Whenever I have a group of direct linked images open in tabs, they go away when I restart my browser, and give either the standard browsing page with "Nobody here but us chickens!", or a 403 error. Is there some way to fix this?

Forewarning: I'm not one of the people who's actually particularly knowledgeable about how the site works, and networking of any kind is basically what I know the <i>least</i> about computer-wise, so I could be wrong.

Anyways.

<b>Short answer:</b> No.

<b>Long answer:</b> No, because (in order to avoid leeching) direct image links only works from within the site. This means if you open a link in a fresh tab via a bookmark / browser-saved tab / whatever, it wasn't directed <i>from</i> anywhere on the internet, let alone within E621, so the site says NO U.

don't leave em as direct linked, e6 doesn't like direct linked at ALL. just leave it on the page it was on and it will start up normally

Here's how it works. If you try to view an image, it checks the referrer field to make sure you're not hotlinking files. When your browser loads back up, it won't have that referrer data still attached, so in that case, it redirects you to a search for the md5 hash of the image. This would work fine except there's a bug and it adds some characters to the beginning of the md5 that breaks it.

If the md5 hash is, for example, 123456........., instead of searching for md5:123456......., it searches for md5:12/34/123456...., hence the "Nobody here but us chickens!" message. So it's best to just leave it on the post page instead of the image itself.

One thing that worked for me is to check if you are in e621 or e926, because it may be an image that "does not show anything" and the "parent" if it is show, and it will not be in e926 for that reason, only in e621

Also check if you are registered, more results usually come out like this

gabyfrosouwu said:
One thing that worked for me is to check if you are in e621 or e926, because it may be an image that "does not show anything" and the "parent" if it is show, and it will not be in e926 for that reason, only in e621

Also check if you are registered, more results usually come out like this

Bruh. Check the timestamps. You're quoting decade old thread for this. Those issues might have been solved now.