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Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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Your pricing page is a delight https://imgz.org/money/
Agreed. It's delightfully funny without going overboard, or being too cheesy like most bigger companies who try to be cheeky. I'm signing up.
The trick is to actually not care about whether people buy your stuff! Hard to pull off when you're trying to make money, but easy for me.
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#123Medialab's other things include like, Genius (ok, fair enough, sustains itself / useful/ well-used I'm assuming)....and Kik? The teen messaging app from like 2010 that no one uses anymore? hm Had to look a bit harder to even find their website ( https://www.medialab.la/ ) - 'a holding company of consumer internet brands' heh, sheesh, yeah that's not sketchy.
> Kik? The teen messaging app from like 2010 that no one uses anymore? I use to think the same thing, until I listened to this episode of Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
1/3 American Teenagers use the app according to Kik... I have a feeling they're not counting right because that doesn't sound right to me.
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct. ImageShack was the most widely used host on reddit and had recently disabled hotlinking (after nearly a year of ad bloat on their main site) so user MrGrim on reddit created Imgur and announced it on Reddit 12 years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t... He did an AMA 3 years later: https://old.reddit.com//r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgu...
And now Imgur has disabled hotlinking. Depending on device and/or image.
And has an interstitial ad to wait through before upload. I don't think even ImageShack thought of that one
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?
Who doesn't? It's the best source of almost everything. Perfect mix of culturally important twitter and news screenshots and entertaining gifs.
Absolutely this. imgur.com is the only reason I can pretend to be "down with the kids".
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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I remember back around 2009(?) ish I had a chance to talk to some folks at Justin.tv (now twitch) and they said one ad on the stream every few hours more than covers all the costs. What changed? I guess the videos are much more high resolution now than the webcam size 320x240 videos back then but has cost gone up that much?
Ads are worth a magnitude less today than they were in 2009.
What? They're crazy competitive these days. Every popular ad space online has been bought by the highest bidder. AdWords, Facebook, Imgur, Reddit, companies are dumping cash like mad. The market grew by billions over the past decade.
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.
Reddit forwards /r/imgur to /r/drugs
No it doesn't. If you mean reddit.com/imgur, that's the ID from a random post in /r/Drugs. Reddit automatically expands the post ID to the original thread.
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#128I've been doing stuff on neocities.org lately. It reminds me what I love about making the internet. I pay the monthly $5 fee for 50gb, and I have no complaints yet. And if I ever have a product idea -- their website is open source, so I can just fork their project and make my own business.
Hosting companies selling 3 years for $150 of traditional PHP shared hosting are still around. I love how skills I learned 15 years ago still work on these and it feels closer to the older web. Probably can run Perl on them! Also a PHP file on one of these is close to “serverless” - it’s a lot simpler doesn’t change its UI and API every 5 minutes like Azure
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#129Imgur, great service, lasted this long, amazing. But I always wondered how any of these random image hosts afforded bandwidth (reminds of the other various ones like TwitPic who was saved from being taken offline by Twitter). I mean, I have a gallery of images in there, privately stored, directly linked to here and there around the net, without paying for anything for years. I think at one point I can't even remember…
Anecdotal and I can't substantiate any of this. About 5 years ago my old boss's wife worked for imgur and it did not sound great. They had constant churn. She was an upper manager of some sort and even she left after a short time. From what I understood, the company was not profitable and like many other tech companies relied heavily on investor.
I seriously doubt their community can sustain the costs of the service. In fact, the quality of imgur's service has declined in an effort to make profit. For instance, all images are compressed now. That used to not be true.
Most platforms you are using today cannot survive without ad's, because their business model is not one that can make a profit without a monopoly first.
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bandwidth is pretty cheap if you look beyond cloud. There are providers that offer magnitudes cheaper bandwidth than e.g. AWS but you have to set servers yourself.
Where have you had success with hosting outside the usual aws/gap/etc? It seems like digital ocean has a bit cheaper bandwidth, but curious if you have a better recommendation!
Anywhere you rent bare metal. Cloud hosting providers always had the worst bandwidth prices, I'm not joking.