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saspa
08/25/25 12:11:04 PM
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Losing imgur has been... pretty wild. Lasting at around 12 years, Imgur was the longest running image hosting site that was still good and not shit, emerging after the photobuckets and imageshacks of the 'net had long since become completely unbearable. It was the most versatile site of them and lasted longer than any of the original image hosting founders.

Losing it has truly sucked. Old topics with dead links, bookmarks to imgur galleries destroyed and rendered useless, it was really a testament to how the phrase "the internet is permanent" has no meaning anymore.

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WingsOfGood
08/25/25 12:14:37 PM
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Internet dying
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Shotgunnova
08/25/25 12:15:29 PM
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Are there any good alternatives to Imgur? In terms of long-lastingness, that is.

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Calwings
08/25/25 12:17:19 PM
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I only use Imgur because it's the only image upload site that GameFAQs' built-in embedding supports. If it wasn't for that, I'd fully switch over to my backup option.

https://freeimage.host/

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Mist_Turnips
08/25/25 12:17:32 PM
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That site throws a pissy fit whenever I use my VPN. It deserves to die off.

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Compsognathus
08/25/25 12:20:48 PM
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Image hosting will always eventually enshittify because it always scales into increasing unprofitabilty.

If you become big and easy enough to be the new standard, the cost will grow unsustainable without adding things that hurt the user experience like ads and feature removal.

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Hejiru
08/25/25 12:32:49 PM
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Imgur has been garbage for years.

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KogaSteelfang
08/25/25 12:35:45 PM
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My home Internet was down yesterday. I hop on to look at funny pictures today and all hell has broken loose. lol

From what I gather, it's because of broken notifications?

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Vegy
08/25/25 12:36:45 PM
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remember when ce ruined imgtc for everyone

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Foppe
08/25/25 12:44:50 PM
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Vegy posted...
remember when ce ruined imgtc for everyone
I blame Tails echo chamber.

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Garioshi
08/25/25 12:45:59 PM
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It's been shit for approximately forever

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monkmith
08/25/25 12:57:08 PM
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Mist_Turnips posted...
That site throws a pissy fit whenever I use my VPN. It deserves to die off.


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saspa
08/25/25 1:56:23 PM
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it's kind of like youtube in a way, in that it lasted so long and was the best at what it did, that now that it's permanently shit, there's no good alternative, as it was able to beat all the competition when it mattered.

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Frosted_Midna
08/25/25 2:00:02 PM
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God damn it!

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Scardude
08/25/25 2:38:26 PM
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Imgur dies before gamefaqs. Did not see that in the bingo card

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NickMullen
08/25/25 2:52:35 PM
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Hejiru posted...
Imgur has been garbage for years.

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monkmith
08/25/25 3:56:35 PM
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Scardude posted...
Imgur dies before gamefaqs. Did not see that in the bingo card
wasn't there someone running an image hosting site here? it died a few years back but it was popular for a while.

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Evening_Dragon
08/25/25 3:58:15 PM
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I thought they were sold years ago?

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Enclave
08/25/25 4:00:49 PM
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It'd be nice to host images from your own networked storage but that is just too risky and options like AWS cost too much.

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GeminiDeus
08/25/25 4:01:09 PM
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I was browsing imgur last night and saw a lot of posts talking about it, and how some things on the site have been broken for the past 3 days, and that there's probably no actual humans maintaining the site now.

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Calwings
08/25/25 5:05:02 PM
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monkmith posted...
wasn't there someone running an image hosting site here? it died a few years back but it was popular for a while.

That was ImgTC, but some evil chucklefucks had to go and ruin it by uploading literal CP to the site and getting the person who created the site in legal trouble. The creator eventually decided it wasn't worth trying to deal with all of the bullshit needed to salvage the site and closed ImgTC down for good.

This is why we can't have nice things.

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monkmith
08/25/25 5:08:56 PM
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Calwings posted...
That was ImgTC, but some evil chucklefucks had to go and ruin it by uploading literal CP to the site and getting the person who created the site in legal trouble. The creator eventually decided it wasn't worth trying to deal with all of the bullshit needed to salvage the site and closed ImgTC down for good.

This is why we can't have nice things.
ah that makes sense, didn't know the full story just remember it being a great way to post images here before image upload was added.

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Southernfatman
08/25/25 5:10:14 PM
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It lost its charm a long time ago. I only use it because of familiarity and it can be embedded here. Any other sites that work? I forget


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Calwings
08/25/25 5:12:52 PM
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monkmith posted...
ah that makes sense, didn't know the full story just remember it being a great way to post images here before image upload was added.

Yep, it was even supported by the site's built-in image embedding. Now it's only direct uploads (which shrink images like crazy if they're really big) and Imgur (which is going to shit) that are supported. Anything else doesn't automatically embed unless you use an external script like ImageFAQs.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/9483-imagefaqs

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-Crissaegrim-
08/25/25 5:12:56 PM
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Hejiru posted...
Imgur has been garbage for years.

