Can't upload images directly anymore

[king of nowhere]

I don't see any forum technical support, so I'm posting here...

Up until one week ago, I could upload an image on imgur, then right-click copy it, and paste it on the forum. The forum would recognize this as meaning it must take the image url.

Now, it does not work anymore, It says I cannot post images directly.

So I have to click "insert image from url", copy the url, and add .png. Which is a lot more annoying when I have to post dozens of pictures.

What changed there? is there some way to get back the easy uploading?

[Vanamonde]

Test. 

 

The method I have always used is copy/pasting the BBCode link from Imgur straight into my posts without any formatting. 

Oh, also, your question has been moved to Kerbal Network. 

 

[The Aziz]

I wouldn't right click "copy image", I'd do "Copy link to image" instead. That should paste the direct link that ends with jpg/png/gif/potato/whatever and forum software should transform it into image, if not immediately, then after an Enter.

[king of nowhere]

15 hours ago, The Aziz said:

I wouldn't right click "copy image", I'd do "Copy link to image" instead. That should paste the direct link that ends with jpg/png/gif/potato/whatever and forum software should transform it into image, if not immediately, then after an Enter.

https://imgur.com/feSzLzg

Doesn't work.

First, I have to manually write .png. Even then, it doesn't upload correctly

wait, it did upload correctly! very uncomfortable, though, because when I paste the link I can't see it, and I can't see what I'm writing; I'm still better off going the long way

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by king of nowhere

[Superfluous J]

2 hours ago, king of nowhere said:

https://imgur.com/feSzLzg

Doesn't work.

First, I have to manually write .png. Even then, it doesn't upload correctly

wait, it did upload correctly! very uncomfortable, though, because when I paste the link I can't see it, and I can't see what I'm writing; I'm still better off going the long way

 

https://imgur.com/feSzLzg isn't a link to an image. https://imgur.com/feSzLzg.png is. That's literally the only difference.

And no, you don't have to add the ".png" to the end. And you shouldn't, you should add ".jpg" because 99% of the time jpg's are much smaller.

Re-read this. It's important:

18 hours ago, The Aziz said:

I wouldn't right click "copy image", I'd do "Copy link to image" instead. That should paste the direct link that ends with jpg/png/gif/potato/whatever and forum software should transform it into image, if not immediately, then after an Enter.

"Copy image link"! Don't copy the IMAGE. Copy a LINK to the image.

[king of nowhere]

2 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

 

"Copy image link"! Don't copy the IMAGE. Copy a LINK to the image.

 

ah, it works.
i was using "copy link" from imgur. there was a big button for it, it seemed the right thing to do. the option on the right click of the mouse works properly.

and my screenshots are in png format

[Superfluous J]

30 minutes ago, king of nowhere said:

ah, it works.
i was using "copy link" from imgur. there was a big button for it, it seemed the right thing to do. the option on the right click of the mouse works properly.

and my screenshots are in png format

Doesn't matter what you upload to imgur, you can link to a jpg and it'll give a jpg.

it's in their best interest to spend the time re-encoding the file, as it lowers the bandwidth.

[The Aziz]

21 hours ago, Superfluous J said:

it's in their best interest to spend the time re-encoding the file, as it lowers the bandwidth.

Upon quick inspection it doesn't matter. I tried png, switching to jpg and even gif. All three files downloaded with the same size.