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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on July 25, 2019, 05:46:10 pm

Title: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: jr2 on July 25, 2019, 05:46:10 pm

You can see the message if you visit the site:  http://tinypic.com/

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: Nightmare on July 25, 2019, 05:51:30 pm

Finally~
I always get aggresive when I end up on that virus website. If Photobucket would close now too with its stupid watermarks..

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: Nyctaeus on July 25, 2019, 05:52:39 pm

Years of flooding the internet with neverending stream of memes, ship images, strange graphics are going to hell... About time.

It's a little shame, because unlike photobucket or imageshack etc. it was remaining viable option for years. It was buggy as hell, with ads containing malware but it worked.

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: DefCynodont119 on July 25, 2019, 08:18:03 pm

For a second I misread that as TinyURL and not TinyPic, made me think of this: https://xkcd.com/1698/

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: jr2 on July 29, 2019, 06:32:01 pm

I've been using uBlock for so long I can't remember not using it, so I never had any problems with malware ads.  Before that I was using AdBlock Plus, so...  yeah, they complained about dwindling ad revenue.  Gee, I wonder why.  :rolleyes:

If users could trust ads to remain unobtrusive, hopefully relevant to the interests of visitors to that page, and clean, instead of offering fake download buttons on file sharing sites, and drive-by downloads using exploits, then we wouldn't be in this mess.  But, alas, we are.

Yeah, I liked TinyPic as (with an adblocker) it's rather easy and no-frills compared with other sites.

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: Sandwich on August 07, 2019, 11:41:34 am

Imgur FTW.

Title: Re: TinyPic.com is shutting down in 2019, users encouraged to move to Photobucket.
Post by: Nightmare on September 14, 2019, 02:02:27 pm

Demolition day has apparently arrived, some of our older pics from the highlight section are broken now. :lol: