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Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by nikivi »

Always fearful of sharing my images on Imgur as I never thought the business model would cover for the hosting costs of so many images. I can't imagine many people paying for Imgur Premium or getting any value from their ads. In any way, thankful that it does appear to be working, nearly all my public images are shared via Imgur.

Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by FractalParadigm »

1_player wrote: post #3

Funnily enough, it was made because all image host did suck, and now it's grown to suck as much as those it replaced. It was a good run. Whose turn is it now?

That was always ironic to me; it was designed to be "Reddit's image host" but slowly became some weird mashup of Reddit and Pinterest.

I'm a little surprised Reddit didn't buy them after the former started picking up traction and investor money; IMO introducing their own image host years earlier would have been a home run.

Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by eznzt »

1_player wrote: post #3

Funnily enough, it was made because all image host did suck, and now it's grown to suck as much as those it replaced. It was a good run. Whose turn is it now?

Image hosting is a waste of money unless you redirect to html pages full of ads.

I think they transitioned to being a community pretty smoothly. I haven't looked around much but I guess it's a worse version of Reddit.

Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by jdndbfbf »

eznzt wrote: post #5
1_player wrote: post #3

Funnily enough, it was made because all image host did suck, and now it's grown to suck as much as those it replaced. It was a good run. Whose turn is it now?

Image hosting is a waste of money unless you redirect to html pages full of ads. I think they transitioned to being a community pretty smoothly. I haven't looked around much but I guess it's a worse version of Reddit.

Redirecting to a page full of ads is different from having a horrible javascript bloated page that takes 20 seconds to load on mobile.

Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by TonyTrapp »

1_player wrote: post #3

Funnily enough, it was made because all image host did suck, and now it's grown to suck as much as those it replaced. It was a good run. Whose turn is it now?

It's what I always told everyone who jumped from ImageShack to Imgur. It was clean and lean back then, but it was obvious that one day it would turn into the next ImageShack. It happens with every. single. free. service. Or it just shuts down before it happens.

Re: Imgur launched 10 years ago on Reddit

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Post by parliament32 »

TonyTrapp wrote: post #8
1_player wrote: post #3

Funnily enough, it was made because all image host did suck, and now it's grown to suck as much as those it replaced. It was a good run. Whose turn is it now?

It's what I always told everyone who jumped from ImageShack to Imgur. It was clean and lean back then, but it was obvious that one day it would turn into the next ImageShack. It happens with every. single. free. service. Or it just shuts down before it happens.

How do you pay for bandwidth if your main objective is letting people link to .jpg/.pngs directly? Either you force people to make accounts and pay once their images exceed some threshold (photobucket/imageshack) or try to force them into ad-included html pages (imgur).. I don't see any other way around it.
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