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paulpauper
Between more censorship and more intrusive, annoying advertising and other crap, imgur keeps devising ways to make its site worse and worse. It's not just imgur, but this trend of 'shitification' is seen elsewhere too, of websites that were once useful that undergo degradation of the user experience for ad revenue or other reasons.
brucethemoose2
shitification of image hosts is as old as the internet. Imgur just lasted longer than usual because of their integration with Reddit.
brokenmachine
Reddit itself is next in line to become enshittened in my opinion.
lockhouse
Disabling "old.reddit.com" would achieve this nearly instantly.
tadfisher
They are planning to make their API paid-only and removing access to NSFW content via the API, so it's about to be thoroughly enshittened soon (59 days and counting).
brokenmachine
The paid-only API was only for excessive/commercial users, I believe... At least until the enshittification progresses.

The NSFW thing is bound to be shitty.

I wonder whether they'll allow things like combat footage.

Watch the rules change after that, so anything not Disney is NSFW.

CommitSyn
I've already seen tons of examples of people getting 3 day bans for the silliest of things, like calling someone an idiot.

They seem to be trying their hardest to turn away their main user base.

brokenmachine
I got "permanently suspended" for saying that the Russian people should deal with their Putin problem.

All my other usernames were suspended at the same time for this transgression.

I didn't even say how they should deal with the problem, but that was enough apparently.

Waterluvian
I recently discovered that I can’t even post an image quickly to share places like here. I need an account and the whole thing is trying to be a community.

I use imgbb now unless anyone has a better suggestion.

ashwagary
Is wasnt just your ip? Ive always used it as a guest.
wolongong942
It's actually worse, they try to force you to download the app when trying to upload from any IOS browser even if you request the desktop site.
CommitSyn
They disabled guest uploads on mobile long ago.
Aeglaecia
as mentioned by a commenter on the linked post, did tumblr never come up as an example of what will shortly be to follow???
lockhouse
I’m curious what percentage of their traffic this will eliminate…I would imagine it’s pretty significant.
raincole
And they'll probably save a lot of money. It's not Tumblr. It's an image hosting site that allows deep links to images uploaded by free users. It's, by definition, not sustainable.
wolongong942
Modern chat apps & message boards use their own image hosting rather than people sharing links. A bunch of old message-boards are going to be full of dead links though. Hosting these old images probably cost a ton of money that they don't recoup, whereas new users pay for their storage by forced app download & giving up their data.
ashwagary
Is this the end of Tumblr? I'll still use Imgur but is there a large community for that kind of stuff?

I somehow found no nudity there the couple times I looked (while doing research).

prepend
I was always surprised that they allowed porn as well as deep linking. And it seemed so many people were posting porn.

I expect that this is a huge amount of traffic as without porn, people can just use Reddit or Twitter directly.

I never understood why anyone would comment or post follow ups to just an Imgur upload.

lrae
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029

This might be a better link. Title maybe should also be changed because they'll delete sfw content that is not tied to user accounts too.

Quite some internet history that's going to get nuked next month.

sphars
So this means all the random images I have uploaded anonymously will soon disappear? Along with everyone else who used it as a image host before reddit had their own? That's a lot of images gone