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Flickr is good but I sometimes go years in between remembering it exists.
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Dec 20, 2019 07:49
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Have you tried using it recently? It's...bad.
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Dec 20, 2019 08:02
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Flickr sounds like a lesbian dating app.
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Dec 20, 2019 08:21
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Queen Combat posted:Have you tried using it recently? It's...bad. I only use it because I've been using it since high school, currently downloading a literal decade of photos to put on another backup drive just in case. Kind of a bummer because I liked how straightforward it was early on though yeah, now it's kind of a pain.
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Dec 20, 2019 10:11
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All the Web 1.0 image hosting services went to poo poo. Photobucket was pretty big a while back so people used it to host images on blogs and such. Now you visit those sites and all the images have been replaced by a distorted, watermarked version of the original, meant to get you paying premium.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:15
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Vegetable posted:All the Web 1.0 image hosting services went to poo poo. Photobucket was pretty big a while back so people used it to host images on blogs and such. Now you visit those sites and all the images have been replaced by a distorted, watermarked version of the original, meant to get you paying premium. At least they're still letting you embed photos again. They completely blocked it for a while and it absolutely wrecked tons of car repair guides.
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Dec 20, 2019 12:33
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The one thing I'll miss about Flickr, never having been a user or a member of its community, is this magnificent account, which is super high quality scans of true ephemera that I honestly don't think exist anywhere else. And Photobucket can eat a fart out of my butt for the way they gutted countless blog articles and posts and etc making up years of the fascinating, low-fi, personal internet.
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Dec 20, 2019 13:34
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Pastry of the Year posted:The one thing I'll miss about Flickr, never having been a user or a member of its community, is this magnificent account, which is super high quality scans of true ephemera that I honestly don't think exist anywhere else. Oh balls was that walk down memory lane. Goodness.
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Dec 20, 2019 14:13
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Oh balls was that walk down memory lane. Goodness.  It's weird how things change without you really noticing for the most part.
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Dec 20, 2019 14:30
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Most imagehosts seem to really hit the wall with '...how do we make money off this?' and mostly their solutions involve pissing off all their customers who immediately move to something else. Or in imgur's case, try to become a social media site, which might be worse.
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Dec 20, 2019 17:03
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imgur's UI is also actively hostile toward anyone on mobile
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Dec 20, 2019 17:35
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Imgur is awful. I had to use a third party uploader app that would spit out the direct link before the option got patched in to the Awful app. On desktop they'll do whatever they can to make right click copy image address as difficult as possible.
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Dec 20, 2019 17:51
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Most imagehosts seem to really hit the wall with '...how do we make money off this?' and mostly their solutions involve pissing off all their customers who immediately move to something else. One of the problems is that coding an image gallery isn't the hard part. Hosting it is. So when a company finally starts realizing that oh poo poo we have to pay to keep the lights on they've hit a mass of customers that just keep tossing more and more crap on their hardware. Said hardware is neither free to maintain nor power. It also starts eating up more and more bandwidth, paychecks for the people who maintain all the infrastructure, and increasing storage. So when they have to start making money yeah it pisses off the customers but they don't have a choice. Meanwhile there is always somebody, somewhere who will gladly eat the loss to let you put your images up on their currently smaller, less costly pile of hardware with...the intent on gobbling up all the customers so they can make money off of them later. It's an endless cycle that I don't think can be broken.
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Dec 20, 2019 18:12
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You can't use imgur on mobile anymore unless you use the app. If you visit the site, it will tell you how it's no longer supported. And the app sucks, it doesn't give you all the different types of links for posting an image, unlike the desktop version.
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Dec 20, 2019 18:14
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Let's all pour one out for waffleimages. You left us far too soon.
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Dec 20, 2019 18:29
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ToxicSlurpee posted:One of the problems is that coding an image gallery isn't the hard part. Hosting it is. So when a company finally starts realizing that oh poo poo we have to pay to keep the lights on they've hit a mass of customers that just keep tossing more and more crap on their hardware. Said hardware is neither free to maintain nor power. It also starts eating up more and more bandwidth, paychecks for the people who maintain all the infrastructure, and increasing storage. So when they have to start making money yeah it pisses off the customers but they don't have a choice. sure it can: stop trying to run a for-profit business intending to extract profit by hosting people's images Cactus Ghost has a new favorite as of 18:50 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Dec 20, 2019 18:47
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I use quickimgur to upload on mobile. It even copies the direct image link into your clipboard automatically.
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Dec 20, 2019 19:32
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Ever since someone pointed out that you can use the iOS Shortcuts to resize, upload, and give you a link back to your gallery (that gives you an option to name on upload), I haven't been to Imgur except when someone links a gallery here.
