Looks like it's backed by S3 x-amz-storage-class: REDUCED_REDUNDANCY Content-Type: image/jpeg Server: AmazonS3 Can't imagine that AWS bill...
What are some better alternatives to s3?
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What dark patterns are they implementing?
"direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page, with lots of ads and shitty content, obnoxious, animated overlays that block out part of the image on mobile, etc
The biggest problem with imgur is that their mobile site is slow and sluggish as hell.
On my Moto G2 loading and rendering even a single image takes way longer than it should be so I guess there is a lot of "beautiful" Javascript hackery going on in the background doing who-knows-what.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
"direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page, with lots of ads and shitty content, obnoxious, animated overlays that block out part of the image on mobile, etc
Weird. I've never experienced this or heard of it.
I've seen it. It depends on the referrer. When coming from Reddit, visitors will not be redirected.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#44Bad news for Imgur...
Still it is used by StackExchange
To be clear, Stack Exchange buys image hosting from Imgur; images are hosted on a separate domain and don't get any of the cruft folks are complaining about here. This relationship has been in place for years and has been mostly pain-free for a involved.
Source: I work for and use Stack Exchange.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#45Here's a thread that led to people's hate of imgur: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/46cjo5/i_just_want_...
It was really annoying on mobile.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#46Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#47Looks like it's backed by S3 x-amz-storage-class: REDUCED_REDUNDANCY Content-Type: image/jpeg Server: AmazonS3 Can't imagine that AWS bill...
At Reddit's scale they would be able to negotiate directly with AWS for lower rates. I'm sure they already do so with servers.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What dark patterns are they implementing?
"direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page, with lots of ads and shitty content, obnoxious, animated overlays that block out part of the image on mobile, etc
To be fair, bandwidth isn't free. Imgur can't serve hotlinked content for free, forever.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#49The imgur hate in here is odd. It seems like people are just assuming the worst based on one critical comment thread that got turned into a techcrunch article. Which is understandable, I don't understand how they can offer a free unlimited image hosting site (and they've offered it for so long that, well, you can see the backlash they got when direct linking is taken away). Still, their management seems savvy enough…
It got really bad, to the point that now you click a link to see an image, and the page loads a bunch of thumbnails and JS before the image you wanted finally loads.
Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#50The imgur hate in here is odd. It seems like people are just assuming the worst based on one critical comment thread that got turned into a techcrunch article. Which is understandable, I don't understand how they can offer a free unlimited image hosting site (and they've offered it for so long that, well, you can see the backlash they got when direct linking is taken away). Still, their management seems savvy enough…
People who have negative opinions of things you clearly like often found those opinions in experiences you are unaware of. My opinion on Imgur involves eight years of context, remembering pre-Imgur Reddit as well as Quickmeme, watching Imgur rise and fall, observing the psychology of i.imgur.com leading to upvotes of Reddit, knowing a pretty religious Imgurian who goes to meetups, etc.
However, because I disagree with you, according to you I reacted to a TechCrunch article; there's no better way to get me running to share that opinion than by poisoning the thread with the assumption that naysayers are misinformed or oblivious.
Assume people are informed and you'll end up on the right side of disappointed when they aren't, instead of being embarrassed when they are.