At my wits end with trying to view Imgur images

t-dub

Vapor Sloth
Firefox, Chrome they both do it. All the images, still or GIF, from Imgur will not load. They appear broken but when I view them individually they then start to work. What the hell is going on? It just started yesterday. I have tried everything to trouble shoot this with no results. Any ideas?
 

Enchantre

Oil Painter
All of them, or just some? can you see this one here?

ASFSpzZ.jpg


Not that I can solve it, just getting more data... ;)
 

Delta3DStudios

Well-Known Member
Accessory Maker
I noticed today that all imgur images are not showing up on the posts today. I can access the images via the URL directly, but it seems they are not getting embedded in the posts.......

I get a feeling this isn't limited to just my system, did anyone else notice this?

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Skeena

Standing stone faced like a statue.
Been having the same issue on the site for the last few days.

But I go to the actual imgur site pretty often and it works fine.
 

Delta3DStudios

Well-Known Member
Accessory Maker
Phew, glad to know it's not just me!

I think I know what's going on.....

Some of you may recall that Imgur recently added video hosting to their service (within the past 2 weeks). I'm betting the video hosting is causing a major load on their servers, to the point where Imgur is running over capacity.

Embedding images may have been disabled by Imgur in an effort to 'throttle' the load on their system (to keep the whole system from crashing)

This is purely conjecture, as I have not seen any formal statements from Imgur. I'm simply going off my experience in the IT industry (data storage specifically), and the fact that they recently added a high-bandwidth service to their system
 

grokit

well-worn member
I posted an image, then couldn't see it in the post but I could see it in the edit window for that post.
Then I went to the gif thread, and the last page was full of broken image links like this one.
But the second to last page, which is obviously full of gifs, loaded.
And then the last page still doesn't load at all.
I'm also glad it's not just me!
:whoa:
 

pakalolo

Toolbag v1.1 (candidate)
Staff member
Phew, glad to know it's not just me!

I think I know what's going on.....

Some of you may recall that Imgur recently added video hosting to their service (within the past 2 weeks). I'm betting the video hosting is causing a major load on their servers, to the point where Imgur is running over capacity.

Embedding images may have been disabled by Imgur in an effort to 'throttle' the load on their system (to keep the whole system from crashing)

This is purely conjecture, as I have not seen any formal statements from Imgur. I'm simply going off my experience in the IT industry (data storage specifically), and the fact that they recently added a high-bandwidth service to their system

The puzzling thing to me is that (as others have mentioned) the images load when you quote them, or edit them for that matter. It's more complicated than just disabling embedding.
 

Delta3DStudios

Well-Known Member
Accessory Maker
The puzzling thing to me is that (as others have mentioned) the images load when you quote them, or edit them for that matter. It's more complicated than just disabling embedding.

Agreed, that is strange. I too have seen some of my own images show up when compiling a message, or reviewing a PM. I think those images may be cached on the browser

Edit, indeed it appears to be a cache copy of the image. I was unable to see @Enchantre's image on this thread, until I right clicked and selected "open image in new tab" - the new tab was blank, until I refreshed the screen. Then suddenly the image appeared. Flipped over to this tab and refreshed the page. Now the image shows up as it should
 
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