in Blogger's Popular Posts Gadget

I couldn't help noticing that there is a problem with pictures displaying incorrectly in the Blogger's Popular Posts Gadget when you tick "thumbnail". 

It fails to make a thumbnail of a picture that is inserted in a post via url (not being a link to Google's Picasa or Google Photos) from elsewhere on the Internet, that is, not uploaded to the post directly from computer.

Instead it displays a full-size picture in the Popular Posts gadgets which messes everything up.

Also, video thumbnails are not showing. 

The problem has existed for the past 4-5 days probably after Google's most recent updates. 

For this reason I had to un-tick "thumbnail" in my Pop Posts gadget.