Imgur Blocked from use in the United Kingdom

[World_Gamerz]

PSA:

For any DEVS or Server owners with plugins that uses Imgur has been blocked in the United Kingdom

I personally use postimages.org

I have a USA TX Server but the rental host is in the UK and imgur sees the host and still blocked all my images 
I had to go to postimages to see the images on the server.

[Death]

The rate-limiting on Imgur alone is enough to stay away. There's also https://images.mapstr.gg/ which is run by @Ryz0r

[World_Gamerz]

On 2/8/2026 at 4:06 PM, Death said:

The rate-limiting on Imgur alone is enough to stay away. There's also https://images.mapstr.gg/ which is run by @Ryz0r

Well more than 1/2 my plugins default is Imgur links and I've spend a good chuck of my time having to replace all the default images in each plugin (in the config)

[MrOwlSky]

Always gonna be best to self-host your own web server with the images to avoid censorship entirely like they did with Imgur. You can get a super cheap $2-4 VPS monthly and self-host the images, You can even use Cloudflare R2 storage for 10gb of images for free, and if you properly convert the images to .webp or simple .png/.jpg compression rates, you can host thousands of images free with Cloudflare R2. Good rule of thumb is always try to avoid any service that has the rights to pull the plug from under you, especially when hosting servers.