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What are some better alternatives to s3?
Use S3 but put a cache in front of it, at the very least.
Reddit use Cloudflare on both reddit.com and redditstatic.com
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
#112I don't know why reddit would want to take on the burden and cost of dealing with images. It might make it incrementally easier, but with something like RES the entire thing was seamless. Seems like a misplaced focus on a feature that doesn't bring that much value, and a lot more cost. I'll be curious to see how successful this ends up being. If they wanted to concentrate on making the site easier to use, they should…
Reddit basically needs an image hosting service to succeed, and Imgur is now at least as obnoxious as all the previous generation of hosts that lead to it being created in the first place
While I agree with Imgur being obnoxious and a far cry from their early days, they are not as awful as the previous de-facto image sharing site - whatever it was with the green frog as their mascot.
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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.
Wow that sounds strange coming from StackExchange. It seems hard to believe imgur would have a cheaper way to host images than what SE could get, and it's not like an image upload page is that difficult right? I suppose it's one less thing to deal with does it make that much sense? (Honest question, not trying to "weekend project" imgur.)
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Yep. Imgur realized that being solely a user-friendly image host wasn't much of a money maker, so they started gradually turning into the Photobucket style messes that it was originally aiming to destroy. Now they run their own community/discussion site and try to show it down the throat of anyone who lands there trying to look at a picture. It's not been good for the user experience of anyone who was just there for…
Question. What's wrong with making just a little bit of money?? (which is presumably still more than i will ever see!)
Nothing is wrong with making a bit of money.
However, when the barrier to entry for providing a service is low you have to be _very_ careful about making that money by negatively impacting the user experience.
If you make money, that's fine. If you make money by taking advantage of users, you can't really be surprised when a competitor pops up and users leave.
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Because they probably aren't charities, and can't afford to donat e Free resources for your perpetual enjoyment?
> Because they probably aren't charities, and can't afford to donat e Free resources for your perpetual enjoyment? Then why did they start a free service to begin with, if they knew from the start it couldn't last? Right, to trick people into becoming dependent on the free service so they'll be reluctant to leave once the shady, UX-degrading monetization starts. You'll forgive me if I'm not sympathetic to that busine…
+1 to this. People should stop being soften with unrealistic business that uses the ad hororem tactic. Imgur can explore dozens of models.
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Because they probably aren't charities, and can't afford to donat e Free resources for your perpetual enjoyment?
Then we're back to my initial point: they never should have started as one.
I imagine you in a grocery store somewhere, railing against free samples. "You never should've given me a piece of sausage if you were going to start charging for them."
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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.
[ deleted ] -- I removed it because I got tired of trying to explain the nuance.
Depends what. We pay significantly lower than label price for Cloudfront prices. EC2? Never seen a reduction in that