Imgur.com: Why We Dumped GoDaddy

Velcroman1 writes "On the eve of what has been dubbed "Dump Go Daddy Day," imgur.com — the massive image hosting site responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views per day — has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning. GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call for a boycott circulated. 'The outcry kind of forced our hand,' imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf said. 'I'm against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it. We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.'"

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FIRST COPY (violation)

[Anonymous Coward]

"On the eve of what has been dubbed "Dump Go Daddy Day," imgur.com — the massive image hosting sites is responsible for an astonishing 28 terabytes of bandwidth and nearly 200 million page views per day — has already changed its registry entries, foreshadowing the potential negative effect of a boycott set to begin Thursday morning. GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated. 'The outcry kind of forced our hand,' imgur founder and owner Alan Schaaf said. 'I'm against the SOPA act and imgur as a company is against it. We just feel it is terrible that GoDaddy.com would support this legislation.'"

Yea, well...

[Black Parrot]

GoDaddy.com originally supported the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) but quickly recanted its position when the call of a boycott circulated.

Nothing like money-at-stake to reveal whether someone has a spine.

Re:Yea, well...

[Black Parrot]

It's like walking in on your best friend banging your wife, he looks up and says, "sorry, dude. I'm almost finished." then continues until done.

In an old shaggy-dog joke, King Arthur goes on a long rant at the queen for her lack of fidelity, and then says:

"And as for you, Sir Lancelot, the least you could do is stop while I'm talking."

Re:Left GoDaddy Years Ago

[Elbereth]

It's human nature. If someone screws over a customer, a few outraged people will leave, but many others will stay, because the company never did anything to them. A couple on the sidelines will be wondering, "What the fuck is wrong with you? Right from the start, I could tell that company was slimy." And someone, somewhere will say, "It was his/her own fault for getting screwed. The company was perfectly justified in doing what it did. They're not a charity."

As a smug asshole who loves to be right, this whole drama has been very fun. Not that I need the validation of the entire fucking internet coming around to my opinion or anything, but it's still nifty.

But..

[andrewa]

Boobies!
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1633.html

Re:Who dumped whom?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's SuperBowl, is it an American thing?

Re:Who dumped whom?

[mdm42]

MacWho?

I'm actually glad that I hosted with them

[cptBongo]

...so I get the satisfaction of dumping them now.

One problem its who GoDaddy's customers are.

[robbak]

I mean, how do we get lowlife scum like typo-squatters to boycott? Who else would tolerate them?

Re:Who dumped whom?

[Lumpy]

OH god, BK fries SUCK. they don't use animal fat oil... YUCK with that veggie oil crap. BK had good fries back in the 80's. Fries are only good if they are cooked in animals that have been rendered down into a nice cooking fat.

Props to the Wendies spicy nuggets. Gotta love mystery processed chicken by product nuggets. I can eat those by the fist full.