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Supported video formats (unsigned/undated comment; pre-May 2015)[edit]

someone should add the supported video formats for accuracy of the article context.

Profit?[edit]

I'd be curious to know what is their business case for this, how do they make any money? Mathmo ^Talk 06:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tinypic is provided by Photobucket, which enables users to buy "PRO" accounts that enable larger storage and bandwidth. That's the only profit they receive as far as I'm concerned. Gforce20 (talk) 05:54, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the page is strewn with adverts. Is nowhere safe from the perniciousness of advertisers? Tinypic.com, a site for casual photosharing, uses Captcha to avoid being spammed with auto uploaders. Until recently they used whimsical english phrases, but now the captha image is an advert, and you have to type in the slogan, presumably with the intention of reinforcing the message. Whilst I am slightly impressed by the cleverness of that, it does mean I won't be going back to tinypic very soon. Does anyone know of a less aggressive casual photo sharing site that can be used without signing up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.137.63.170 (talk) 07:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Digg Blacklisting[edit]

The blacklisting of Digg has been puzzling members of that site for some time. I decided to mention it in the article, since it's not been properly explained anywhere that I can find. I've also mentioned that stories higlighted on Digg are often critical of News Corporation, without explicitly stating that one is the cause of the other, although it seems to be the most obvious explanation in the absence of any other. It'll be interesting to see if that provokes a reaction from any quarter, to give a different reason for the blacklisting, or whatever.--Farry (talk) 09:37, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd imagine that the reason for deleting popular images on Digg is because they use up a lot of bandwidth, not that digg is critical of news corp. --193.61.254.27 (talk) 13:50, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the comment. I've updated the article to reflect that. Since there seems to be a bit of an edit war going on, to show what I'm talking about, I'll copy the time-of-writing version to below:

Tinypic is owned by Photobucket, Inc., which is owned by Fox Interactive Media, Inc., a division of News Corp. Tinypic is self-described as "the perfect site for linking to MySpace, ...message boards, forums, blogs ...and other websites"^[1], however Tinypic will delete any picture that is linked from the popular social-news site Digg.^[2] Blacklists can be motivated by saving bandwidth, but the promotion of links to the News Corp owned MySpace, which is a high-bandwidth site, shows that TinyPic are cognizant of their fellow News Corp owned companies, and thus it is noteworthy although perhaps coincidental that stories that are highly critical of News Corp are frequently promoted to Digg's front page.^[3]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Farry (talk • contribs) 17:05, 27 September 2009

Digg tinypic submissions are not all deleted [1]. A cross-posted image that is deleted would affect not only digg but other sites as well. Wikipedia has a policy of no original research. —Tokek (talk) 21:16, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://tinypic.com/about.php
^ Tinypic images linked from Digg (Digg search) - all now deleted.
^ Fox News stories (Digg search) - all are critical or mockery.

Short Article?[edit]

Anyone else think this article might be a bit short? I would make it larger, add detail and whatnot, but I dont know much about the site. Well at least nothing that isnt original research.

Zell Faze (talk) 21:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Upload Failed!"[edit]

I've been using tinypic since 2008 because of easy "no registration," perhaps two dozen images uploaded. Now it uses an image-text spam checker, but that seemingly works, then quickly & constantly fails on upload attempt: "Upload Failed! Invalid code. Please try again." ...with a quick flash that might say "for more info...," but it's too fast to read or respond to. "Invalid code???" Huh? Has tinypic died?
--69.110.91.50 (talk) 16:32, 20 December 2011 (UTC)Doug Bashford[reply]

I was able to upload without any problems. TinyPic is unusual among image hosting sites because it requires a CAPTCHA to be filled in each time an image is uploaded. This was added to the article.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 16:50, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

End of TinyPic[edit]

It looks like the end of the road for TinyPic, as the main page has a message saying "TinyPic is shutting down in 2019: TinyPic is shutting down its image hosting service because we can no longer support a free service that derives 100% of its revenue from ever declining on-site ad revenues. While you may continue to host images from our site until further notice, we encourage you to consider selecting one of the premium plans offered by our sister site, Photobucket. Thanks for using TinyPic for your hosting needs over the years. We apologize that we can no longer continue providing this service, but Photobucket is a great option going forward." It would be nice to have some secondary sourcing, though.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:44, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://tinypic.com/about.php

[2] Tinypic images linked from Digg (Digg search) - all now deleted.

[3] Fox News stories (Digg search) - all are critical or mockery.

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