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fix: source.unsplash.com/random was deprecated in 2024 (now 503s)#393

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src/components/Gallery.mdx references the deprecated source.unsplash.com/* endpoint, which Unsplash retired in mid-2024 and which now returns HTTP 503 instead of an image.


Why this is needed

source.unsplash.com/random (and related endpoints like /featured, /collection/<id>) was deprecated by Unsplash in mid-2024. These URLs now return HTTP 503 instead of an image, so browsers render a broken-image icon in place of the intended visual.

Verify in any shell:

curl -sI https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x600 | head -1
# HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

What this PR changes

Fixes the 9 broken image URLs in the Gallery.mdx docs component page — both the 8-image array example and the Playground default — so the GetStream react-activity-feed Gallery docs render correctly for every developer browsing the component.

Replacement details

Each gallery slot gets a unique seed (gallery-1..8 + gallery-playground) so the Gallery component demo actually shows 8 distinct images (the point of the component). All original dimensions (800x600, 800x601, 800x603, 840x600, 820x600, 500x500, 300x300, 420x420) preserved.

Background

I'm tracking the deprecated source.unsplash.com/* endpoints across public repos as part of tteg, a tiny CLI/HTTP API I built so projects can drop in real Unsplash photos without registering an Unsplash app or managing API keys. tteg isn't introduced as a dependency by this PR — the diff is dependency-free picsum.photos. If you want topic-matched real photos as a follow-up, the no-key HTTP API is at https://tteg-api-53227342417.asia-south1.run.app/search?q=<query>&n=1 (CORS-on, no auth).

One extra artifact you may find handy: a public scanner at https://tteg.kushalsm.com/scan?url= that highlights this same broken-URL pattern in any landing page — useful for verifying the fix lands and for finding other places source.unsplash.com/random slipped in. Source: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg-landing/blob/main/scan.html.

Research note covering ~16,500 files across ~885 unique repos that still hotlink the deprecated endpoint: https://github.com/kiluazen/tteg/blob/research-note-autark/RESEARCH.md.

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