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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 en
by 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.