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  • garbage10

    Imgur.

    Imgur, date of death is scheduled for May 15th.

    They're not only purging adult content like Tumblr, but anything that anybody ever uploaded anonymously is going to be purged. Half the of the content on QBN will be deadlinked.

    https://www.techspot.com/news/98…

    • They have such an arbitrary definition of 'NSFW' too. So much super-tame stuff gets nixed because .. i'm unsure why.Nairn
    • this sucksmaquito
    • I use my own account to post so my stuff should surviveGardener
    • It'll be fun to see what my account looks like in the aftermath.Continuity
    • I just archived all of my gifs from Imgur.utopian
    • damnYakuZoku
    • Oh shit. For a while now I use twitter for images on here, but it means I have to post them on twitter firstly and who knows how long this site stays.SimonFFM
    • I get it, money and all, but this is a crazy move... delete the one main use of the product, also future use of it is in question... why even use it now?prophetone
    • So someone like me who uses it all the time, a loyal power user, is instantly thinking about jumping ship, seeking alternatives... say gbye to ur userbase I guessprophetone
    • https://i.imgur.com/…garbage
    • ^ If you want the history. But then he sold it for god knows how much two years ago, so they've been planning this move for a while.garbage
    • This is absolute bumsauce! Will make QBN a graveyard of broken links.
      Who will take the image sharing crown?
      PhanLo
    • If you read some recent Reddit posts it all revolves around cleaning up to make payment processors happy, clean for ipo scrutiny etcprophetone
    • deleting older images for host space reasons probably? seems like madnessprophetone
    • yeah, it's going to look weird herewhatthefunk
    • Good. It's good to have a clear out as Marie Kondo advises.shapesalad
    • or they just wanna ditch the riff raff users, their bread and butter btw, in favour of a Dropbox’y type of nickel and dime image hosting service or similarprophetone
    • I use imgbb to host images I post here, and set it to auto delete after 6 months.shapesalad
    • You lot complain about Bitcoin using energy, what about all the data centres for all these junk meme images and willy pictures!shapesalad
    • Junk memes and Willy pictures are the heart and soul of the internet for decades and what we do so well here here at the QBNprophetone
    • death to bitcoin but don’t take away my animal reaction gifsprophetone
    • https://i.imgur.com/…prophetone
    • Where the fun ISN'T :(Akagiyama
    • I have almost 12,000 pics and gifs, so much will be lost. Like....tears....in the rain.Akagiyama
    • I'm with Akagiyama, like tears in the rain :( Ever logged there, all my pics posted here are going bye... Silly moveOBBTKN
    • This is the definition of the internet. Scattered quotes, memes, images torn out out of context which live short momentary livesdrgs
    • only to be seen once and never again. The only images that matter are the images on the current last page in Potddrgs
    • Burn it all down and keep goingdrgs
    • lol, what an obnoxious move. The whole premise was that you could easily upload images without creating an account.yuekit
    • Are they deleting "older material not tied to an account" or all material?yuekit
    • fuck dismilfhunter
    • I WANT MY MONEY BACK.

      Wait...
      Nairn
    • https://imgz.org/Nairn
    • Bring back imagedumbdrgs
    • it's all ephemeraMrT
    • Great link Nairn, I'm going to look into that.garbage

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