# Imgur images not embedding with 429 error

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/imgur-images-not-embedding-with-429-error/263131>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 27, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/imgur-images-not-embedding-with-429-error/263131 "2023-04-27T23:09:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahim123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/imgur-images-not-embedding-with-429-error/263131/19 "2023-05-02T13:21:00Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Try adding imgur to `disabled image download domains`. That will keep it from downloading the images.

Hi Jay, I have disabled downloading all hotlinked images, because my forum has tons of them and I don’t want to deal with all the storage space.

It still seems to me that Discourse shouldn’t fail to generate `<img>` tags just because the link throws a 429 error. It’s treating it as if it were a 404 link, whereas a 429 by definition means that it’s a working link. If the link ends in `.jpg` or `.png` or whatever and it’s not a 404 then it should wrap it in `<img>` tags and be done with it. It would even show up correctly in the post preview that way.

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