Images from Imgur have been restored

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Quote from: ImThour on June 06, 2023, 12:44:05 AM

That's a piece of great news. I had almost 30+ charts and I used Imgur to post them on the forum. They weren't loading making the whole thread useless.
Glad they fixed it and decided to go with our community. Meanwhile talkimg was made and I think we should continue to use that, it's developed by our own forum member.

I think you're missing latest news - images from Imgur isn't shown again. Just look at topic that you made and you'll see Bitcointalk image proxy in place of your images again.
So, now it would best to reupload your images to TalkImg. Even if imgur issue will be solved, they're not reliable anymore.

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That's a piece of great news. I had almost 30+ charts and I used Imgur to post them on the forum. They weren't loading making the whole thread useless.
Glad they fixed it and decided to go with our community. Meanwhile talkimg was made and I think we should continue to use that, it's developed by our own forum member.

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Quote from: aylabadia05 on June 02, 2023, 07:32:17 AM

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.

It seems those of us who use image hosting to create posts should take the time to get things right. and yes TalkImg is the image hosting I will make my choice.
At first I also thought like you to delay fixing invalid images, but now imgur is back at it again.

Affected my previous links as well. Might never know if Imgur decides to pull another fast one.

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I will switch over to TalkIMG if possible but I upload graphs from all markets to imgur (account) anyway, just as an online album I can keep. So Im not sure if they are tightening up access to be purely only via their website, not their current policy but seems they might go that way as its just a repeat of history from prior image hosts Ive used and I lost anything I put there eventually.
I often put media on Twitter though its not really supposed to be used as a host in that way, again mostly its for my own reference over time. Imgur is not really working 100% I guess I was not posting inline just as a URL link surely that'd be ok. I use a hover extension that displays it just fine most of the time, not everywhere likes such usage but imgur used to be an exception to these hassles.
Hyperlinks have been the backbone of the web for decades now, blocking even that is sacrilege ; but of course due to traffic it happens I understand. No idea who currently owns Imgur or who has taken it over etc. I missed any rule change here on this forum in particular if there was one, obviously I try to avoid anything that returns a bad or missing img/link

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Quote from: aylabadia05 on June 02, 2023, 07:32:17 AM

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.

it looks like theymos would have to implement the second option 2 on the poll thread he created. it'll become annoying if this keeps happening, it would be much better if the broken Imgur images are turned into links.

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Quote from: nakamura12 on May 29, 2023, 04:20:09 PM

To be honest, before imgur have been restored, I was waiting that maybe a few days, weeks or a month where images uploaded on imgur will display on Bitcointalk forum once again and I didn't expect that it didn't take long before imgue have been restored. I was planning to edit my old posts that contains images but I was thinking that, what if the images uploaded on imgur will display again on this forum. The reason for not editing my old posts might be a waste of time because the images are now displayed once again where the time spend editing the posts would be better spend doing other things like learning more or other important tasks or goal.

Hope I'm not wrong.
All image posts that are still using imgur hosting return invalid.

It seems those of us who use image hosting to create posts should take the time to get things right. and yes TalkImg is the image hosting I will make my choice.
At first I also thought like you to delay fixing invalid images, but now imgur is back at it again.

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To be honest, before imgur have been restored, I was waiting that maybe a few days, weeks or a month where images uploaded on imgur will display on Bitcointalk forum once again and I didn't expect that it didn't take long before imgue have been restored. I was planning to edit my old posts that contains images but I was thinking that, what if the images uploaded on imgur will display again on this forum. The reason for not editing my old posts might be a waste of time because the images are now displayed once again where the time spend editing the posts would be better spend doing other things like learning more or other important tasks or goal.

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Quote from: Synchronice on May 28, 2023, 09:17:57 AM

You have up to 4GB of images hosted on your website as it seems from your publicly available backup, did you expect such a big growth in such a short time?

I didn't expect such rapid growth. I expected to reach this value only in about 6 months. But, everything turned out very quickly, and what I had planned to invest in six months, I had to invest at the end of a week of the project.

