I saw a reply to a post from 2 months ago that seems to indicate that imgur is used in voyagerapp for image attachments, but for me it always uploads to my home instance, which impacts its storage space.
Am I missing a setting to change that? Was that other post wrong about imgur being used?
edit: by “my home instance”, I mean reddthat.com, not a self-hosted one
I saw something on the Memmy community a while back about imgur uploading being against the imgur TOS.
Specifically this under “Stuff not to do”
Also, don’t use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network.
That may have something to do with it.
Thank you! That clears things up, and apparently some other apps are just ignoring that policy, hence my confusion.
You’re welcome! I think it is a fairly new TOS update that came when they purged the porn and anonymous uploads.
oh ok that also makes sense, thanks again!
I‘m pretty sure voyager was using Lemmy (not sure if your home instance or the community instance) to upload images, but most Lemmy servers deactivated the upload due to csam. And afaict that’s still the case for mine.
I’ve been uploading my images via Imgur and this iOS shortcut, you can just grab an image link from somewhere and paste it into the link field.
Thank you for this!
But something seems wrong on my end. I have Imgur installed, I’ve added the shortcut. I’ve copied the full URL to a .jpg to the clipboard, but when I run the shortcut the “Copied” banner shows no link. Am I supposed to paste the link somewhere else?I think it’s still working correctly, only the copied message was showing weird stuff. I uploaded a new version of the shortcut, could you try it and see if that fixes it?
Thank you again for the reply! I think I just figured out what I was doing wrong with the old version.
Instead of copying the URL, I saved the image to my photos, then shared it from photos with a new “Upload to Imgur” option that was at the bottom of the share sheet.
Is that the intended way for it to be used (which is still great), or is there a different method I’m missing to directly use an URL?edit: also, I went to download the new version just to be updated, but it appears to still be the old one from August. Is there a different link for it?
It’s still this url, the version should say 1.1.1. Not sure what you are trying to do. If you have an image that you want to upload, you can use the shortcut via the sharesheet to copy the image url (this should work from photos or also from a website or anywhere else where you can share an image). If the image is already uploaded somewhere you can probably just copy the image url from there.
Still says 1.1 for me, even after refreshing the page:
nvm about the URL, I realized I was combining two different incompatible things in my head. All good now on that front.
Maybe thats a cdn update issue and it takes some time to be visible from everywhere, it’s definitely there for me. Glad you figured it out.
Just following up, the shortcut download page did finally update for me to 1.1.1
Yeah that’s probably it, I’ll keep checking now and then to see if it updates. Thanks again for your help!
Just upload to your instance. Not my problem
ok, this seems to be the only comment from an insignificant less-than-one-day-old troll account, and will be regarded as such.
