Images from Imgur have been restored

[jayce]

I was about to update my thread by replacing the broken imgur images, but found out that all of them have been restored. Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit. I hope there will be no change again on imgur so it saves my time to update all of the unrestored images for my clients. However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

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[Nwada001]

I just checked through all my post histories with images, and I notice that all have been restored. This is something amazing; maybe Imgur might have checked through their traffic and seen the reduction since their upgrade ended up stopping BTT users and Reddit users from enjoying their service.

Or maybe Thymos has found a new way to resolve the issue since his last thread seeking a possible solution to the issue.🤔🤔

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Sweet, thanks for posting this update.  I haven't really been paying attention to the imgur situation, but I've seen a few threads about it and saw that some images had disappeared, so I gathered that there was a problem using them to host pics for use on the forum.  I've posted a lot of screenshots and whatnot using imgur, but it's not as if it'd break my heart if they no longer showed up in my posts (which are likely long since buried under the mountain of other posts and threads that keeps growing by the minute).

I'm too lazy to search the forum for answers, so what was the problem?  It wasn't just a bitcointalk and reddit issue, was it?

Edit: Whoops, never mind.  I just saw Theymos's thread pop to the surface and will read it now.

[un_rank]

I'm too lazy to search the forum for answers, so what was the problem?  It wasn't just a bitcointalk and reddit issue, was it?

No, it was not solely a bitcointalk or reddit issue, but affected both forums significantly.
Imgur made changes to their domain name, from imgur.com to imgur.io, and along with this made changes to their terms of service which invalidates any old image not linked to a registered account on imgur. This lead to so many images posted on the forum through them being broken at the time.

I think this was the first thread ^[1] on the issue.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5452415.20

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[jayce]

I just checked through all my post histories with images, and I notice that all have been restored. This is something amazing; maybe Imgur might have checked through their traffic and seen the reduction since their upgrade ended up stopping BTT users and Reddit users from enjoying their service.

Or maybe Thymos has found a new way to resolve the issue since his last thread seeking a possible solution to the issue.🤔🤔

Yeah not sure what they thought in the first place. They tried hardly to be a new 9gag and ignored the fact that most people were just using their service as image hosting only.

Sweet, thanks for posting this update.  I haven't really been paying attention to the imgur situation, but I've seen a few threads about it and saw that some images had disappeared, so I gathered that there was a problem using them to host pics for use on the forum.  I've posted a lot of screenshots and whatnot using imgur, but it's not as if it'd break my heart if they no longer showed up in my posts (which are likely long since buried under the mountain of other posts and threads that keeps growing by the minute).

I'm too lazy to search the forum for answers, so what was the problem?  It wasn't just a bitcointalk and reddit issue, was it?

Edit: Whoops, never mind.  I just saw Theymos's thread pop to the surface and will read it now.

I was ready to explain it but theymos beat me

[imamusma]

However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

Have you tried using imgur again this time?
I thought we could all just watch the image shown, but now theymos seem to have made their decision.

I've tried it, but;

Embedding imgur links is not supported in new posts

So I thought imgur is no longer allowed to be used to post image on forum since theymos made his new rules, and now talkimg and imgbb are the solution.

[jayce]

However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

Have you tried using imgur again this time?
I thought we could all just watch the image shown, but now theymos seem to have made their decision.

I've tried it, but;

Embedding imgur links is not supported in new posts

So I thought imgur is no longer allowed to be used to post image on forum since theymos made his new rules, and now talkimg and imgbb are the solution.

Yes I tried to upload one of my imgur images here as a proof but got an error, yet I thought perhaps it's a temporary error. Then I saw theymos post and yeah, seems we cant use imgur permanently.

[uchegod-21]

They tried hardly to be a new 9gag and ignored the fact that most people were just using their service as image hosting only.

Please, apart from image hosting, what other services does imgur offer? I don't even bother to browse the site let alone to create an account. I knew them through this forum

Embedding imgur links is not supported in new posts

So I thought imgur is no longer allowed to be used to post image on forum since theymos made his new rules, and now talkimg and imgbb are the solution.

Oops! That's a harsh decision on them from theymos, but I have nothing to say than they deserve it.

