Smileys

[sassyfrassy]

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I hosted all my smileys on imgur when photobucket went to pay to use. They have an https url and my imgur is public.
Some of the smileys are not showing now. Any idea how to remedy this?

[Chris]

Aug 20, 2024 3:02:45 GMT -8 Chris said:

Embedded images hosted on the main imgur.com domain have been swapped to a sub-domain.
I currently am only seeing them migrated to i.imgur.com (reminiscent of tinypic and imageshack hierarchy)

Example: https://imgur.com/8xD5RtH.pngis now https://i.imgur.com/8xD5RtH.png

[sassyfrassy]

Aug 20, 2024 3:13:56 GMT -8 Chris said:

Aug 20, 2024 3:02:45 GMT -8 Chris said:

Embedded images hosted on the main imgur.com domain have been swapped to a sub-domain.
I currently am only seeing them migrated to i.imgur.com (reminiscent of tinypic and imageshack hierarchy)

Example: https://imgur.com/8xD5RtH.pngis now https://i.imgur.com/8xD5RtH.png

Ok.
I'm not sure where to go from here tho to fix this. Some of the imgur images are showing up - others are not.
Do I need to add an i. in front of image url on those not showing?
I'm a novice here and learning as I go. Is there a better hosting site to use?

[sassyfrassy]

Chris
went to your profile and tried this but didn't work...

[bigballofyarn]

It would probably be safer to have your forum emotes uploaded directly to the theme. Imgur may not allow you to use their service as a content delivery network, and even if they do now, they can change that tomorrow and all emotes everywhere could show up as broken images.

[Kami]

Aug 20, 2024 3:56:42 GMT -8 bigballofyarn said:

It would probably be safer to have your forum emotes uploaded directly to the theme. Imgur may not allow you to use their service as a content delivery network, and even if they do now, they can change that tomorrow and all emotes everywhere could show up as broken images.

^ just wanted to confirm this is the case, imgur forbids using their service as a CDN and will ban your account, your website, and potentially the service if this usage is discovered.

[sassyfrassy]

Aug 20, 2024 6:03:10 GMT -8 Kami said:

Aug 20, 2024 3:56:42 GMT -8 bigballofyarn said:

It would probably be safer to have your forum emotes uploaded directly to the theme. Imgur may not allow you to use their service as a content delivery network, and even if they do now, they can change that tomorrow and all emotes everywhere could show up as broken images.

^ just wanted to confirm this is the case, imgur forbids using their service as a CDN and will ban your account, your website, and potentially the service if this usage is discovered.

I don't believe this is correct information.
Imgur provides "share links" and one of them is a BBC link (as it states) for use in forums.

[bigballofyarn]

Aug 20, 2024 6:30:37 GMT -8 sassyfrassy said:

Aug 20, 2024 6:03:10 GMT -8 Kami said:

^ just wanted to confirm this is the case, imgur forbids using their service as a CDN and will ban your account, your website, and potentially the service if this usage is discovered.

I don't believe this is correct information.
Imgur provides "share links" and one of them is a BBC link (as it states) for use in forums.

Yes. To post an occasional image here and there in a post, but not to use as your content delivery network. 


imgur.com/tos

Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.

[Kami]

Aug 20, 2024 6:30:37 GMT -8 sassyfrassy said:

Aug 20, 2024 6:03:10 GMT -8 Kami said:

^ just wanted to confirm this is the case, imgur forbids using their service as a CDN and will ban your account, your website, and potentially the service if this usage is discovered.

I don't believe this is correct information.
Imgur provides "share links" and one of them is a BBC link (as it states) for use in forums. 

To further elaborate on the response BBOY posted, a content delivery network (CDN) is not simply "an image host".

CDNs refer to a system wherein content is repeatedly, and frequently, loaded. The occasional image being posted once in a thread is fine — the image will be requested from the host only when that specific page / post is loaded. The relative strain on the server, even if the page is loaded many, many times, is low because of the singular occurrence in that specific post.

But images that are regularly used and may appear multiple times per page load, or appear repeatedly across different page loads -- theme images, smileys, avatars, signature banners -- have a heavier strain on the host's servers even if the page is loaded the exact same number of times as in the first example; this is especially true if all of the images of this nature are hosted on a single account and/or requested by traffic from a single site.

Image hosts are generally not okay with being CDNs because it eats up resources, especially if the host is free and ad-supported. This is a large part of why Photobucket closed down tinypic, and a large part of why Photobucket is no longer allowing their services to be used without subscribing financially (and even then you cannot use them as a CDN without paying for the highest tier of service).