Questions tagged [imgur-image-hosting]
For questions about the now-deprecated use of Imgur's service to handle image uploads for Stack Exchange.
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imgur.com is blocked at work because it is seen as an entertainment focus social media [duplicate]
Since 2011, Stack Exchange use Imgur to handle pictures. If I personally have no problem with Imgur so far, some workplaces can have. Mine for example... Why a company would block it? Imgur is an ...
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The Stack Imgur service is no longer resizing images correctly
I noticed at the start of August 2018 that new images like https://i.sstatic.net/MJrvX.png no longer resize when an m is placed before .png.
Original image:
https://i.sstatic.net/MJrvX.png
Auto ...
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Unable to see any image [duplicate]
I have tried all browsers and even the mobile app but I am unable to see any picture that's there, in questions/ answers/ chat.
From physics chatroom: https://i.sstatic.net/ez5wF.jpg
As evidence, ...
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i.stack.imgur seems to be down [duplicate]
All images loaded through the Stack Exchange Imgur API seem to be not working (and the webpage doesn't load either):
When I go to the actual image link I get:
imgur.com still works.
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Failed to upload an image, "An error occurred at imgur" [duplicate]
Currently I'm unable to upload an image to anywhere on site: e.g. posts or chat.
Is this problem with Imgur?
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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MiB?
From older Meta posts it seem to me that the file size limit was higher in the past, and linked to the limits allowed by imgur.
However, now the limit is 2 MiB, and imgur allows much more than that (&...
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Community Ads 2018 don't allow dynamic images anymore
Trying to repost that great dynamic community ad (I forget whom to credit for it) I get:
Why this restriction? Can we please have dynamic ads back? (I seem to remember that there are few others.)
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Drag and drop for images in chat [duplicate]
We have it for questions and answers (regular posts)
How come it doesn't exist for chat.
(I know that it is most likely less common to be uploading images to chat, however on certain chat rooms, ...
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Does the Imgur hack affect Stack Exchange users?
Quoting from the Engadget article, Image-sharing site Imgur was hacked in 2014:
Imgur, a popular picture-sharing site, revealed today [November 24] that it suffered
a data breach in 2014, ...
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Unable to translate error message when post contains a non-https image
If you place the following code into the post body:
[![text][1]][1]
[1]: http://1
you will see an error message:
Text of this message is not available to translate via Transifex.
All image ...
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Cropped avatar is shown in full but distorted in the users page
I have chosen to crop my gravatar. It should—and does, in most places—appear like this:
As you can see, that's how it's shown under this very question. However, in the Users page (linking to U&...
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Sizing suffixes on uploads broken
Traditionally we could easily resize an image by adding a s,m or l at the end of a filename after uploading it via the image uploader. That doesn't seem to work any more. I've tested it on Q&A as ...
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Image uploads not working - Imgur rejecting request, on multiple sites
So far I've tested Ask Ubuntu, StackOverflow, and others, and others in TL have tested other sites and we're getting upload rejected failures for image uploads to imgur, even if the image size is very ...
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Resizing user icon on the server side in users page
Today I noticed that a user's page shows a lot of user icons scaled from the very biggest ones. E.g. rene's icon original size is 652'832 bytes, but actually it's scaled from 512 pixels × 512&...
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Are moderators allowed to use Imgur for screenshots of PII?
Sometimes it is useful to show certain PII (Personally identifiable information) to other moderators when asking them for help. The most common case would be asking for help when dealing with sock ...
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