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FP edit: The only way to fight back against this change is to leave, just like what happened to Tumblr. Google drive and MEGA are 2 good alternatives for image hosting while Reddit and even 4chan can fill in that community void depending on your tastes. Let them advertise to the shrinking audience that’ll stay with this sinking ship of a site.
Edit 2: Can't even download my albums or images in bulk, all you'll get is an insignificant 22 bit file so good luck saving everything manually 1 by 1
Edit 3: Points on this post are now frozen, the number won't go up or down either way now.
ButteredMilk
Well there goes all my art and views on them. It might be a small amount but this is the only audience I can reach. Oh well I guess...
NotAPervert
The other way to fight: everyone post The Gif™️ on the 15th. Advertisers won’t like when the user base commits Sepukku out of spite and suddenly there’s no one to advertise to
BlueDsc
Looks like I'm gonna be banned in a few days cause I regularly use Imgur to screenshot stuff to send to friends and that does include porn fairly often.
erbiumyttriumytterbium
Oh well. Good while it lasted. Yet another case of totally unnecessary censorship in the interest of making money for a few people who are already too rich to spend what they have in one lifetime.
volcabsol
Two more days until imgur becomes the next Digg. I'll miss you guys. Donate to the internet archive and learn to become an archivist, too.
casualgenderquestion2718
we should stage a no-use day in protest. let them know that, yeah sure you want to be more profitable, but you can’t do that without us, and shit like this will drive us away. anyone down?
NonstopRampage
This ought to go well for their bottom line. Good job, imgur staff. Maybe you guys should've focused on the nazism issue 'round here, rather than going all puritan over a private boob pic.
XavierDumont
Imgur IS going worse and worse. I thought that censorship was already in use for months. I really prefer Tumblr now..
Blightsteel101
Oops, how did this graph of Tumblr's user engagement surrounding their explicit content ban get here?
CloneOgre
Is this where we get banned for collectively saying fuck Medialab? ;-D
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
callocosplay
I'm against them doing this despite never using imgur to store explicit photos
GlenL
So . . . are we going to flood the front page with the Scrubs "bring back the porn" pic?
ourari
This call to action deserves its own post. Ping me when it's up.
OutlawGerman
That's... like... a fuck ton of my favs though
geoffreyfourmyle
Better download them then! Once the dust settles, you'll either see additional hosting options emerge and you can put them there, or just host them yourself, or something simple like an S3clone image host, etc.
Istealfromthefrontpage
How do you download everything in your favorites?
geoffreyfourmyle
On mobile at least, tap a favorite to go its page. If it's an image/video directly, there should be a download icon along the bottom. If the link goes to a post page (with all the original comments), tap the image/video *again* to get to its direct page for download. (I don't remember the equivalent steps on the browser version, but they're there somewhere.)
kickmyballsrealhard
All the awesome porn subreddits are going to be empty after this lol
spongerX
It's started early. A lot of broken links on Reddit already
MatrimBloodyCauthon
Nooooooooooo
Hnetu
I'm never not reminded of what happened to Tumblr. How much is it worth now?
Totters
About $6.3m. It was once $1.1B. It was sold twice in 2019. Imgur goin' the route of Tumblr is.... unfortunate, but if Imgur wants to kill it's userbase (and seemingly by nearly 99%), so be it. Reddit I go.
mcbotulism
Fark.com was one of my favorite sites way back when. It was a news aggregator with a comments section for each link (kinda like a proto-Reddit) and was pretty popular. Then they began sanitizing the place to make it more appealing to advertisers. Drove away a lot of users, myself included. I went back recently to see if Fark even existed anymore, and to my surprise it does, but it's less than a shadow of its former self. I can easily see Imgur going the same way. Not dead, but... reeeaal sleepy.
newsguycraigevans
Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time...
thecotb
As a former Farker with a four digit account number, I agree wholeheartedly. I even tried to be supportive via Ultrafark, but the changes eliminated the spirit of the place that I once enjoyed.
Ellisd83
so this site will be dead in 3 days, got it
imgonnahurtu
Compare the amount of votes & views for FP posts from then and now. Imgur has less than a quarter of the activity it did 5 years ago.
