11–20 of 57 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Since they're calling it "imgur for websites", I'm guessing they intend for you to put pertinent stuff up there and link to it from high-traffic sites like this or reddit. If they provided an API, it would be cool for barebones notifications from automated systems too.
Joncp, An API is actually the second-to-top thing on my todo list.
Nice idea, congrats on shipping. You might want to fix this though http://sitekite.com/hello-world-2o5f7g
How will you deal with spam, torrents, child porn, etc?
What's the use case you imagined when you built it? What need did you have?
1. if you added a login + uploads and this could be used as a super simple alternative to document sharing.
2. Add page versioning and this could work as a wiki.
3. Add notifications and teams could use it for managing internal documents, photos, etc.
4. I think if search we're added theres tons of possibilities though you might not want to go there..
I don't see the appeal behind this. The reason why there was a need for off-site image hosting is because people and websites like reddit didn't want to pay for the bandwidth or be forced to deal with takedown requests. A decade ago, bandwidth was much more expensive, and it was only because it got much cheaper that imgur's business model of allowing free direct linking is even possible now. If I want to share an add…
>> There are hundreds of websites out there that allow you to host text or blog.
Blog sites typically need signup, so are slower to get started with than this. Also if you think of something like Blogger, it would not be as clean/minimal out of the box if you just want a clean 'single page' to link someone to.
Pastebin-style hosting can be no-signup but is typically uglier than this, and usually doesn't allow you to embed images/maps.