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  • This would prevent a future Images stackexchange site from popping up, though. :) Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 17:51
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    Also, http://images.stackexchange.com/ is long. http://i.stack.imgur.com is pretty long, but it's 2/3 the length of your proposal. I suggest http://i.s.tk/ (to be consistent with Imgur's i.imgur) or http://images.s.tk to be verbose. Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 17:52
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    I like http://i.s.tk/, I've updated my post with it.
    – Jeremy
    Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 17:55
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    @Kevin Why in the world does it matter if the image URL is "long"? Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 18:49
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    @MichaelMrozek - So that we can fit it in comments, tweets, etc, so that it's quick to type, so that you can fit ![alt text](link) on one line, so that an inlined link doesn't make it hard to read a paragraph, because I don't want to waste RAM by loading something from a longer domain name, and I want to make my network requests faster. (The last two were a joke, the others weren't). Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 18:55
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    @Kevin I'm pretty sure every one of those reasons is ridiculous, but I get the opinion the "short URLs are ridiculous" argument is already lost Commented Oct 21, 2011 at 19:02
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    Since the images are now hosted under the URL http://i.stack.imgur.com, rather than http://i.imgur.com, I was able to persuade our IT people to unblock that particular URL. If your IT folks have a problem with it, just tell them that it's part of Stack Exchange and that Stack Overflow, etc. are hobbled without the images coming through. That should weigh the argument in your favour.
    – RobH
    Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 16:38
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    @RobH You are forgetting about bureaucracy/regulation keeping such a request stuck in processing for months.
    – nanofarad
    Commented May 22, 2014 at 20:53
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    @RobH And anyway, I asked my IT Security folks to whitelist i.stack.imgur.com but they refused because "It’s a sharing site and (my company name) proprietary information can be uploaded there – therefore its blocked on those grounds. "
    – pabrams
    Commented Jan 7, 2016 at 20:07
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    @pabrams With a mentality like that, I'm surprised they're not blocking the Stack Exchange sites on the same grounds...
    – RobH
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 17:32
  • @RobH Why stop there? Why not block the entire internet?
    – pabrams
    Commented Jan 8, 2016 at 17:59
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    As it happens, Reddit, the original heavy user of Imgur, has now switched to self-hosting under their short domain, at i.redd.it.
    – Jeremy
    Commented May 26, 2016 at 5:20
  • Surprisingly, Jeremy, the author of this reply that is upvoted the most, is suspended network wide. Another victim of bad moderation!
    – Tim
    Commented Feb 10, 2023 at 22:07