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Regular links work, but imgur links don't.

v Regular Internet link, sprite taken from the PokemonDB sprite gallery
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v Imgur generated link
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As you can see inserting an Imgur link produces an empty box. If anyone edits this and Re-inserts the link it will work just fine, but whether I insert it from my iPod or my Latop it won't work.

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um..... I dont know....
@Rowr! don't answer a question you don't know the answer to please.
@Ben ya it works fine for me on my phone Irdk what the problem is.
hey I just wanted to say that if someone else is having this problem and runs across this post, the UK and imgur decided not to be friends anymore, so... why don't you give this a read, because fizz knows more about it than I do:

https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/84228/a-preferred-approach-to-image-hosting-on-pokebase

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You are not linking the image, you are linking a web page that has an image on it (several images, in fact). You are linking from this page when you should be linking from this one. :P

Hint: image URLs should always end in .jpg or .png or .gif

So you should get:

If I solved nothing I'll hide this xP Hope it helped though!

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Actually I'm getting the link from this page http://imgur.com/yOUwnnZ
Ok then I think just add the .jpg or whatever that part is part xP