are you sure pic8 is down, or is it the host its redirecting you to that your ISP doesn't like?
if an image doesn't load, and you can load up https://pic8.co, it's probably an issue with the underlying host and your ISP.
bug reports are much appreciated. feel free to ping me next time
The issue seems to be this. There's a period of time where most pic8 images will not load, and then at some point later in the same day, maybe minutes, maybe a hr or two later, the same links all then open. This is a very frequent problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking and then unblocking the same links just a little while later.
It may very well be your ISP.
Pic8 refreshes the links which are served periodically.
If you pay attention, you'll notice that a given pic8 link (https://pic8.co/sh/blahblah) will redirect to different hosts throughout time (one time it may be imgbox, another time it redirects to jssocial, etc.)
So, if your ISP doesn't like some of the underlying image hosts that pic8 redirects to, then a given image may load at one time (serving a host your ISP is fine with) and later won't load (because it's now serving a host your ISP does not like)
At this moment, I have 6 tabs open, trying to view pic8 links that are in the New area, and none of them loaded until I let the tabs swirel for about 60 seconds. I was just about to close them all, giving up on any of them actually opening, when they suddenly all did.
What is this behavior all about?
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