https://www.medialab.la/ for those wondering.
> medialab is a holding company of consumer internet brands.
Imgur Acquired by Medialab
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They began on Reddit because Reddit was incapable of handling image uploads.
> 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.
The image uploading fails most of the time for me.
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Ha. I love reading terrible inflaming comments like this. - What would you have done? - Do you even know 1% of the effort the founding team put into this? - Do you know the exact details of the digital cold war between Reddit and them? This is just a terrible comment by a terribly grumpy person to inflame. - It’s AWESOME the founding team exited - It’s AWESOME someone went heads up with Reddit Everything they did mat…
So many straw men, so little time.
My comment was flagged but what the person is complaining about was probably 10 years ago… and provides little discussion except a quip that doesn’t belong on HN. Whatever.
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#45Wasn't this the company that ostensibly began on reddit? Their founder used to post many promises about "not selling out" and the rest.
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...
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#46Oof. I hope medialab didn’t spend much on this dog.
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#47Imgur, 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…
I emailed one of them 12 years and 4 months ago to ask how they paid for everything. This was back in 2009 when the internet was still small enough that companies would respond to random emails. They responded to say they had funding covered. They shut down a few years later.
The domain is there, but it just says "ImageHost.org is closed" with a Google Analytics tag.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
IMO all the other free image sharing websites are still bad, i've yet to see anything that lets you -e.g.- make direct links to the images for use in Discord, Reddit, forums (phpbb), etc and not surround them with garbage and images tend to stay around for a long time unlike other places where they disappear after a while.
The only thing i found annoying with Imgur is the mobile site not allowing zooming for some reason (can be bypassed by loading the desktop version but it is still an annoyance).
Not sure if this will still be the case going forward though. I used to like Minus since they allowed all that stuff plus had unlimited GIF sizes and didn't reencode PNGs to JPGs (not sure if Imgur does that anymore) but after Minus was sold it went to hell and then disappeared completely.
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#50An image hosting site seems like one of those applications that are easier than ever to build but impossible to monetize.
Most people who use imgur just hotlink - what's the incentive for a company to buy or start a new imgur?