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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

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Post by chimeracoder »

conradfr wrote: post #86
novia wrote: post #27

Imgur 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…

What is really annoying is that it makes you think you're watching an album but as the image is not related it's confusing.

> What is really annoying is that it makes you think you're watching an album but as the image is not related it's confusing.

They even do it with albums, which is unbelievably annoying on mobile devices. If you don't click the "Load X remaining images", and just keep scrolling, instead you see related images from other posts.

More than once, I've clicked through a link, gotten confused why the fourth or fifth image doesn't quite seem to match the original description, and then realized that I never loaded the full album.

I don't know who made that UI decision, or why. I can't think of a single good reason for it, because it doesn't even incentivize you to click through images to see other albums.

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by j2bax »

CM30 wrote: post #97

This is why you have be careful when it comes to starting a business or service that's dependent on another to keep going. Because it's very easy for the 'host' company to take your idea, undercut it and 'force' you out of business. Or to make changes that completely kill your product or service/screw up your marketing strategy. It's a risk you have to take with a business so dependent on another particular company o…

Seems like a fairly valid business strategy though. Step 1: Provide a solution to a problem that isn't being addressed by an existing service with a large audience. Step 2: Try to convert users of the host service to your own users by offering other valuable features to them that aren't reliant on the host service. Getting any access and visibility to users is the biggest problem. If you can't retain the users after that point, then maybe you just aren't providing enough value outside of what the host service can provide.

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by [deleted] »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #7

Imgur 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 t…

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Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by coldpie »

jswny wrote: post #11

Imgur pushing it's own website over direct image links is the exact reason I've stopped using it. I understand they have to make money by but I just want to put a damn picture on the internet and send the link to others. I don't want to have to deal with Imgur's album/site link crap and dumb expansion into being a social network. It's hard now to even find the direct link, nevermind avoid Imgur's annoying messages ab…

> I just want to put a damn picture on the internet and send the link to others

Either put up with the free-image-host cycle of crap[1], or pay for your own domain and hosting.

[1] Free image host N is awesome, bandwidth is expensive so free image host N needs money, free image host N starts to add shitty anti-features, free image host N+1 enters at the start of the cycle, free image host N closes...

Before Imgur there was Photobucket, Imageshack, and many others. Now Imgur is at the end of the anti-feature cycle. Reddit's own hosting is entering the cycle, right on cue.

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by pier25 »

fbnlsr wrote: post #96
pier25 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if they moved to their own infrastructure? I imagine being an image hosting service it would be cheaper in the long run, although I have no idea by how much and if it would make sense all things considered.

Unsplash wrote a nice piece last year on how much it cost their site to run. https://crew.co/blog/what-does-unsplash-cost/

Thanks for the great article.

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by bbrian »

mackal wrote: post #85
novia wrote: post #27

Imgur 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…

Their apps also suck. Uploading on mobile has extra steps pushing their app, but then their app sends push notices for shit I don't care about.

I use imgapp for imgur. It's not perfect but it's better! What I'd love would be images to be marked as seen so I don't have to scroll past again, and I'd like it to be a meme social network so I can share the lolz with my friends without inundating group chats or Facebook/Instagram.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imgapp-for-imgur/id501416446...

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by iiiggglll »

ortusdux wrote: post #61
novia wrote: post #27

Imgur 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…

That is still better than the giant animated cat paw they had a year ago. It was active just before reddit went live with their image service and I imagine it was a desperate grab for some last minute conversions. https://www.reddit.com/r/IgnorantImgur/comments/4aqf2r/fuck_...

I can't help but laugh at all the comments about how the appearance of the cat paw ruined someone's masturbation session.

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by zeveb »

weego wrote: post #47
novia wrote: post #27

Imgur 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…

That was my biggest wtf when I saw that, along with how they managed to grind a macbookpro to a halt just showing an album of a dozen or so pictures on the page.

Mine is that imgur simply doesn't work much of the time with JavaScript disabled. They serve images. Inline images have been working with HTML for over twenty years now, and somehow imgur breaks them. It's madness!

Re: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

novia wrote: post #27

Imgur 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…

This isn't just annoying, its a dark pattern to get people to scroll their listings instead of going back to reddit. Its one of the more dishonest interfaces I've used.

Worse, it just doesn't do this, it purposely collapses galleries that before would auto-expand, so its easy to miss the expand button and keep scrolling onto other galleries and pics.

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