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1. chmod7+A3[view] [source] 2025-09-30 13:23:35
>>ANewbu+(OP)
Imgur only has yearly revenues of around $30m. The money they make in the UK specifically likely doesn't justify wasting resources on compliance.
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2. toomuc+kn1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 19:35:51
>>chmod7+A3
It is an image storage service masquerading as a business. It will be of no loss if it were to fail entirely.
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3. perihe+3q1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 19:47:55
>>toomuc+kn1
> "It will be of no loss if it were to fail entirely."

That's decades of the public internet that would be permanently erased; billions of dead links pointing nowhere. HN alone would lose ~32,000 images from its archives,

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Is it not hubris to call it "no loss" if, say, 3 hours ago, "Design of a LISP-based microprocessor / Page 22 has a map of the processor layout:" was forever lost to humanity, as collateral damage to some techbros' dispute?

Decentralization can't arrive soon enough.

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4. toomuc+Gq1[view] [source] 2025-09-30 19:51:16
>>perihe+3q1
> Is it not hubris to call it "no loss" if, say, 3 hours ago, "Design of a LISP-based microprocessor / Page 22 has a map of the processor layout:" was forever lost to humanity, as collateral damage to some techbros' dispute?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230427181813/https://i.imgur.c... (link is already dead at Imgur)

Wayback will have them, as is tradition. A crawl (non IA) has been kicked off to reconcile to ensure maximum coverage of Imgur links on HN.

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