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Comment by paulpauper | Hacker News Reader

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.

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shitification of image hosts is as old as the internet. Imgur just lasted longer than usual because of their integration with Reddit.

Reddit itself is next in line to become enshittened in my opinion.

Disabling "old.reddit.com" would achieve this nearly instantly.

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).

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.

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.

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.

They disabled i.reddit.com a few weeks ago.

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.

Is wasnt just your ip? Ive always used it as a guest.

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.

They disabled guest uploads on mobile long ago.

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