NonstopRampage
Half the time, whatever makes front page only has a few hundred interactions at most.
imgonnahurtu
Yeah, and IIRC it used to be several thousand was the minimum. I feel like the site has lost a solid 90% of its active (or at least upvoting) base, but I'm not so sure on that number.
NonstopRampage
TBH, as I've said before, they have a problem not endorsing nazism, or atleast not punishing people for disagreeing with nazism. I honestly feel no remorse that a site that can't remove mods that punish people for saying "nazis bad" or "why do they have to KILL people", is circling the drain. Infact, good. Enjoy languishing in obscurity for your negligence, imgur. I'll be off on the COOL NEW SITE that ALLOWS BOOBS, and not HEILING HITLER.
imgonnahurtu
I don't disagree with you about moderating nazi's, but I will say that imgur is incredibly left leaning compared to... Lots of other places. It did have a large-scale brush with the alt-right back during the whole gamer-gate thing, but it (somehow) came out the other-side with a fairly wide consensus of Nazi's being bad.
gotchasucka
It died about 4 years ago. It’s ghost has lived on, but now they’re gonna exorcise that, too,
Snooj
I only have one image that might be affected and it's just a harmless guy closing his eye.
IOftenDeleteCommentsCauseISuckAtTyping
God, this is horseshit. I've been on this site off and on for about a decade, and this place is falling apart. App constantly broken, yet they have no problem slamming this shit through. If ads played as shittily as the rest of the content here, maybe they'd fix anything.
MiloBloomm
Notice that replies have been expanded (very cheap) while picture and gif responses are dying out? It used to be if you googled site:imgur.com for anything you could find so much, now it's a half page of crap.
fancygiraph
So many top posts On Reddit will disappear.
InsolventTacos
Reddit is also changing its terms of service to disable third party APIs which archive data like Pushshift. Seems way too convenient two different companies shove down two advertiser friendly policies down the throats of its users within 2 weeks.
theworldcouldbeflat
Well mostly because the changes are about being in compliance with laws in several free countries. Usersub is to blame for not maintaining some standard of post.
pyr0kid
bruh, your saying its our fault that imgur is removing PRIVATE content? what are you smoking and where can i get some
theworldcouldbeflat
This is an image viewing site not a cloud server though right?
LeftRightThere
emptyother
Its their servers. They decide. But there will be a day when nobody can create user content online because every corporate platform, from the hosting service to the ISP, auto-filters it out in fear of human stuff and copyrighted content. The only way to post anything would be to register as an advertiser because they can post whatever they want wether its malware, way too much skin, or original content, without being flagged.
armandraynal
It's not far from now, they already make their AI filter what they don't like, check this twitter thread(it's in spanish, basically he asked chat GPT to make a song about Fidel Castro, the AI refused because it thought it was contoversial, but accepted for Obama, while claiming to be politically neutral) : https://twitter.com/Edisson_hilos/status/1656105205237268481 And I was just suspended here on imgur for having the wrong opinion basically, didn't break any rules.
kickmyballsrealhard
Ahhh, capitalism at its finest
mikeatike
It's their servers, but it's OUR community.
waspentalive
Perhaps we need an activity pub based replacement. Like mastodon replaces twi**er
mikeatike
Yeah, wait can mastodon replace imgur too? Does it have image support?
waspentalive
Mastodon may or may not, but I was thinking of a new thing that is based on activity pub, the tech behind Mastodon. Activity Pub is used to federate all the different mastodon instances.
ourari
Hadn't realized that Alan Schaaf left after Imgur was acquired by MediaLab
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
down hill ride. time to find a new website
NonstopRampage
Who is/was he 'round here? Anyone important?
Sugarbritches21
He was the old creator of it I think
NonstopRampage
Oooh, ouch. Any word on an official statement about the intermittent spurts of nazi sympathy from imgur staff over the years? I mean, seriously, what POSSIBLE reason beyond that particular mod having a proclivity toward heiling hitler, would there be to flag a post that read "nazis cant be allowed to kill people again"?
