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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/
Haha, thank you!
Now pay.
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#92I've been doing stuff on neocities.org lately. It reminds me what I love about making the internet.
I pay the monthly $5 fee for 50gb, and I have no complaints yet. And if I ever have a product idea -- their website is open source, so I can just fork their project and make my own business.
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Bandwidth is pretty cheap if you look beyond cloud. There are providers that offer magnitudes cheaper bandwidth than e.g. AWS but you have to set servers yourself.
Where have you had success with hosting outside the usual aws/gap/etc? It seems like digital ocean has a bit cheaper bandwidth, but curious if you have a better recommendation!
Buy a server or 10, host in equinix, buy bulk bandwidth. Amortize cost.
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"Selling" and "selling out" are not (always) the same thing.
Can you think of a notable example when they weren’t?
Anything bought by Microsoft in the past 10 years. Minecraft, Github, LinkedIn, all are better products today than they were at the time of sale.
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#95I have never seen a service decline so quickly from "simple and actually pretty useful" to "bloated, slow mess" as Imgur. I don't see that trend reversing for them. I suspect much of the slowness is because I live in the ass end of the world (NZ), but that's a problem that can be solved with money.... money they likely don't want to spend.
> I have never seen a service decline so quickly from "simple and actually pretty useful" to "bloated, slow mess" as Imgur
Reddit did a pretty good job of going from simple and relatively lightweight to bloated and unusable in a very short timeframe.
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#96Hm. 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 of images uploaded is much less, albeit still a lot. In 2012, around 300,000,000 images were uploaded; assuming an average size of 120KB, that's 36TB in one year. As of 2014, there were 650 million images with 1.5 million being added each day according to one source. An analysis in 2015 based on extrapolation from a sample of random image IDs estimated about 2 billion images with a total raw full-resolution image size of 376 TiB.
Also makes me think about whether/how much I currently link to imgur in various places on the internet, and whether there's anything that I should prepare to replace. Do people have suggestions how to best approach this?
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#97Wasn'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...
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.
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#98Imgur, 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.
This is one of the greatest pieces of website comedy I have ever seen.
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#100Imgur, 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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