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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Semaphor »

devjab wrote: post #50
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #32

I'm surprised imgur still exists. It's been years since reddit started doing their own image hosting, and that was basically the only thing anyone used it for.

Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit? According to this https://blog.gitnux.com/imgur-statistics/ it has 300 million active monthly users, and if you go there and click around on a few images it seems to have as many comments as Reddit does. I don't really use either sites, but isn't Reddit mostly a collection of links to content from other places? Whenever I needed to share an…

Almost no generalization if Reddit will ever work, as it's closer to a forum host than any other social-ish media. I read many subreddits that are predominantly text-only selfposts.

Of course, some of them use NSFW tagging for spoilers …

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by InCityDreams »

throwaway2990 wrote: post #93

I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.

And still you return?

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Semaphor »

djkoolaide wrote: post #31
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's been true for the past 10 years. What's changed? edit: They sold to Medialab in 2021. That's what's changed.

For a long time now, imgur simply hasn't worked for me unless I whitelist JS for medialab and a bunch of other 3rd-party domains. Even direct image links get hijacked back to the tracking-infested page. Good riddance, imgur, you won't be missed.

The redirect is geo dependent FYI. Never had it in Germany (tested without ublock a while ago, might have changed without), but I've read of US users having this happen years ago

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by oblio »

kevinmchugh wrote: post #35
raverbashing wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's this weird world of people who get their memes from Imgur directly and don't know about reddit or their other sources Looks like the shadow theatre has a captive audience

A lot of the Reddit posts they're reading a xerox of are just tweets. A copy of a copy!

I've seen reddit posts of screenshots of Twitter messages containing screenshots of Twitter replies.

We're this close to prints and scans, like grandpa.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by bigthymer »

devjab wrote: post #50
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #32

I'm surprised imgur still exists. It's been years since reddit started doing their own image hosting, and that was basically the only thing anyone used it for.

Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit? According to this https://blog.gitnux.com/imgur-statistics/ it has 300 million active monthly users, and if you go there and click around on a few images it seems to have as many comments as Reddit does. I don't really use either sites, but isn't Reddit mostly a collection of links to content from other places? Whenever I needed to share an…

> Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit?

Yes, to my knowledge, you are correct. It was a surprise when I first learned it but apparently there are users that visit imgur directly without using reddit.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Gigachad »

fenomas wrote: post #60
GavinMcG wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Effectively monetizing the hosting of images embedded elsewhere seems like a fool's errand—at best, it's possible to subsidize that usage with other revenue streams. The vast majority of people wanting to post images on forums have never financed their posting and the communities themselves haven't managed to either. Photobucket and Tinypic left a lot of litter on forums that survived their era, and Imgur will ultima…

It seems a bit like they're saying: "ohhhhh, did you people think we were an image hosting site? Heavens no, we're an SNS and always have been. We'll update our rules to clarify this". Which seems... aspirational?

They were image hosting for reddit. Once it was obvious reddit would kill their only use case soon, they became a social media platform. A better idea than simply dying. Every platform now has its own image hosting so their service was rapidly becoming irrelevant.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by throwaway2990 »

InCityDreams wrote: post #112
throwaway2990 wrote: post #93

I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.

And still you return?

No. I haven’t been there since 2021. It got worse during covid so I just deleted my account.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by romwell »

armchairhacker wrote: post #76
theanti9 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, Reddit's new limits are about 3rd party use of their data/APIs. As a regular user, it doesn't really change anything (unless you consume Reddit NSFW content exclusively through a 3rd party app, I guess), so a pretty different case than Imgur's change here, which fundamentally shifts their user-base.

It's a problem on mobile, because old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered and there isn't uBlock for iOS. The go-to Reddit app for iOS is Apollo, and they're going to be affected. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...

> old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered

Eh. I exclusively use https://old.reddit.com/ on both Desktop and Mobile, and never felt inconvenienced.

Our cell phones are large enough today to use 2008-era websites without any additional bells and whistles.

But, of course, people who are already used to whatever UI they chose are going to suffer. Alas.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Post by Dalewyn »

slg wrote: post #80
fenomas wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This strikes me as being at least as big a deal as the NSFW bit. For 10+ years, imgur has been many people's go-to way of hosting an image they want to post to a forum or whatever. Many of those people will have paid little attention to whether or not they were logged into imgur when they posted each image. In short, it sounds like a lot of image links are about to break.

Isn't this the cardinal sin of an image host? They are partially killing links in a way that wasn't previously communicated. And to make it worse, it directly targets what was previously the primary strength of the site, easy and accountless uploads with only a few clicks. Why would anyone use them as an image host again? I wonder if they are hemorrhaging money. This decision gives the impression that they simply don…

>it directly targets what was previously the primary strength of the site, easy and accountless uploads with only a few clicks.

I stopped using imgur several years ago precisely because I couldn't upload anything easily, account or no account.

Mobile in particular couldn't upload period, the feature(?) simply wasn't even there.

I've since moved on to using Discord, specifically a private "server" I made for the purpose, for my image hosting needs. God knows how long that arrangement will last.

All this to say imgur has been useless garbage for many years, its decline to irrelevance is long overdue.

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