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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

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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?

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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.

So this means that imgur themselves reverted the changes and now everything is back to normal.

I also saw some of the threads having their images back and thought that Theymos had come up with any solution or maybe LoyceV downloaded images have been helpful in restoring all the images but it seems that imgur themselves corrected everything.

For the last few days, since this issue appeared people started using talkimg and other services, i hope this trend continues.

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Quote from: jayce on May 24, 2023, 02:40:04 PM

They tried hardly to be a new 9gag and ignored the fact that most people were just using their service as image hosting only.

Please, apart from image hosting, what other services does imgur offer? Grin

I don't even bother to browse the site let alone to create an account. I knew them through this forum

Advertising services....

Users can also Upload videos, memes, gifs, and images to simply earn money from views, grow your page, and profit from advertising. Imgur has over 100 million monthly users and is a massive site. You will make a lot of money if you know your way around it.

Wow! This is great. I never knew imgur is as big as you described above .That is fine, but they weren't kind for to bitcointalk, maybe they never knew how much traffic is coming from here.

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Quote from: uchegod-21 on May 24, 2023, 03:03:51 PM

Oops! That's a harsh decision on them from theymos, but I have nothing to say than they deserve it.

They were blocking Bitcointalk proxy. Wasn't it harsher for all users? What if they start blocking the Bitcointalk proxy again? The same thing will happen again, and we must find a solution. To prevent the same situation in the future, theymos decided not to allow new images from Imgur anymore.

Probably why I said they deserve it. Now they have lost the traffic from bitcointalk, maybe for ever.

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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.

Not much, only 1 topic on the sub board and 1 topic on the local board which was completed in my plan to fix all the damaged images due to using imgur which has an important meaning in the topic or quotes and replies that I made, it turns out like this information that all the images have been restored.

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. 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.

I think they realized from the start that the percentage of users who use imgur's service is dominated by users from this large forum amidst the many services that are the same as theirs.
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.

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

However I prefer to use talkimg instead, at least for now, to avoid double effort if someday imgur makes another joke in future.

I'm sure imgur people won't make new jokes anymore because as we discussed above maybe they realize that many users of this big forum use imgur to make imgur even more famous.
Maybe, not a certainty.
By the way, the changes made by imgur can help designers who have used imgur in their work from the start.

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Personally I'm happy with imgur's decision to show my old images back in posts, so I don't have to restore them manually regardless of using a script or something. But I've actually switched to imgbb or to TalkImg to host my next image. I was disappointed with imgur, of course it caused me to delete the site from my bookmarks since the problem started.

My temporary solution is imgbb and TalkImg, the rest I know some people also use other image hosting services. It doesn't matter at the moment TalkImg is the most recommended on the forum.

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After all that happened and what IMGUR did to our images, I don't think I can still trust them there's a possibility that they will do this again, compared to talkimg where the developers are part of Bitcointalk he can address all issue that comes along with the images.

Forum images are very important they contribute to the discussion and give us a clearer understanding of what the thread creator is posting, we have a saying a picture tells a thousand words, and we need a reliable one and talkimg can give it to us.

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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

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I guess they realized it late as I beleive a lot of forum users have shifted to TalkImage. It is better to use this service than Imgur as we don't know will it run smoothly next time. I never expect an established image hosting service to be so unprofessional. When they know a lot of users are from the forum then why make their life miserable. I am not going to use it's service anymore. If they have restored the links then it is good for anyone who had lot of images hosted on their website.

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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.

Either they are back or not i think people have soughted for more alternative, maybe they just use one of their nasty acts to chase people away from themselves through what they did, they should know that that such is gone for now, people were now used to other means they can use in hosting their images, thanks for he prompt update on that, imgur will have to learn their lessons from this maybe later in future, they will reconsider steps before implementing them.

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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.

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Quote from: uchegod-21 on May 24, 2023, 03:03:51 PM

Oops! That's a harsh decision on them from theymos, but I have nothing to say than they deserve it.

