Versatile Banner

Just a heads-up about changes to Ingur access from the UK which is affecting this TC.

I’ve just installed Versatile Banner on a new site, I have it running on other sites but this is the first ‘new install’ for a while, so it’s the first time I’ve seen the unconfigured default view of VB.

The default image background Versatile Banner is a link to Imgur, but unfortunately Imgur content is now completely inaccessible in the UK. I think this may be because of mandatory age-checking legislation that was introduced here, but I’m not sure.

So on first installation the Versatile Banner looks like this in the UK

I can confirm that spoofing my origin using a VPN fixes the image access issue.

It might be worth changing the default image to something GitHub-hosted? Could be in the VB repo? Or otherwise another hosting source which is not blocked in the UK.

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