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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by rkagerer »

xenihn wrote: post #97
judge2020 wrote: post #45

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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.

Imgur was to Reddit as PayPal was to eBay.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

corobo wrote: post #110
robertoandred wrote: post #106

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Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

The exact opposite personality type to people that browse HN I'd wager

HN and Imgur are among my favorite sites on the web!

Both sites are quite "nerdy". Each in their own way.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

cobertos wrote: post #188
robertoandred wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

I used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.

You can actually spend days doing that…

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

shrikant wrote: post #268
Swizec wrote: post #111

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Who doesn't? It's the best source of almost everything. Perfect mix of culturally important twitter and news screenshots and entertaining gifs.

Huh wow, you weren't kidding! 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...

Some of the comments are sometimes quite interesting. Sometimes they're even brilliantly witty.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by latexr »

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?

Plenty of people, overwhelmingly men[1].

Make no mistake, Imgur is a social network. It has its own memes, regular posting themes, and users recognised by the community[2].

[1]: They are (were?) proud of that and bragged about it in a page describing themselves.

[2]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anewbadlyphotoshoppedphotoofm...

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by rkagerer »

Jeez, I've uploaded hundreds of images over the years to embed directly in forum posts.

As to migrating... I know you can download all the pictures in your account. But is there any way to include the corresponding top (or most recent) referrer so you know the places you need to go to update URL's?

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by mrweasel »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #29

Medialab's other things include like, Genius (ok, fair enough, sustains itself / useful/ well-used I'm assuming)....and Kik? The teen messaging app from like 2010 that no one uses anymore? hm Had to look a bit harder to even find their website ( https://www.medialab.la/ ) - 'a holding company of consumer internet brands' heh, sheesh, yeah that's not sketchy.

The fact that Imgur doesn't care to link to Medialab in their statement makes it even more sketchy.

Normal procedure seems to be that each company links to the other companys statement on the deal.

Also, are we sure they're not "joining Medialab", most Silicon Vally type companies always state that their joining some other company. Not Imgur, nope straight up acquired, which is at least honest.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by matheusmoreira »

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

It's possible to create a 400 TiB storage server for $5000?

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

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.

The marketing style reminds me of the people offering to pirate their VST Plugins right form their web-site if you don't want to pay.

The plugins and the web-site are also crazy as shit! Take a look:

https://freakshowindustries.com/

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