See a pattern yet? Otherwise direct links seem to work, sometimes. Says direct linking is a paid feature, but seems to work either way, for now.Ĭ - They've had to remove anonymous uploads. Can't tell what the retention time is, otherwise looks good.
Put.re - I was going to recommend put.re, but apparently they're showing exactly why we can't have nice things You can request access, but I haven't tried. I looked some up for you, but I can't personally vouch for any of them. Take a look at actual imgur alternatives. Discord has Nitro, Reddit has Gold, Twitter has Blue, GitHub has Team. If you feel bad about abusing the service, you could throw some money at them. This may not be your favorite option, but it is my favorite option as a reader of your comment or post, because the probability of the link just working and directly opening the image in the future is higher than most other services. In GitHub drop images in a comment of your own gist for example. In Twitter just tweet it, or reply tweet it to yourself if you want it more hidden. In Discord start a personal "Notebook" group and upload your images there. So instead I have some options that may fit at least the HN use case of occasionally sharing a screenshot or a photo.Ībuse a popular unrelated service that you already have an account for.įor example Discord, Reddit, Twitter and GitHub all let you upload an image and link directly to it. I wish I could give you an alternative as good as the original imgur, but as you probably know, it is very difficult to host a no nonsense image hosting service. If you don't have time for that, let me quote a comment from the acquisition thread: "the general idea seems to buy declining brands for cheap and extract as much value as possible". If that doesn't ring any bells, have a listen to the episode 93 of Darknet Diaries. One where you can't directly link to the image file, and the polar opposite of "no nonsense" image hosting.Īlthough the downhill started way before, I'll also note that imgur was bought by MediaLab in 2021. I have not found a way around this, other than using a Chrome based browser.īut my personal reasons aside, I want you to realize that imgur has become the exact kind of service its creator hated, and you probably hate too. When I tap on a seemingly direct i./yaddayadda.jpg link, I get the imgur UI loading animation, and it never loads. I also use Firefox on desktop and mobile, as should you. I'll admit that first and foremost I have selfish reasons for this.
I wasn't able to relogin to Imgur but fiddling with the configuration settings (or waiting just 20 more minutes while I tried to figure out how to logout) seems to have fixed the issue.Dear HN, please stop using imgur to share images in the posts and comments. I'm going to try it on my end and if that works that it might be linked to the problem of hotlink 403 errors. ShareX a similar screen shot program seems to have run into a similar problem at some point and the problem on their end was users had to reauthenticate. I assume in my case that many other people love Greenshot and the application just ran out of API credits or something? In your case it sounds like a broken authentication token though I'm knowledge about enough to know how to hypothetically even approach fixing it. If you're getting this error, check that you haven't run out of API credits or make sure you're sending the OAuth headers correctly and have valid tokens/secrets.
Greenshot is awesome.Īccording to Imgur Documentation Status Code: 403įorbidden.
I'm in the same boat with Greenshot's Imgur Plugin.