Oof, I see. This makes sense since before I ran into this, I did import 120k topics. So that must have fetched a lot of images from imgur.
Thanks for pointing this out, I simply thought the client does all image requests!
I find it interesting that the server does these requests, I assume it is to cache them locally in case the original disappears? I will look for ways to spread the process out a bit, so that the 120k posts get build over a longer period of time to prevent the server from being blacklisted or rate limited. I mean for this server it’s not a problem, it’s just on integration. But once I do the import on prod I’d like to prevent this
Unless you turn off the settings that enable this behavior.
So do the import on another machine and restore the backup to prod. A more complicated solution would be to contrive to have your server retrieve stuff via a proxy server.