Imgur direct links failing

[Angry_Panda]

It appears that around midnight GMT the morning of Feb 13, Imgur direct link images have stopped working on the site. See smaller discussions and examples on the forum here, here, and here.

It looks like images that have already been cached by MD are still working fine, and if one of those is reused in a new post, it works there as well. However, if an image hasn't been used on the site before, the image appears while entering the post (presumably since the user can see it directly), but when the post is previewed or posted, the image fails to cache on MD and the error placeholder is shown.

I am aware that Imgur has been geoblocking some regions (notably the UK last September), but have not seen anything this morning that would indicate there's a new block in place in the last 24 hours.

 

[HelperHand]

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https://imgur.com/a/6NOOqek

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this image works for whatever reason, both images I have previously embeded...

I guess the media option

 

[CharaDotArchivist]

thankfully i don't have this problem with my own images since i won't touch imgur with a 50 metre pole, but it is quite strange...

 

[yogurtman250]

thankfully i don't have this problem with my own images since i won't touch imgur with a 50 metre pole, but it is quite strange...

What site do you use then?

 

[CharaDotArchivist]

What site do you use then?

for most things like yuri, other arts, etc i'll just link it directly from safebooru, but for reaction images or something i use freeimage.host

 

[namecantbebl0nk]

What site do you use then?

I'm migrating to github

 

[Angry_Panda]

This seems like it may have cleared itself up - pretty sure I've not used either of these on MD yet:

However, anything that tried to cache while it wasn't working is still defunct:

 

[HDMI1]

If you don't care too much about long term personal access https://postimg.cc/ is a good substitute. Just upload, grab the link, and forget.