Questions tagged [imgur-image-hosting]
For questions about the now-deprecated use of Imgur's service to handle image uploads for Stack Exchange.
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Imgur is now blocked in the UK - should images embedded from Imgur be re-uploaded in posts?
Last month, Imgur started blocking users from the United Kingdom from their site. For British users, a stub image with "Content not available in your region" is served instead, meaning that ...
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How to get SE sstatic images for my website
I've written about 2,500 questions and answers in Stack Exchange sites. About half of them I scrape into my website on GitHub Pages for customized presentation and searching.
A short time ago all the ...
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To find old images in chat, you still have to search with the Imgur URL
I was recently looking for a graph I had posted to a private chat room several months ago. In order to find it, I went to search for messages posted by me containing i.sstatic.net in the room I knew I ...
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Old non-HTTPS image stubs in posts say "upload to Imgur" in the post editor
This is a two-part bug report.
We had a flag on 2011 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest that the avatars weren't loading, and because it was meta, a user couldn't edit it.
All the answers ...
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Uploading PNG image less than 2 MiB leads to error "Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB)."
I tried to upload PNG image with size about 1.3 MiB, but image uploader says that an image size is more than 2 MiB:
Your image is too large to upload (over 2 MiB).
Possible explanation for this is ...
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Can't upload images
Image upload is broken:
(image is on imgur.com itself.)
Can this please be fixed so we can upload our lovely pictures again?
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Why is the maximum image size one can upload in the chat twice larger than the maximum image size one can upload in a question or answer?
The upload limit for images and GIF files in questions and answers is 2 MiB, while the chat uploader has a size limit of 4 MiB for JPG and PNG (I haven't looked at GIF). In both cases, large images ...
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Why are some images and GIF files hosted on i.stack.imgur.com larger than 2 MiB?
The upload limit for images and GIF files is 2 MiB. However, some images and GIF files are larger than 2 MiB, e.g.:
This 9.9 MiB GIF file posted in this question.
This 9.6 MiB image posted in this ...
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Can i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].gif, i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].jpg and i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].png be different images?
I believe that i.stack.imgur.com supports only 3 extensions: .gif, .jpg and .png.
Assume these three URLs with the same [ID]:
i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].gif
i.stack.imgur.com/[ID].jpg
i.stack.imgur.com/[...
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Update on the Imgur migration, May 28th 2024: Migration complete!
As of today, we are pronouncing the work associated with the Imgur migration "complete" for all intents and purposes. There ...
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Exactly what metadata is preserved when uploading an image on the network?
This old question "Is EXIF data removed from uploaded SE pictures?" claims that
Imgur will strip the EXIF data once the image is uploaded to their server
Recently, a question posted on the ...
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What are the factors that cause SE's Imgur instance to reduce the resolution of uploaded images?
I have been converting several images that are larger than 2 MiB to be less than or equal to 2 MiB to make them compatible with SE's Imgur instance, which has a 2 MiB file size limit. This is because ...
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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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Planned Imgur Maintenance for Thursday, February 23rd 00:00-01:00 UTC
On Thursday, February 23rd, between 00:00 and 01:00 UTC (February 22nd between 7:00 and 8:00 pm EST), Imgur is performing routine maintenance for 10-15 minutes, which may cause interruptions to stack....
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What should we do with suggested edits that change an image to be embedded inline by uploading a new copy?
I occasionally see suggested edits only changing the image from a link to inline.
I have rejected a couple as "This edit causes harm", but now I just click "No Improvement".
The ...