Comment by jamesbelchamber
9 hours ago
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur.
This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
> but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
Tale as old as time, long-running forums are graveyards of dead Photobucket, Tinypic and Imageshack embeds. Imgur has lasted longer than most but the cycle will probably repeat eventually, especially since they were acquired by faceless corpos a few years ago.
I've said before that the age of an internet user can be estimated by how many free image hosting services they have seen come and go, like rings on a tree trunk.
A service shutting down, or being replaced is very different to one being blocked at a country level because of waves hands things
> waves hands things
government censorship
called it for what it is
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makes me thankful for imgur deleting anonymous uploads a year or 2 ago
that made multiple forums I've been on rush to download everything to their servers