Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down

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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News
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Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users.

Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.

Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active.

Kinda crazy that they didn't run a garbage collection routine on their data stores to begin with. One of the first things I ever did at my new job was write a python daemon that runs on our jump host and cleans up data older than a year.

Please don't start working at archive.org