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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by Swizec »

robertoandred wrote: post #106
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #62

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My guess is PR. Regularly, on imgur, you see a pic in interest for a celebrity, a rich person, a movie. It looks organic, but if you look closely, there are plenty of weird things about it. Then it disappears as suddenly as it arrived. I believe that they sell the front page to PR firms that need to promote something in a way the people think themself came up with the hype. It's probably the same for a lot of communi…

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.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by hbn »

robertoandred wrote: post #106
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is PR. Regularly, on imgur, you see a pic in interest for a celebrity, a rich person, a movie. It looks organic, but if you look closely, there are plenty of weird things about it. Then it disappears as suddenly as it arrived. I believe that they sell the front page to PR firms that need to promote something in a way the people think themself came up with the hype. It's probably the same for a lot of communi…

Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

I recall being in high school (around 2013, 2014) and some of my classmates would browse imgur while slacking off from work. Not sure how big it is these days, but I think some people use it the same way you'd browse r/funny on reddit, or iFunny. Except there isn't really a topic, it's just images of whatever people think is interesting.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by [deleted] »

tschwimmer wrote: post #27
degenerate wrote: post #17

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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...

Holy crap, I have not thought about imageshack for a decade. It was hot garbage: slow, ad ridden and if I recall correctly they would disable your hotlinked images if they used too much bandwidth. Imgur was something of a godsend at the time. Now it's commodity unfortunately.

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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by quickthrower2 »

badsectoracula wrote: post #49
dpedu wrote: post #13

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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.

IMO all the other free image sharing websites are still bad, i've yet to see anything that lets you -e.g.- make direct links to the images for use in Discord, Reddit, forums (phpbb), etc and not surround them with garbage and images tend to stay around for a long time unlike other places where they disappear after a while. The only thing i found annoying with Imgur is the mobile site not allowing zooming for some rea…

Who’s paying if there are no ads?

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by JadeNB »

corobo wrote: post #110
robertoandred wrote: post #106

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Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

The exact opposite personality type to people that browse HN I'd wager

I, and apparently Swizec (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676558), do both, and I doubt we're the only ones.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by keyle »

tomcam wrote: post #88
stavros wrote: post #77

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It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to be the product, so I made https://imgz.org/ . Maybe you'll like it.

Your pricing page is a delight https://imgz.org/money/

Even the terms are great.

"Where was I"

https://imgz.org/help/terms/

Maybe charge $1/month for MVP sarcasm.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by version_five »

stavros wrote: post #77
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #26

Imgur, 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…

It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to be the product, so I made https://imgz.org/ . Maybe you'll like it.

This website is great, I have no use for an image sharing site but in tempted to sign up just to help see it become successful. And behind all the humor there is actually a very sensible concept: pay a reasonable amount of money to get an actual service and not some ad infested crap. Also I love

> If you're expecting professionalism, call Oracle and ask for a quote of Oracle Advanced Image Sharing for Hadoop or whatever crap they sell

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