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photobucket holding almost all free hotlinked images ransom for $400
SubDaWoofer:
noticed this aswell
even if imgur has a potato as a server its still better
Conan:
well the point is nothing free and good lasts forever without some kind of way to make money. im worried for imgur in that respect since i cant imagine how they make enough money off the few ads they have to keep the servers going and employees paid
theres a fine line between advertising well and advertising excessively, as sites like mediafire and photobucket did. when it gets excessive you push away users, which drives down ad revenue, and then as a result richard moves like this get pulled (or companies shut down)
Frankie²:
--- Quote from: Masterlegodude on July 18, 2017, 11:29:04 AM ---First Imageshack, and now Photobucket is going to trash
Imgur master race
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the same thing will happen to imgur eventually
Masterlegodude:
--- Quote from: Frankie² on July 18, 2017, 11:41:19 AM ---the same thing will happen to imgur eventually
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Buuut until then, Imgur master race
e-maxx:
imgur does have it's own "community" so i'm sure they get a decent amount of ad revenue compared to just image hosting sites