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If someone posted image that's hosted on imageshack, it will be shown only if the requirement is met :
- It's not a direct link image (thumbnail will be shown without problem)
- If it's a direct link image, the visitor must use US / UK IP or the owner of the website already register the domain

Otherwise, visitors will get the frog image like this :
http://imageshack.us/img/blocked_login.jpg

Since there're more than 8050 images
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:bitcointalk.org+imageshack

hosted on imageshack by bitcointak's user, it would be a wise move for the Administrator of this website to register bitcointalk.org domain here :
http://stream.imageshack.us/content.php?page=register_domain

Example of problem (if you're inside US / UK, use proxy / VPN from other country beside US and UK, you'll get the frog images) :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88481.0

More article about this can be found by googling easily :
http://www.techlineinfo.com/now-imageshack-service-is-not-available-for-unregistered-domains/

This +1. Theymos!!!  ;D

Will that even work? Bitcointalk uses https:// for everything, and referrers are never passed when in secure mode like that. Or does imageshack try to scrape the thread and then authorize it? That would be unlikely and doubtful.

I didn't know people still used imageshack.

Why not use imgur instead?

They are using imageshack. I see the frog image all over the forums as my IP isn't from the US/UK range.  :'(

True. It wouldn't work.

Is it fixed now? Imageshack links are now automatically translated so they take you through a proxy.

Looks working fine now, checked on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66337.0 and all images load for me.

Press Shift + Refresh if you're still viewing the frog image to force clear the browser's cache.

Thanks Theymos.

Yep, confirmed working. Thanks theymos!!

It'd be cool if someone would set up a proxy that added a "Stop using Imageshack" watermark to the image.

Why not use dropbox and host images by HTTPS?

That's what I do.

Not sure why you would bother, an imgur account is free for most users, and you can just make another one if you run out of space. Usually fast and nice organizational tools and stuff.

Also, now none of the images load for me, and if I visit the link manually I get an error that says you aren't allowed to hotlink proxified images.

Ditto. I was reading this thread yesterday wondering what the hell everyone was so happy about considering no imageshack images load.

Well, imgur is nice n all, I like https as imgur does not offer this. Plus, using https images does not break the bitcointalk.org's security.

All that does is make the little "lock" go away, it doesn't make it in any way insecure.

Hmm how about --> http://imgair.net ?

P.s I run it :P its been running for the last 1.5 years, host about ~20k images, 4 servers behind it, should work :)

The problem is existing posted images and future user content, since you can't really tell everyone never to use imageshack again. Unless you run an imageshack proxy?

Hmm true moving old posted images would take a while to do unless there's someone can code up something, i'll be more than happy to work with them to get the images ported over to imgair..

Nah, I don't run an imageshack proxy, the images are stored on our server's (in USA, UK and Italy) :P

Is it working now?

It is now, via anonymouse, just a tad slow though.

Imageshack sucks.  Imgur rocks.

It didn't when you could backdoor torrent downloads for free.

Edit: that was off topic. sorry.