Yesterday, Imgur announced an update to their ToS effective May 19th mentioning that they will be deleting “old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account”:
This heavily affects CD as a long-standing forum with a large back catalog of old, niche content that may have been hosted on Imgur. I don’t know what can be done to preserve posts that will be affected since editing is locked after 24 hours, but I encourage everyone to make backups of anything important they may have hosted on there that they would want to keep.
I understand why they have to do this, but it’s horrifying just how much history will be wiped away by this. Did they give a timeline for when the deletions will happen?
1665 in 2018 should have images in the slides but not present in imgur
So uh, ive been doing right click open image in new tab which hadn’t been working for me. Apparently, there are 2 links. If you click the hyperlink on the bottom of the page, it’s fine
I think the admins will understand the need for preservation of old content. Frc and chief Delphi are a community that is centered on legacy, with many incedents living down in team memories. If things, like the Can Crossbows or game breaking robots like 469 in 2010, I think it would be devastating to inspiring new members. I think it is worth the server load to save such things.
Oh, absolutely! But usually for such large scale projects it’s possible to get a database “dump” (which is usually more optimized), so that we don’t need to make a large amount of requests over the network that overload the server.
For CDChief Delphi at least the site has its own image hosting things can be moved to. I don’t know what TBAThe Blue Alliance, a site for FIRST Robotics Competition event data can do in this situation other than start running their own hosting and/or allowing direct links to images hosted on CDChief Delphi.
This is actually a problem on Imgur’s end with how it handles linking to certain old files. It’s a result of their “new” layout that they came out with a while back that broke a lot of things like this. As an imgur user, you could even have some images show up fine in your favorites but when you click on them it goes to that same 404 page. I think it has something to do with how the page redirects when you try to pull it up in a browser vs trying to view it via embedded image (I think Imgur does some sort of browser detection thing when you try to open certain links which affects how they appear).
Not sure if there’s a good way to fix it, but figured I’d mention the issue is likely not on the TBAThe Blue Alliance, a site for FIRST Robotics Competition event data end of things.
Technically speaking, this change appears to only affect content not associated with an Imgur user account (IE uploaded without logging in). Anyone could re-upload the content under a different user account and it would (theoretically) still stay on there forever. You can also upload images under an account and leave them as “unlisted” so you can only get to them from direct links and they don’t appear to be associated with your account to anyone else.
For that matter, you could probably even make like a TBAThe Blue Alliance, a site for FIRST Robotics Competition event data Imgur account and find some way to just upload files onto that (though you might have to do this manually, Imgur does support batch uploads but not “bot” uploads, as far as I know).
