ETA: It was pretty easy, i even used Chrome instead of Edge (which is my normal Android browser) just to be sure.
Here’s a photo:
As to what I did, after uploading the photo you “view post” then tap the 3 vertical dots in the top right corner and “copy permalink”. Paste that in the browser and you get to the page with the photo. Tap and hold on the picture, “open image in new tab”, then in the new tab copy the URL from the address bar. Post that in Discourse. Not very different than doing it on an iPhone, maybe one extra step.
Yeah, I was hoping there was still a way to get it directly from the app without the middle browser step. Imgur purposely made it more difficult because they don’t get ad views from an embedded photo, so it’s not just the extra step that annoys me, it’s the reason for that extra step. But your steps work, so I shouldn’t complain.
In somewhat related news, Imgur is going through a bit of a mini-crisis. Their parent, MediaLab, has been making many changes for the worse. There are reports that last week they fired all their US resources. Yesterday a protest flooded the home page with anti-MediaLab memes. It will probably blow over and inertia will keep the users around, but who knows.
Imgur doesn’t require a login, either, although you can optionally set up a free account. If you paste a picture anonymously (without a login) you can delete it from the album after some (short) period of time, like maybe half an hour. Then it’s no longer accessible for deletion, even if you remain on the same page on which you posted it.
If you want to continue to see, or link to, what you uploaded, you have to save the album or image URL somewhere.
Every “free” service is paid for by someone, and it’s not crazy that most of those someones are hoping to recoup their investment. There are shittier and less shitty ways to do that, of course. But there’s a reason I’m not too upset that Reuters started charging for access to their site.
