regarding the "another hosting service", are you perhaps referring to vgy.me? Recently a forum member posted that the images he uploaded from that image hosting have become broken.

@OP As you can see there was an issue regarding images from Imgur becoming broken and a lot of images that had been posted in the forum got affected, in the end, Theymos decided to make embedding images from Imgur impossible in the forum.

if you want to use an image hosting service I suggest using TALKimg.com and it is created by a forum member.