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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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.
