Imgur has blocked images from displaying on SSO

[Xaios]

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.

Nope, wouldn't do it. The only way to satisfy Imgur would be to remove the classified section completely, something which obviously isn't gonna happen.

 

[technomancer]

Nope, wouldn't do it. The only way to satisfy Imgur would be to remove the classified section completely, something which obviously isn't gonna happen.

And also not to embed their images in your posts. Bottom line imgur only wants you viewing images they're hosting on their site.

 

[vansinn]

Fvck Imgur.

No, it's actually very understandable they have such Terms of Use, and are defending them.

All references to a site, as in this case, using imgur as a placeholder, will cause extra traffic for them, which require more bandwidth, which they must pay for.
They get no Return of Investment, as using them hardly even gets noticed by visitors or 'us' in here - except maybe that some briefly will see the referral on the browser status line (if we even has this feature enabled).

It is of course annoying for those using them.
Perhaps if all dropped out of things like loading avatars and other not-really-needed actions, they and others might be less stringent about this..

 

[mnemonic]

sli.mg works well as an alternative, light-weight and easy to use, no account needed, images aren't deleted, etc.

Imgur's upload page is really busy these days anyway, really slows my computer down when I try uploading anything.

 

[pondman]

I stopped using Imgur ages ago because of its temperamental faults.

 

[wigger]

How about adding something like

<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />

to all sites on sevenstring.org? This will force all visiting browser to leave the referer empty (see Remove http referer - Stack Overflow for more information). This way imgur won't be able to block images displayed on sevenstring.org.

 

[feraledge]

Glad to see this thread though frustrating to see why. I have always used photobucket, but uploads take ages and the ads are super annoying. Was getting really frustrated trying to figure it out yesterday.
BTW, if you want to pull up an image, "open image in new tab" then highlight the url and hit enter and it will come up. Apparently that second loading nixes the SSO link. Frustrating. Back to photobucket....

 

[ElRay]

Has anybody tried the "official" javascript:

<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="imgurID" data-context="false">
     <a href="//imgur.com/cbGGCyq">View post on imgur.com</a>
</blockquote>
<script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This supposedly works, complete with the imgur frame, etc.