Talk:Yfrog

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Yfrog has been in the news this week, after Anthony Weiner used the site to post an inadvisable photograph of himself. This tweet from yfrog offers a cryptic comment on the affair.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 18:13, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Closed down?

Re this edit: As of December 2015, it looks like yfrog.com is offline and none of the links to the photos work any more. Remarkably though, there is very little if any reliable sourcing about this. Can anyone help here? Link to YouTube video about the status of Yfrog here.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:41, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On the Wayback Machine, November 16, 2015 is the last date when yfrog.com was displaying content on the main page. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20151116072006/http://yfrog dot com/) Since then it has been redirecting to https://imageshack.com/lost . ImageShack is still online.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 19:57, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Update: it is now pretty much certain that Yfrog has gone offline and is not going to return. I emailed ImageShack some time back and asked for a confirmation of this, but did not get a reply. So although Yfrog is now dead for all practical purposes, it is hard to source.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:22, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

After a bit more research, I came across this tweet from December 2015 in which ImageShack apparently tells a customer that his Yfrog images were lost due to a service outage. After ImageShack moved over to a subscription only service in January 2014, Yfrog was pretty much defunct anyway. There were reports of people being unable to access their Yfrog images as far back as June 2014.[1] It would be good for the article to give some detail about the closedown of Yfrog but there is very little if any reliable sourcing. It looks like Yfrog died and no reliable sources went to its funeral.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:14, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]