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
#2Imgur copied Reddit's functionality first, to be fair.
Maybe because they identified how easy it would be for them to get nuked by Reddit?
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#3That last graph shows the total number of image submissions has almost doubled? imgur submissions dropped by 250,000 but native uploads increased by almost a million.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#4Imgur copied Reddit's functionality first, to be fair. Maybe because they identified how easy it would be for them to get nuked by Reddit?
...Imgur was MADE by reddit!
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#5Imgur has a pretty different product, and honestly - this might lower their traffic, but increase revenue (like the author mentioned).
I have friends who visit imgur regularly, and it's what I would consider a meme platform. Although, I personally use it to just share photos.
Reddit's natively hosted app, is likely why they need increased investment. Honestly, I see why Reddit wanted their own natively hosted images, but I can't see how this will increase their revenue or help them succeed.
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#6Imgur copied Reddit's functionality first, to be fair. Maybe because they identified how easy it would be for them to get nuked by Reddit?
Quite frankly it's impressive that Imgur turned into a serious thing. Crossing the proverbial chasm from "Hosting pictures to post on Reddit sucks, so I'm gonna make something!" to where they are today is amazing to me. But I guess the same could be said for comparing any notable company's current state to their starting point (survivorship bias?)
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#7Imgur is essentially a parasite upon reddit which exploited and relied upon reddit's lack of native image posts. Imgur's dependency on reddit led to it trying to compete directly with it to ensure its survival without its host (Imgur is now also a place to find and comment on images), but also ensured reddit would eventually drop it, thus paradoxically also hurting its survival.
Ultimately I think Imgur is destined to the same fate as TwitPic.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#8Why on earth would Reddit want to add a massive expense (image hosting) at a time that they're already hemorrhaging money? Especially since imgur was still a fairly adequate host for the site. Reddit's image hosting seems like burning money for nothing. Not to mention the Reddit image URLs are horrifying. I upload stuff to imgur just for the nice, short URLs.
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#9Imgur copied Reddit's functionality first, to be fair. Maybe because they identified how easy it would be for them to get nuked by Reddit?
...Imgur was MADE by reddit!
According to Wikipedia, it was a “gift to Reddit”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgur#History
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...
Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting
#10Why on earth would Reddit want to add a massive expense (image hosting) at a time that they're already hemorrhaging money? Especially since imgur was still a fairly adequate host for the site. Reddit's image hosting seems like burning money for nothing. Not to mention the Reddit image URLs are horrifying. I upload stuff to imgur just for the nice, short URLs.
Keeps eyeballs (and thus ad dollars) on the site? Avoids allowing a parasitical competitor to grow?