Sugarbritches21
I have no idea what you're talking about 🤷♀️
NonstopRampage
There's been a bit of a problem with people being punished for *entirely harmless or reasonable* takes *against* nazism. Which infers enough about the situation, that you can probably tell, you got punished, because someones a nazi, or atleast soft on nazism- and not another poster like you. Right wingers flag posts all the time, over being right, or stating facts, and nothing happens. Meaning the problem in question, is on staff.
safhiaofhopa
Points on this post are now frozen, I hope Imgur burns to the ground faster than Tumblr did
pyr0kid
holy shit they are! it eats my vote and resets to 331 when i F5. maybe imgur actually was quietly suppressing my post on this topic?
afterdarkart
A. They're fake internet points.
afterdarkart
B. Relax, Francis.
afterdarkart
C. Holy FUCK are you people all over reacting. I would have sworn Trump won a second term. Calm the hell down jesus christ.
JackSmiles2
not only that, i think down votes count as double. Checked out of curiosity and it seems 1 downvote is counting as 2.
Stuey1221
I need a gif of imgur getting fucked in the ass by advertisers. Anyone have one?
AlCabone
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andrewgrr1
Naw, Imgur slobs them gratis
spattr
Reddit is full of error messages. It's well under way.
laylowdown
What!? Is Reddit doing this shit too
troyandabedpostoniiiiimgur
People use Imgur for images posted to Reddit
EroticZombiePants
Well used to. I would think all the active redditers host at reddit now given it's been quite awhile since they started hosting themselves. Really old stuff would be lost. There was plenty of time for people to save pics and rehost at reddit though, so I'm not sure how much would ultimately be lost.
Velv3tThunder
Twas Imgur's original purpose, before reddit could handle images itself.
Cultistchan
without the porn, why go on Reddit
ThisGuyHere
Redgifs has taken over a lot of it, but a fair amount still links up to imgur. Porn, like life, will always find a way.
Nobanob
There is never ending porn on Reddit. Yeah Imgur hosts a ton. But porn will prevail
eppykaze
Waiting to see how many post The Gif on Monday in protest
DaBaDoop
I feel like this comment should stay at 69 upvotes.
eppykaze
Already overshot that, nothing left but have people push it to 690
DaBaDoop
Billis75
Get your witnessed gifs warmed up
Dirtypillows
Heisanevilgenius
Pffffhahaha
AllHailTechnoViking
Where can I find the gif we all know? I've ever only seen it on imgur.
Tnightwalk3r
Rkfinecake
I love this
woogigooie
So, private nsfw images, too? Shame. I use imgur to move my drawings to my phone or pc. And a handful are nsfw drawings.
ArenJ6
Yup. I enjoy imgur in general, but I also use it to distribute nudes. If you find or know a good alternative, please let me know.
Pauzlife
"Drawings" or art, previous reports said was ok. But the purge is going to be done by AI bots, so we will see how accurate they are. May want to download your stuff.
imgonnahurtu
They also said pornographic. Considering there's a lot of drawn-art-porn, I suspect he'll get targeted.
woogigooie
Used to be a way to download yer whole accounts pics. Wonder if thats still a thing
astrangehop
I have a fun picture of my dick dressed up as a pirate that I use to remind people of the perseid meteor showers.
zenoshogun
astrangehop
Well, it's in front of a piece of notebook paper with the reminder, and none of those things really go together — it was kind if an inside joke.
Hashbrown123
Never dressed up your penis for fun? I used to have a duty belt with a .45 and flack jacket from a GI Joe doll I would use.
Larktonguesinadicecup
Solid choice. 1990s McNugget toy fireman hat here.
SirRuppOfFigs
Fix the buggy app? Nope. The struggling server? Nope. New TOS to stir the pot? BINGO!
deadbodiesfloatingindarkness10
Is this why I haven't seen any thigh Thursdays, and the pole student has been having a tough time?
ephankrised
Where are we moving to get our new meme/nsfw fix?
TsubakiTragic
There are limitless avenues for nsfw fixes. As to memes, I consider most of them too puerile to be mourned.