Yep. Especially using a phone to browse the web version of it. Constantly fucking pestering me to download the app version is what convinced me to close my account.

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Trumpo
08/25/25 5:14:41 PM
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There was a CEman years ago who had a decent alternative but the bad users ruined it for everyone.

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FL81
08/25/25 5:14:54 PM
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ImgTC, the future that could have been

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VeggetaX
08/25/25 5:15:45 PM
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It's phone app is shit and won't work

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GeminiDeus
08/25/25 5:17:47 PM
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Currently, in Most Viral...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b6d278aa.jpg

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Hambo
08/25/25 5:18:40 PM
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So like. Can we post gifs on the boards now? Plz? Pretty plz? Even if it's limited to one per post or something.

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-Crissaegrim-
08/25/25 5:20:25 PM
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Trumpo posted...
There was a CEman years ago who had a decent alternative but the bad users ruined it for everyone.

Was he actually a CEman or did he show up and post about the site because he noticed we were using it a lot?

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devilminion
08/25/25 5:37:42 PM
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GeminiDeus posted...
Currently, in Most Viral...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b6d278aa.jpg

That doesn't even do it justice. I just checked, and there are more anti-MediaLabs posts than there are active users of gamefaqs.

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Solar_Crimson
08/25/25 5:41:25 PM
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Evening_Dragon posted...
I thought they were sold years ago?
They were.

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Calwings
08/25/25 5:48:45 PM
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-Crissaegrim- posted...
Was he actually a CEman or did he show up and post about the site because he noticed we were using it a lot?

They were definitely one of us. This is the only forum I've ever seen on the internet that uses "TC" (topic creator) for the first poster instead of "OP" (original poster) so the site being named ImgTC seems like it was a clear nod to the GameFAQs forums itself.

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Board_hunter567
08/25/25 9:00:38 PM
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Compsognathus posted...
Image hosting will always eventually enshittify because it always scales into increasing unprofitabilty.

If you become big and easy enough to be the new standard, the cost will grow unsustainable without adding things that hurt the user experience like ads and feature removal.
Yep. Imgur was created because other popular image hosts started closing down due to financial issues and now Imgur has the same problem.

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devilminion
08/26/25 5:34:33 AM
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>_> Looks like a bunch of people have decided to go out in a blaze of glory. Account suicides by the dozens on the viral fronpage The Hulk Gif

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SomeLikeItHoth
08/26/25 5:36:56 AM
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I stopped using imgur when they got rid of direct linking.

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-Crissaegrim-
08/26/25 5:50:48 AM
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devilminion posted...
>_> Looks like a bunch of people have decided to go out in a blaze of glory. Account suicides by the dozens on the viral fronpage The Hulk Gif


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fbffba96.jpg

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Sonic_Cannon
08/26/25 6:11:13 AM
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Compsognathus posted...
Image hosting will always eventually enshittify because it always scales into increasing unprofitabilty.

If you become big and easy enough to be the new standard, the cost will grow unsustainable without adding things that hurt the user experience like ads and feature removal.

Yeah, this. I don't really know how to get the economics of direct link hosting to work out.

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pegusus123456
08/26/25 6:23:14 AM
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https://i.imgur.com/YCyop8R.jpg

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ROBBAN
08/26/25 6:54:21 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
https://i.imgur.com/YCyop8R.jpg

I mean, i get it
But calling repeatedly posting the middle finger a "Revolution" is a bit 'Head up their own ass'

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Solar_Crimson
08/26/25 6:57:13 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

On the last bit, I also read that included in the censorship are political posts, and they seem more focused on removing left-wing posts than right-wing ones.

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Bass
08/26/25 7:49:13 AM
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Hejiru posted...
Imgur has been garbage for years.


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devilminion
08/28/25 1:08:01 PM
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I think the John Oliver middle finger has been getting auto-flagged, so the community has switched things up... Now the front page is riddled with non-advertiser friendly hornyposts.

I totally do not recommend going there

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ROBBAN
08/28/25 2:13:14 PM
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so first it was middle finger
yesterday was high quality images, i guess to try and waste server space
today is titties

i like this protest

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-Crissaegrim-
08/28/25 5:04:38 PM
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It'd be really awful if we protested Fandom like this....

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ProfessorKukui
08/28/25 5:12:11 PM
#49:


Vegy posted...
remember when ce ruined imgtc for everyone
What happened to that one, happened to imgur before they implemented 2fa. It was probably the major reason why 2fa was added.

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Calwings
08/28/25 5:14:50 PM
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ROBBAN posted...
so first it was middle finger
yesterday was high quality images, i guess to try and waste server space
today is titties

i like this protest

https://i.imgur.com/UVp0tRE.png

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