Imgur has blocked images from displaying on SSO

[Hywel]

I noticed all my old threads were missing their images so I contacted Imgur.com who I used as an image host and they replied as follows.

Thanks for writing. Unfortunately that forum has been blocked from hotlinking due to abuse of Imgur's terms of service (Terms of Service - Imgur). Imgur's ToS prohibits using Imgur as a content delivery network, which means that website elements such as buttons, banners, avatars, frames, image libraries, etc. cannot be hosted on Imgur and served up as elements of other sites. Imgur's intended use is not as a CDN, but rather as a platform to upload, share and browse entertaining images, which is why using it to serve website elements or image libraries is not allowed.

Please also be aware, that any forum that has a section dedicated to selling, such as classified are also against the advertising portion of the TOS.

If you'd like to be unblocked, please take measures to undo the functionality that caused the terms of service breach, at which point we'd be happy to review.

Please let me know if you have any other questions; I'd be happy to help.

Best,
Isaac K.

Which sucks. So just a heads up to anyone who noticed their pics weren't working.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Thanks for the heads up. I noticed that mine were all gone too.

I've never been signed up on imgur... Anyone know if signing up would restore privileges to be able to link here on sso?

Sucks though.

 

[ferret]

When images are linked her, imgur sees SSO as the referrer. So even if you have a personal account they still know SSO is where it was linked and they then block it.

 

[Xcaliber]

The "classified" restriction seems so stupid, but I'm sure it's a legal thing. Something about being liable for a transaction that goes wrong or something.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Gotcha.. thought so, but wanted to be sure. ...ugh.

 

[takotakumi]

Thanks for the heads up. No wonder lots of pics were not working.

what are some alternatives to imgur?

 

[ferret]

I've used photobucket.

imgur should also still work as long as you leave a link to it in your post, instead of embedding.

 

[takotakumi]

I've used photobucket.

imgur should also still work as long as you leave a link to it in your post, instead of embedding.

Thanks fellow atlien!

 

[WhiskeyPickleJake]

That explains a lot of boring threads

 

[Chri]

That explains a lot of boring threads

I thought it was just my phone at first. That totally sucks. If I were ever feeling nostalgic and wanted to go back and look at guitars I no longer I have I cant now?

 

[Mike]

Fvck Imgur.

 

[asher]

Fvck Imgur.

Seriously, wtf.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Glad I went with Photobucket..

 

[AliceLG]

Welp, so that's why all my images are gone

 

[HighGain510]

Thanks for pointing this out! I thought my phone was being stupid, I had tried to hard reboot and it was still just showing empty boxes. Funny how many people were using imgur it seems!

 

[Rachmaninoff]

Imgur's ToS prohibits using Imgur as a content delivery network, which means that website elements such as buttons, banners, avatars, frames, image libraries, etc. cannot be hosted on Imgur and served up as elements of other sites.

So... is the SevenString forum really doing this? If so, Imgur is right, it's SS fault...

 

[Mike]

So... is the SevenString forum really doing this? If so, Imgur is right, it's SS fault...

No it's not that part. SS.org's site imagery, buttons, and content are hosted on its own server.

It's this part that apparently has caused a violation:
"Please also be aware, that any forum that has a section dedicated to selling, such as classified are also against the advertising portion of the TOS."

 

[Rachmaninoff]

No it's not that part. SS.org's site imagery, buttons, and content are hosted on its own server.

It's this part that apparently has caused a violation:
"Please also be aware, that any forum that has a section dedicated to selling, such as classified are also against the advertising portion of the TOS."

So... maybe the forum should advice (or even actively block) users from hotlink images at the classified sections, then report it back to Imgur? It would be a way to unblock the use of images on the rest of the forum.

 

[Randy]

Tinypic or gtfo

 

[Promit]

Facebook and Google work fine for uploads, too.