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While I agree with Imgur being obnoxious and a far cry from their early days, they are not as awful as the previous de-facto image sharing site - whatever it wa

• rplnt 10y ago
  Do you mean imageshack? It's exactly like that. Though imageshack's biggest crime was delete everything (maybe except stuff from paid accounts) at one point in time.
  • bostik 10y ago
    Yup, that was it. Thanks for the name reminder. And I still stand by my earlier statement: Imgur has declined, but they have not yet stooped to the level of end-user abuse shack did. (Granted, hijacking direct image URLs is sleezy as hell.) Imageshack made even uploads a chore. Sure, picking the image from your drive was easy - but then they made every attempt possible to force their inline branding into all inbound links. Getting a hot-linkable image from shack uploads required extra effort. And they tried to trick you into using their quality-degraded downscaled versions everywhere. It was dreadful. I even remember couple of cases where after the upload there was no way of getting the image link out. At all. All you got was a 80x80 thumbnail and a link to their shitty pages where you could, MAYBE, view the image. (Which was, of course, downscaled and further compressed. The original was gone.) So no, as far as I am concerned, Imgur has not yet reached the imageshack abusement park level.