post recommendation : post i.imgur.com direct link instead of imgur.com album link for single image albums

submitted by orangered from self.SaidIt

expanding imgur.com links requires loading a iframe (also generally slower and can't use picture resize feature on saidit) but i.imgur.com links not requires loading iframe to view image and also probably load faster in most cases (since you are not loading a external html page but only image)

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[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

There are i.imur.com links on the frontpage right now, but it seems that imgur updated their code so that even a direct link to a .jpg file will load the page with the iframe and JS. I don't know if that can be worked around. Perhaps it's better if we start using a different one.

[–]orangered[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

but it seems that imgur updated their code so that even a direct link to a .jpg file will load the page with the iframe and JS

when you click a link on saidit (and most of websites) you send a HTTP header called "Referer", imgur checks if there is a "Referer" header and if there is a Referer header imgur redirects you to album page instead of loading image. saidit can disable/change this behavior using Referrer-Policy or adding rel="noreferrer" attribute to links (<a> tags)

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So that's how it works. /u/magnora7 perhaps an idea?