ImageShack

ImageShack is an image-based website, founded by Alexander Levin in 2003. It's still around today, despite being a "dead" website with barely any active community as of 2021. It currently has an Alexa rank of 9.8k total, and is currently on the decline. Most of its active trends have already died out, such as favored photographers, social media, etc.

ImageShack has been known for its bad updates, which later became a trend on many notable websites.

Why It Sucks Now

 * 1) In 2014, things went downhill. They started charging for their service even though there competing services that you could use for free. Why pay for a service that was once free? Imgur and Google Drive let you host images at no cost.
 * 2) Many images started to disappear over time from peoples' accounts, which rumors being brought to save server space because clearly they are unable to pay more from their extremely poor customer service/flops.  This resulted in images linked outside to become dead.
 * 3) Even worse, to put salt in the wound, ImageShack secretly replaced the broken images with banner ads in 2015. One user from StackExchange even said it looked like a failing business upon the post that showed the iTunes clickbait ads.
 * 4) They try to pretend not to know the problems they're causing by telling lies and false solutions to their customers, like telling them their images will be restored in a meantime when in reality they are destroyed by saving server space.

Reception
As of 2014 and up, ImageShack has been known to be losing revenue over time, due to people leaving ImageShack in favor of better image-hosting websites (Drive, Imgur, etc.) Many people have already boycotted ImageShack for alternatives.

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