[sokani]

This is indeed a very good news for the Bitcointalk community. Imagining going through some old topics posted many years back and not been able to grasp the information that is been passed because of imgur broken images.

From the business perspective imgur tend to loose more because they lost the traffic that they would have generated from our forum members and other platforms the stop supporting. Also, they have tarnish their image as users will start resorting to other image hosting sites. Thank God we now have our own image hosting site created by a forum member.

[_BlackStar]

Thank for the news, jayce. Of course now all my images are displaying properly ^{[especially those on imgur].} So far I've used other image hosting services instead of imgur since they created some mess for forum users. They lost a lot of visitors and that has made their site traffic go down, but that is not our responsibility.

And now that theymos have prevented us from using imgur, it's worth it.

[Stalker22]

They tried hardly to be a new 9gag and ignored the fact that most people were just using their service as image hosting only.

Please, apart from image hosting, what other services does imgur offer? I don't even bother to browse the site let alone to create an account. I knew them through this forum

As far as I know, Imgur still primarily focuses on image hosting, and it remains one of the most popular image hosting sites on the internet. But in recent years, they also include video hosting, community features such as commenting and upvoting, and the ability to create memes using their built-in meme generator tool. Imgur also has a messaging feature that allows users to share images and videos privately with others.

Embedding imgur links is not supported in new posts

So I thought imgur is no longer allowed to be used to post image on forum since theymos made his new rules, and now talkimg and imgbb are the solution.

Oops! That's a harsh decision on them from theymos, but I have nothing to say than they deserve it.

Yeah. They were the standard for a long time, and I used them frequently on this site. But considering the recent problems, I support this decision.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

It was a very serious case that some people who don't even have access to their image again apart from on the Bitcointalk forum were really thinking of how they could get back those pictures to reupload them again, because I saw that there was no user I ever came across who gave a fuck about the error images; they were just there. Although most of my images do not have those errors because I did not use Imgur to host them, but it's good imgur chosed to restore back to the old domain; otherwise, they would have lost a lot of customers, and perhaps some people are already making their choices for Talkimg.com to improve their image.

[LTU_btc]

Thanks for information. I planned to replace some of my imgur links with talkimg links. Not all, because big part of these my post isn't relevant anymore. So, seems that I will not have to do it, I'll keep old imgur links.
theymos disabled adding new images, but it's not problem at all when we have alternative, which maybe even better than imgur.

[royalfestus]

It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images. Everyone felt helpless and unsure of what to do, particularly the original poster (OP) of the announcement thread and the bounty managers.

[Upgrade00]

It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images.

Already done

[examplens]

I'm too lazy to search the forum for answers, so what was the problem?  It wasn't just a bitcointalk and reddit issue, was it?

I would even say that this measure is mostly aimed at NSFW content, Bitcointalk had no need for it. But as far as I can see, Uploading NSFW images straight to Reddit is also now allowed.

It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images. Everyone felt helpless and unsure of what to do, particularly the original poster (OP) of the announcement thread and the bounty managers.

I guess you didn't see this TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk

[Agbe]

I was about to update my thread by replacing the broken imgur images, but found out that all of them have been restored. Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit. I hope there will be no change again on imgur so it saves my time to update all of the unrestored images for my clients. However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

That is a nice move from imgur website and site management. But since we have one of us here as already created image hosting site for the forum, we should encourage him and patronize him to use the site, so that even if in case there is image break out from the site he can fix it very fast since he is with us. Though using imgur and TalkImg is for a personal choice. You can use anyone at the time of using the image.

[BitMaxz]

Almost all old post posts are using imgur to host image I almost see images with proxy invalid to all old post but after this news trying to access those thread again all images is now fine.

However, imgbb is a great option when imgur is down this is the only option that works on the forum recently.

[PX-Z]

However, imgbb is a great option when imgur is down this is the only option that works on the forum recently.

That's what i'm using years already actually because imgur cannot be used in smartphone browsers without downloading their app, although you can, if you will switch to desktop mode, but it's annoying to use desktop mode in phone browsers.

[logfiles]

The question is, have they also reversed their decision to remove old images that are not linked to any account from their platform as par the update they made in their terms of service?

Because it would make no sense to continue using Imgur if the images are going to be deleted in the near future anyway. I wouldn't want to create an account on Imgur just to upload images in the forum.