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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by tyrfing »

chptung wrote: post #242
eryu wrote: post #220

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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

I think they are the source. Whatever happened, it was interesting, and seems to have been effectively buried. There are only a few interesting breadcrumbs, like this patent's assignment history: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9075812B1/en

Note the re-assignments in mid-2018.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by gremloni »

killingtime74 wrote: post #238
gremloni wrote: post #192

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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

80 TB racks run for around $1500 each. So just a one time payment of $5000. Not every month.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by cobertos »

new_guy wrote: post #263
wheybags wrote: post #252

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Same. I stopped when I realised it was passively teaching me celebrity gossip, which I never wanted to know.

It's so easy to absorb 'celebrity' gossip, I always wondered if it'd be possible to do the same with say science or maths, if it was presented in the same kind of format.

I think the hardest part is the rigour. Math and science build on concepts over time, and mastery is easier with more hands-on experience. Just presenting it to someone in a feed might be waaay too passive for absorption.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by pepoluan »

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

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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/

> The server doesn't have that much space don't get this

Oh Em Eff Gee xD xD xD

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

stavros wrote: post #281
still_grokking wrote: post #280

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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/

I love this. The "steal" button is inspired, wow.

In case you didn't see it: They explain the reasoning behind the "steal button" in the FAQ and on the About page.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by stavros »

still_grokking wrote: post #295
stavros wrote: post #281

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I love this. The "steal" button is inspired, wow.

In case you didn't see it: They explain the reasoning behind the "steal button" in the FAQ and on the About page.

I saw that, I love their reasoning.

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Post by noaheverett »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #288
noaheverett wrote: post #206

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Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while. Yes, funny story, Twitter at that time was threatening to cut off our API access due to us trying to trademark "Twitpic". We had been in the process of trying to trademark our name for many years prior. Our initial application hit tons of hurdles with other Twit* marks (my fault for filing late). Fast forward about 4 years after we'd finally worked through all the issues…

Thanks for popping on. A legendary time back then. And ultimately I'm glad that Twitter kept the photos living on as preservation is so important. But man, any insights into the bandwidth imgur must incur to maintain things? They are similar in that for a time they were the defacto image host capability for reddit before reddit rolled its own.

I imagine Imgur now is many times bigger than we were. If I remember correctly around 2009/2010 our Amazon rep said Twitpic accounted for about 1% of data stored in S3 at that time and I think our cost was around $100k/month. We eventually got that down to $60k'ish when they gave us "special" pricing and later on we put bare-metal caching servers in front of it to store/serve hot images which further decreased it.

Disclaimer: Hopefully I'm remembering correctly, it's been a while!

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by still_grokking »

stavros wrote: post #296
still_grokking wrote: post #295

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In case you didn't see it: They explain the reasoning behind the "steal button" in the FAQ and on the About page.

I saw that, I love their reasoning.

True art. Like your project! :-)

Love stuff like that. Thanks again for making me smile. I appreciate that.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by snthd »

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?

People who want to find memes to repost on their social media.
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