Fifofu
I'm giving up. I'll be counting on memory and my local storage. Everywhere more than 3 people gather comes ad revenue and mind numbing editorial.
illegalacorn
It's called enshittification
Housemaster
It's also somehow super-important to make sure the comments are set to auto-expand on the app. I'm confident the developers don't even use their own app.
kamomilleshiningbeauty
Im so glad im not the only one experiencing this..
Hillhome
Is there a way to turn it off again?
kamomilleshiningbeauty
No clue but I hate it
NortherWinslow5
It's Fucking terrible. It's one of my top complaints about reddit. Imgur is just moving that way
BurlRavenscroft
Sure would like to use this fucking app on a VPN but NOOOOOOO
10001110101periodictablewithasantapieceofmind
Its far more important to attract more malware and autoplay audio/pop up ads
Voltair
Isn't this because of the Utah thing?
QuestionableLifeChoices
What happened in Utah?
Voltair
Utah passed a law that requires that websites with NSFW content verify users are 18 with ID checking.
3wattbulb
Ringfence Utah. Fuck Utah.
tinwhiskerSC
Utah has been saying that and doing nothing for decades. This decision came before Utah's I think. Both are really dumb.
Voltair
Utah passed the law recently, hence why Pornhub is no longer available in Utah.
thedudeman519
And VPN use is waaay up lol
Voltair
Yeah, which means that PornHub isn't liable for people going out of their way to access the site.
BeckyLookAtHerButt
Reducing storage used. Reducing some traffic. Cleansing the site to be a virgin bride for new advertisers.
Raziel420
Yeah but tossing all the lingerie out of the dowry. The real question is how much value is it to us, cause we are the reason for the advertisers. I should probably cancel my emerald....
TsubakiTragic
As with most internet things, YOU are the resource... but you already knew that. The only solution is to not use mobile devices for imgur, install adblockers, and quit emerald (which gives YOU nothing). If ads do get thru to you, ignore the company when you next shop and post it here... many like me will upvote your efforts.
DMSledge
Its the same thing Netflix, Disney et al are doing. Cutting their spending on the assumption that just existing is an infinite value they provide.
LucidPariah
Don't stop the russian gta screenshot bots! Remove something that people actually like! Makes perfect sense!
Gnu3n
Havent been in usersub for eons, so thats still a thing, huh
ThisGuyHere
Mam, remember those late nights when the veil would fall and all the Russian GTA and illegal porn pics would show up on the front page? Shit was wild.
LucidPariah
You can't even repost things from random mode that made it to the front page several years ago without getting warnings now! Hopefully the next person will make another image sharing website so we can restart the cycle all over again
TheIceHorse
Advertisers can go fuck themselves IMO
d3jake
This is it. Since they got bought out, every change has been in favor of max'ing profits. This is just another step.
Gnu3n
Well, they ARE a company ..
Syovere
brilliant insight sherlock
gesel
I've been down this route, it is a death spiral. Profitable ad exchanfes block sites that offend the offensensitive. Open minded ones pay a tiny fraction. The site's purpose is a honey pot for eyeballs to sell to ads. The eyeballs they've cultivated have a taste for vulgar honey and will go elsewhere, leaving the dwindling die hards to call plaintive into the ever quieting stillness. The soccer moms never come, the sense the vulgar musk and direct their sensitive snouts to the pure conf...
gesel
...confectionery sugar of dainty fingered sites free of the scuffs of modern primatives. So revenue fails and the harder they try to cleanse out that damned spot they merely more deeply flense till nothing remains but silent bones. Learn to host your own site, on your own hardware, run and help progress social federation tools. Take back your data from corporations. Run at a loss, yes, but tolerable to own your own voice, to speak freely. To never again pine the loss of your creativity gifted.
MatrimBloodyCauthon
Are these the writings from an ancient internet prophecy
TheIceHorse
Removing content that isn’t tied to a user account is going to nuke a mountain of images and gifs across the internet.
Sticklebrickk
The Gif will finally be put to sleep. Sleep well, sweet prince.
