Masakuni

not great for like, r/transsurgerieswiki

Gotta love rule by decree via credit card terms of service

what the fuck, goddamn puritanical bullshit, tiddies are literally just a body part

Wow, this sucks. imgur was the image host for 10 years. Another reminder you can't rely on any online service, I guess. Still, the amount of information that's about to be lost to link rot is painful to imagine. I wonder how much of this has been archived by the Internet Archive.

And THAT is why I have 100ish GB of "stuff" I like saved on my NAS. Nothing online can be trusted to stay up forever. Incompetence, poor financial decisions, or in this case policy change, - all can and do make stuff inaccessible.

:( i still actively use several forums so this is concerning (i mean obviously it's concerning anyway but likely "i might have to change how i do things" concerning) do i have to make an account so i don't have to worry about my images getting deleted in a year or two? how old is "old" to them anyway? i wish this article was more clear what's grounds for deletion when it comes to images not tied to an account.

any good way to download all my private images from my account?

archive team yet again given less than 30 days to back up the world

anyone else remember when imgur was created as a more reliable image host for reddit...

God. You just can't trust anything you don't build yourself on your own hardware it seems.

ah yes, I love enshittification and actively destroying internet history so you can save a few pennies on data storage. this sucks so much.

What do they imagine the end goal to be here, have the imgur guys really convinced themselves that anyone comes to their website for the... meme generator?

There's a coupla forums I'm on that have only just started getting over the photobucket fuckery (and any thread over a certain age is just trashed, between imageshack, photobucket, and all the other now-defunct image hosts), and people were suggesting imgur, so :))))

I moved the bulk of my forum thread images onto my own server, which involved a lot of pain in the arse thread editing (Especially on the forum that 'upgraded' to a forum software that only has a 'visual' editor, christ. That was so much of a fuckabout that I stopped bothering.), and... well, it requires me to keep my own server running too, which is another point of failure.

And most people aren't gonna have that as an option; especially the kinds of people who have that One Weird Thing on a particular model of car/truck/whatever documented in an MS Paint annotated photo that's the only place on the whole fucking Internet that it's documented

So I'm using the InternetArchive plugin to archive stuff like that whenever I come across it, just to try give us half a chance...

I think that's the most infuriating part of it.

All these ghouls are allowed to torch and destroy and distort and steal whatever they want because it's "theirs" and they have the money and the law on their side, so, get fucked. See also: Musk's Twitter takeover.

Advertising may have been capitalism's way in to the open promise of the internet, but the corporate lowest-common-denominator financialized VC bullshit takeover is the series of hooks and barbs that keep it embedded and will slice and shred everything it can if an attempt is made to remove it.

Take over the host, dissolve everything that enabled you in the first place, leave an empty, money-craving shell.

who needs step by step photos posted on obscure forums that are viewed by a statistical rounding error? NFT hype is where it's at, I hear!!!

I mean hasn't bandwidth leeching always been frowned upon. this is the risk you take linking pictures offsite. TinyPic was worse about it, many a character profile with "this picture no longer exists" banners.