imageshack's shark jump

[vexorian]

This is going to be OT, but it is sort of beginning to affect the site. I noticed it last night when my brother's entry to the raffee got turned into a frog. The frog is beginning to appear in some parts of the site, mainly some signatures. Because of browser caching, the people posting those images are not noticing.

What happened is that just recently imageshack modified its terms and now for you to hot link images posted to them, the site in which the images are being posted must 'register' with imageshack. More info here: http://guidesandstuff.com/imageshack_picture_photo_problem_issue.html

For example, JCC1004's looks wrong now with tons of frog and messages saying "domain unregistered". I would submit a screenshot, but imageshack no longer works.

Edit: Ok, here is how his signature looks:

Edited February 24, 2011 by vexorian

[XimenaPaulina]

Ah, I noticed that too, I always use imageshack for images that I don't really want to put on my flickr/brickshelf accounts, and now they want you to register to get the image link. However, I found a way to still get the image link: just click on the photo, the page will reload, then right-click on the photo again and 'Copy the Image Location', and you can use that to deeplink the photos. I'm just not sure how reliable that method is in the long run (they might change to the frog images that you stated).

[vexorian]

I think it is not reliable, and what happens is that your browser's cache makes you think it works (happened to my brother when he submitted the picture to the raffle thread, it seemed to work, but then when I used the computer with another OS it did not.

Right now, the only reliable way is to use thumbnail links. Or to ask eurobricks to register their domain to imageshack.

Edit: It seems not even thumbnail links work consistently enough. I refreshed my browser's cache and they stopped working.

Edited February 24, 2011 by vexorian

[escortmad79]

Some of the adverts on imageshack & photobucket contain viruses, be very wary using them!

Luckily my antivirus managed to catch them before they did damage!

[Big Cam]

I highly recommend flickr.

Too bad imageshack is tightening their grasp.