Tech Know Nothing guy needs help

December 3, 2010 8:30 AM

Need a bit of tech help for Imgur

I discovered that Imgur was very simple to use, especially as put in tool bar on Fire Fox. See photo. Click Imgur. Get code. Paste on my blog. Problem? within a few hours the photo deleted. Not sure why. I have emailed the company for tech help, offered to use pay plan, but have not heard back. Of course there are many other places to go to for uploading photos, but this seemed such a time saver I would like to use it. Any ideas what i am doing wrong or why the photos get deleted? thanks

posted by Postroad to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

So... these are images you don't own copyright? perhaps Imgur is taking them down because the original owner complains?
posted by jrishel at 8:42 AM on December 3, 2010

Imgur will only delete your file if it's had no views for 90 days. If the images are being taken down, it's likely because they're copyright material of some kind, or look like copyrighted material and they're being picked up by automatic scans.

Just had a look at your blog and it appears to happen to every image though, so I'm not sure what's going on.

You might want to look at switching to Yfrog, Photobucket or similar services.
posted by Happy Dave at 8:45 AM on December 3, 2010

Min.us is a new image hosting site that seems pretty easy to use.
posted by Earl the Polliwog at 9:03 AM on December 3, 2010