Broken Imgur links?

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

E.g. browsing some threads here, I'm getting broken links to embedded Imgur images. I've tried refreshing, browser restart (happening in Chrome and Safari), still nothing.

If I open the image URL in a new tab, I get 403- Forbidden. Refreshing this doesn't work. However if I re-paste the URL (e.g. just highlighting the URL and hitting Enter) the image loads. But still nothing loads on the forum. Cache cleared etc.

Any ideas why this is happening? I'm running Lion. Strangely also similar issue on my iPad, so I'm guessing it's something from my ISP??

idk, it's happening for me too, both on my iPad and on my windows 7 machine running chrome. maybe imgur's just being daft?

I assume thats why the GIF thread does not show half of the images!

Broken for me too on Mac OSX, Ipad and windows 7 (firefox). Guessing its the site itself.

Probably imgur blocking referrals.

Aye, something about referrals and such...

Running Chrome here and half the images / gifs don't load now. Same with IE

Yeah I've been experiencing it also. I'm not sure it's a problem exclusive for Macs though...

I noticed this too!

For Chrome/Iron users get NoRef:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/noref

Firefox users get Refcontrol:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

And configure it just to block referrers for imgur.com, that way it wont break any sites that actually rely on referrers.



Probably ought to stop using imgur for any new images you post too.

Chrome extension of the above (Refcontrol) and adding block to http://*imgur.com does sort the issue out. At least on OSX. The trouble of course is - it's pointless for us to find workaround on per browser basis when everyone else cannot see those linked images. If imgur doesn't support refering websites any more then its as good as chocolate teapot and needs to be ditched.

yup, me no like imgur no more

Problem is sorted now. Imgur have taken us off their blacklist

I am having this issue now too