Questions tagged [imgur]
for questions about the official use of Imgur's service to handle image uploads for Stack Exchange.
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How do I delete an unreferenced uploaded image? [duplicate]
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Can I / should I delete unused images from Imgur?
Today, while uploading an image to my question, I accidentally uploaded a personal photo. I didn't reference it anywhere. Is ...
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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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Why is imgur rejecting requests from SE websites?
I can't seem to post any images from any SE website. I get the error below. The uploader on their website seems to work fine as I uploaded the screen shot there.
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Can we determine what the problem is with an imgur linked image?
The original version of this answer had an imgur image embedded in it (original edit). I've just now approved an edit which removed the imgur link because it was broken. I remembered seeing a bunch of ...
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i.stack.imgur.com images stop working after a while [duplicate]
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
I noticed this a long time ago, but it appears that old i.stack.imgur.com images stop working after a couple ...
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imgur links broken by stackoverflow [duplicate]
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
I just noticed that the uploaded images in this answer are broken. Images with this text are being shown ...
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Why does the source of this question not remain the same when viewing and editing? [duplicate]
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
I'm very confused by the source of this question. I just pulled it up to link to it, and saw that the imgur ...
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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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What's wrong with Imgur? Why can't I upload any images?
Imgur is having some trouble I guess.
I can't upload any images on Stack Exchange.
It looks they have some maintenance issues.
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Is i.stack.imgur.com deleting images? [duplicate]
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Images manually uploaded to Imgur are not displaying?
I thought that images uploaded to i.stack.imgur.com are supposed to remain permanently, but it seems some of them are ...
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Embed smaller version of images from imgur.com to reduce traffic [duplicate]
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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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Imgur's Amsterdam CDN giving 504 Gateway Timeout for many images
This is merely a "for your information" for those using the Amsterdam Imgur server and not seeing all images. Today, that Amsterdam server gives me an error for many (but certainly not all) images. It ...
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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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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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Imgur images are (re)disappearing again
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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Is it allowed to use imgur uploader provided in SE/SO for legal things not used in SE/SO?
We know that images, that are uploaded by imgur image upload button in SE/SO, will not expire unless SE/SO changes the policy.
Is it allowed to use imgur uploader provided in SE/SO for legal things ...
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Image uploads with imgur.com currently down
When I try to insert an image using the upload tool, I get:
(source: mrozekma.com)
I'm running the current version of Chrome on Windows, with a number of SE-related user-scripts. Confirmed by several ...
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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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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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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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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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Clarifying fair use regarding a Stack Exchange site and an Imgur hosted image
On the Japanese site, there is some concern regarding the use of a photograph taken of a comic book. The question is located here.
I am actually the person who asked the question and took the photo. I ...
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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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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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<pre> tags seem to break imgur images in edit preview?
I answered this question (links to my answer) and uploaded a couple of screenshots:
Connection between MSSQL and PHP 5.3.5 on IIS is not working
When I was composing the answer one of the uploaded ...
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Recognize Imgur URLs when inserting an image
The insert image feature does not recognize images that are already hosted on Imgur, so when you try to use the toolbar to insert one of these, it gets duplicated on their website.
For example, I ...
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Browse button in Image insertion doesn't work in IE7 [closed]
When I try to add an image to a question or answer, I'm not able to browse my local files in IE7. When I push the "Browse" button it looks like the "Upload" button gets focus. But nothing else happens....
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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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Imgur.com issues
There seems to be an issue uploading images from webapps.stackexchange.com at present.
I'm pretty sure it is a problem with imgur.com so I doubt anything can be done here.
It is quite annoying as ...
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Uploading images via web [duplicate]
I uploaded an image from the web today, from http://imgur.com/.
However SO takes the image and reuploads it to http://imgur.com/, if the image from web is from http://imgur.com/ then it doesn't need ...
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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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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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add support for pasting images [duplicate]
I was very happy to learn that you had added support for directly uploading images to imgur. However, I would like to see this taken one step further, if it is even possible.
Today, if I want to ...
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