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I tried to sign in to Imgur to upload a couple of pictures here, but it does not allow me to sign in.

I now find that every picture posted here has been replaced with a Question Mark.

I am disappointed to say the least, but hope that Argo 44 (same thing with his pics) has been able to back up his research elsewhere.

I know there is nothing certain but death and taxes, but can anyone recommend a safer alternative?

Whenever I have trouble with Imgur now, I reboot my computer. Why this works, I don't know, but I frequently find that does the trick.

Clearing your browser cache/history may resolve it as well.

God! I have a pile of stuff on Imgur. I hope this is only a glitch.

Thanks Brent.

Tried switching off my tablet.

It now allows me to sign in but my saved images show as grey squares.

Progress of a sort.

Given the cost of a external hard drive its shocking to me that people don't have control of ALL of their photos. The only thing I use a hiosting site for is posting on line. And I have every original? digital photo on two different drives. it's so easy and inexpensive, there is no excuse.....especially after the PHOTOBUCKET debacle of a number of years ago.

All my recent IMGUR photos are still up. I had a series of problems with JPGBOX a couple of years ago; they finally went off-line for 5 months. I have all my photos backed up and I painstakingly recreated the photos on-line using IMGUR. Then someone must have bought JPGBOX because they magically reappeared at some point in time; Photos can still be posting using their site.

Parabola, the problem must be a local one. If you can find a human at IMGUR they likely can fix it if rebooting the computer doesn't work. (When the car stops, check to see if you've got gas first; when computer stops, reboot).

Good news, Gene.

When I looked at your Reilly thread (rope/cable?) I was getting the [?] instead of pictures but hopefully that is local to me.

Check gas first is sound advice.

I know you are a Francophile but I hope you won’t mind this story.

My father’s Triumph Renown broke down in the South of France. The local mechanic who clearly regarded us as “bete Anglais” scornfully told us our problem was “Pas d’essence!”.

To demonstrate he whipped off the carburettor end of the petrol feed tube and sucked hard on it.

I still treasure the look on his face as he sucked in whatever was causing the blockage, and a good deal of petrol with it.

To be fair, he had fixed the problem and the car ran perfectly thereafter.

I don’t think he was an Anglophile before, certainly not after.

Ive solved the ongoing problem by remembering you get what you pay for. Free sites... you get crap eventually. I use a paid site and I'm quite happy to pay my $6 a month and never worry.

I just checked and some of my Imgur pictures are still up. This primitive site is the only one I'm on that needs a photo hosting service. Parker, Fox and Shotgunworld all link direct.