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1) Most of the Reddit competitors are hobbies while Imgur was built as a business. Similarly, their competition with Reddit is largely ideological rather than p

1) Most of the Reddit competitors are hobbies while Imgur was built as a business. Similarly, their competition with Reddit is largely ideological rather than practical values people care about en mass. 2) Everyone who tried to move into Imgur's position found image hosting was very expensive and impractical as a hobby. The problem is they've largely been ideological and cut off from Reddit's ecosystem due to Imgur's incumbency. 3) Ultimately, until Reddit or Imgur stumbles in a substantial way that pisses off users none of them will be viable even with VC money. For instance: https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2tzuv0/mediacrush_is_shutting_down/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2tzuv0/mediacru... https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2v8ume/why_didnt_admins_sell_mediacrush/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2v8ume/why_didn... which was followed by: https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2vpfwe/imgrushcom_is_live_standing_on_the_shoulders_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaCrush/comments/2vpfwe/imgrushc... Currently the only really one I know of is: https://voat.co/v/veuwer https://voat.co/v/veuwer aka http://www.veuwer.com/ http://www.veuwer.com/ Slimgur http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/03/imgur-alternative-slimgur-taken-offline-by-targeted-child-porn-uploads/ http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/03/imgur-alternative-s... which became: https://voat.co/v/slimg https://voat.co/v/slimg https://sli.mg/ https://sli.mg/

arrivance 11y ago
I wouldn't say imgur was built as a business. The guy that made it made it as a "gift for reddit" and struggled with hosting for a couple of weeks. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...
- fweespeech 11y ago
  It is a story he tells but he made the same claim on Digg and other places as well. It was effective social marketing but there are a few things like that about that just are popular beliefs that are just repeated 'cause the founder was a college student at the time. Most of the original links/evidence of that are gone from the internet at this point tho and I'm tired of digging for them. :/ EDIT: http://web.archive.org/web/20090328080325/http://digg.com/odd_stuff/imgur_the_simple_image_sharer_The_best_in_image_hosting http://web.archive.org/web/20090328080325/http://digg.com/od... http://archive.is/JS5DV http://archive.is/JS5DV > imgur - the simple image sharer. The best in image hosting. imgur.com — imgur is a free image sharing/hosting service that allows you to quickly upload and edit your photos and share them with friends the Internet. Now you're asking, "How is this different from imageshack, tinypic, or photobucket?" Well that's simple. imgur is free (as in beer), no ads, anonymous, and easier to use. It's my gift to the Internet. Enjoy! Ah archive.org still has it. But yeh, it was effective guerilla marketing only. It was posted to Digg slightly before Reddit btw.

arrivance 11y ago

I wouldn't say imgur was built as a business. The guy that made it made it as a "gift for reddit" and struggled with hosting for a couple of weeks. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

fweespeech 11y ago
It is a story he tells but he made the same claim on Digg and other places as well. It was effective social marketing but there are a few things like that about that just are popular beliefs that are just repeated 'cause the founder was a college student at the time. Most of the original links/evidence of that are gone from the internet at this point tho and I'm tired of digging for them. :/ EDIT: http://web.archive.org/web/20090328080325/http://digg.com/odd_stuff/imgur_the_simple_image_sharer_The_best_in_image_hosting http://web.archive.org/web/20090328080325/http://digg.com/od... http://archive.is/JS5DV http://archive.is/JS5DV > imgur - the simple image sharer. The best in image hosting. imgur.com — imgur is a free image sharing/hosting service that allows you to quickly upload and edit your photos and share them with friends the Internet. Now you're asking, "How is this different from imageshack, tinypic, or photobucket?" Well that's simple. imgur is free (as in beer), no ads, anonymous, and easier to use. It's my gift to the Internet. Enjoy! Ah archive.org still has it. But yeh, it was effective guerilla marketing only. It was posted to Digg slightly before Reddit btw.