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Editor improvements for images and links
support status-completed This has been fixed.
Might be me missing something but how do I add an image via link to upload to imgur? There used to be an option for that but I can't tell anymore.
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
I met with Imgur yesterday and have some more information to share.
The total scope of the data on Imgur is (and these are just rough stats):
~2.6 TB of images
~48 mil individual images
~1.5k ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
feature-request
When on the insert hyperlink/image tab you should be able to swap to a different tab if wanted, currently you have to cancel and then select another tab.
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Imgur strips EXIF/metadata from images.
EXIF data/metadata is removed from all images upon upload. There is no setting available to retain the data.
I think we need to maintain that level of user ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
feature-request
The orange highlight colour looks out of place on all sites which use another primary colour. This should adapt to the individual sites.
For example on TeX.SE the terrible colour ...
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Intermittent Failed to upload image; imgur is rejecting the request
It appears that S3 has fallen over in AWS for the US-EAST1. Ironically I can't include a screenshot of the dashboard in this post, but I promise I have one.
You can see the AWS status dashboard here: ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Questions
How exactly will the lifetimes of the imgur images work? Do the image URLs just insta-rot in April 2024? And when do you expect the images on the new platform to be all copied over by?
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Editor improvements for images and links
feature-request status-declined
How about converting arrow pointer to hand pointer in the drag and drop area in new design also?
In the old design, when pointer hover around the area of drag and ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
There were three major pain points with using Imgur as the hosting service. Please make sure these are resolved with the new service:
Networks where Imgur is blocked
Back in my early years of ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
feature-request
Could you adjust this so that clicking the body of your post makes the recently opened menu close? Currently, it's just disabled.
Oddly, I find myself dismissing an insert link or ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
Possible bug
Normally, when you "Discard" a saved draft, it clears the answer text. However, when you "Discard" a saved draft when the inline image uploader (or hyperlink box) is open and then "...
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Automatically resize images if their file size is too large
We've shipped automatic image resizing on image uploads over 2 MiB.
Any images over 2MiB will be allowed, but automatically resized below 2MiB so they load reasonably well for users
A couple ...
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Can't upload images
Thank you for making this post. We diagnosed the issue with Imgur uploads and reached out to Imgur for support. They responded quickly, investigated, and resolved the issue.
We should now have full ...
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Could we revisit WebP support with the new uploader?
As of today, webp images are supported across all of the Stack Exchange sites. A webp image can be used in all places where images are supported — profiles, the About Me section of your profile, and, ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
bug status-completed
The clickable area is smaller than the grey box:
Bit of a small issue, but in my first try in using it I clicked too far to the edge, and nothing happened.
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
I am honestly surprised this didn't happen years ago. Congratulations to whoever managed to keep it going this long (in both companies).
When choosing new URLs: be aware that a few multi-part ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Regarding Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's answer
I'm not in favour of increasing the maximum upload size, unless some more automatic work can also go on behind the scenes.
I do see the benefit ...
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Image uploading fails with "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"
It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS
This issue has been remediated. We've manually updated our DNS records to make sure the image upload service resolves correctly. It's currently just ...
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sstatic.net images aren't displayed on (some?) other sites outside the SE network
This change is by design, as part of our migration from Imgur to a self-hosted image service. I’ll describe a bit of information as to why we’ve made this change, and what you can do if your site or ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Make sure that avatar images that use gifs don't play their animations. Animated avatars are not allowed and the current solution to make them not play their animations is to use imgur-specific query ...
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Remove the 160px minimum image size limit on Stack Exchange internal image hosting
As Slate mentioned, we had initially restricted the size requirement due to a new set of platform safety features we had implemented. However, we saw that limiting the size of uploads in this way ...
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Editor improvements for images and links
support
On my iPhone, when I click the 'Insert hyperlink' button, I see the screen scrolling a bit, but in the end, the place where I want to type something is not visible (see below). Sometimes it's ...
GlorfindelMod
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Editor improvements for images and links
feature-request status-deferred
How about fixing the real issue with image uploading that I see all the time on SE sites where users are not technically savvy? The size limit of 2 MB is a barrier to ...
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No option to upload image from URL anymore
It's still possible, but it's not easy to discover. After clicking the image upload button, you can paste an URL with Ctrl+V:
It then proceeds with uploading to imgur as before.
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Imgur image processing takes too long
Thanks for the reports here!
Imgur has just informed us this is resolved. An anti-spam mechanism they use was causing a DNS timeout on image uploads, adding almost exactly 10 seconds of latency to ...
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"Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server" is back
Thank you all for the reports and attention. I genuinely love how much pride and effort the community puts into Stack Exchange.
This has, again, been remediated by a band-aid fix on our web server ...
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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
status-completed
There are many runnable javascript snippets that load images from imgur. Most of them (all?) load from i.imgur.com, not from i.stack.imgur.com because i.stack.imgur.com never had the ...
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Image size limit: Why it is set to 2 MiB?
I am pretty sure the reason is historical limit, that isn't relevant anymore.
Stack Exchange sends the images to imgur via their API, using a special premium account that was made many years ago, back ...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
EXIF data is stripped for privacy reasons, but sometimes there's a genuine need for some specific attributes
Someone already posted about how Imgur strips EXIF data out of uploaded images, and that it'...
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Does the new image uploader keep track of the uploader identity (i.e., who uploaded what)?
With our new image hosting service, we do keep track of who uploaded which image, connecting it to the user ID / account ID of the person who uploaded it. We do this because we want a Data Subject ...
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