About Imgur

[Blazey]

Hey guys i not long ago went on another rp site i go on and got a pm saying this:

Hey guys. So I have some rather important news for you all. Imgur.com has decided to change it's TOS (terms of service) and it no longer allows forums hosted on proboards, forumotion or jcnk to use their services. This means we cannot use imgur at all to upload avatars, signatures or even images for our templates. It's very, very irritating but it cannot be helped unfortunately. You can STILL upload images of say, yourself, your dog, etc, using imgur if you're just wanting to show everyone or post it in a thread. But, you cannot use imgur for avatars, signatures or templates. This new change also includes the forum theme, skin, and plug-ins, but you guys don't need to worry about that. Perception and I don't use imgur for theme design. Wooh! In a nutshell, This sort of hosting is allowed under their TOS (sharing images with facebook, twitter, reddit and also uploading non-repeat images that are literally "just posting pictures. Not backgrounds, avatars, banners, nothing at all like that. Just posting a picture in a post on a thread"). Just not images that are loaded as part of your theme, signatures, templates or avatars. If you're posting and hosting images for sharing in a thread (for instance) that would be fine according to their TOS. They just don't want to play host to images or things that are loaded a every single time you load a page like parts of your theme, signature, avatars, etc.

And we are a Probaords site so that effects us too...... Just thought i would let everyone know so they can check thier stuff.

[The REAL Joey]

I know Imageshack have adopted a similar policy with their hosting in regards to free hosting not working to forums. I lost a lot of hosted stuff because of this.

For shame.

I appreciate they're a business and all that but they used to be a real dependable alternative back in the day. Oh well, there's always Tinypic or Postimage.