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It's pretty amazing imgur has lasted this long. Free image hosts usually have a limited lifespan.
by ThrowawayTestr 2y ago
It's pretty amazing imgur has lasted this long. Free image hosts usually have a limited lifespan.
- lucb1e 2y agoIndeed, I thought reddit self-hosting images would be its death for this reason: it's just a moneysink. But it seems to be going well. Perhaps the rest of the site's traffic is subsidizing what they spend on the image hosting? Or maybe bandwidth and storage costs are finally lower than how much each image costs, given that our eyes haven't gotten any better and so a certain size jpeg is simply good enough?
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoI imagine deleting all the porn certainly helped
- kibibu 2y agoImgur is a popular social media site in its own right
- BlueTemplar 2y agoBut it hasn't, while it had a good run, it stopped being an image host in 2023 : https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur (With screws tightened even more in 2024.) Before you reply that you technically still can use Imgur, that's also still the case for Imageshack - but you cannot rely on them any more, unless you are a paid user.