Questions tagged [imgur]
for questions about the official 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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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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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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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 http://i.stack.imgur.com/9c4aL.png.
I already took a look at:
Is imgur losing ...
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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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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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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.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png no longer resize when an m is placed before .png.
Original image:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/MJrvX.png
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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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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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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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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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Delete uploaded image
I accidentally uploaded an image in chat that contained some personal information. I deleted the chat message, but would like delete the image from imgur. I've seen this question, with an answer that ...
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Is there any work-around if you are somewhere where images are blocked? [duplicate]
I'm currently working in a bank, and while about 99.7% of the internet is blocked, Stack Exchange thankfully isn't (yet) however imgur is.
It means I can't view images posted alongside questions. The ...
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Upload image isn't working
^^^^^^ Here is an image.
I've just tried to upload the screen shot for this question and I've seen that the upload image from computer doesn't work.
It must be fixed.
Clicking the image link I ...
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Associate uploaded images with the uploading user account
Currently, all the data posted by a certain user is clearly associated with his/her account - questions, answers, comments, edits and tag wikis. Reaching any of those directly, one can easily tell who ...
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Intermittent Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request
Just now when trying to upload an image with the image uploader I'm greeted intermittently with the following error:
Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request
That error comes from the ...
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How can I remove an image from Imgur? [duplicate]
I want to remove some photos from http://i.stack.imgur.com, because they are breaking my privacy (they contain my personal information). How can I do that or who should I ask to do that?
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Is imgur losing images?
Are there any missing images from Imgur, and especially images that were uploaded using the editor (to the Stack Exchange pro account)? When did those images go missing?
For at least the past 20 hours,...
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Disallow new embedded images from hosts other than the SE imgur account
There are two issues with embedded images in posts that link to outside hosts:
These images are likely to expire at some point, which can render the post meaningless
External images allow users to ...
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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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Is stack.imgur.com hosting still free for Stack Exchange?
The image hosting at stack.imgur.com used to be free for Stack Exchange. Is it still free?
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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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Images for Area51 proposal community promotion on imgur.com?
For each proposal on Area51, a promotional image is automatically generated and it shows the current state, e.g. number of followers/supporters or comitted. Example:
They’re obviously useful for ...
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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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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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Have a checkmark to turn an imgurl'ed web image into a link to the original automatically (default=on)
While it's a convenient feature to have an image from somewhere in the internet be automatically cloned to the (hopefully) permanent i.stack.imgur.com, automatically turning the image into a link to ...
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Imgur upload box is not keyboard-friendly
We have lots of wonderful keyboard shortcuts with which to compose an answer. One of these is CTRL-G, which brings up the image uploader.
Unfortunately, the resulting box requires me to remove my ...
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User image is too heavy
Just noticed on this user profile:
Yes, all we know that internet is fast nowadays, but ... 1.5Mb for (scaled) 164x164 px image is too much.
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Are the images from deleted posts kept?
What happens to the images from deleted questions and/or answers?
Will they be kept or they will be deleted with the answer?
What happens with the images, that are edited out from the post? The ...
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Animated Gif Profile pic on StackOverflow doesn't animate
I don’t know if this is a bug or is this how the images work, hosted on imgur. It basically adds a query string. I added a profile pic as gif but it doesn’t work as how gif images work. If I goto the ...
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Do images uploaded to imgur.com have any backup?
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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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MB?
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 MB (or MiB), and imgur allows much more ...
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Why does Stack Exchange use Imgur over Amazon S3 or Azure?
What benefit does Imgur offer over Amazon S3, Azure, etc. for image hosting?
Is it the simplicity of integration? The cost model? What's better about using a "gateway"?
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Detailed info on Imgur's automatic image resizing service?
I searched for a few posts and they mentioned tweaking image URLs to let Imgur resize images automatically, and here's the info I've known by far.
4 available suffices, lmsh
l is for large, ...
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Imgur medium images with too much compression
If we append m (or s) to our uploaded images file names, we get the medium (and small) versions. I noticed quite some artifacts in the medium sized.
Original
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Z8pOz.png
Medium
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My Stack Overflow imgur images are disappearing
A while back I answered this question and used the official Stack Overflow image uploader:
Using ServerManager to create Application within Application
I just noticed that some of the images I had ...
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Potential to abuse Imgur?
stack.imgur.com was created to avoid link rotting of images.
Images not uploaded with an Imgur Pro account may be kept for only at least six months unless there is one view of that image per six ...
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Embed smaller version of images from imgur.com to reduce traffic [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos
This is a follow-up to this feature request that currently has 25 upvotes and has been ...
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Don't duplicate images on stack.imgur.com
User posted a link to http://i.stack.imgur.com/g3aUt.png in this question. So I edited it to actually show the image. I didn't remember image syntax used here, so I used GUI button. that was much ...
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Why did this uploaded image disappear?
A post on Super User was deleted. Its final revision contained an uploaded image, which has since been deleted from Stack Exchange's image host (Imgur):
Why did this image disappear?
The original ...
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Profile image proportions are broken
On some user profiles, e.g. here image proportions are broken:
Image on activity tab or on network profile page isn’t distorted:
The issue is probably related to the old one: Avatar ...
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Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
On May 15th 2023, Imgur will implement its new TOS, in which
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.
I, and presumably many other users, ...
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What is the future for Imgur and SE?
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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Not specifying an image to upload gives misleading "format is not supported" error
I went to upload an image for a question. I clicked on upload without specifying a file and it stated:
"Failed to upload image; the format is not supported."
I find that misleading because no ...
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Some uploaded images get aggressively compressed; why and when?
I tried uploading a full-page screenshot of a deleted question to share with low-rep users, and I noticed that the result was barely legible.
For example let's take a full-page screenshot of the XY ...
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Images from imgur fail over ssl
When loading TeX.SX over TLS (e.g. Force equal hinting when combining symbols) with HTTPS Everywhere, images are not displayed.
Firefox shows this error (e.g. for https://i.stack.imgur.com/k1rDN.png):...
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What's the official stance on the bounty ad?
Github repo of ad in question, link to ad on codegolf.se, and link to ad on scifi & fantasy.se.
This ad has been used more or less widely around the network. For those who don't know, it's an ad ...
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