no I think your mis reading. It not referring to linking images, but using imgur as a host to store and retrieve for another site. ie my personal website, instead of using my resources, is to store all content on another site (IMGUR)and just link to it..
That said IMGUR is also in the midst of change. They are seeing the 'future' more as a social media site than an image hosting site. Some may have seen some of the testing results, images having a border with link to IMGUR among other features, download link-view count.. Your picture will show but become a traffic generator to IMGUR
https://community.imgur.com/t/great-well-i-guess-imgur-is-unusable-now/43870
http://blog.imgur.com/2017/06/21/a-new-look-for-direct-links/
Which may not be too bad,
however my pain is uploading images to IMGUR site, (and most others) it assigns its own file name to picture. When editing a prior post becomes a matter of matching picture instead of just new url & file name, one more level of frustration. Scrolling thru pictures trying to find a match-rewriting url path minor (if thread hasnt been locked). Ive downloaded all my PB pics and created IMGUR account and uploaded them all but still looking for a host. Did a bout half an older post and stopped after half dozen pics-just tedious and pointless.
I cant help but think, because of the $400 annual upgrade tag, that PB really doesn't want to host pics anymore for sharing and expects folks to leave. If it were revenue, making free accounts $20 would have sated even the greediest..
Can you imagine YouTube doing this?
