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Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.
I'd argue they largely still are incapable of handling image uploads. Their gallery system sucks and the redesign just makes it harder to even see what was posted.
Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
My favorite part is that they added 'social' stuff to imgur uploads, so your images (probably) have a separate set of terrible comments you're not even aware of.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of MediaLab until just a few days ago when I listened to a Darknet Diaries episode[1] about Kik and some "content problems" that MediaLab are leaving unresolved. [1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/
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They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.
IIRC at the time imgur launched, all of the other free image sharing websites were pretty bad. Reddit itself didn't start allowing uploads until long after imgur.
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.
Edit: Sorry missed that was news from the 16th:
Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
everyone sells out eventually. nothing wrong with it. either that or they run it into the ground or die. people move on that's just life. congrats to the imgur team and good luck for their next adventures.
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Correct. ImageShack was the most widely used host on reddit and had recently disabled hotlinking (after nearly a year of ad bloat on their main site) so user MrGrim on reddit created Imgur and announced it on Reddit 12 years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t... He did an AMA 3 years later: https://old.reddit.com//r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgu...
Holy crap, I have not thought about imageshack for a decade. It was hot garbage: slow, ad ridden and if I recall correctly they would disable your hotlinked images if they used too much bandwidth. Imgur was something of a godsend at the time. Now it's commodity unfortunately.
This is a tough one to make sense of - are they just getting killed by reddit on one side and tiktok on the other and cashing out? Anyone have any insight? (also anyone know the purchase price? just for fun)
it use to be my fav time waster app rather than the selfies on IG or silly politics on FB. but yea rarely use it now so I guess engagement is dropping
https://blog.imgur.com/2021/09/27/celebrating-imgurs-next-ch... may be a better url. At least on mobile, the gallery link fails to load. Any scrolling then redirects and rewrites history to a random post.