The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the Internet

Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by LinuxBender on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:39PM (#35735872)

I've never used Imgur so I am curious about one thing. When people upload images to Imgur do they have a login to do this or it is anonymous? If a login is used then I think Imgur should give people the option to 301 redirect their uploaded image to another site so they can manage their files elsewhere and not break as many links. Then technically they are not hosting the files. Maybe give people some time to modify the sites they are embedded in before removing the 301's or replacing with 410's.

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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by nerdbert on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:16PM (#35736099)

Imgur provided both options.

You could do it via an account, in which case you could easily manage your images after the fact.

Or you could upload anonymously, in which case it would give you a magic delete link, which you could use later to delete the image. Of course if you failed to save that link at the time of upload then you lost all control of the image.

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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by prmoustache on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:21AM (#35739480)

I have an imgur account.

Both were possible. From my understanding only the images uploaded by anonymous account are taken down. Imgur still exist as an image/video social media.

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