It takes only few seconds to right click, save and than upload any image and post link in forum.
I don't see how it can be so uncomfortable unless you are posting images with every single post you make, and that would be borderline crazy.
For 3 years, I have uploaded about 5,000 images to the forum. And if I uploaded absolutely all the pictures that are present in my posts to the hosting, this number would exceed 10,000 for sure.
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Yeah, we've already concluded that you are unique in this case.
There is no reason why you shouldn't find a way to make that job easier. Have you checked out the extension I
suggested? You can literally rehost any image from the Imgur servers with just a few clicks.
Thanks for the explanation. I also had suggestions that the medium did not like how I constantly use direct links to their content and decided to cut off this loophole.
You also have theymos' explanation, in case you missed it.
Medium is blocking the image proxy (ip.bitcointalk.org) from accessing its images. I don't try to bypass blocks like these.
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