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Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by dickbasedregex »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #337
virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #326

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> Mindless fun and good vibes And then, sadly, the periodic misogyny-denial post, anti-feminist circle jerk that usually originates on Reddit but then enough people in the Imgur community upvote. This exact thing has made me decide to stop even looking at Imgur. :/

I'm currently working on a competitive image hosting project with a feature called SafeSpace. Just configure your profile with your various triggers and enjoy safe browsing! More details soon...

I really hope you're joking.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by nijiko »

crescentfresh wrote: post #355
josu wrote: post #287

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Imgur was able to pivot from a simple image hosting service to a standalone community. Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit. That's no small feat, and definitely much easier to monetize than dumb image host.

> Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit I didn't even know you could do that. Last time I went to the site directly (years ago) I recollect all you could do was upload an image or browse random images.

You can now browse entire subreddits.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by stanley »

transpy wrote: post #368
larrik wrote: post #345

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Or even links sending you to the original source of the image (comics especially)

Hey, yes! If reverse image search is possible now, it should be easy to automatically give credit to original creators, connect them with audiences and bypass blogspam!

How would you determine which reverse image search result is the original content creator? Just curious.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by [deleted] »

onli wrote: post #307
incongruity wrote: post #290

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Masters degrees, card carrying, secret-handshake knowing designer here. I remember when the notion of dark patterns was first discussed and differentiated from anti-patterns and I think this current discussion is quite ironic. It's ironic because it is hinging on a narrowly constrained definition of "user interface" design - one that has been appropriated by web/app designers in recent years. UI goes well beyond what…

Guess in what my masters degree is ;) Design of everyday things is one of my favorite books, and definitely the HCI book I enjoyed reading the most. I'm aware that you can think of many things as being an interface. I even agree that heuristically switching the result page is deceptive. But there is a difference, though it gets hard to pinpoint it. The manipulation is on another level. It is not the same type of thin…

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Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by conceit »

personjerry wrote: post #211
conceit wrote: post #201

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> Most of the users cost more than they earn I call bullshit. Can you spell datamining? also: native advertising.

That's rather hard to do if your site mainly serves hotlinked or embedded images. You don't have the level of interaction required for meaningful data.

Hits and content analysis is all google needed to become successful. There are native comments in /all/, on reddit and maybe the referrer set in the header.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by conceit »

onli wrote: post #213
conceit wrote: post #205

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It's a UI element and a UI with just one element is an UI already, so an UI-element is itself an UI. Let's argue semantics on a Site for Hackers.

Advertising is a verb (or a genre). It is not an ad. An ad itself can use dark patterns (good example: the skype ads looking like UI elements) – but that does not make advertising itself one.

Ad is short for advertisement, but I pull the "I'm not a native speaker" card.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by conceit »

billmalarky wrote: post #358
PirateDave wrote: post #342

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scorecardresearch is the endpoint for comScore which is used to do exactly what you mentioned. Imgur buys the data from comScore as a sort of "online Nielsen rating" in order to sell the value of the site to ad vendors.

If imgur has to buy profiling data from someone else, it isn't really their data is it? That is, imgur could not recreate that same data alone, they need the partner who can get the missing data from the rest of the partner's network. The bottom line is imgur's data is probably not worth much, what _is_ worth a lot is imgurs traffic, and that traffic is taking a hit from adblock.

They can play the old switcharoo and sell the data to that vendor.

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by jpindar »

crescentfresh wrote: post #355
josu wrote: post #287

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Imgur was able to pivot from a simple image hosting service to a standalone community. Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit. That's no small feat, and definitely much easier to monetize than dumb image host.

> Many people browse imgur every day without ever having visited reddit I didn't even know you could do that. Last time I went to the site directly (years ago) I recollect all you could do was upload an image or browse random images.

You can search by tag (and anyone can add tags).

Re: Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

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Post by conceit »

raverbashing wrote: post #209
conceit wrote: post #201

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> Most of the users cost more than they earn I call bullshit. Can you spell datamining? also: native advertising.

Sure, good luck datamining a hotlinked image (or showing ads there)

As if a facebook-like was much more to go by ...
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