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Dec 20, 2019 19:43
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Did imgur change this week? I used it a week or maybe two ago and the easiest way to get the URL was to just open the image in a new tab and then copy the URL. Both on mobile and desktop
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Dec 20, 2019 19:51
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OMGVBFLOL posted:sure it can: stop trying to run a for-profit business intending to extract profit by hosting people's images So no image hosts then? In the old days you just paid to host the pictures on your own web host and hoped someone leached your images in a very public way so you could sneak in a goatse.
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Dec 20, 2019 20:11
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Krispy Wafer posted:So no image hosts then? yep there's no form of organization possible other than "Profit-seeking corporation" and "Lone DIYer"
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Dec 20, 2019 20:30
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Hosting all those images still costs money even if you're not trying to make a profit
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Dec 20, 2019 20:33
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Krispy Wafer posted:In the old days you just paid to host the pictures on your own web host and hoped someone leached your images in a very public way so you could sneak in a goatse. That reminded me of something I haven't thought about in years... some douche leeched one of my "before" images of my circuit-bent toys work from my site, proudly proclaiming "hey guys, look what I found in the garbage! Can't wait to use it!" I switched it for a picture of a penis pump. Good times!
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Dec 20, 2019 21:02
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brugroffil posted:Hosting all those images still costs money even if you're not trying to make a profit thank you Dr. Economics
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Dec 20, 2019 21:14
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Wait, how the hell are you all uploading images to the forums from mobile?
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Dec 21, 2019 01:44
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Bean posted:Wait, how the hell are you all uploading images to the forums from mobile? Check out that icon in the upper right corner. 
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Dec 21, 2019 01:46
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Detective No. 27 posted:Check out that icon in the upper right corner. Wrong button, get plat and let Lowtax's spine host your images for free 
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Dec 21, 2019 01:58
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Bean posted:Wait, how the hell are you all uploading images to the forums from mobile? You can direct-link to imgur.com/upload and it skips the mobile browser redirect. It's not sized or setup for mobile but it works I guess. Unlike imgurs mobile site.
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Dec 21, 2019 04:11
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Mustached Demon posted:You can direct-link to imgur.com/upload and it skips the mobile browser redirect. It's not sized or setup for mobile but it works I guess. Unlike imgurs mobile site. Yeah, until they arbitrarily disable this some day.
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Dec 21, 2019 04:36
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Detective No. 27 posted:Yeah, until they arbitrarily disable this some day. Surprise! Once you cookies refresh, they have! You have to force desktop but I'm sure at some point they'll try to disable that, too.
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Dec 21, 2019 05:01
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Garrand posted:Flickr sounds like a lesbian dating app. 
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Dec 21, 2019 18:26
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Garrand posted:Flickr sounds like a lesbian dating app. Their mascot is either a sweaty bean or a midget in a pink canoe
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Dec 22, 2019 04:50
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Tbh, I'd pay a small fee for a straightforward image host. Something simple, has the formats I may need, and no lovely adds or social media bullshit. I would literally pay to not be bothered.
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Dec 22, 2019 07:50
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Well there's your problem. That's a potentially sustainable business with absolutely no hope for never-ending, explosive revenue growth. Why would anyone want to invest in something like that?
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Dec 22, 2019 15:22
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Also, you’re not harvesting all sorts of data to sell off to tech-bro ghouls? What even is the point then 
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Dec 22, 2019 15:34
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Harvesting data will come later when you're forced to accept $10k for 9% equity and two board seats from a VC firm who mandates you get a loan from their bank to assist your cash flow and then they vote you out of the CEO role when that quarter's numbers don't hit the 400% growth you agreed to shoot for.
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Dec 22, 2019 17:04
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Giant Metal Robot posted:Well there's your problem. That's a potentially sustainable business with absolutely no hope for never-ending, explosive revenue growth. Why would anyone want to invest in something like that?
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Dec 22, 2019 18:07
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The future is uploading your memes to Twitter and embedding the tweet.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:14
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Vegetable posted:Most of the Web 1.0 image-hosting companies tried that and went bust. It's not a real business model. Nobody wants to pay a subscription so they can shitpost memes on internet forums. People hate paying for stuff on the internet. It's a wonder it worked for SA.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:38
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I still use imgur out of habit and because I rarely host images anyway but I used to be able to view albums and move existing, uploaded images into albums and now it seems like that's half broken- I can put things into albums if I'm just uploading them but can't move them around once they've been up-put What can I use instead of imgur
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