Not OP, and I haven't done it myself yet, but it makes a lot of sense. It's basically free image hosting if you can get the file cached by Cloudflare.
Imgur these days is slow and riddled by ads. A page show will sometimes load many times the image size in Javascript, stylesheets and images. It also doesn't allow the user to just view the raw image, going as far as redirecting requests to the raw image to a web page if you directly access the URL.
The only downside I see is that the URL is less user friendly without the IPFS toolset installed. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
Are these imgur problems a USA thing? Because I literally never had any of the behavior described. Direct image links always go to the image, there is no JS or HTML or anything.
Yep same here. Maybe the issue is about non-direct links, but it could be that imgur changes what it responds with depending on the request. If the url ends with .jpg it can still serve an HTML page.
Imgur these days is slow and riddled by ads. A page show will sometimes load many times the image size in Javascript, stylesheets and images. It also doesn't allow the user to just view the raw image, going as far as redirecting requests to the raw image to a web page if you directly access the URL.
The only downside I see is that the URL is less user friendly without the IPFS toolset installed. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.