I'm glad it was well accepted.

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Quote from: joker_josue on May 28, 2023, 02:59:05 AM

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur.

We saw when you first created a topic on April 28, 2023 on TalkImg. The Imgur issue surfaced in early May and I am very pleased that your work has been dedicated to the bitcointalk forum.
One of the members who comes from my local, namely Indonesia, also helps translate the TalkImg project into our local language so that local members can see your work.

Quote from: joker_josue on May 28, 2023, 02:59:05 AM

That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

Not because of them TalkImg came up. Nice assertion.
They should be aware that many forum members have promoted their hosting services.

Quote from: joker_josue on May 28, 2023, 02:59:05 AM

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

We have to thank you for this initiative.
Previously we also had LoyceV, TryNinja and DdmrDdmr who have produced invaluable work for the advancement of the forum.

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Quote from: jayce on May 24, 2023, 02:15:28 PM

I was about to update my thread by replacing the broken imgur images, but found out that all of them have been restored. Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit. I hope there will be no change again on imgur so it saves my time to update all of the unrestored images for my clients. However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

Most of their users aren't from bitcointalk but probably from Reddit. Bitcointalk just doesn't have that many active users to make an impact on Imgur. By the way, it's quite interesting if people move backto Imgur or Talkimg is going to take the place of it. For me, it turned into a habit to use Talkimg on this forum.

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Quote from: aylabadia05 on May 25, 2023, 12:48:54 PM

When the imgur people made a decision that caused all the broken pictures in the forums, there were forum users who rushed to find solutions like TryNinja and even joker_josue had created the image hosting site TalkImg.

Just a note on the timeline of events.

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur. That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

I think you have a man in Imgur and were informed that this would happen and took an advantage earier. Okay, I'm just kidding. Yeah, the timing was perfect and I think it gave a boost to the adoption of Talkimg. You have up to 4GB of images hosted on your website as it seems from your publicly available backup, did you expect such a big growth in such a short time?

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That's good to hear but I personally have given up on imgur and now use the www.talkimg.com service that joker_josue created as a very good alternative.

talkimg.com is easier to use and much better also joker_josue added BBcode for thumbnail, medium or full image, this is really cool and easy to use.

So it's good that all the members of the BitcoinTalk forum are migrating to the new service.

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Already replaced mine using Tryninja's script and have been using Talkimg for all new image uploads, better use bitcointalk product for bitcointalk things.

Quote from: jayce on May 24, 2023, 02:15:28 PM

Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit.

Dunno stats but I'd go with reddit, it has significantly higher user base compared to bitcointalk and most of them use imgur, it was redditor's go-to before Reddit started to host images and even after doing so users preferred imgur.

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Quote from: aylabadia05 on May 25, 2023, 12:48:54 PM

When the imgur people made a decision that caused all the broken pictures in the forums, there were forum users who rushed to find solutions like TryNinja and even joker_josue had created the image hosting site TalkImg.

Just a note on the timeline of events.

The TalkImg project was already in development for 2 or 3 months. And the project was released to the community a week or two before the problems arose with Imgur. That is, it was not Imgur's problems that caused TalkImg to emerge. But the project was created because of these kind of problems!

It is true that I was very lucky, in that a few days after I launched TalkImg, this problem with Imgur occurred, and the project quickly became known in the community.

Thank you for the support that everyone has given.

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Quote from: Marykeller on May 25, 2023, 07:16:25 AM

thanks for sharing this. I was even trying to make out time someday to start deleting all my posts history that has an image on them because of Imgur's invalid image display. Now, I think I shouldn't again but I still yet it will be wise for me to start using the https://www.talkimg.com/ that was created by you. Which I think won't act strange in the future like Imgur.

May I ask the reasoning behind this decision (or at least why you were thinking in pursuing such objective). Preserving is always the best choice, independently of the work behind maintaining it readable...

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All of my posts are restored! I was starting to think to reupload everything to another website but luckily I didn't have time to do it yet.

