This blog operates using the Google Blogger (aka Blogspot) service. Most of the images in the blog are stored using either Google Blogger storage or, more recently, the Google Drive cloud storage service (I do have links to my Microsoft Onedrive cloud storage, in some cases).
On January 10, 2024, Google implemented some sort of change to its Google Drive service that “broke” links to the image files being used as thumbnails in my (and many others) blog. It seems to impact blog posts going back to Spring 2018 when image storage was shifted to Google Drive.
The text in the posts render properly but the image placeholder is blank except for the image file name. Left clicking on the image placeholder will bring up the full size image. Right clicking brings up a context menu with multiple choices including “Open Image in New Tab” (or something similar depending on your browser). This choice will bring up the smaller thumbnail image. I only mention this to say that problem is with how Google Drive handles the web page’s HTML code’s request for the thumbnail image as the source for the full size image hyperlink.
I am hoping that the issue will be resolved soon. In the meantime, all the blog images are accessible but you just have to click on the image placeholder to see them.
