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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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Update on the Imgur migration, May 28th 2024: Migration complete!
As of today, we are pronouncing the work associated with the Imgur migration "complete" for all intents and purposes. There ...
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Making a better image uploader
For those who don't know me, I'm a product designer here at Stack Overflow.
Currently I'm working on a project called Teams (for more information about Teams and other projects, read Tim's post on ...
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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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Preserve image transparency when resizing images
Whenever an image is resized on Stack Exchange using URL modifiers, any transparent elements or backgrounds will be lost in the conversion.
Exactly how the missing transparency is handled can vary ...
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To find old images in chat, you still have to search with the Imgur URL
I was recently looking for a graph I had posted to a private chat room several months ago. In order to find it, I went to search for messages posted by me containing i.sstatic.net in the room I knew I ...
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What is the future for Imgur and SE? [duplicate]
SE relies on Imgur for hosting images and avatars on public sites. Most of the content is text, but the images are often important as well. So the part that is delegated to Imgur is a pretty important ...
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Imgur images are (re)disappearing again [closed]
I've seen several of these, the last few days:
"The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available."
For example, see this post.
So, searching, I found this answer to "My Stack ...
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Old non-HTTPS image stubs in posts say "upload to Imgur" in the post editor
This is a two-part bug report.
We had a flag on 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest that the avatars weren't loading, and because it was meta, a user couldn't edit it.
All the answers ...
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Do images uploaded to imgur.com have any backup? [closed]
It seems that images uploaded on the SE sites are hosted on imgur.com. Are these images stored somewhere else too? I mean, is there some sort of backup plan for restoring them? What happens if imgur....
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Uploading PNG image less than 2 MiB leads to error "Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB)."
I tried to upload PNG image with size about 1.3 MiB, but image uploader says that an image size is more than 2 MiB:
Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB).
Possible explanation for this is ...
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Allow edit to be continued during imgur's image load
Can we have a functionality that will insert corresponding line immediately:
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
and allow us to continue editing of a question or an answer while actual image ...
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Can't upload images
Image upload is broken:
(image is on imgur.com itself.)
Can this please be fixed so we can upload our lovely pictures again?
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Why does the image with ID 0JRqu auto download when fetched with the "s" thumbnail suffix?
https://i.sstatic.net/0JRqu.png doesn't auto download, and is returned with Content-Type: image/png.
https://i.sstatic.net/0JRqus.png autodownloads, and is returned with Content-Type: application/...
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How much of Stack's imgur image-ID space has been consumed?
Images posted to Stack's imgur space have the following URL structure:
https://i.sstatic.net/Apnr6.png
This implies to me that images stored there have a five-character ID, with at least 62 ...
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