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One bad thing about old forum threads is a lot of the images are lost. Disk space and bandwidth were still expensive back then. The free image hosts mostly disa

One bad thing about old forum threads is a lot of the images are lost. Disk space and bandwidth were still expensive back then. The free image hosts mostly disappeared or started charging (so many forums have dead photobucket links).

Gigachad 4y ago
They also got flooded with spam and were regularly hacked.
- kijin 4y ago
  Which really didn't matter back then. People just deleted the spam, recovered from backup, patched whatever flaw they found, and changed passwords. It wasn't the end of the world.
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    Lots of the forums I used to use died this way. The site owners eventually got tired of having to janny the site daily to fight an endless wave of attacks. It's all moved to reddit and discord these days.
    - mattl 4y ago
      Janny?
      - scrlk 4y ago
        Janitors (shortened to "janny") are a part of 4chan's moderation team. Seems like the slang has bled out to incorporate all types of volunteer moderators.
        mattl 4y ago
        Ah, makes sense.
  - pixl97 4y ago
    Spam did matter when it didnt stop. No one wanted to engage in a full time job of deleting bullshit. This is one of the reasons forums disappeared and people went to larger sites that tended to have much larger moderation staff
BlueTemplar 4y ago
Same thing is going to happen again once imgur shuts down. While the pictures that were actually hosted on the forum itself are usually fine.
- z57 4y ago
  That will be a day of days. imgur shutting down will be like someone shaking your internet Etch-A-Sketch. The internet post imgur will have a completely different vibe.
  - Medox 4y ago
    Sounds like a job for archive.org
    - esskay 4y ago
      That doesn't solve the issue of the millions of embeds and links though.
      - account42 4y ago
        It's kind of sad that browsers still have no concept of the passage of time (except to intentionally break things for security). One of the many things that a browser focused on being a browser for hyperlinked documents could do better than our current app delivery platforms calling themselves browsers.
      - BlueTemplar 4y ago
        Why not ? (Besides that of course it would be probably easier for the Archive to deal with multimedia inside the same website.)
        esskay 4y ago
        What do you mean why not? If a forum embeds an image from imgur and imgur ceases to exist the image stops working. It doesn't matter if archive.org has a copy, you wont be able to see it without manually going to archive.org to find every image by its former embed url (which likley isnt archived as thats a different url to the one you see on their site).

Gigachad 4y ago

They also got flooded with spam and were regularly hacked.

kijin 4y ago
Which really didn't matter back then. People just deleted the spam, recovered from backup, patched whatever flaw they found, and changed passwords. It wasn't the end of the world.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Lots of the forums I used to use died this way. The site owners eventually got tired of having to janny the site daily to fight an endless wave of attacks. It's all moved to reddit and discord these days.
  - mattl 4y ago
    Janny?
    - scrlk 4y ago
      Janitors (shortened to "janny") are a part of 4chan's moderation team. Seems like the slang has bled out to incorporate all types of volunteer moderators.
      - mattl 4y ago
        Ah, makes sense.
- pixl97 4y ago
  Spam did matter when it didnt stop. No one wanted to engage in a full time job of deleting bullshit. This is one of the reasons forums disappeared and people went to larger sites that tended to have much larger moderation staff

BlueTemplar 4y ago

Same thing is going to happen again once imgur shuts down. While the pictures that were actually hosted on the forum itself are usually fine.

z57 4y ago
That will be a day of days. imgur shutting down will be like someone shaking your internet Etch-A-Sketch. The internet post imgur will have a completely different vibe.
- Medox 4y ago
  Sounds like a job for archive.org
  - esskay 4y ago
    That doesn't solve the issue of the millions of embeds and links though.
    - account42 4y ago
      It's kind of sad that browsers still have no concept of the passage of time (except to intentionally break things for security). One of the many things that a browser focused on being a browser for hyperlinked documents could do better than our current app delivery platforms calling themselves browsers.
    - BlueTemplar 4y ago
      Why not ? (Besides that of course it would be probably easier for the Archive to deal with multimedia inside the same website.)
      - esskay 4y ago
        What do you mean why not? If a forum embeds an image from imgur and imgur ceases to exist the image stops working. It doesn't matter if archive.org has a copy, you wont be able to see it without manually going to archive.org to find every image by its former embed url (which likley isnt archived as thats a different url to the one you see on their site).