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    these would ideally need to be fixed later. Maybe a meta post to keep track? Commented Jun 7 at 4:09
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    Harry McKenzie - Thanks for this. I already wrote a (less good!) version for "my" SE site here. One concern using Imgur which I mentioned at that link (despite it being one of the least bad options) is that I remember during the transition to SE's own image servers, someone said that anonymous uploads to Imgur were going to have a short life before being removed. I can't find that post now :( My point is, as Journeyman Geek has just commented, anything uploaded to Imgur should ideally be copied onto SE's own servers when they're fixed. Commented Jun 7 at 4:19
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    @SamGibson That's a very good and important point. This issue really needs to be addressed as soon as possible, users are already turning to external image hosts like Imgur just to get their questions posted. If this continues, we'll likely end up with a large number of posts missing images in the future once those external links break or expire. Time is of the essence if we want to preserve the quality and integrity of content across the Stack Exchange network. Commented Jun 7 at 4:34
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    @HarryMcKenzie - Thanks Harry, I see we're thinking along the same lines. I expect your site of Blender.SE uses lots of images too! So thanks again for pushing this workaround to a wider audience (I should have thought to do that) as well as mentioning that concern about not using it for any longer than we have to. Commented Jun 7 at 4:48
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    I don't understand why you want to upload to imgur, rather than to upload via chat. Commented Jun 7 at 5:11
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    Because you can't upload to chat with reputation below 100. So this is only for users that have reputation below 100, which is required to upload to chat. Commented Jun 7 at 10:55
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    You can also use Copy image address instead of Open image in new tab > copying the URL from the address bar. Commented Jun 7 at 16:17