arstechnica.com: main/top article image not displayed Topic is solved

[back2themoon]

Example: (occurs on all articles)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12 ... g-quality/

ars.png

Seeing lots of these font errors:

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downloadable font: not usable by platform (font-family: "Exo 2" style:normal weight:600 stretch:normal src index:0) source: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/themes/ars-v9/public/fonts/7cHmv4okm5zmbtYoK-4.a71c5e.woff2
app.5ad0c6.css:1:37696
downloadable font: not usable by platform (font-family: "Source Sans 3" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:0) source: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/themes/ars-v9/public/fonts/nwpStKy2OAdR1K-IwhWudF-R3w8aZQ.bf9a29.woff2
app.5ad0c6.css:1:24969
downloadable font: not usable by platform (font-family: "Source Sans 3" style:italic weight:normal stretch:normal src index:0) source: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/themes/ars-v9/public/fonts/nwpMtKy2OAdR1K-IwhWudF-R3woqZ-LY.802cca.woff2
app.5ad0c6.css:1:19694
downloadable font: not usable by platform (font-family: "Faustina" style:normal weight:600 stretch:normal src index:0) source: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/themes/ars-v9/public/fonts/XLYlIZPxYpJfTbZAFV-_Hcw.6df07f.woff2
app.5ad0c6.css:1:45997
Error: Chargebee script failed to load

[adoxa]

It's using unsupported aspect-ratio, here's a userstyle workaround (may need to adjust it to suit your display).

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@-moz-document domain("arstechnica.com") {
  .aspect-video { height: 20vw; }
}

[back2themoon]

Many thanks, adoxa.

[Mæstro]

Hero image has been an established name for such images leading an article for over a decade. For my part, I would consider their failure to display a feature, not a bug.
I block images over fifty kilobytes using µBlock by default, suppressing hero images in general.

[back2themoon]

@Mæstro: didn't understand any of that.

@adoxa: height: 19vw; was the sweet spot here.