Poll on solving the imgur issue

[LoyceV]

can images hosted at google-drive, one-drive, etc can be embedded into the posts?

Try it

if yes, then in my view that would be the best way of going forward, no third party websites required.

Unless you own Google and Microsoft, those are third party websites.

[IIrik11]

can images hosted at google-drive, one-drive, etc can be embedded into the posts?

Try it

if yes, then in my view that would be the best way of going forward, no third party websites required.

Unless you own Google and Microsoft, those are third party websites.

can't try as i don't use any cloud services.

and what i meant was the images u upload to ur own cloud account remain their.

unlike other third party services.

[joker_josue]

can images hosted at google-drive, one-drive, etc can be embedded into the posts?

Yes, that might even be possible. But it's not very practical.

But, the problem remains. If the user cancels the cloud service, the images will no longer appear in the forum.
What we wanted to avoid was that this happens whenever possible.

[libert19]

So when is poll result is going to be implemented?

[RickDeckard]

Sorry for bumping this but I was away for ~ 6 months and I have noticed that a majority of images linked in my posts are now broken (even though all of them are still available in my albums over at vgy.me). Did any decision came out of this discussion or is it something wrong on vgy.me end?

[acroman08]

Sorry for bumping this but I was away for ~ 6 months and I have noticed that a majority of images linked in my posts are now broken (even though all of them are still available in my albums over at vgy.me). Did any decision came out of this discussion or is it something wrong on vgy.me end?

I'm not sure if vgy.me got affected by what Theymos did but as far as I know, Theymos decided to block embedded images coming from Imgur. right now a lot of the members are using TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk which is created by joker_josue.

[OgNasty]

Sorry for bumping this but I was away for ~ 6 months and I have noticed that a majority of images linked in my posts are now broken (even though all of them are still available in my albums over at vgy.me). Did any decision came out of this discussion or is it something wrong on vgy.me end?

If I’m not mistaken someone wrote a script to upload all your images to talkimg and update all your urls but it involves downloading something and I’m not sure if the source code is available to review or if someone has already done so. That might be worth looking in to.

Edit: I looked over the script and gave it a shot. Seemed to work out pretty well.

[joker_josue]

Sorry for bumping this but I was away for ~ 6 months and I have noticed that a majority of images linked in my posts are now broken (even though all of them are still available in my albums over at vgy.me). Did any decision came out of this discussion or is it something wrong on vgy.me end?

If I’m not mistaken someone wrote a script to upload all your images to talkimg and update all your urls but it involves downloading something and I’m not sure if the source code is available to review or if someone has already done so. That might be worth looking in to.

Here is the script that you don't need to install, and runs directly in the browser, used by dozens of users: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5452662.0

[RickDeckard]

As of right now, all the links provided by vgy.me that I put inside the [img] tag always gives me the same result - broken image. I suppose that vgy.me is being prevented to being posted in the forum?

Thank you all for the scripts - If I am unable to get the images working here I will use these as a base for uploading to another host.

[joker_josue]

As of right now, all the links provided by vgy.me that I put inside the [img] tag always gives me the same result - broken image. I suppose that vgy.me is being prevented to being posted in the forum?

It is not the forum that is blocking these images. It could be vgy.me that could be blocking the forum's image proxy.
I don't remember this host causing any problems. But, it could be happening.

[LoyceV]

It could be vgy.me that could be blocking the forum's image proxy.

I'm surprised not more image hosts do that. Hotlinking is expensive and doesn't earn them anything from advertising.

[Richy_T]

if yes, then in my view that would be the best way of going forward, no third party websites required.

Unless you own Google and Microsoft, those are third party websites.

Sorry to necro this but just to underscore this point, I went looking to find some old Risto Pietila pics recently and many were no longer available, some on Google. Presumably his account has been shut down due to inactivity since he passed away. A tragedy in many ways.

Truly better would be for bitcointalk to have its own image hosting and/or be a lot better on keeping pictures when there's a miss on updating.