In this post I’ll be going over 2 recent announcements made by reddit and imgur and how they affect the subreddit.
I’ll try to keep it short where I can, but if you’ve been around here for a while you know [I don’t really do short posts.](https://media.tenor.com/fBvQV_5Lp6UAAAAC/we-dont-do-that-here-black-panther.gif)
TL;DR ([I swear it’s a TL;DR](https://media.tenor.com/03VCLMyKfL4AAAAC/pout-anime-pout.gif)):
– Imgur is now banned as an image host on the subreddit. We’ve whitelisted [catbox.moe](https://catbox.moe/) and [imgchest](https://www.imgchest.com/) for now as a replacement.
– Catbox is banned in Australia, Ireland, UK and apparently Comcast internet provider. [See their FAQ](https://catbox.moe/faq.php) on how to bypass.
– If you have any other alternatives that might seem good let us know and we’ll have a look at it.
– Whitelist currently is: reddit, redgifs, catbox.moe, imgchest
– We only allow direct image links from catbox and imgchest that are: jpg, jpeg, png, gif
– Use redgifs for video/mp4 files -> they generate a thumbnail which is important to how the subreddit functions
– We will be reposting everything posted by u/HentaiSource_Archive to the subreddit to fix the image thumbnails.
– 8000+ posts have to be reposted, this will take a while and hopefully it won’t flag the bot as a spam bot.
– Will likely make the subreddit private during this posting process. (Estimate 1 – 2 days)
– Will aim to do this next weekend 28 – 30 April if I can update the code by then. This is TBD.
– Changes coming to the reddit API might destroy the way we moderate and archive posts on the subreddit, making the future of the subreddit unclear.
– Depending on these changes that are still unclear, this might just kill the archive purpose of the subreddit at which point I would probably throw in the towel and be done with maintaining the subreddit. Time will tell.
– The future of NSFW content on reddit as a whole is not looking bright and might disappear soon.
– We will soon be opening up our discord as a back up purely for archiving purposes.
– This is just whatever gets posted by u/HentaiSource_Archive
– For now this will be read only access, instead of reddit search you can use discord search to find posts, although it’s less refined.
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#**What was announced?**
##**Imgur** [(Effective as of 15 May 2023)](https://imgurinc.com/tos)
[help article](https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029)
– Banning and removing pornographic NSFW content from their entire platform.
– This includes private/hidden posts.
– This includes past content that is currently already on imgur. If it’s NSFW it will be deleted.
– Removing ALL content that was anonymously uploaded. This includes both SFW and NSFW stuff.
– This change affects more than just NSFW subreddits and will leave a large hole on the internet in general.
In short [this is what reddit will look like](https://i.redd.it/k5lzhavlubva1.jpg) for a lot of older posts, not just NSFW posts. There’s nothing to do against this.
###**How does this change affect the subreddit?**
######**Previous posts**
Any previous post you see that was using imgur as a host will essentially be “dead”. The provided image will no longer be available. As said above [this is what reddit will look like](https://i.redd.it/k5lzhavlubva1.jpg) for those posts.
Same deal for cubari “source” links or imgur albums in comments. They will likely no longer function. You can somewhat compare it to hentainexus/hentai.cafe being deleted.
Fortunately our rule 9 demands you to follow [our sourcing etiquette](https://www.reddit.com/r/HentaiSource/wiki/postinghelp/providesources) and as such the source will still be present.
######**Future posts**
~~To those unaware, the native image upload feature provided by reddit is not available to NSFW subreddits **unless** you post through the official reddit mobile app. This means that none mobile users or 3rd party app users mainly used imgur or alternatives to post images to NSFW subreddits.~~ [As of recently](https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13evueo/bringing_image_uploads_to_parity/), may or may not be related to the imgur NSFW ban, reddit now also allows image uploads from PC for NSFW subreddits.
With imgur no longer allowing NSFW content we will now ban imgur from being used on the subreddit. We’ve whitelisted [catbox.moe](https://catbox.moe/). It functions mostly similar to imgur, major difference is that you can’t add descriptions to images and the .mp4 files don’t generate a thumbnail on reddit. To that extend I’d recommend using redgifs if you’re posting a video or use a .gif file format instead on catbox (you’ll have to convert it yourself).
If you’re a mobile user, you can upload images through the official reddit app which majority of users already do.
If you have any other alternatives that might seem good let us know and we’ll have a look at it, we’re open to suggestions.
######**HentaiPros album**
UPDATE: We will likely move the HentaiPros album to imgchest.
[The HentaiPros ad collection album](https://www.reddit.com/r/HentaiSource/wiki/guides/hentaipros) will also be affected by this. This album relied on the fact that we could provide descriptions on individual images to provide the source. Catbox doesn’t allow this at the moment, which means we can’t just migrate this over.
However HentaiPros ads are some of the easiest things to source yourself. For 99% of the cases a simple reverse search with yandex will get you to the source. So while it’s still a sad loss, it’s not the biggest loss.
These will still remain banned as part of the Source Shadow Realm.
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##**Reddit**
Earlier this week [reddit announced upcoming restrictions to their API](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/12qwagm/an_update_regarding_reddits_api/), one of them being no longer providing NSFW data. It is still unclear what the limit of this will be since they talk about it not being disruptive to mod bots, we’ll have to wait and see.
###**How does this change affect the subreddit?**
In the [monthly archive dumps](https://www.reddit.com/r/HentaiSource/wiki/archivedump) we repost almost everything that was solved during that month among other posts. (I say almost, because during a lot of the early months of the new title format we didn’t repost everything, but I have an ever growing backlog of 1000+ posts to go through that I never have the time for.) Either way since the format change 2,5 years ago we’ve had 12312 image/link posts so far. We currently have 8304 images archived under u/HentaiSource_Archive.
Both u/HentaiSource_Archive and other mod bots we use make use of the reddit API. If reddit is going to no longer provide data from NSFW subreddits, again unclear on current plans, then the future of this subreddit and NSFW subreddits in general isn’t looking great. For r/HentaiSource specifically it would be an immense blow to our workflow of not just day to day moderation, but also to our monthly archive dumps.
Depending on these changes that are still unclear, this might just kill the archive purpose of the subreddit at which point I would probably throw in the towel and be done with maintaining the subreddit. Time will tell.
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##**Other upcoming announcement**
Unrelated to the reddit and imgur announcement, we will be opening up our discord server to the public.
This will only be for archiving purposes. I have no interest in running or moderating a sourcing discord. There’s already several out there and pretty much every major discord server has a sourcing channel of its own. This would merely be opening up the HentaiSource discord to the public with viewing/reading permissions of the different source archive channels. We were planning on announcing this later this month, but if we’re going to have to repost everything to reddit too, meaning the post id’s will change, we’ll have to push it back until all of that is sorted. So I have no ETA on this, but it’s coming soon. First priority is to fix all the posts on reddit.
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EDIT:
Current steps needed to reupload the archive:
– ✔️ Update the bot code to use catbox instead of imgur
– ✔️ Upload all archived files to catbox.
– ✔️ Upload all mp4 files to redgifs (mp4 files on catbox don’t generate a thumbnail, so these will be linked from redgifs)
– ✔️ Archive queue pending posts of this month that are delayed due to these changes
– ✔️ Reupload archive to reddit
[Announcement] Impact of the Imgur NSFW ban + purge of anonymous posts & upcoming Reddit API changes
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