After being purchased by Snapchat, it appears that gfycat has been abandoned.
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com
Wow, sad to see this much history go. It’s tough running an image hosting service.
Frankly I’m surprised Imgur has made it this long. I suppose it’s because they morphed into a community in and of itself.
I always found the Imgur community hilarious - I lovingly refer to them as sewer rats. Some of the communities I’ve been part of are less tech-savvy, and people accidentally enable the “post to community” feature on their images intended to be viewed solely on reddit. The Imgurians were not happy seeing designer goods in their feed.
Yeah, I remember when imgur came out when the previous image hosting companies started getting greedy.