The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
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Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#192Imgur recently started doing something really annoying on their mobile site. If you keep scrolling past the picture you were linked to, it shows a bunch of other pictures that were not posted by the person who posted the first picture. These extra pictures seem to be generally in the same category as the picture that was meant to be linked to, so if the original picture is a slightly risque photo, the photos that fol…
Reddit killed the model that allows them to be financially viable and "not annoying". I suspect the alternative is to shut down. The bit of community that exists solely within imgur can't be enough to subsidize the bandwidth costs of everyone else, can it? Thus far every image hosting site has gone the cycle of initially good, annoying attempts at monetizing, then shutting down. Which, of course, leaves a trail of fo…
If/when imgur closes, it would be scary to think of how many old reddit posts might become completely lost.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sending out a link to what? I mean... maybe I'm too young to know what you're referring to, but if I have my local computer, sitting behind a NAT, sitting behind a firewall, sitting behind a personal router, on another NAT, and you're on the other side of the country, what am I sending you a link to? Did every machine have a domain name? Was your local DNS somehow broadcast publicly? Did you just send a link for "C:\…
Simpler times. Public facing IP address, web server running on my machine and serving from /var/httpd/public_html or some similar directory. People go with 3rd parties nowadays for the slick web interface and that they do the "hard" work of setting up bandwidth caps and security for you.
> People go with 3rd parties nowadays for the slick web interface
No, they go with 3rd parties nowadays because most home users don't have bandwidth to host their own images.
One of the current top posts on reddit/r/funny has had over 1 million views after being posted to imgur 8 hours ago. The image file is 1.7 megabytes. That means imgur has transferred 1.7 TERAbytes in 8 hours of just that one image. That's an average of about 59 megabytes PER SECOND of bandwidth, or nearly half a gigabit per second.
Less than 1% of home users have that kind of bandwidth, and that's only to host a single image.
If you REALLY think "Oh, people only use image hosts because of the interface", you're not living in reality.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to talk about that community, because it genuinely boggles my mind. Their culture is as if they were crafted by /r/circlejerk as some sort of cosmic joke. They repeat the same memes ad nauseam, in every post , seemingly completely unaware. They lack any measure of what I consider healthy internet cynicism - if you post a picture of your face and say "I beat cancer!", you're getting upvotes, and there won't be…
The meme problem I see on Reddit and Twitter too - so many sites developing their own meme dialect that's completely incoherent if you're not up to your elbows in it.
I tend to see this as personally beneficial. Once the patois diverges enough, I stop wasting time attempting to decode it, unless I'm bored enough to treat it as anthropology.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#195You know how I can tell Reddit doesn't have any content creators in upper management who consider these decisions? Because at least one of them would've spoken up: "Oh, we built many of our communities on sharing Copyright protected content by way of our weasel-cousin IMGUR, so let's go ahead and bring all that DMCA/Safe Harbors liability under our umbrella - you're joking, right?" At least the Conde Nast lawyers wil…
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Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is your quote ("why don't they hate the world, as I do?!") just off the cuff or a mockery of something or a repeating of something already out there to be sourced? If there's a source please share.
Off the cuff comment to indicate that my observation isn't a serious proposition, but just me sharing my general feelings, and acknowledging that my feelings should be considered fairly cynical.
Sounded like it may have been drawn from a good piece of satire critical of something like PC/free speech or climate change or some controversial thing. I was imagining a funny characterization of a crowd berating some perceived antisocial individual who doesn't truly hate the world but just won't conform to ideas he does not agree with or is not convinced by whatever they may be. Either way works as great quote for a dissenting opiner to play.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only that, but they already have cloud environments that allow them to get all of that data anyway. Android phones come pre-configured to automatically upload every photo you've ever taken to the cloud, Amazon offers unlimited personal photo storage, and Google and Amazon offer the two largest enterprise cloud computing environments available, so they can likely just analyze imgur's logs.
Are you claiming that Google analyzes all of people's images automatically, with no consent, taken on Android and uses that data internally? And that Amazon and GCP analyze customer info (off the disks? off unencrypted HTTP?)?
I have no knowledge of what they do. I doubt the latter; that would be trouble. But the former - why not? They do it with your email.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sending out a link to what? I mean... maybe I'm too young to know what you're referring to, but if I have my local computer, sitting behind a NAT, sitting behind a firewall, sitting behind a personal router, on another NAT, and you're on the other side of the country, what am I sending you a link to? Did every machine have a domain name? Was your local DNS somehow broadcast publicly? Did you just send a link for "C:\…
Back in the day, the bulk of Internet users were on university networks, and they gave everyone access to Unix systems where anything you put in public_html goes up on the university's website under your username. For example, I went to UTD from 2003 to 2007. This was long after the days of "the bulk of Internet users were on university networks" were over, but the infrastructure was still there. All students had ssh…
thoooose were tha daaaaaaaayyssss
Remember commercial shell accounts?
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
As it turns out, it's really hard to monetize an S3 bucket at scale.
Things like that makes me wish NDN[1] would succeed. Essentially in this network instead using addressing to address hosts, they address the data. This brings interesting properties, since routers are aware what data is being transferred they can start caching it. In the end no CDNs are needed (network takes care of it) so people can host data themselves without worrying of it getting too popular. [1] https://named-d…
Sounds like a less shady version of Freenet.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#200Websites like Imgur are able to detect whether the browser is requesting the image as a part of an tag or a separate document by sniffing the Accept header.
So when a direct Imgur image link is opened in its own tab, Imgur can redirect to a webpage if it feels like it. In Firefox, by changing about:config value "image.http.accept" to
*/*
I never quite understood why do browsers let a webserver know the context you're loading the requested resource in, for privacy's sake.