Clean up, improve, retry arbitrarily every 10 seconds as to not shit up 4chan's servers even more.

4chan_x.user.js

@@ -2728,16 +2728,23 @@
         _ref = filesize.textContent.match(/(\d+)x/), _ = _ref[0], max = _ref[1];
         img.style.maxWidth = "-moz-calc(" + max + "px)";
       }
-      $.bind(img, 'error', function(e) {
+      $.bind(img, 'error', imgExpand.error);
-        thumb = this.previousSibling;
-        imgExpand.contract(thumb);
-        if (!g.dead) {
-          return setTimeout(imgExpand.expand, 1000, thumb);
-        }
-      });
       thumb.hidden = true;
       return $.add(a, img);
     },
+    error: function(e) {
+      var thumb;
+      thumb = this.previousSibling;
+      imgExpand.contract(thumb);
+      if (!g.dead) {
+        return setTimeout(imgExpand.retry, 10000, thumb);
+      }
+    },
+    retry: function(thumb) {
+      if (!(g.dead || thumb.hidden)) {
+        return imgExpand.expand(thumb);
+      }
+    },
     dialog: function() {
       var controls, delform, imageType, option, select, _i, _len, _ref;
       controls = $.el('div', {

script.coffee

@@ -2021,14 +2021,19 @@ imgExpand =
       filesize = $ 'span.filesize', a.parentNode
       [_, max] = filesize.textContent.match /(\d+)x/
       img.style.maxWidth = "-moz-calc(#{max}px)"
-    $.bind img, 'error', (e) ->
+    $.bind img, 'error', imgExpand.error
-      thumb = @previousSibling
-      imgExpand.contract thumb
-      unless g.dead
-        setTimeout imgExpand.expand, 1000, thumb
     thumb.hidden = true
     $.add a, img
 
+  error: (e) ->
+    thumb = @previousSibling
+    imgExpand.contract thumb
+    #navigator.online is not x-browser/os yet
+    #can't easily check if the image/post is deleted
+    setTimeout imgExpand.retry, 10000, thumb unless g.dead
+  retry: (thumb) ->
+    imgExpand.expand thumb unless g.dead or thumb.hidden
+
   dialog: ->
     controls = $.el 'div',
       id: 'imgControls'