rimgo

An alternative frontend for Imgur. Originally based on rimgu.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Comparison
  • Speed
  • Privacy
• Usage
• Instances
  • Clearnet
  • Tor
• Automatically redirect links
  • LibRedirect
  • GreaseMonkey script
  • Redirector
• Install
  • Docker (recommended)
    • Automatic updates
  • Build from source
    • Requirements
• Configuration
  • Environment variables
• Contributing
• License

Features

• Lightweight
• No JavaScript
• No ads or tracking
• No sign up or app install prompts
• Bandwidth efficient - automatically uses newer image formats (if enabled)

Comparison

Comparing rimgo to Imgur.

Speed

Tested using Google PageSpeed Insights.

	rimgo	Imgur
Performance	91	28
Request count	29	340
Resource Size	218 KiB	2,542 KiB
Time to Interactive	1.6s	23.8s

Privacy

Imgur collects information about your device and uses tracking cookies for advertising, this is mentioned in their privacy policy. Blacklight found 31 trackers and 87 third-party cookies.

See what cookies and trackers Imgur uses and where your data gets sent: https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=imgur.com

Usage

Replace imgur.com or i.imgur.com with the instance domain. For i.stack.imgur.com, replace i.stack.imgur.com with the instance domain and add stack/ before the media ID. You can use a browser extension to do this automatically.

Imgur: https://imgur.com/gallery/j2sOQkJ -> https://rimgo.bcow.xyz/gallery/j2sOQkJ Stack Overflow: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KnO3v.jpg?s=64&g=1 -> https://rimgo.bcow.xyz/stack/KnO3v.jpg?s=64&g=1

Instances

Open an issue to have your instance listed here! Instance privacy information is required for the instance list, see Environment variables.

NOTE: The instances.json in this repo file is deprecated and will not be updated. Use the new InstancePage API https://rimgo.codeberg.page/api/instances.json (may change, documentation coming soon)

For more details on instance privacy, see https://librarian.codeberg.page/docs/usage/instance-privacy/

Clearnet

To help distribute load, consider using instances other than the official one.

URL	Country	Provider	Privacy	Notes
rimgo.pussthecat.org	🇩🇪 DE	Hetzner	⚠️ Data collected
rimgo.totaldarkness.net	🇨🇦 CA	Vultr	✅ Data not collected
rimgo.bus-hit.me	🇨🇦 CA	Oracle	⚠️ Data collected
rimgo.esmailelbob.xyz	🇨🇦 CA	OVH	⚠️ Data collected
imgur.artemislena.eu	🇩🇪 DE	Vodafone Deutschland	✅ Data not collected	Self-hosted, provider is ISP
rimgo.vern.cc	🇺🇸 US	OVHCloud	✅ Data not collected	Edited theme
rim.odyssey346.dev	🇫🇷️ FR	Trolling Solutions (OVH)	✅ Data not collected
rimgo.privacytools.io	🇸🇪 SE	Cloudflare	✅ Data not collected
i.habedieeh.re	🇨🇦️ CA	Oracle Cloud	✅ Data not collected
rimgo.hostux.net	🇫🇷️ FR	Gandi	⚠️ Data collected
ri.zzls.xyz	🇨🇱 CL	TELEFÓNICA CHILE	✅ Data not collected	Self-hosted, provider is ISP
rimgo.marcopisco.com	🇵🇹 PT	Cloudflare	⚠️ Data collected
rimgo.lunar.icu	🇩🇪 DE	Cloudflare	✅ Data not collected

