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While that may be true, you actually seem to have genuine talent for comedy. I'm inclined to pay for IMGZ for that reason alone, even though I may never really use it.
My favorite kind of user <3
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…
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.
Things like “how I renovated my house” or “how the circuitry of this gadget works” told through pictures with supporting texts lives solely on Imgur.
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I used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.
Same. I stopped when I realised it was passively teaching me celebrity gossip, which I never wanted to know.
Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
Edit: Looks like it was in the original FAQ.
> Can I advertise on imgur?
> Hell no! This is a free site (as in beer) and there will never be any ads on it unless I end up selling out for a million dollars.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090226191747/https://imgur.com...
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.
That architecture.
https://imgz.org/i9hxfgRu-1280.png
Cloudflare Free Caching, T2, the only thing we have and it is not even on AWS.
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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.
I remember going on the front page of Imgur once a couple of years back and it seemed less entertaining and more rage-baity than now -- think I'll revisit that decision...
I just sent one asking them to never change it.
I can't share the love for Imgur: for some reason, all imgur posts, including this one, are never displayed on my mobile Firefox. Just blank screen, and that's it. (the only addon I have is uBlock origin, and I'm too lazy to try turning it off for some random images)
The Imgur community is almost completely toxic. Imgur apparently care about my privacy, but still want to share information with 1200 different "partners". It's also the most effective way of draining the battery of any device you use. Even the new M1 MacBooks will burn through battery like there's no tomorrow if you load the Imgur website in Safari, or worse any other browser.
It's not a great site and haven't been for years.
