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    Imgur's community was in revolt

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    163 points miiiiiike | 11 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
    1. bluedino ◴[02 Sep 25 14:29 UTC] No.45103596[source]▶
    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.

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    2. morkalork ◴[02 Sep 25 14:57 UTC] No.45103955[source]▶
    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.
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    3. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[02 Sep 25 15:07 UTC] No.45104072[source]▶
    A famous article on that: https://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
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    4. dylan604 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:27 UTC] No.45104323{3}[source]▶
    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.
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    5. cosmic_cheese ◴[02 Sep 25 15:29 UTC] No.45104363[source]▶
    Yep, I did this. I had some art I’d made posted on my blog, and several somebodies liked it enough to make it the background of their MySpace page and use it as forum avatars/signatures. Pretty sure I saw a couple people using it in eBay listings too.

    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.

    6. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[02 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45104425{4}[source]▶
    Jason Scott is still quite active in the tech community.

    He’s one of the principals of archive.org, so that makes it less surprising.

    7. pimlottc ◴[02 Sep 25 16:17 UTC] No.45105098[source]▶
    aka "hotlinking"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking

    8. bigstrat2003 ◴[02 Sep 25 16:47 UTC] No.45105631[source]▶
    SomethingAwful was infamous for doing this and sending goatse. You could get banned on forums back in the day if you hotlinked images to SA, so... effective strategy, it seems.
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    9. hbn ◴[02 Sep 25 17:19 UTC] No.45106083[source]▶
    What was funny is if their service is working good - i.e. someone linked an image from their site and it displays for the user - you don't even notice the work the host is doing.

    But when they pulled an image and you're just shown a placeholder "PhotoBucket - image not available", you actually see their name and logo and have repeated negative associations with them. I know when I hear any of those names I just get pissed thinking about all the old forum posts and rotting internet pages I've stumbled across with the images missing.

    10. MisterTea ◴[02 Sep 25 21:35 UTC] No.45109376[source]▶
    My friend was being lazy years ago hot linking images on ebay, someone else's images of the same item no less, which they got wise to and replaced with hard core porn. He learned to at least steal the image and host it himself...
    11. bluedino ◴[02 Sep 25 23:05 UTC] No.45110271{3}[source]▶
    The movement to mirror ImageShack back then was awesome