I'm starting to doubt if I'm going to continue using Imgur, I've used another host when Imgur is not responding but I guess I would still use Imgur since they already fix the problem. For some of my upload Talkimg is still a great alternative I guess it's easy to upload images, fast, etc.

Not a big issue on my part, my imgur account works great, and been using it for years already, and this is the first issue that I encounter.

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I am happy that old images can be restored again, but nothing has been done on the part of the forum except to prevent this problem in the future by banning Imgur, but they may delete old photos or restrict them, and therefore I hope that any solution will be taken instead of the false hope that the problem has been solved.
And try to avoid it in the future, although solutions like Talkimg seem appropriate now.

Has any of you contacted them to inform them of the importance of the images they have for the forum? They may provide an exception as long as we continue to use them.

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I had a negative assumption about imgur, as I believed they had deleted all the previous image databases. Turns out, that wasn't the case.
With this news, at least some people no longer need to edit their posts or use scripts to display images. Although imgur has restored image viewing, Talkimg remains a suitable choice for this forum.

Before using Talkimg, I always uploaded images on postimg.cc by creating a free account. I opted for this platform because they have a rule in place where images unrelated to an account will be automatically deleted after a certain period of time. That's why I prefer securing images before any regrets occur.

However, now Talkimg has become the top choice for this forum.

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I read alot about how them links were made invalid and it seemed to me that maybe imgur wasn't just ready to make any process simple for bitcointalkers - or maybe too many spam links were entrusting in there or still, people's privacies were too exposed to them?? ion even know.
I'm happy things have been brought back in place cus it actually made Theymos restless - just to see if images could be restored in place. I read an old post of about.. say - last two months and the whole thing was referenced with images that inferred more explanations to the whole context than the few words itself... I didn't understand a thing and it wasn't funny.

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Quote from: jayce on May 24, 2023, 02:15:28 PM

I was about to update my thread by replacing the broken imgur images, but found out that all of them have been restored. Seems imgur guys have realized that most of their users are from bitcointalk and reddit. I hope there will be no change again on imgur so it saves my time to update all of the unrestored images for my clients. However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

Imgir problem caused a lot of effect on this forum. If it wasn't restored then all Bitcointalk members would have chosen Talkimg and everyone would have focused on talkimg and Imbb. but now that Imgur is restore maybe everyone will use it mostly again. I don't understand if imgur had this as a joke. Or they ran into this problem while adding a new feature. but imgur will move all over again for it to be fixed again

It seems you haven't kept up to date. Imgur's problem is fixed but it is restricted from bitcointalk. newly you can't post any Imgur link in bitcointalk. so in this case talkimg.com is widely used now. You can try to post any imgur link here but it won't be posted. I think you get it now.
The reason for doing so is that the forum was experiencing a lot of problems due to imgur's problems. So Theymos banned it

I seen Theymos suggest Talkimg himself. i am also using talkimg from now.

Quote from: theymos on May 11, 2023, 08:41:48 PM

I think that what it is is that imgur added a new very restrictive per-IP limit on image downloads. So all ip.bitcointalk.org requests are blocked, but even many Tor exit nodes are being blocked, for example.

I'm not going to attempt to play some cat-and-mouse game with imgur, so people will just have to use a different service such as TalkImg.

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Quote from: aysg76 on May 26, 2023, 06:49:49 AM

That's good if they have restored the images because many users were posting images using their platform which might have intrigued them to restore their services for forum members again but personally I have not used their platform to upload images and was using Imgbb rather but latet on shifted to postingimages.org but now don't want to use any of them as we have forum centric platform by @joker_jouse so why trust these third party software?

Imgur has done well to restore their services but I think it has already caused them some harm. The company needs to do a lot of work to boast the confidence of their clients and to attract some back. I am sure they have lost some customers. I might not be sure of others but I think I now prepare the services of Talkimg by @joker_jouse. I use to have some hitches in my early days of using imgur but my first experience with Talkimg was simple and hitch-free. So I think I will remain with Talkimg except Imgur brings up something extraordinary. I also find it a responsibility to support our own.

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