Image Disappeared from Posted Thought

Bug Report: Post Media URL Expiration

Platform: UareAI (beta)

Summary: Images attached to published posts are served from ephemeral blob storage URLs that expire after an indeterminate period, causing post media to silently disappear.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Generate media via the AI twin interface. Media is assigned a URL at feedassets.blob.core.windows.net.

2. Publish a post with that image attached.

3. Return to the published post after the blob URL TTL has elapsed.

4. Post renders with a broken image.

Expected Behavior: Published post media should be served from a persistent, CDN-backed storage layer with no expiration. Once a post is published, its media URL should be permanent.

Actual Behavior: The blob storage URL expires. The image silently disappears from the published post with no error state or fallback displayed.

Root Cause Hypothesis: Media generated during a session is written to temporary blob storage scoped to that session or a short TTL window. There is no apparent copy-on-publish step that migrates the asset to a permanent media store before the post goes live.

Suggested Fix: On publish, copy or re-reference the media asset to a permanent storage bucket. The post record should store the permanent URL, not the ephemeral generation URL.

Severity: High. This affects every published post containing generated media and is especially critical for a digital legacy platform where content permanence is a core value proposition.

Reported by: Brien Kautz, beta user