AnAverageBoxEnthusiast
oof…. i use so many of them
VindictiveBathToaster
I have a gallery of four gifs that were uploaded by someone whom has gone MIA. Surely these magnificent upvote gifs would disappear into the nothingness when the purge commences. But luckily, I saved the gifs and uploaded them myself to preserve their majesty, and keep them available for use for years to come! /gallery/nHMddQi
eadanke
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
Oh, yeah. And the servers are going to get bombarded when people sign up, too.
sambaah05
Why should Imgur keep paying to host that old data? Someone has to pay for it. Should Imgur pay for it forever?
rbudrick
Literally why they made the site to begin with.
sambaah05
Sure. But it was a bad business model, and not feasible long term. Good ideas don't pay their employees salaries.
rbudrick
Historically, that is not true when other social media sites did the same.
sambaah05
Which one? Facebook forces everything to happen on their site - so they get the ad revenue.
Raziel420
That was kind of the deal when they started the site, so yeah.
sambaah05
That's not a sustainable business model though. At a certain point, that reality hits.
DrWhy9
So many dead guides
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casualgenderquestion2718
not necessarily. “not tied to active account” DOESNT include when those things are embedded in other sites, only when the IMGUR ACCOUNT ITSELF isn’t active and participatory in the imgur ecosystem.
geoffreyfourmyle
That has nothing to do with my point, but it seems like this isn't the crowd.
casualgenderquestion2718
your point was “the guides and old content wont disappear because they’re in use,” right? to which the counterpoint “they’re not ‘in use’ in the sense that imgur is using as a criterion for whether or not it gets deleted” makes sense, no?
snotrocketscience
Going the way of so many image hosts before them.
DdCno1
I specifically switched to imgur, because another image host I've forgotten the name of suddenly decided to delete everything.
HaniiPuppy
Was it Imageshack?
DdCno1
It was! So many tutorials and other lengthy texts I wrote over the years lost their images and now the same will happen again, except at an even greater scale.
snotrocketscience
It was specifically created in response to other image hosts doing this same thing. Now it's been sold to a corporate holding company and will be squeezed for all its worth.
snotrocketscience
The founder is "sad" though. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12sjeo5/comment/jh7b927/?context=3
TheIceHorse
MediaLab is a notoriously shit and questionable company.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
If the founder wanted his vision to be maintained he wouldn't have sold it. Tiny violin.
SithElephant
Remember, go to settings -> download account images. This will download a 22 byte broken zip file, which is of no use whatsoever.
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ToasterDent
nope, on desktop using chrome, same 22 byte zip file. oh well, I don't have any racy images in there, I just wanted a backup in case their script goes bonkers and wipes out random other images
safhiaofhopa
just tried to download one of my albums, i got the same 22 byte file.
ToasterDent
hey account image download worked for me just now! First 3 failed partway through, but fourth try finally completed.
SithElephant
Progress! 621M and it seems to work.
SithElephant
I do wish they'd throw in the favourite links, even if only the links.
Morganelefay
Weird, I managed to download the full suite on wednesday. Mobile app issues maybe? (Worked on desktop)
SithElephant
This is on desktop
SithElephant
I note as an aside that I find no way at all to do this on android.
mastertmo
Same here. Tried in FireFox and Edge, both failed.
GorgeouslyDefinite
Can confirm for PC. Just that empty file. Looks like imgur's determined to go full tumblr on us.... :(
ToasterDent
ugh now I gotta write a script in python to download the images
BeckyLookAtHerButt
. Care to share the script to download Imgur images or Imgur albums? Thanks! :)
ToasterDent
I didn't need it, image got their "settings -> download account images" tool to work. It took a couple of tries before it finished all the way, but it eventually did download all my images as one big zip file.
BeckyLookAtHerButt
That is the images you posted correct? Not the images in the posts in your favorites?
EpsteinsWeenieHutJuniors
Thats what im gonna do too i guess :(
safhiaofhopa
share it here please
laurafrancesca
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ToasterDent
gonna check github, usually someone else has already written something
EpsteinsWeenieHutJuniors
Let me know if you find something that works if you get a chance. I tried ImgurToFolder already, but it hangs on my downloads so I'm trying to troubleshoot it ATM.
ToasterDent
A couple of hours ago I got the settings -> download account images to work, took a couple of tries (failed on first 3) but I did get an entire zip download! I think it may just be super-busy