Image Hosting on Reddit

Post by aaronbasssett » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:22 AM UTC

niftich wrote: post #39

slig wrote: post #29

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Imgur has a community. Tons of users that goes directly there to see funny images and GIFs. Yes, Google can create a infinite scalable image hosting overnight, but creating a community is a lot harder.

Creating communities is hard, but Google wants a unified 'Google' community, not multiple disparate ones -- just look at how they handled YouTube. Even if you throw in some machine learning to figure out if the user's looking at memes or gifs or porn, I can't imagine the marginal value of that data being of use to Google. It's essentially unmonetizable, which is why most image hosts disappear after a few years. Imgur…

    
        Imgur.Util.getGoogleTracker();
        __ga('send', 'pageview');
    

Post by radu_floricica » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 8:11 AM UTC

shalmanese wrote: post #22

dmerrick wrote: post #10

It's really unfortunate that Imgur took such a turn for the worse. Originally it seemed like Imgur was a benevolent gift to Reddit users... a clean, simple, easy to use image hosting service that everyone could use for free. I guess it was too good to be true, because now it's tricky to link to a direct image (though not impossible), and the standard landing page is filled with unnecessary clutter. As an aside: if yo…

What really killed them was the GIF explosion. Average image size remains largely static and bandwidth and storage costs steadily decline so if you get your timing exactly right, you can hit that sweet spot where your CPM declines slower than your hosting costs and provide an increasingly profitable business. However, GIFs completely upended that calculation by increasing the average file size by an order of magnitud…

Post by loopbit » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 9:14 AM UTC

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loopbit wrote: post #63

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I was wondering about what you said about linking to a direct image being tricky. As far as I can see, you can put the link to imgur (like http://imgur.com/gKt0Owa ) or directly to the image ( http://i.imgur.com/gKt0Owa.jpg ) and both (as well as the html, bbcode and markdown versions) appear directly in the image page.

It's tricky because your direct image link redirects me to the full page with ads, and it's not obvious to you. Try hard refreshing your image link. (I'm pretty sure the way it works is: it shows the image for certain referrers, and when you load the "full" page it requests the image with a referrer of imgur. That way you get the image, and then subsequent requests to the image are served from your browser cache so t…

Post by smt88 » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 9:44 AM UTC

radu_floricica wrote: post #123

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What really killed them was the GIF explosion. Average image size remains largely static and bandwidth and storage costs steadily decline so if you get your timing exactly right, you can hit that sweet spot where your CPM declines slower than your hosting costs and provide an increasingly profitable business. However, GIFs completely upended that calculation by increasing the average file size by an order of magnitud…

> I'm surprised Google never just bought imgur Sex. Corporations tend to keep faaar away from everything related to porn, and a fair share of imgur images is nsfw content. Cleaning it up would be more trouble than it's worth.

Post by nicotonic » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 9:59 AM UTC

lostlogin wrote: post #85

nicotonic wrote: post #38

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Yes it can be dismissed. There's a link that says "No thanks", doesn't it appear for you?

No - up to date iOS on iPhone 5s.