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That's an OS gesture. It can't be overridden. If it cycles you to another image, you did't begin your swipe far enough to the left.
Please do find a source that backs this.
2) WHAT THE HELL, IMGUR?
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On iOS, they override the swipe-from-left-to-go-back gesture and instead use it to cycle you through new images.
That's an OS gesture. It can't be overridden. If it cycles you to another image, you did't begin your swipe far enough to the left.
> I saw that multiple times here on HN now that people misuse the term. It's a pity, the original idea is something to be aware of, and diluting what dark pattern means hinders that awareness. Sorry long post TL/DR Fighting people on word definitions is frustrating and words change meaning when one aspect gets popular. I have fought this war over and over again over the following words: Troll - Everything is a troll…
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11776314 and marked it off-topic.
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Hey, yes! If reverse image search is possible now, it should be easy to automatically give credit to original creators, connect them with audiences and bypass blogspam!
How would you determine which reverse image search result is the original content creator? Just curious.
It might work ok for some of the larger comics/image producers.
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Yes, absolutely; the Imgur community is completely and totally distinct from Reddit (to the point where people bitch about even seeing the reddit stuff! There's even the comment-meme 'roddit pls' etc) The big question is simply how Imgur will continue to (sustainably) grow that community. This really brings the question back to the very root: "How do we make Imgur the de-facto image hosting/sharing site in the world"
They bitch about the obvious reddit stuff, but do they realize that most of their content comes from reddit? What happens when most of their posts disappear?
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> Imgur forgot its roots as a dumb image host, rapidly crufting-up its service with things that were not only annoying but interfering with its basic function. Imgur is my main form on entertainment and the app currently lives on my homescreen. Mindless fun and good vibes unlike reddit which makes me angry/sad/depressed. Imgur would have been dead with this Reddit move if they had not evolved, they obviously saw it c…
Imgur had to pay its investors by shitting up its service. Imgur would have been dead because they were running out of money.
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I was referring to the way that DaringFireball does ads. I was not talking about any other aspect of DaringFireball. If Imgur wants ads, there is a way to make ads sane and still make money. For what anecdotes are worth, DaringFireball’s method is about the only form of ads that has ever worked on me. I actually read what he says about these companies, and I often am curious enough to go learn more. And he’s charging…
>If Imgur wants ads, there is a way to make ads sane and still make money. There is also "a way" to win at the Olympics.
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"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
> "direct" links to an image uploaded sometimes/usually redirect to imgur page Actually I like this. It's so stupid that people directly link to the image - I'm always interested in reading the imgur comments, and especially the text comment by the uploader.
Most people I've seen vastly prefer direct links, since all they want is the image content.
It's likely significant that I mostly encounter imgur links via reddit, which of course has its own comments/community.
Searched this entire thread and no mention of DMCA or Safe Harbors. Linking to a 3rd party is good to avoid worrying about that sort of stuff. Not that I'm an advocate for illicit rehosting, but just commenting as an observer. It gets briefly touched on at the very end of the article, but self-hosting may carry with it a whole lot of extra work to avoid getting a big bullseye painted on the company. I'm sure more tha…
Wouldn't this give Reddit more control though? If the files are hosted somewhere else they have to rely on that service to handle takedowns. It means they can still show up all over Reddit and to a lot of users come across like Reddit is hosting them; speaking from the stand point of your average user, not Reddit/HN user. I would imagine Reddit wants to have control and be able to more quickly take down things versus…
A lot of users are very twitchy about anything that even hints at censorship right now.
Viewing images on reddit has always been broken. Without RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) the UX on the site is horrendous. And even with RES, images not hosted on imgur wouldn't work most of the time. It was so bad I took on myself to aggregate images from /r/funny and put them in a mobile friendly and fast website. http://www.pixpit.com unfortunately every time I tried to talk about it on reddit, they deleted it.
I use reddit more-or-less as a blog (https://dredmorbius.reddit.com). What I particularly like is the extended community, Markdown, mod tools, Wiki (though it's underpowered), search (though it's posts-only, no comments), and, through RES, some nice features for composing, and viewing images in posts.
But that last applies to a very small subset of readers. And as I make a fair bit of use of images (to illustrate and document points in my essays), that's a considerable pain point.
Ello, whilst lacking many other features, and having broken Markdown (notably: no blockquote support), does have phenomenal image support.
Other options are fairly thin, though Medium might be worth another look.