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Not to mention the liability of hosting users' media, which would have needed costly moderation to ensure nothing too illegal made its way in.
Nowadays just hosting text can get you in trouble if it is too pornographic in nature.
Imgur having a "community" is still the strangest part of this story.
Webdevs, why, why o why, do you have to ask me to subscribe to the newsletter before you even let me read the first 5% of the article? Do you really thing people read the first sentence and then go "yes, i definitely want to receive spam from this website! here's my email address!" or what?
Modal windows are just popups reborn.
It was interesting seeing all the image hosts in the old days. ImageShack, PhotoBucket, etc They'd either die because they couldn't afford the server bills or die because they went commercial. Some left gaping holes in forums etc when they changed.
What was really funny was people image leaching off of blogs and personal sites and the owners replacing the image based on the referral header to troll the forum users.
What made it bad is that they were using the full high resolution originals, not the thumbnails, which ate bandwidth like crazy.
So I did the referrer-based leech protection and started serving those users a tiny fake error dialog image, which was much more tame than what some people used. It’s funny how quickly those people stopped embedding, even without the image being anything shocking or objectionable.
I remember when imgur was created as a fast, no login-pushing, non-scummy alternative to ad-ridden clickjacking hosts that censored nsfw and controversial content. Then it became all of that on steroids except with a comment section and a weird community that didn’t realize they were living in the plumbing of other platforms like Reddit.
Imgur having a "community" is still the strangest part of this story.
This story is five days old and the revolt appears to be over. I don't see a single middle finger on Imgur's front page.
I think at this point it has all but died down, but there still seems to be a bit of extra-racy content (which could also just be due to the new AI moderation being worse), and more large files (generally videos with "intergalactic quality" in the title).
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A famous article on that: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
The fact that the image is still available is amazeballs in and of itself. It's left up to you to decided if you want to see which version of the grim reaper is available.
He’s one of the principals of archive.org, so that makes it less surprising.
World Star is run by a bunch of AI bots. That's hilarious. World Star!
What's interesting about imgur, and telling of how times changed, was that it was created mostly to fill the gap in unreliable uploading of images to reddit. Which begs the question: What the hell was reddit doing that they didn't immediately implement an image hosting feature to keep users on the platform? Imgur rose to fame because it was the darling image host of reddit users, and it wasn't long before imgur neede…
Running an image host takes a lot of effort. You have to deal with removals, content policing, and the other nasties, as well as just having to deal with the sheer volume of data, which was a much larger concern in the 2010 era internet than it is now.
Reddit at the time just wanted to focus on being a link and text post site, much like HN is.