[TonyTrapp]

It's what I always told everyone who jumped from ImageShack to Imgur. It was clean and lean back then, but it was obvious that one day it would turn into the next ImageShack. It happens with every. single. free. service. Or it just shuts down before it happens.

[parliament32]

How do you pay for bandwidth if your main objective is letting people link to .jpg/.pngs directly? Either you force people to make accounts and pay once their images exceed some threshold (photobucket/imageshack) or try to force them into ad-included html pages (imgur).. I don't see any other way around it.

[TonyTrapp]

Of course. That's why no one should be surprised when it eventually goes downhill. I'm gladly hosting my images myself but I know this is not an option for everyone. But sadly many people are riding on the free wave who wouldn't have to, and those are then the ones who are usually the loudest when the quality drops.