Yeah, I agree with the idea that they're counting on a bunch of people deciding to pay rather than go through on, say, a website, or the forum where they've been a massive contributor, and relink everything to somewhere else. Some forums even disable post edits after a certain amount of time, so the threads would be permanently broken without paying. And that price is highway robbery; the only reason people would pay it is because of the "effective" cost of moving over to something else, and I bet that's what they're counting on. However, this is the internet; posts will remain broken as a legacy to this, and people are probably already jumping ship to the other still-free services. Particularly if the report is true that you can't really buy it a month at a time and they force you into buying a whole year.
The only reason I entertain renting my own hosting space for images is for the few places I have to really save images down for size for the privilege of posting them directly on their service, where it won't ever break unless the place has something happen.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
The only reason I entertain renting my own hosting space for images is for the few places I have to really save images down for size for the privilege of posting them directly on their service, where it won't ever break unless the place has something happen.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor