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rationalisttoday at 4:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

Imgur lies and gaslights, please don't use them.

While using a VPN, they will say "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later." But if you don't use a VPN, then it magically works.


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Bjartrtoday at 5:06 PM

Maybe over the capacity allocated for VPN originating traffic? I would never interpret a user-facing error message like that on a public site to be a reliable claim of what's actually going on in the underlying infrastructure. For any service.

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bel8today at 5:34 PM

Sorry about that. I'll search somewhere better to post it while I don't have a website for it.

Meanwhile I found this random image upload website which might work:

https://freeimage.host/i/image.B0iOHxt