They were blocking Bitcointalk proxy. Wasn't it harsher for all users? What if they start blocking the Bitcointalk proxy again? The same thing will happen again, and we must find a solution. To prevent the same situation in the future, theymos decided not to allow new images from Imgur anymore.

Quote from: theymos on May 24, 2023, 02:24:57 PM

But to prevent this from happening again, you'll get an error if you try to embed imgur images in posts from now on.

Moreover, theymos will create a page recommending services like image hosting. He is looking for feedback from community members. You may suggest to him the best image hosting you are using.

Quote from: theymos on May 24, 2023, 02:24:57 PM

I'd like to create a page which recommends services for hosting forum images, and mention this in the error message you get when you try to use imgur. Other than TalkImg, which ones are good?

Personally, I would recommend using Talkimg since they are the only service exclusively for BitcoinTalk forum users.

Quote from: Igebotz on May 24, 2023, 10:21:08 PM

Advertising services....

Users can also Upload videos, memes, gifs, and images to simply earn money from views, grow your page, and profit from advertising. Imgur has over 100 million monthly users and is a massive site. You will make a lot of money if you know your way around it.

Excellent information, BTW. I didn't know that. Is it like Facebook/Youtube monetization? They will show ads on my content page and share part of their revenue. Does it work like that? I will try to get more info about it. But, Can you please tell me if they have some special requirements like I have to upload x number of content or I should have x number of followers/subscribers/viewers etc.?

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Quote from: uchegod-21 on May 24, 2023, 03:03:51 PM

Quote from: jayce on May 24, 2023, 02:40:04 PM

They tried hardly to be a new 9gag and ignored the fact that most people were just using their service as image hosting only.

Please, apart from image hosting, what other services does imgur offer? Grin

I don't even bother to browse the site let alone to create an account. I knew them through this forum

Advertising services....

Users can also Upload videos, memes, gifs, and images to simply earn money from views, grow your page, and profit from advertising. Imgur has over 100 million monthly users and is a massive site. You will make a lot of money if you know your way around it.

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The question is, have they also reversed their decision to remove old images that are not linked to any account from their platform as par the update they made in their terms of service?

Because it would make no sense to continue using Imgur if the images are going to be deleted in the near future anyway. I wouldn't want to create an account on Imgur just to upload images in the forum.

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Quote from: BitMaxz on May 24, 2023, 06:11:56 PM

However, imgbb is a great option when imgur is down this is the only option that works on the forum recently.

That's what i'm using years already actually because imgur cannot be used in smartphone browsers without downloading their app, although you can, if you will switch to desktop mode, but it's annoying to use desktop mode in phone browsers.

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Almost all old post posts are using imgur to host image I almost see images with proxy invalid to all old post but after this news trying to access those thread again all images is now fine.

However, imgbb is a great option when imgur is down this is the only option that works on the forum recently.

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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.

That is a nice move from imgur website and site management. But since we have one of us here as already created image hosting site for the forum, we should encourage him and patronize him to use the site, so that even if in case there is image break out from the site he can fix it very fast since he is with us. Though using imgur and TalkImg is for a personal choice. You can use anyone at the time of using the image.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on May 24, 2023, 02:25:31 PM

I'm too lazy to search the forum for answers, so what was the problem? It wasn't just a bitcointalk and reddit issue, was it?

I would even say that this measure is mostly aimed at NSFW content, Bitcointalk had no need for it. But as far as I can see, Uploading NSFW images straight to Reddit is also now allowed.

Quote from: royalfestus on May 24, 2023, 04:08:17 PM

It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images. Everyone felt helpless and unsure of what to do, particularly the original poster (OP) of the announcement thread and the bounty managers.

I guess you didn't see this TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk

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Quote from: royalfestus on May 24, 2023, 04:08:17 PM

It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images.

Already done

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It is high time for someone to create an alternative platform for these images. Everyone felt helpless and unsure of what to do, particularly the original poster (OP) of the announcement thread and the bounty managers.

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