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Hiya Rowley :)

Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that before.

There is a number of things that are going to make this hard or impossible. But I need to ponder on it some more :)

Firstly the whole single image for an album is a problem, because the entire album interface and controls are not needed for a single image. When using imgur, getting to the direct links after uploading a pic is a level deeper now, and simply means people wont use it.

Since the album is loaded and not a direct image means I can't resize the pic, or derive a direct link from it. Also I cant determine if there are more than one image in the album. That means even if I could interact with it, it would or could break subsequent images.

Think of the album as a mini web page hosted on imgur that is embedded in a forum post. RS Linkify only interacts with RSOF not any other site. The album's domain is imgur, it cant interact with the forums and RS Linkify can't interact with off site content (that's by my design).

I'll look deeper into their API, there may be a solution. However other fixes I have done recently of a similar nature I'm not liking much. Lately more of my updates have been correcting what users post, then running the embedding well after the page has loaded. This looks sloppy, adds overheads, and messes with quota tallies, as well as delays embedding.


While doing a little research I stumbled upon this, kind of related...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/225w67/when_people_post_the_imgur_album_link_for_only/

15-Sep-2016 02:58:23

Weyburns
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Hey Indy,

For a bit now I've been having trouble revealing image/gifs that are hidden. I tried to make a gif showing the problem, but for some reason it recorded my mouse in a different position, also the gif only loaded when i pressed a quote on the thread and the image loaded without me pressing.

pretty much i can just spam press it to reveal the image and nothing will happen.

https://puu.sh/rbKs9.gif

kinda feel like it might be a problem with my comp since i've been having a few issues with it lately that is pissing me off, but thought i'd give you a heads up in case anyone else is having issues.
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15-Sep-2016 05:19:06 - Last edited on 15-Sep-2016 05:19:44 by Weyburns

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Hiya Weyburns :)

I did have some problems early on with the "select to reveal" thing, but I thought it was all sorted now.

Some things I can suggest are:

- Make sure you have RS Linkify version 3.1.9.76

- disable adblock, refresh forum page and see how that goes.

If those things don't help...

- disable all extensions except RS Linkify, refresh forum page and see how that goes.

And if that doesn't work try disabling RS Linkify and see if that helps.


Process of elimination kind of thing so we can see where the issue stems from :)

15-Sep-2016 06:07:35

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I did some searching across Reddit, it's apparently meant as a retaliation attempt towards Reddit hosting their own images now...

Not sure if you know, but Imgur was formed to have a reliable place to host images for Reddit, but then Imgur became its own community with a similar voting style, a similar type of community (upvoting posts to be visible, etc) and thus they wanted traffic too.

A few months ago Reddit started to host their own images - for what reason, I'm not sure, but apparently Imgur are trying to divert traffic back to themselves, and I assume that's why direct image links are such a pain to find now, and the links that divert to a page with an ad are much easier to find.

Thank you for your help as always Indy! Unslain Bosses - Clan

15-Sep-2016 07:49:39 - Last edited on 15-Sep-2016 07:49:53 by Hevilmystic

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Wow I was oblivious to all of that stuff. Seems like petty bickering, such a shame if that's the case.


When they made the change I noticed...

imgur.com/a/XXXX

is not the same image as

i.imgur.com/XXXX

and that's a real pain.

Don't even have to be a reddit user to be impacted by this. Really disappointing. I haven't given up looking for a good solution but it's not fair that we suffer more overheads because of this situation.

15-Sep-2016 09:03:46 - Last edited on 15-Sep-2016 09:26:43 by Indecent Act

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Quote taken from here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-cold-war-between-reddit-and-imgur-has-officially-begun

The numbers here look scary for both Imgur and for Reddit. Data analyst Randy Olson found that more than half or Reddit’s most popular posts are hosted on Imgur. That’s not half of all image posts on Reddit, that’s half of all popular posts, regardless of content type. In the last few years, popular Reddit posts have wondered “why do subreddits eventually transform into an Imgur aggregator after a while” and “ today for the first time in my Reddit tenure, all 25 top posts on r/all were Imgur links. ”

Does that mean reddit died years ago and their users just haven't noticed? Seems plausible.

15-Sep-2016 09:38:34

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Very much appreciated, thank you Rowley :)

And yes I don't agree with all of it either. I did find the bit I quoted interesting though.

For r/runescape, most of what goes on is people post a pic, people comment and/or rate it. I just wish they did it well.

15-Sep-2016 10:51:05

Loki
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Hey there Indy ^_^

I logged onto the forums just before to notice that Linkify isn't working for me - all my colours have reset, titles gone, ability to see link images, etc... yet in the Chrome settings, it says Linkify is enabled. I've tried to get into the Linkify settings from the Chrome extensions tab, but it just keeps loading nothing.. :(

Help if possible. Can't forum without Linkify! :( <3
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