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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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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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1. dylan604 ◴[02 Sep 25 15:27 UTC] No.45104323[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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2. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[02 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45104425[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.