rimgo/README.md

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rimgo

An alternative frontend for Imgur. Originally based on rimgu.

License: AGPLv3 Matrix

Table of Contents

Documentation

Our new documentation is now available at https://rimgo.codeberg.page/docs/!

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

To automatically redirect Imgur links, see Redirection.

Instances

Available at https://rimgo.codeberg.page/ or https://codeberg.org/rimgo/instances

Install

See Install.

Configuration

See Configuration.

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.