Hi SUG Members,
As of Tuesday 30th September 2025 Image-hosting platform Imgur has blocked people in the UK from accessing its content.
So if Sailwave users have been using club, event, class images hosted on Imgur, they will no longer be displayed on results published by Sailwave, both historical published results and any new ones.
More information can be read at the following websites:
Kind regards,
Huw
From the web
The strong suspicion being expressed online is that this could be a response to the new Online Safety Act (OSA) and its requirements for websites to implement “effective age checks“ on visitors
The best solution is to have your own web hosting and upload the images to that, but this is not convenient for everyone, which is a pity that Imgur have withdrawn from the UK, as this UK Online Safety Act is affecting things it wasn’t intended to.
I did find an alternative, which is https://imgbox.com
To use this with Sailwave - go to https://imgbox.com and upload your Burgee / Logo
And you will then see something similar to this
Click on the link highlighted above
and you will see something like this
Click on the button marked above
You will then just see your Burgee/Logo
And in the browser address bar, you will see something similar to this
https://images2.imgbox.com/a9/72/VysjEN4p_o.jpg?download=true
Copy this excluding the ?download=true
You can then use this https://images2.imgbox.com/a9/72/VysjEN4p_o.jpg where you need your logo
Let us know how you get on
Jon
