Images from Imgur have been restored

[joker_josue]

When the imgur people made a decision that caused all the broken pictures in the forums, there were forum users who rushed to find solutions like TryNinja and even joker_josue had created the image hosting site TalkImg.

Just a note on the timeline of events.

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur. That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

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[libert19]

Already replaced mine using Tryninja's script and have been using Talkimg for all new image uploads, better use bitcointalk product for bitcointalk things.

Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit.

Dunno stats but I'd go with reddit, it has significantly higher user base compared to bitcointalk and most of them use imgur, it was redditor's go-to before Reddit started to host images and even after doing so users preferred imgur.

[yhiaali3]

That's good to hear but I personally have given up on imgur and now use the www.talkimg.com service that joker_josue created as a very good alternative.

talkimg.com is easier to use and much better also joker_josue added BBcode for thumbnail, medium or full image, this is really cool and easy to use.

So it's good that all the members of the BitcoinTalk forum are migrating to the new service.

[Synchronice]

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.

Most of their users aren't from bitcointalk but probably from Reddit. Bitcointalk just doesn't have that many active users to make an impact on Imgur. By the way, it's quite interesting if people move backto Imgur or Talkimg is going to take the place of it. For me, it turned into a habit to use Talkimg on this forum.

When the imgur people made a decision that caused all the broken pictures in the forums, there were forum users who rushed to find solutions like TryNinja and even joker_josue had created the image hosting site TalkImg.

Just a note on the timeline of events.

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur. That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

I think you have a man in Imgur and were informed that this would happen and took an advantage earier. Okay, I'm just kidding. Yeah, the timing was perfect and I think it gave a boost to the adoption of Talkimg. You have up to 4GB of images hosted on your website as it seems from your publicly available backup, did you expect such a big growth in such a short time?

[aylabadia05]

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur.

We saw when you first created a topic on April 28, 2023 on TalkImg. The Imgur issue surfaced in early May and I am very pleased that your work has been dedicated to the bitcointalk forum.
One of the members who comes from my local, namely Indonesia, also helps translate the TalkImg project into our local language so that local members can see your work.

That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

Not because of them TalkImg came up. Nice assertion.
They should be aware that many forum members have promoted their hosting services.

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

We have to thank you for this initiative.
Previously we also had LoyceV, TryNinja and DdmrDdmr who have produced invaluable work for the advancement of the forum.

[joker_josue]

You have up to 4GB of images hosted on your website as it seems from your publicly available backup, did you expect such a big growth in such a short time?

I didn't expect such rapid growth. I expected to reach this value only in about 6 months. But, everything turned out very quickly, and what I had planned to invest in six months, I had to invest at the end of a week of the project.

I'm glad it was well accepted.

[nakamura12]

To be honest, before imgur have been restored, I was waiting that maybe a few days, weeks or a month where images uploaded on imgur will display on Bitcointalk forum once again and I didn't expect that it didn't take long before imgue have been restored. I was planning to edit my old posts that contains images but I was thinking that, what if the images uploaded on imgur will display again on this forum. The reason for not editing my old posts might be a waste of time because the images are now displayed once again where the time spend editing the posts would be better spend doing other things like learning more or other important tasks or goal.

[aylabadia05]

To be honest, before imgur have been restored, I was waiting that maybe a few days, weeks or a month where images uploaded on imgur will display on Bitcointalk forum once again and I didn't expect that it didn't take long before imgue have been restored. I was planning to edit my old posts that contains images but I was thinking that, what if the images uploaded on imgur will display again on this forum. The reason for not editing my old posts might be a waste of time because the images are now displayed once again where the time spend editing the posts would be better spend doing other things like learning more or other important tasks or goal.

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.



It seems those of us who use image hosting to create posts should take the time to get things right. and yes TalkImg is the image hosting I will make my choice.
At first I also thought like you to delay fixing invalid images, but now imgur is back at it again.

[acroman08]

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.

it looks like theymos would have to implement the second option 2 on the poll thread he created. it'll become annoying if this keeps happening, it would be much better if the broken Imgur images are turned into links.

[STT]

I will switch over to TalkIMG if possible but I upload graphs from all markets to imgur (account) anyway, just as an online album I can keep.    So Im not sure if they are tightening up access to be purely only via their website, not their current policy but seems they might go that way as its just a repeat of history from prior image hosts Ive used and I lost anything I put there eventually.
  I often put media on Twitter though its not really supposed to be used as a host in that way, again mostly its for my own reference over time.   Imgur is not really working 100% I guess  I was not posting inline just as a URL link surely that'd be ok.  I use a hover extension that displays it just fine most of the time, not everywhere likes such usage but imgur used to be an exception to these hassles. 
  Hyperlinks have been the backbone of the web for decades now, blocking even that is sacrilege ; but of course due to traffic it happens I understand.  No idea who currently owns Imgur or who has taken it over etc.   I missed any rule change here on this forum in particular if there was one, obviously I try to avoid anything that returns a bad or missing img/link

[UserU]

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.



It seems those of us who use image hosting to create posts should take the time to get things right. and yes TalkImg is the image hosting I will make my choice.
At first I also thought like you to delay fixing invalid images, but now imgur is back at it again.

Affected my previous links as well. Might never know if Imgur decides to pull another fast one.

[ImThour]

That's a piece of great news. I had almost 30+ charts and I used Imgur to post them on the forum. They weren't loading making the whole thread useless.
Glad they fixed it and decided to go with our community. Meanwhile talkimg was made and I think we should continue to use that, it's developed by our own forum member.

[LTU_btc]

That's a piece of great news. I had almost 30+ charts and I used Imgur to post them on the forum. They weren't loading making the whole thread useless.
Glad they fixed it and decided to go with our community. Meanwhile talkimg was made and I think we should continue to use that, it's developed by our own forum member.

I think you're missing latest news - images from Imgur isn't shown again. Just look at topic that you made and you'll see Bitcointalk image proxy in place of your images again.
So, now it would best to reupload your images to TalkImg. Even if imgur issue will be solved, they're not reliable anymore.