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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by cknoxrun »

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…

A couple of friends of mine are the co-founders of one of the big gif sharing sites. I've heard some pretty interesting, and very funny, stories about the sticker shock on S3 as they grew. But it sounds like Amazon has been fairly flexible and provided some decent leeway with respect to giving grace periods as investment rounds closed.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by chptung »

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…

Source? Because if true this is pretty baller move but also a big f.u to VCs

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by tealpod »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

If your site ever get hacked, we will never know if its your sarcasm OR it is truly hacked :)

Browsing imgz felt like watching a fun movie, I love the architecture too ( ... we dont have this...LOL )

BTW, I am (Maybe I should say WE are) also building a image hosting service. https://host.pics (Pre-Alpha)

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by edgyquant »

EasyTiger_ wrote: post #4

Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.

That was before Reddit added image functionality which basically was a fuck you to imgur. I’m surprised the site has lasted this long without selling.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by perryizgr8 »

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.

> We have CDNs and Rust and all that fast crap.

Lol! Haven't used the service, but the website is fun.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by edgyquant »

reilly3000 wrote: post #146

As a side note I find it amusing how the HN community simultaneously obsesses over startups, equity, funding rounds, etc but gets grumpy when a company actually does sell. The cognitive dissonance is sublime.

It depends on when they sell and who too. If you create a neat startup and sell for a lot to a respectable company then it’s praised but if you sell to a sketchy company (like this) long after your prime it’s looked down on

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by sitkack »

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 is fucking cool!

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by w-ll »

cheschire wrote: post #215
everdrive wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, there might be dozens of you.

For the uninitiated, this is a meme reference to a clip from the TV show Arrested Development, popular on Imgur as a reaction to show support for someone else who expresses a sense of loneliness in their appreciation or affection. A version of this: https://i.imgur.com/pgXjbNy.gifv

How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by ornornor »

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…

Hi like imgbb.com. A lot less flashy too.
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