How to use imgur

Wintermute

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I swear some of you are incapable of using the internet. In order for a lot of things to work here you should learn how to use imgur. This will be better for you and for your family. Your posts will be cleaner and you will be able to send things to friends via email or facebook or whatever without looking like a moron.

So first we will look at an album.

Code:
http://imgur.com/a/kzFwz

You know it is an album because it has /a/ in the URL. This means it has more than one picture in it, this one has two. There is a button on your toolbar that looks like movie film and if you hover over it the popup says media. Click that and paste an /a/ URL into it and you will see the imgur box around it that will let you scroll through the album.

This is what it looks like.


Now we will select a picture to attach. This is important to do because when we enable attachments you are going to be able to do this and it will go out and grab the picture and attach it for you and edit your post to have the attachment instead of the hotlink. As long as you do it right.

Okay here is a picture I want to share with you guys. I right click it and select the option that says Copy image address.

View attachment 18

This is in Chrome but your browser will say something similar. You will get a link like this.

Code:
http://i.imgur.com/mFIhSiK.jpg

Notice three things it will say i.imgur and there is no /a/ and finally it has a filetype.

Next to the media button is an icon that looks like a picture, hit that and put this link into it and it will look like this.

mFIhSiK.jpg


Now you can also put it into the media box as well and certain websites will have special borders or whatever, imgur won't work with still pictures and the media box but it does with gif/gifv/webm/mp4.

This is what that looks like when I use the following URL.

Code:
http://i.imgur.com/SZpihyh.mp4


If it doesn't end in a filename or have /a/ for album you will get nowhere with it for any kind of embedding. If you do somehow then great for you but it probably won't work.
 
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Woefully Inept

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I'm so not used to all these neat new features the old board never had. This technology frightens me!
 
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slippery

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The albums don't seem to embed properly. It blocks the bottom half the image with the preview bar for me
 
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Oldbased

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I tried to link a LL page earlier the whole page and the site tried loading it as a player instead. ( Media ) which timed out.
Apparently linking a www page with a player embeded does this now so how does this man who literally just discovered the internet 3 days ago go about linking a page like that now?
 
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a_skeleton_03

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I tried to link a LL page earlier the whole page and the site tried loading it as a player instead. ( Media ) which timed out.
Apparently linking a www page with a player embeded does this now so how does this man who literally just discovered the internet 3 days ago go about linking a page like that now?
Put the URL in code tags so I can see it.
 
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Oldbased

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Kept trying to load it as media
See no matter what I do it loads it as media and it is the whole page
h t t p :// w w w.l i ve l e ak.com/view?i=833_1470820111
even using code formatting and [ u r l ] it converts to media
 
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a_skeleton_03

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Okay liveleak is broken and the developer of the addon can't fix it right now.

I will see if I can disable it from even loading it like that.
 
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Oldbased

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Thanks, I thought I was going nuts or something. I'm not the best at such things but it was freaking me out. Good to know I am only partially to blame.
 
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Haus

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Another note for those of us who are exceedingly lazy is that there are imgur addons for Chrome and such to automate things where you can literally see your stuff and click a "copy link" and then past that into your thread. Like this :

http://i.imgur.com/RuAhgh0.jpg

Makes :

RuAhgh0.jpg
 
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Void

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Another note for those of us who are exceedingly lazy is that there are imgur addons for Chrome and such to automate things where you can literally see your stuff and click a "copy link" and then past that into your thread. Like this :

http://i.imgur.com/RuAhgh0.jpg

Makes :

RuAhgh0.jpg
There is also a wonderful Firefox addon called Rehost Image. If you find an image on the webs that you want here, but don't want to hotlink directly to, you simply right-click on the image and choose "Rehost Image and Copy to Clipboard." Then just click the Image icon in the reply box (or media I suppose if it is not an image) and paste what it copied for you. Easy as pie. You can also choose another image host in the options if you don't like imgur for some reason.
 
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slippery

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Is there any way to get clips to link correctly from twitch?

The following just links the channel instead of the clip

Code:
https://clips.twitch.tv/overwatchopen/FantasticSheepDeIlluminati
 

Deathwing

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So, I thought attaching was bad for server bandwidth but now we're doing it purposefully when someone hotlinks?