Author Topic: Imageshack Changes old Images into Ads  (Read 4578 times)

So a few years back I used "Imageshack" to host my images. In 2012 they began getting extremely restrictive (image cap, no editing, slow uploads) for users who wouldn't pay a subscription fee. This seems like an insane move when their competitor (Imgur) already has a huge share of the market, much more than their own. I left the site and set up on Imgur.com

Today I discovered something. Imageshack is still up and running, as fine as ever, but they have changed all of my old images into advertisements. There are literally threads from years ago of me spamming ads to iTunes and other websites. Dozens of threads and hundreds of posts ruined. What a scummy move. I can't even edit the post or delete the image to change it.

This is the scummiest move from a company I have seen in years.
Nice job proving that you really are worse than Imgur.

A screenshot (hosted on Imgur):

Imageshack is killing themselves off.

glad i wasn't the only one who noticed this.

Imageshack is killing themselves off.
we need to help them off themselves

I'm concerned with my images from the past now :u

Edit: forget, they are changed. Sonuvabiiiitch.


It's not just me. They are doing this to everyone who doesn't subscribe.

Go search for "imageshack" and set search filter to "oldest". They literally ruins thousands of people's posts for a quick buck.


Why did they decided to do this stupid move though? They ruined themselves and it would be stupid for somebody to pay for their crappy services, it used to be great before whatever the hell happened.

I've never used imageshack, thankfully

HA
I already saved my old imageshack images after seeing the layout get changed a bunch and all the restrictions were put on
so lucky me

HA
I already saved my old imageshack images after seeing the layout get changed a bunch and all the restrictions were put on
so lucky me

Checking my Imageshack account, it seems they only replace the images that are so old, they weren't really going to show anyway (image removed, etc). I still have a lot of old images that show up on my image catalogue.

Guys imgur doesn't do stuff like this right?



Rright!?