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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by nixpulvis »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #216

TL;DR - we've been doing this for 12 years and we're tired and want to do something else. These guys gave us enough money to do that. Interesting that there are at least three 'Medialab' brands, one is the management platform for healthcare, one is a department at MIT, and then there is Medialab the holding company ( https://www.medialab.la/ ) which bought Genius (YC S11) too. I may be too cynical because I'm guessin…

> Interesting that there are at least three 'Medialab' brands, one is the management platform for healthcare, one is a department at MIT, and then there is Medialab the holding company

This really confused me. The logos of the management platform and MIT are practically the same as well.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by no_wizard »

stavros wrote: post #122
silisili wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. It's delightfully funny without going overboard, or being too cheesy like most bigger companies who try to be cheeky. I'm signing up.

The trick is to actually not care about whether people buy your stuff! Hard to pull off when you're trying to make money, but easy for me.

But in all seriousness, so you have an actual privacy policy and such? I like the pricing and do have images I need to host!

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by dannyw »

wasmitnetzen wrote: post #86
intricatedetail wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bandwidth is pretty cheap if you look beyond cloud. There are providers that offer magnitudes cheaper bandwidth than e.g. AWS but you have to set servers yourself.

If I request one of the images in the post, I end up on a Fastly IP, and their public pricing[1] is pretty much the same price per GB as AWS[2]. They probably get a discount there, but that's probably about the same deal if you're a big AWS customer. [1]: https://www.fastly.com/pricing/ [2]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc1=h_ls

absolutely not. I don't use fastly, but i pay 1/10th the rate of AWS and co.

Scaleway, OVH will get you that, but at a larger scale just rent bare metal.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by Talanes »

staunch wrote: post #203
tomcam wrote: post #88

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

I would have giggled slightly more if you had "MOST POPULAR" instead of "OUR CHOICE" on the "BUY THE SITE" option.

The fact that "Our Choice" is also definitely true though made me laugh a second time.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by handmodel »

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?

I one time posted an album on Imgur of my hobby project. I was hoping it would do well on the niche subreddit it involved.

It did ok on reddit (100 upvotes) but a few thousands upvotes on Imgur and made the front page with hundreds of thousands of views. I was shocked since I didn't even know that was a thing. But my guess is popular with people who are on their phone a lot, are not as tech saavy, or international.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by vrc »

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…

Imgur for a while had a hugely active Imgur base AFAIK. Folks who just went on Imgur, did things on Imgur, and added to Imgur. That was a meta layer on top of Reddit. The issue was most of those people wouldn’t pay for Imgur storage, and didn’t view Imgur ads

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by pyuser583 »

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…

Storage is dirt cheap these days.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by killingtime74 »

gremloni wrote: post #192
MauranKilom wrote: post #96

Hm. 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

If you don’t mind how did you arrive at this figure? It’s $5000 per month right

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by echelon »

eryu wrote: post #220
tyrfing wrote: post #178

Interesting company. It was created in 2018 [1], and the CEO is Michael Heyward, who was a co-founder of Whisper. Some interesting shuffling happened with Whisper [2] and it's now owned by MediaLab. Since then they have acquired a number of other properties, the general idea seems to buy declining brands for cheap and extract as much value as possible on mobile. [3] There is no public information on their funding. 1.…

The whisper founders threatened to default on the debt they raised from SVB, then used inside money to buy it at cents on the dollar. because debt is senior to equity, they then wiped out the equity raised and kicked sequoia, shasta, and lightspeed off the board. then raised PE to fund a series of purchases of apps such as kik, and a lot of android apps with churned users with always-on location permissions turned on…

Holy shit. That's a mafia move against VC.

Pretty much guarantees that these folks will never raise another round from anyone ever again, though.

Way to burn bridges...

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by swat535 »

keyle wrote: post #118
tomcam wrote: post #88

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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.

It looked interesting at first but now I'm confused, is this a joke project?
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