What? Why is it blocked and for whom? I’ve had far fewer issues with it than I’ve had with the often slow-loading imgbb and the short time when imgbb went all-in on full-paid access before they changed their mind and went back to allowing a free tier.
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
e: This was not a tech support request. I promise you all that I know what I am doing and it is not on my side and I’m not the only person with this exact problem.
It sounds like your ISP is blocking access. Have you tried using a different DNS server? My ISP blocks thepiratebay and I easily get around it using the Cloudflare DNS server.
Funny thing is, this is posted on lemmy.world by a user registered on lemmy.world, and that instance includes its own image-hosting functionality. Just need to choose the option to upload the image when making the post. I’m guessing some apps might not be aware of it, and perhaps integrate with Catbox instead.
Catbox.moe is blocked for many people. Please consider using another image host, like https://imgbb.com/
While I do sometimes have that problem, they also could have just linked the Onion Article instead of screenshotting it
What? Why is it blocked and for whom? I’ve had far fewer issues with it than I’ve had with the often slow-loading imgbb and the short time when imgbb went all-in on full-paid access before they changed their mind and went back to allowing a free tier.
Check out their faq, the last section
https://catbox.moe/faq.php
Example blurb
I can’t even open links to that site through Tor, and not because the site answers with 403, but because it never connects at all.
Me, and many others
You’ll have to ask them. They insist they aren’t, but I promise you I am not blocking them either, so it’s them.
e: This was not a tech support request. I promise you all that I know what I am doing and it is not on my side and I’m not the only person with this exact problem.
It sounds like your ISP is blocking access. Have you tried using a different DNS server? My ISP blocks thepiratebay and I easily get around it using the Cloudflare DNS server.
Could it be someone between you and them? Is there a bug report or discussion tracking this problem which people could try to help solve?
Is it blocked on a VPN?
Funny thing is, this is posted on lemmy.world by a user registered on lemmy.world, and that instance includes its own image-hosting functionality. Just need to choose the option to upload the image when making the post. I’m guessing some apps might not be aware of it, and perhaps integrate with Catbox instead.