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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

My favorite part is that they added 'social' stuff to imgur uploads, so your images (probably) have a separate set of terrible comments you're not even aware of.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

#12

Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

Ha. I love reading terrible inflaming comments like this. - What would you have done? - Do you even know 1% of the effort the founding team put into this? - Do you know the exact details of the digital cold war between Reddit and them? This is just a terrible comment by a terribly grumpy person to inflame. - It’s AWESOME the founding team exited - It’s AWESOME someone went heads up with Reddit Everything they did mat…

So many straw men, so little time.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.

IIRC at the time imgur launched, all of the other free image sharing websites were pretty bad. Reddit itself didn't start allowing uploads until long after imgur.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

#14

Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

everyone sells out eventually. nothing wrong with it. either that or they run it into the ground or die.

people move on that's just life. congrats to the imgur team and good luck for their next adventures.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

#15

This is a tough one to make sense of - are they just getting killed by reddit on one side and tiktok on the other and cashing out? Anyone have any insight? (also anyone know the purchase price? just for fun)

it use to be my fav time waster app rather than the selfies on IG or silly politics on FB. but yea rarely use it now so I guess engagement is dropping

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.

IIRC at the time imgur launched, all of the other free image sharing websites were pretty bad. Reddit itself didn't start allowing uploads until long after imgur.

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...

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

#18

Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

everyone sells out eventually. nothing wrong with it. either that or they run it into the ground or die. people move on that's just life. congrats to the imgur team and good luck for their next adventures.

Not everyone, but it’s definitely rare. Feels good to believe that everyone sells out though when you’re in the process of selling out.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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post #11

Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

My favorite part is that they added 'social' stuff to imgur uploads, so your images (probably) have a separate set of terrible comments you're not even aware of.

Imgur comments have the old twitter length limit, 140 characters.
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