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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: 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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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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1. bluedino ◴[02 Sep 25 23:05 UTC] No.45110271[source]▶
The movement to mirror ImageShack back then was awesome