rimgo

README

rimgo

An alternative frontend for Imgur. Originally based on rimgu.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Comparison
  • Speed
  • Privacy
• Usage
• Instances
  • Clearnet
  • Tor
• Contributing
• License

Documentation

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

• Install
• Configuration
• Redirection
• Instance privacy

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. Please remember to follow our Code of Conduct!

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.

Legal notice

rimgo does not allow uploads or host any content, media. All content on any rimgo instances is from Imgur™. Imgur is a trademark of Imgur, Inc. Any issues with content on rimgo should be be reported to Imgur. rimgo is not affiliated with Imgur, Inc.