Turns out we were spot on. Dribbble is now expiring invites to push designers to invite more people faster. What I wonder is, why have invites at all when the focus is clearly on growing its user base as quickly as possible? On the one hand, I don't blame Cederholm et all for selling. I would too. On the other hand, disappointed that they didn't at least find a buyer who who remain true to the original ethos.

It's irrelevant what it says. The images are stolen. Many of them are from major brands who almost certainly would not allow their brand images to be used in this way. Some of the images are mine and I absolutely would not agree to have them on this site regardless how they are used. And it's pretty shitty of designers to promote theft from other designers for their own convenience.

Typically these site owners either create fake user accounts to upload to or do no due diligence. They con't care that the content is stolen. The fact that they can hide behind the "we're not responsible" defense is BS. Aldo Valdez knows damn well all of these images are used illegally. He simply doesn't care.

Icon8's image (almost certainly used without permission) : https://favpng.com/png_view/cap-avatar-woman-user-profile-laborer-png/tC8g0Uz1

Mine used without permission (and totally jacked up for some reason) : https://favpng.com/png_view/avatar-woman-image-png/Jtsb8gA3

This is my image used without my permission : https://favpng.com/png_view/user-avatar-avatar-woman-png/MYQbcNLx

The images are also pirated. Designers who use sites like this are complicit IMO of stealing from other designers.

Yeah, these are pirated images. This shit should be removed.

Designer News should remove this. Many of these images are being illegally distributed. I found some of my own images on the site as well as many that still have the watermark from sites like Iconfinder on them.

This was my first question as well. I read just enough to figure out that I don't care.