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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | 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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1. 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...