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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.
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What are some better alternatives to s3?
Colocation hosting your own servers around the world... you know, the original way.
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Even cheaper and easier is just to rent dedicated servers or VPSes.
For image-heavy use I found its just cheaper to build your own box and cohost instead of renting.
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Back to reality: would imgur have become so popular if it wasn't free? Who would pay? Reddit users? I don't think so.
You seem to be asserting that anything is okay as long as it makes money. Nobody has to make a website. If the only way you can think of to make money is bait-and-switch, then you can choose to do that, or you can choose to go back to the drawing board and come up with a less unpleasant business plan. If you choose the former, don't expect me to cheer because you found a way to make money, and you think that's the on…
Also, I don't think you're going to make everyone happy as a business, and that's (probably) okay.
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No, you get a link that looks like a direct link (eg https://i.imgur.com/whatever.png ) but it's not (always) a direct link. This is what people are complaining about. Sending that link to people sometimes results in them getting redirected to the ad-laden imgur page.
The "direct links" only ever redirect to the non-direct version on mobile for me. Doesn't happen on desktop though.
It appears to still happen if, e.g., the link is on Twitter - random example https://twitter.com/SilentRENE/status/735732252877819904 (seems to be inconsistent - first time I was redirected, but now it goes directly to the image. Opening the Twitter page in another browser also resulted in a redirect)
Having a third party host Reddit's images gave away a bunch of control to the point that imgur has its own community based upon the site . At the time Reddit didn't have the resources to make a competitor but this seems to be a good move now that imgur is doing dark patterns.
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Colocation hosting your own servers around the world... you know, the original way.
Is that really cheaper than S3, though?
Any dedicated hosting company (OVH, Hetzner, etc...) will cost less than 3% of that (and that's on the high end).
Bandwidth is cheap, but AWS marks it up roughly 30x-50x what you'd pay in a dedicated environment.