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I tried linking to a photo I'm hosting in a Pro account: https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/431487389866139648 Even for a Pro account, the image redirects from Twitter. It doesn't redirect me, but it redirects everyone else (I tested from Incognito mode). Which seems not quite what I thought I was paying for. Also as a paid user, if I click on anyone else's images, they still redirect like they would for a guest/fre…
I tried linking to a photo I'm hosting in a Pro account: https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/431487389866139648 Even for a Pro account, the image redirects from Twitter. It doesn't redirect me, but it redirects everyone else (I tested from Incognito mode). Which seems not quite what I thought I was paying for. Also as a paid user, if I click on anyone else's images, they still redirect like they would for a guest/fre…
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Semi-OT, but: Considering how much reddit seems to depend on imgur and image hosting in general, how long will it be until reddit handles the image hosting themselves? Sure it would add a ton of new costs and headaches (takedowns, etc), but don't you have to have a plan for this if you're Yishan? Imgur hasn't exactly been subtle about adding reddit-like features (comments, comment ranking, categories, etc)..
Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? New free image hosting services pop up every few months to try to take imgur down as the king of Reddit. So far, they've been unable to maintain any leads gained, but if imgur screws with Reddit they will be replaced in a heartbeat.
To keep traffic "on premises", ie thwart competition. Just look at imgur: now it's sort of a micro reddit, with its own commenting system, categories, and so on.
The best way around this situation is to develop ways for web users to have their own hosting space for the images they wish to share. So long as we depend on other companies to do it for us for free, this is the pattern we'll keep seeing.
I honestly don't see an issue. if you're sharing links to images on imgur, you're denying them ad revenue and just leaching bandwidth. I'm all for adblockers, but complaining you can't direct link images is kinda...
Imgur was founded as a reddit-friendly image host. "The new site for reddit images, written by a redditor. None of the slow ad-laden crap of imageshack!" Now, it is slow ad-laden crap, to the point that I just hit Back button after hitting a link and seeing the page frame load before the image. It has been fascinating to watch the common startup pattern of "I am one of us, making our life awesome" messaging covering…
Exactly. Not Facebook-friendly. Not Twitter-friendly. Not Google-Plus-friendly Those can host images themselves.
I tried linking to a photo I'm hosting in a Pro account: https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/431487389866139648 Even for a Pro account, the image redirects from Twitter. It doesn't redirect me, but it redirects everyone else (I tested from Incognito mode). Which seems not quite what I thought I was paying for. Also as a paid user, if I click on anyone else's images, they still redirect like they would for a guest/fre…
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Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? New free image hosting services pop up every few months to try to take imgur down as the king of Reddit. So far, they've been unable to maintain any leads gained, but if imgur screws with Reddit they will be replaced in a heartbeat.
> Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? To keep traffic "on premises", ie thwart competition. Just look at imgur: now it's sort of a micro reddit, with its own commenting system, categories, and so on.
Now it's missing from the convenience links, and the top option is to link to the imgur page.
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Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? New free image hosting services pop up every few months to try to take imgur down as the king of Reddit. So far, they've been unable to maintain any leads gained, but if imgur screws with Reddit they will be replaced in a heartbeat.
> Why would Reddit spend money they don't have to? To keep traffic "on premises", ie thwart competition. Just look at imgur: now it's sort of a micro reddit, with its own commenting system, categories, and so on.
I tried linking to a photo I'm hosting in a Pro account: https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/431487389866139648 Even for a Pro account, the image redirects from Twitter. It doesn't redirect me, but it redirects everyone else (I tested from Incognito mode). Which seems not quite what I thought I was paying for. Also as a paid user, if I click on anyone else's images, they still redirect like they would for a guest/fre…
