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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Why is there a peeking duck in my profile pic?
In my SO profile, you may see something odd: a peeking duck.
I've just recently uploaded this new profile picture of mine. I checked it after the upload and everything's fine. After a few hours, I ...
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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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Hosting options for people that have Imgur blocked by their ISP
Imgur is blocked by two of the private ISPs we use. Is there a workaround without involving tunnelling?
Bear in mind that Filmot (an Imgur mirror) and Flickr are also blocked.
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Any details about stack.imgur.com?
Since May 2011, images uploaded through SE sites are uploaded to stack.imgur.com. It seems that removing that stack part does not get one (the same) image, so it seems to be a standalone installation? ...
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Images manually uploaded to Imgur are not displaying?
I noticed that on at least one of my old answers, the recent imgur problem reared its 404 heads:
The broken url is https://i.sstatic.net/9c4aL.png.
I already took a look at:
Is imgur losing images?
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Allow SVG image uploads
I am unable to upload SVG image files to Stack Overflow. So I would like to know why it is blocked while other image formats are allowed. SVG images are useful for diagrams such as tree diagrams for ...
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"For security reasons, framing is not allowed; click OK to remove the frames." on Imgur upload
Ok first, there's that lugubrious use of the semicolon; not necessary.
Second, I didn't open a frame! You did! Alls I tried to do is upload a 5MB animated .gif file via Imgur.
Looking further into ...
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Profile picture cannot have transparent background
I never liked that SO/SE relied on the external gravatar service, so I was glad to read that it doesn't any more. However, it turns out that one cannot use as profile picture a PNG file with ...
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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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Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos
Once conveniently posting photos at imgur.com was introduced I see many users uploading photos right from their camera. For example, here the second photo is 2,5K by 2K pixels and has size of 680K.
I ...
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
Would it be doable to re-generate the cooked (cached) HTML of all posts that hold images and were last edited between August 16 2010 and June 21 2011?
Many references to i.imgur.com were ...
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Can I / should I delete unused images from Imgur? [duplicate]
I uploaded two images to Imgur in the course of composing a question here. While studying the screenshots, I discovered the answer to my question, but the images remain. Now that I don't need them, ...
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imgur, copyrighted images from the web, and imgur accounts
I noticed that when one uses the new super-cool WMD Image tool and choose "From the web" that the image is still uploaded to imgur.
Are there any concerns that this might result in the unauthorized ...
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Cannot see pictures on Stack Overflow
When I upload an image to Stack Overflow, I cannot see my JPEG file in my post. It's all blank. I've tried it with different files, but gotten the same result.
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