I use the puush screenshot capture program in order to upload my screenshots, and as I increasingly use Stack Overflow at college, where Imgur is blocked.In questions when I insert an image, I always replace the link referring to the image at Stack Exchange's Imgur to the link that the puush program provides.
There is a strong preference for using the Stack Exchange Imgur account for uploading images for the simple reason that this is the only method guaranteed to be available (at least as long as the sites themselves exist). Images on free hosters tend to expire at some point, images on personal hosting can get unavailable after a while as well.
This means that images hosted on stack.imgur.com have no difference then text, other then the known accessibility problems, and data storage issues. So those images, rather then those hosted off site, are known to be available for as long as Stack Exchange is able to pay the bills.
I have an e-commerce site and I want to use imgur.com as a CDN for my product images by setting the image source of my image. I did not see anything in the ToS specifically about this. Can anyone offer any insight on this topic?
However, this isn't really a CDN in the true meaning of the term: they aren't offering to serve images to users from servers near them (ie a server in Europe when the request comes from the UK) nor are they really promising specific up time or performance, the subscription just gets you more space for a longer period and bigger images. If that's all you are after then great, but it's not a CDN - from their Terms of Service (emphasis added):
Digging a bit deeper, I found this blog post on Imgur's technology stack where they say they've moved onto AWS to power most of the main site, and they also mention that they use a CDN for "direct image requests" - but the fact that they do use a CDN doesn't mitigate the overriding issues with the terms of service (or lack of there in).
It is however not completely clear where the line is. To me, you can't upload images to imgur if they are meant to be used on your own website, but your users could still be uploading there if they want to share pictures (say, on your forums), as it looks like it is tolerated, and they even provide the BBcode for this. That's my understanding, at least.
I'm using xfc4-screenshooter all the time and it usually is sufficent for my needs, but today an accident happended:
My hand slipped from the mouse and an image of my desktop was uploaded to Imgur instead of saving it to a file.
I have no idea how to have this image deleted. I have no "delete_hash" that's often said to be needed for that. I sent a deletion request to Imgur, though.
For pure luck the image contained no personal information.
According to this page, you should have had a window pop up referring to "Your uploaded image" and there was a tab there with Deletion link. Opening that tab then, and only then, would have given you the link to delete the upload. Once that window is closed, there's no way of retrieving the link.
Strong agreement. I think a bug report is in order.
Normally, it may be no big deal. But if Imgur makes deletion of accidentally uploaded images a PITA, then a default setting to use it is a pretty big problem.
Therefore I would suggest that the user EITHER be given a choice of "approved" services, which Imgur may be one. How the approval should be done is a discussion for another thread. OR it should be removed.
My personal opinion is that the functionality should be completely removed from the app. I don't see how this particular functionality is useful to any particular user, and so therefore IMO it should be removed. Surely it is no more easy than copying to the clipboard and then pasting the clipboard contents on your favorite image hosting website of choice, imgur or otherwise.
I'm coming from KDE and their "Send To" menu items took forever to open, barely fit on the screen, and I never used a single one, unless I accidently clicked one. I really, really wanted to get rid of all of them (one of the reasons I left KDE :-)). I either save the file or open it in GIMP.
Since May 2011, images uploaded through SE sites are uploaded to stack.imgur.com. It seems that removing that stack part does not get one (the same) image, so it seems to be a standalone installation? Any details on that new domain? And: any new way to circumvent blocks of imgur.com?
I don't understand why imgur.com is not resolving on my computer. I have tried Google DNS and it still doesn't work. Neither does the DNS from my broadband provider. However, if I connect over a VPN it works. Why is this? Also, my phone has the same issue using WiFi, so it is definitely tied to my home network. How can I diagnose and fix this issue?
You might want to look into whether or not you can resolve and/or connect to the *.edgecastcdn.net hosts that i.imgur and s.imgur resolve to, or see if there are other well-known sites that use EdgeCast and see if you have the same problem with those sites.
Also, to get a more useful answer, try installing Firefox as an alternative browser and install Firebug as an add-on. It manifests itself as a "bug" icon. Visit its Network-tab and try loading the page again. Each element of the page will result in one line.
If you see your GET request for the CSS/JS files fail with Status 404, then the connected webserver could not find the requested URL. In your situation it likely means your browser was connected to an incorrect IP adress or the connection was intercepted (as in: transparent proxying by 3G providers or "clever" proxying routers) and incorrectly handled.
If it says "Aborted" in a line then an actual DNS resolving issue could be the reason. right-click the GET-part on the left and choose "Open in new Tab". This will yield a more informative error message because embedded resources usually fail silently, resulting in missing images or CSS/JS files as in your case.
I had a similar problem. For me, it was intermittent errors with *.imgur.com and also, ironically, with *.sstatic.com, the site used to server Super User's static content. Lookups would fail for a while, then work for a while, then fail again.
So maybe my router was messing up DNS responses from ISPs servers (both proxied and direct). Or maybe the ISPs servers were failing intermittently? It was hard to tell, and I didn't bother working out which was the real problem. :)
I'm in I'm in New Zealand, and I didn't want to go with a public DNS server in another country. Doing so would mean higher latency for me on every DNS lookup. It would also lessen one of the main benefits of CDNs. CDNs try to serve content from local servers if possible, and they do this based on the location of the DNS server. A US- or Asia-based DNS server would have lessened this benefit.
Forbidden. You don't have access to this action. If you're getting this error, check that you haven't run out of API credits or make sure you're sending the OAuth headers correctly and have valid tokens/secrets.
I assume in my case that many other people love Greenshot and the application just ran out of API credits or something? In your case it sounds like a broken authentication token though I'm knowledge about enough to know how to hypothetically even approach fixing it.
ShareX a similar screen shot program seems to have run into a similar problem at some point and the problem on their end was users had to reauthenticate. I'm going to try it on my end and if that works that it might be linked to the problem of hotlink 403 errors.
Possibly imgur does not allow hotlinking, although I couldn't find any mention about that in their Terms Of Service.
If it does however ban hotlinking, you wouldn't be able to see picture in another website. Some services (e.g. Blogger) also did similar thing in the past.
In the taskbar/system tray click on the Greenshot icon, then select Imgur > History and you can see a list of images uploaded there and a button to delete them. I verified this by comparing with the solution of Michel Jiang.
This should work if you pull the deleteHash from the history of the imgur plugin through Greenshot, then if you enter imgur.com/delete/deleteHashHere it should prompt you with the 'are you sure you want to delete y/n?' page.
For some reason my imgur-image only works on eBay mobile and listing's preview, but not on standard browsers. For ease of testing I've removed all other HTML and simply put this in the eBay description's HTML tab:
Image shows up fine during my listing preview; it also shows up on mobile devices after I've posted; but for some reason it shows up as a broken image link on all standard browsers. Here is the listing:
Any ideas on how to fix this? Does it work on your mobile app too? Or maybe its just my PC and laptop? Please let me know as I've troubleshooted this as much as I could, but can't seem to find a solution or a good reason why this would be happening.
You'll have to find another image hosting service @bluiiis perhaps your own domain. Years ago, Imgur began interrupting img src requests originating from ebay.com, including from these community boards.
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