Placeholder.com no longer provides placeholder images

[bragle]

In March, placeholder.com was acquired by a warehouse space company and no longer serves placeholder images. I'd be happy to provide a PR, but I'm not sure how cases like this should be handled since there's no way to really deprecate the function

[ST-DDT]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

I think having a deprecation PR asap will raise the awareness of this change. Then we can check whether there is a replacement domain or whether we have to remove the method in v9. We plan to release v8.2 tomorrow. So it would be nice to have the deprecation in there. Do you have enough free time to do the PR?

[ST-DDT]

FFR:

• https://fakerjs.dev/api/image.html#urlplaceholder
• https://github.com/faker-js/faker/blob/fd6557e4/src/modules/image/index.ts#L280
• https://via.placeholder.com/150x180/FF0000/FFFFFF.webp?text=lorem

The images still seem to work.

[ST-DDT]

We should check first whether they plan to continue their service.

[xDivisionByZerox]

List of websites providing similar servies:

• placehold.co
• place-hold.it
• images.placeholders.dev
• dummyimage.com - website is fludded with ad's but API seems to work fine

[bragle]

You're right. I may very well be mistaken. Would probably be a good idea to get in touch with the owner of placeholder.com first. Sorry for not doing a more thorough check. Maybe the owner just wanted to open a warehouse space company and kept the previous service running, hehe 😸

[ST-DDT]

Team Decision

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The API seems to work perfectly for now. We will monitor the situation and consider adding alternative url providers.