Between more censorship and more intrusive, annoying advertising and other crap, imgur keeps devising ways to make its site worse and worse. It's not just imgur, but this trend of 'shitification' is seen elsewhere too, of websites that were once useful that undergo degradation of the user experience for ad revenue or other reasons.
I recently discovered that I can’t even post an image quickly to share places like here. I need an account and the whole thing is trying to be a community.
I use imgbb now unless anyone has a better suggestion.
So this means all the random images I have uploaded anonymously will soon disappear? Along with everyone else who used it as a image host before reddit had their own? That's a lot of images gone
Modern chat apps & message boards use their own image hosting rather than people sharing links. A bunch of old message-boards are going to be full of dead links though. Hosting these old images probably cost a ton of money that they don't recoup, whereas new users pay for their storage by forced app download & giving up their data.
And they'll probably save a lot of money. It's not Tumblr. It's an image hosting site that allows deep links to images uploaded by free users. It's, by definition, not sustainable.
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I use imgbb now unless anyone has a better suggestion.
This might be a better link. Title maybe should also be changed because they'll delete sfw content that is not tied to user accounts too.
Quite some internet history that's going to get nuked next month.
Don't see an active project on the ArchiveTeam tracker, but a pipeline config is straightforward.
I somehow found no nudity there the couple times I looked (while doing research).
I expect that this is a huge amount of traffic as without porn, people can just use Reddit or Twitter directly.
I never understood why anyone would comment or post follow ups to just an Imgur upload.