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Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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#192Hm. My bet would be that you can now count the number of years until imgur links go dead on one hand. This prompted me to check whether there were any backup efforts already, and how much data that would involve. Indeed, archiveteam has some good info: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur > Imgur serves a massive amount of traffic. In 2012 alone, 42 petabytes of data were transferred. Fortunately, the amount…
Wow if you’re running your own servers that’s less than $5000
Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab
#193Hm. My bet would be that you can now count the number of years until imgur links go dead on one hand. This prompted me to check whether there were any backup efforts already, and how much data that would involve. Indeed, archiveteam has some good info: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur > Imgur serves a massive amount of traffic. In 2012 alone, 42 petabytes of data were transferred. Fortunately, the amount…
I would change any links you have pointing to Imgur. But as for storing the contents, wasn’t it just a site for memes? I can’t recall a single time over many years seeing anything worth preserving that wasn’t essentially throwaway content.
Well, one (semi-)frequent use case for me would be creating some graphic (e.g. a chart or a UI suggestion) that I would share in some community (e.g. forum). Unlikely anyone looks at them again a decade later, but those embeds will still rot away...
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Ads are worth a magnitude less today than they were in 2009.
What? They're crazy competitive these days. Every popular ad space online has been bought by the highest bidder. AdWords, Facebook, Imgur, Reddit, companies are dumping cash like mad. The market grew by billions over the past decade.
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Yes, and they have since cut out all references to Reddit, even in their company history section. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur... https://imgurinc.com/about?forcedesktop=1#huge-impact-little...
I'm sure there's good reasons for this. but I'd be curious for details. I wonder if Reddit would be what it is today without imgur. I started using Reddit shortly before imgur launched, and I can still remember the day that it went live. It was by far the best image uploading experience I'd ever had, and I'd used most (maybe every) major uploader that came before them, between 1995 and 2009.
> I wonder if Reddit would be what it is today without imgur.
It would probably be different, but not worse or better. I was there when Imgur launched, and at the time we thanked Imgur for dealing with the crap of hosting images (checking for child porn, dealing with DMCA notices and other copyright and privacy issues, etc). Had they not existed, reddit would have just done that ourselves.
Eventually reddit did do that themselves, but by then Imgur had their own community. I suspect some of those people would still be on reddit.
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#197There is a shitload of porn on Imgur. Is Medialab going to do the Silicon Valley Puritan investor purge on it?
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#198Imgur, 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.
I love your marketing patter! Cracking up reading some of this.
If I end up stealing your style for something, I owe you a beer.
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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.
I love your marketing patter! Cracking up reading some of this. If I end up stealing your style for something, I owe you a beer.
If you steal my style, I'm coming for you.
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Huh, all of Imgur costs only +/- $2000/month to store on Backblaze. That’s not that bad.
Storage is cheap. Bandwidth is usually the killer.
Chuck it behind Cloudflare and take advantage of the Bandwidth Alliance
https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
If you become popular replace the orange cloud with a Worker. Different TOS and the CEO said it's cool to use workers in this way https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660