Tor

URL	Privacy	Notes
rimgo.esmail5pdn24shtvieloeedh7ehz3nrwcdivnfhfcedl7gf4kwddhkqd.onion	⚠️ Data collected	Onion of rimgo.esmailelbob.xyz
rimgo.vernccvbvyi5qhfzyqengccj7lkove6bjot2xhh5kajhwvidqafczrad.onion	✅ Data not collected	Onion of rimgo.vern.cc
imgur.lpoaj7z2zkajuhgnlltpeqh3zyq7wk2iyeggqaduhgxhyajtdt2j7wad.onion	✅ Data not collected	Onion of imgur.artemislena.eu
rim.odysfvr23q5wgt7i456o5t3trw2cw5dgn56vbjfbq2m7xsc5vqbqpcyd.onion	⚠️ Data collected
tdp6uqjtmok723suum5ms3jbquht6d7dssug4cgcxhfniatb25gcipad.onion	✅ Data not collected	Onion of rimgo.privacytools.io
i.habeehrhadazsw3izbrbilqajalfyqqln54mrja3iwpqxgcuxnus7eid.onion	✅ Data not collected	Onion of i.habedieeh.re

Automatically redirect links

LibRedirect

Use LibRedirect to automatically redirect Imgur links to rimgo!

• Firefox
• Chromium-based browsers (Brave, Google Chrome)

GreaseMonkey script

There is a script to redirect Imgur links to rimgo. https://codeberg.org/zortazert/GreaseMonkey-Redirect/src/branch/main/imgur-to-rimgo.user.js

Redirector

You can use the Redirector extension to redirect Imgur links to rimgo with the configuration below:

• Description: Imgur -> rimgo
• Example URL: https://imgur.com/a/H8M4rcp
• Include pattern: ^https?://i?.?imgur.com(/.*)?$
• Redirect to: https://rimgo.example.com$1
• Pattern type: Regular Expression
• Advanced options:
  • Apply to:
    • Main window (address bar)
    • Images

For Stack Overflow images:

• Description: Stack Overflow Imgur -> rimgo
• Example URL: https://i.stack.imgur.com/BTKqD.png?s=128&g=1
• Include pattern: ^https?://i\.stack\.imgur\.com(/.*)?$
• Redirect to: https://rimgo.example.com/stack$1
• Pattern type: Regular Expression
• Advanced options:
  • Apply to:
    • Images

Install

rimgo can run on any platform Go compiles on.

It is strongly recommended to use Caddy as your reverse proxy. Caddy is simple to configure, automatically manages your TLS certificates, and provides better performance with support for HTTP/2 and /3 (allow UDP port 443 in your firewall to use HTTP/3).

Docker (recommended)

Install Docker and docker-compose, then clone this repository.

git clone https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo
cd rimgo

Edit the docker-compose.yml file using your favorite text editor.

nvim docker-compose.yml

You can now run rimgo.

sudo docker-compose up -d

Automatic updates

Watchtower can automatically update your Docker containers.

Create a new docker-compose.yml file or add the watchtower section to your existing docker-compose.yml file.

version: "3"
services:
  watchtower:
    image: containrrr/watchtower
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

Build from source

Requirements

• Go v1.16 or later

Clone the repository and cd into it.

git clone https://codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo
cd rimgo

Build rimgo.

go build

You can now run rimgo.

./rimgo

To include version information use:

go build -ldflags "-X codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo/pages.VersionInfo=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')-$(git rev-list --abbrev-commit -1 HEAD)"

(optional) You can use a .env file to set environment variables for configuration.

cp .env.example .env
nvim .env

Configuration

rimgo can be configured using environment variables. The path to the .env file can be changed the -c flag.

Environment variables

For more details on instance privacy, see https://librarian.codeberg.page/docs/usage/instance-privacy/

Name	Default	Note
PORT	3000
ADDRESS	0.0.0.0
IMGUR_CLIENT_ID	546c25a59c58ad7
FORCE_WEBP	0
PRIVACY_POLICY		Optional, URL to privacy policy
PRIVACY_MESSAGE		Optional, message to display on privacy page
PRIVACY_COUNTRY
PRIVACY_PROVIDER
PRIVACY_CLOUDFLARE
PRIVACY_NOT_COLLECTED
PRIVACY_IP
PRIVACY_URL
PRIVACY_DEVICE
PRIVACY_DIAGNOSTICS

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! If you have any questions or bug reports, open an issue.

License

This software is released under the AGPL-3.0 license. If you make any modifications to the code and distribute it (including use on a network server), you must publicly distribute your changes and release them under the AGPL-3.0.