Imgur has blocked the UK

[aVdub]

I pronounce Imgur

BLOCKED

 

[kindai]

Hi Feek, are you able to share the script with me please? I run a car forum on XenForo and there's a lot of build threads which use Imgur. Might also be useful for m3cutters, I can ping the admin on there.

Likewise here too. Got a forum going back to ~2005 which has already been hampered enough by Photobucket.

Dropping both of you a message.

 

[Orcvader]

Assuming I'm looking at s3nd's roadmap right, private/hidden pictures are planned: https://s3nd.pics/roadmap/68b1dba94be3bc312e348074

On the other had, got an email to my work address, and the sender used Imgur embedded in it. All I could see though was the content not viewable placeholder. The included message itself looked like spam anyway so I just moved it to junk. I guess this block is doing at least one good thing .

 

[AndyCr15]

how do you pronounce "knife"?

Definitely not 'can efie...'

Are you suggesting it should be 'immrrrr' or 'mmmgrrrrrr'?

 

[jaybee]

looks short for IMAGE YOUR to me

I'd imgur Mum.

 

[Nabinium]

I pronounce Imgur

BLOCKED

My Lord, I am reluctant to rise to my feet, but I feel the need to point out that my learned friend's statement is false.

The correct pronunciation is in fact image-ur.

 

[Disco_P]

There’s an automated process running now which will convert any imgur links to attachments and insert them into the post bodies.

Providing people don’t ask for their imgur accounts to be purged, we won’t lose any pictures within posts.

It’ll take a while to run over every post on the forum.

Do you know if signatures could be included?

 

[Demon]

Good shout on self hosting something, I already have Immich which I've been trialling as a google photos alternative (probably the best one out there IME).. so just quickly (5 mins!) setup "immich public proxy" to sit alongside my immich instance to allow slightly safer public sharing of images.. and can use a different domain name to keep things fairly hidden..

 

[Yaayuh!]

What’s the go-to now lads?

 

[loftie]

Didn’t this receive Royal Assent under the Tories?

AFAIK yea. October '23 IIRC.

 

[aVdub]

What’s the go-to now lads?

https://s3nd.pics/

Is public though, with hopefully private added later.

 

[Disco_P]

What’s the go-to now lads?

https://imgchest.com/

Seems very similar to Imgur

 

[Raymond Lin]

https://imgchest.com/

Seems very similar to Imgur

Can you private your profile? I don't like how photos I put on there for forums just get random comments. Someone put "BAN" for my sig lol

 

[grudas]

Thing with all these alternatives is that I feel sooner or later they’ll go the same way. As I’ve said previously, I used to host.. and the horrid stuff that ended up uploaded was not worth dealing with and I shut it down, that’s before the whole age verification thing came up.

I personally feel that running your own little host is best idea.

 

[marcus_667]

ffs this online safety act bs is stupid

 

[Mysterae_]

No one answered me earlier, what's so bad about OneDrive or GoogleDrive to share images? Is it the lack of anonymity?

 

[Feek]

No one answered me earlier, what's so bad about OneDrive or GoogleDrive to share images? Is it the lack of anonymity?

Nothing, if you can directly link to the image.

 

[ChrisD.]

Testing out slink. Small VM in Oracle Cloud Free Tier, signup page blocked via nginx, and proxied via Cloudflare.

42GB free space, but I'm sure I could do something with <a cloud storage provider here>.

 

[Mysterae_]

Nothing, if you can directly link to the image.

That what I do. Put the images in a Public folder, select "embed", copy the shortcut and paste the url in the forum post. Doesn't show animated gifs properly though.

 

[Hagar]

ffs this online safety act bs is stupid

Actually it is not it has some worthwhile objectives. The fact that some US company would rather block the UK and probably subsequently the EU to avoid selling data of minors is on them and not our government or its legislation.
The internet is full of such dodgy stuff and giving carte blanche to all of it is basically wrong. Someone will be along soon with a better image host if they have not already.