I made my own website using the free version of [wordpress.com](https://wordpress.com) but at a certain point the image and gif files are not loading anymore… I don’t have any plugins. I took a look at my media library but now they are all greyed out like this, which means they’re not getting loaded correctly anymore I guess?
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[Media Library Screen Capture](https://preview.redd.it/fai45fqqomjc1.png?width=930&format=png&auto=webp&s=848918439ad07c73c2c1ad33f1cccaefbcac8e96)Also when I try to access the uploaded WordPress links of those individual media files it gives me a 400 bad request error. Anyone know what’s causing this? Does it just mean I have to start paying now?
How many media files do you have already uploaded there? There is a limit to the total amount of files and sizes and things that you can upload to the free accounts there.
I’m currently experiencing the same problem – pages I built years ago and never changed are now suddenly showing broken images (400 errors when I try to open them alone), but I see no indication of WordPress admitting there’s a downage of any sort, and the image files being referenced in my pages do still exist on the server.
I’m not sure what’s going on, but you’re not alone.
What is DevTools > Console saying?
My gosh, this is a bit of a relief seeing you’re having trouble too (awful as that sounds). I just came to this subreddit in mild desperation after Google failed to help me find a solution. I haven’t touched any of my media files recently, but almost all of them are grayed out and don’t show up on their pages. I’m on the free plan too, though I’m not sure if that’s significant. I haven’t seen any news on WordPress being down yet.
Happening to me as well, I haven’t touched anything in a month but when I loaded my site today, all of the images are doing this too.