[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider

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#21632: Adding Imgur as an oEmbed provider
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 Reporter:  bradparbs              |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                 |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Embeds                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                 |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch 2nd-opinion  |
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Comment (by markjaquith):

 Replying to [comment:2 scribu]:
 > The thing is that there are quite a few generic image hosting providers,
 like imageshack, photobucket etc.
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 > We should have a "canonical" plugin that adds support for all these
 addition oEmbed providers, instead of adding them to Core.

 Adding providers is really low cost for us. Knowing that they need a
 plugin, tracking that plugin down, and installing it, is a big hurdle for
 users. These "magic" embeds will work better the more that people can rely
 on popular embed providers to be supported without any effort on their
 part. I think our hurdle should be the popularity and stability of the
 embed provider. Imgur has been around for a while, and serves multiple
 petabytes a month — I think they fit the bill. And FWIW, I'd be happy to
 add ImageShack and Photobucket too.

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