Hello Mojang,

my name is Razen and I'm the administrator of one of the largest head-databases for Minecraft including 15.000 decoration heads. Today a user came up with a problem - a few of the heads didnt seem to work anymore.
https://minecraft-heads.com/forum/other-suggestions/1098-mislabled-name-tag-inspection?start=5#2219

So I had a closer look at the reported heads - and a lot more: The give-codes looked perfectly ok. I decoded the values within the give-code with base64 and checked the URL - and the URL leads to nothing:

http://textures.minecraft.net/texture/220c3b2bbfa1ed3ac8c35b3dd38247456563c92acefd5926b125ccc67d7d5fd

The skins on the servers are used for the image generation, so I know the URL was correct once - but the skin is gone. I validated more skins and according to what I saw, I'm afraid several thousands skins of the whole database are lost. But why? Is there a way to retrieve them? Without the guarantee that Mojang stores the "old skins" of a user as a snapshot on the Mojang-Servers, a database like that would not be possible anymore and the community would lose a lot... so please tell me what happened and how the future of the skins will look like.

Bye

Razen

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