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Wan Cabiness

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Jul 17, 2024, 11:17:00 AM7/17/24

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Historically it was fairly easy to upload content to Imgur as an anonymous user and link to it from a post here. It's not clear that these links will necessarily disappear, but it's easy to imagine a post that hasn't been visited in a year having its image(s) removed, so the safest thing to do is to re-host all Imgur pictures (at least those not belonging to a user's gallery) to Stack Exchange's Imgur instance. (That is, images with a URL of i.imgur.com need to be moved to i.stack.imgur.com.)

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There is a query that can be run to find posts potentially needing fixes. Note that not all of these need to be changed; some links are to user gallery images that presumably are safe, and they should especially be left if the link is given in the post as attribution. If an image is larger than the SE 2MB size limit for images, I would suggest uploading a downscaled image to be hosted locally while preserving the link to the original as a click-through, at least until someone comes up with a better plan.

Personally I've found the easiest approach is to use the "insert image" tool at the same location in the post and supply the old Imgur link as the source. Make sure you copy the alt text to the new link, and delete the old one. (If there isn't alt text, you could even add it. Hint, prod.) Note that if the old image link isn't "https" then the editor won't accept it; just rewrite "http" to "https" and it should work.

One post bumped. We can extract all the old Imgur links (which can be automated) and put them in an answer here, under this meta post. Then we upload each image and put that URL next to the original link (again on Meta).

While we all know any image with naked elbows will surely get deleted (in what is now irony, I saw someone on Imgur a few months ago complaining about some other system's automated detection), we don't know if any other images will be affected. If any images did break we would easily be able to check (since they're all in one place) and replace them. It'll hopefully not be too many that go.

If you have fixed the media and their associated posts, please remove their respective entries in the table. If there's an issue preventing the fixing of the associated posts, please note it in the "Notes" column of the table. (This post has been made a Community wiki post, so anyone can edit it.)