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Necrofiliate
Apr 3, 2011

C:\>YOURPOST.EXE
ERROR: 0x0BAD
Abort, Retry, Fail?:ovr:
https://blog.imgur.com/2019/10/14/discontinuing-support-for-nsfw-reddit-subsections/

Imgur is now on a quest to delete and disable porn, almost certainly because they have burned through their giant stacks of VC cash, and are now flailing around desperately for anyone to throw money at them, so are trying as hard as they possibly can to not be controversial or offensive in any way. I'd highly suggest getting any content you give a poo poo off Imgur now, before they go full photobucket on us.

They had a good run, but it turns out that hosting images for free is in fact, a terrible business model, and now the internet loses its collective memory for the 452nd time, horay.

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Kurt Loadeater
May 15, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Maybe they should've picked a better business model than being the internets random image dumpster.

fack you
Sep 12, 2002

For Life
just use waffleimages

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

*me, smoking a cigarette, wearing cool sunglasses, gazing into the distance*

Let it burn.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

horny rise up

Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Pillbug
Can't users upload pictures and videos to porn sites for free these web 4.0 days? What if people upload regular pics and poo poo there instead and link :thunk:

Kurt Loadeater
May 15, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Registration, profile creation. Porn sites are actually pretty smart having been in the internet business from day 1. The idea that imgur would allow anyone to upload and link anything with a filename like AdlkfjdALk.JPG while making money is loving stupid.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
Guess they should have played nicer with Reddit.

JK Fresco
Jul 5, 2019
Quick link us the best porns sonwe can archive them befote it's too late

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
:rip::nws: http://imgur.com/FARTS.png :nws::rip:

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Did you even read the loving article

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012


:yikes:

JK Fresco
Jul 5, 2019

Sleeveless posted:

Did you even read the loving article



When a tech company says "we are in no way doing x" it actually means "we are absolutely going to do x in a few weeks"

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
It only looks like they're not going to associate with NWS subreddits, which is smart because of reddit's terrible issues with certain porn. They aren't going full tumblr or anything.

e: It looks like they added an 18+ warning for NWS images to cover their asses, but otherwise it's them distancing themselves from reddit more than NWS pics.

Mega64 fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 18, 2019

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
of all the possible filename combinations

Necrofiliate
Apr 3, 2011

C:\>YOURPOST.EXE
ERROR: 0x0BAD
Abort, Retry, Fail?:ovr:

Sleeveless posted:

Did you even read the loving article



Content you have to sign in and see on an image host might as well not even exist. If history is any judge "image host bleeding money like crazy" isn't gonna stop here either, hence the warning.

Note: sign in for NSFW is exactly the same thing Tumblr did before purging everything.

Necrofiliate fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 18, 2019

redm
Feb 20, 2016


Sugartime Jones
twitter is probably next

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
Wasn't there like a 3 gig file of almost all the old SA images and gifs from like 2016?

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

JK Fresco posted:

When a tech company says "we are in no way doing x" it actually means "we are absolutely going to do x in a few weeks"

lol yep.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
The labia detection algorithm has detected and deleted several thousand pictures of Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. :haibrow:

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
It'll be great when imgur goes the Tumblr route and has a computer ban all the mainstream boobs and vageens while the truly horrific fetish cartoons will survive unscathed and bare to the world.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981


Criminy!!!

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

This is a violence against all of us who have faces that look like asses

Howdges
Dec 29, 2012

I'm going to start a image host that charges like 50 cents to host an image. Sure it won't be as popular, but maybe it won't go under after like half a decade

You top up your image bucks $5 a time like every other microtransaction bullshit. Call em image credits or something as stupid as I could come up with

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord

Howdges posted:

I'm going to start a image host that charges like 50 cents to host an image. Sure it won't be as popular, but maybe it won't go under after like half a decade

You top up your image bucks $5 a time like every other microtransaction bullshit. Call em image credits or something as stupid as I could come up with

Just sell it to a larger company for way too much money before it gets all comes crashing down.

Noblesse Obliged
Apr 7, 2012

Probably a good thing though to not mix advertising and porn or we'll have Pavlovian boners every time we see a can of motor oil or think about life insurance or....

Actually, that would be hella cool

CPL593H
Oct 28, 2009

I know what you did last summer, and frankly I am displeased.
There use to be an image host specifically for porn and dickpics and things but it closed down years ago.

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011
Apparently they just want you to sign in to look at pornog, doesn't sound like a big deal to me op.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Noblesse Obliged posted:

Probably a good thing though to not mix advertising and porn or we'll have Pavlovian boners every time we see a can of motor oil or think about life insurance or....

Actually, that would be hella cool

Car insurance industry did try this method but I guess it didn't work as well as you would have thought.

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
I have just uploaded pictures of my rear end to ingur.com. please sign in to view and comment

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G

Putty posted:

I have just uploaded pictures of my rear end to ingur.com. please sign in to view and comment

Link was posted above:

YOURFRIEND
Feb 3, 2009

You're an asshole, Mr. Grinch
You really are a cunt
You're as cuddly as a cockring
and charming being a shitheel

FUCK YOURFRIEND!
Pretty sure 90% of their overhead is their offices in seattle.

Why the gently caress these companies don't just have like three people on staff and live somewhere cheap and just roll around in their money is a mystery to me. Instead they need thirty people on the payroll and an 5mil office space in loving Seattle, every time.

It's an image hosting service. It's entirely passive. The gently caress do these people DO all day?

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

YOURFRIEND posted:

Pretty sure 90% of their overhead is their offices in seattle.

Why the gently caress these companies don't just have like three people on staff and live somewhere cheap and just roll around in their money is a mystery to me. Instead they need thirty people on the payroll and an 5mil office space in loving Seattle, every time.

It's an image hosting service. It's entirely passive. The gently caress do these people DO all day?

It's necessary to keep coming up with ways to make using the site as fiddly and frustrating as possible.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
hurry up and host these drat images google im not payin you to goldbrick

Dang It Bhabhi!
May 27, 2004



ASK ME ABOUT
BEING
ESCULA GRIND'S
#1 SIMP

This is some sick scheme by op to get us to look at hundreds of images of buttholes.

Don’t you threaten me with a good time. :wink:

Murray Mantoinette
Jun 11, 2005

THE  POSTS  MUST  FLOW
Clapping Larry

What the gently caress

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

YOURFRIEND posted:

Pretty sure 90% of their overhead is their offices in seattle.

Why the gently caress these companies don't just have like three people on staff and live somewhere cheap and just roll around in their money is a mystery to me. Instead they need thirty people on the payroll and an 5mil office space in loving Seattle, every time.

It's an image hosting service. It's entirely passive. The gently caress do these people DO all day?

Yeah, they could shunt the whole operation to a server farm on the other side of the Cascades for cheap internet and power, manage everything by teleconference and just hop a quick flight over on the rare occasion they need to yell at the computer janitors in person.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

You need the office space and employees to attract more investors.

A portion are also sales people

e-dt
Sep 16, 2019

you dont even need to sign in to view the actual images, just the image pages. if you put an "i." before the imgur.com and a file extension after the image, you can bypass it. e.g.:

https://imgur.com/nvp6WYf vs https://i.imgur.com/nvp6WYf.png (worksafe but marked NWS on imgur)

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you broke my grill
Jul 11, 2019

They keep making the website harder to use and get direct links to your images especially on mobile and they won't even let you access the desktop site on a mobile device anymore I am angry about the internet in the current year

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