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iMGSRC.RU is one of the first Web 2.0 photo hosting sites, operating since 2006. Even in 2022 still has early 2000 vibes in its design. Here you can store an unlimited number of digital images and albums for free.

As of February 2023, the service has over 75 million user-uploaded images and about 1.4 million registered users.

The average monthly attendance of the service is about 13 million unique users per month.

According to the SimilarWeb portal for March 2023, the iMGSRC.RU service is in the TOP-10 photo sites along with flickr.com, shutterstock.com and gettyimages.com.

Since it's start iMGSRC.RU users could upload images from their mobile devices even before the smartphones emerged via MMS.

As of March 2023 iMGSRC.RU is a number one Photography site according to Ramblers' Top-100.

Throughout its history iMGSRC.RU was featured in several reviews.

Why such a name?
A little bit of history. In February 1993 Marc Andreessen proposed the introduction of the “IMG” tag for HTML in an email thread Andreessen wrote: "I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG. Required argument is SRC="url".

So iMGSRC.RU's name comes from HTML tag  which has an SRC attribute to display images.

History
01 January 2006 service went public.

06 February 2006 service introduces uploads via MMS (deprecated).

03 March 2006 service skins announced (deprecated 13 august 2012).

17 May 2006 Windows client announced (deprecated 18 July 2017).

23 August 2006 English translation announced.

06 March 2008 keyboard notifications intoduced.

28 March 2008 first 100 000 of users registered and first 8 000 000 of photos uploaded.

14 March 2009 Windows client is now available in English.

30 April 2009 Download complete albums as .ZIP archive (deprecated).

09 September 2009 Updated image keep limit to 1024x768.

30 November 2009 Service achieved 200 000 users and 16 000 000 photos.

02 October 2010 20 000 000 photos uploaded.

04 April 2011 Trophies (Achievements) introduced.

28 September 2011 25 000 000 unique photos uploaded.

05 January 2012 accident occurred on iMGSRC.RU storage leading to some photos being lost.

09 October 2012 30 000 000 photos.

30 March 2016 800 000 users.

20 January 2020 Updated image keep limit to 1600x1200.

22 October 2022 Best of the best list introduced.

30 January 2023 75 000 000 photos uploaded.

20 February 2023 Updated image keep limit to 12Mp (4000x3000).

Features
iMGSRC.RU does not limit the storage time of images, but limits users when uploading up to 300 files per upload with a maximum file size of 20 MB. If the user is not verified, they can only store 10 GB of original files before they are modified and recompressed. Users can restrict access to their albums with password protection. iMGSRC.RU does not have a private messaging system and allows communication between users only through comments.

Criticism and controversy
Now the service has a fairly strict moderation system for content uploaded by users. However, the site is still under fire for its 2014 story, when 2 people were arrested for posting sexually explicit photographs.

Also 08 July 2021 RKN (Roskomnadzor) blocked access to iMGSRC.RU in Russia. But one month later Roskomnadzor unblocked iMGSRC.RU in Russia on 09.08.2021.