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The imgur hate in here is odd. It seems like people are just assuming the worst based on one critical comment thread that got turned into a techcrunch article.
by siegecraft 10y ago
The imgur hate in here is odd. It seems like people are just assuming the worst based on one critical comment thread that got turned into a techcrunch article. Which is understandable, I don't understand how they can offer a free unlimited image hosting site (and they've offered it for so long that, well, you can see the backlash they got when direct linking is taken away). Still, their management seems savvy enough to know that they would have to carefully manage that change.
There's at least two distinct types of imgur users, those who only use imgur as an image host and "imgurians." The huge usage numbers come from the former while the actual value (IMHO) is in the unpaid labor of the latter group (like most social media). That means imgur can piss off their freeloaders as long as they don't upset their community, but this is really no help at all because the community is far more critical than the freeloaders. Freeloaders don't care about imgur's community drama.
- draw_down 10y agoIt got really bad, to the point that now you click a link to see an image, and the page loads a bunch of thumbnails and JS before the image you wanted finally loads.
- jsmthrowaway 10y agoPeople who have negative opinions of things you clearly like often found those opinions in experiences you are unaware of. My opinion on Imgur involves eight years of context, remembering pre-Imgur Reddit as well as Quickmeme, watching Imgur rise and fall, observing the psychology of i.imgur.com leading to upvotes of Reddit, knowing a pretty religious Imgurian who goes to meetups, etc. However, because I disagree with you, according to you I reacted to a TechCrunch article; there's no better way to get me running to share that opinion than by poisoning the thread with the assumption that naysayers are misinformed or oblivious. Assume people are informed and you'll end up on the right side of disappointed when they aren't, instead of being embarrassed when they are.
- siegecraft 10y agoI would very much like to be informed of those opinions, hence my post, although apparently not in a mild enough tone to avoid a scolding. Regardless, I'm a daily user on a variety of platforms (mobile w/o adblock being one of them) so I am confused that I haven't encountered the highly annoying behaviors people are describing: direct image links being hijacked or super annoying browser-highjacking mobile ads (which I have run into in the past). If I had then I would be rightfully pissed as everyone else seems to be.
- static_noise 10y agoThey started as an image host for those freeloaders. That made them big. Now they stopped providing that service. Yes, imgur can do what it wants. But so can we. Also we may complain as much as we want for being deceived for so long. Thanks for the free bandwidth and farewell imgur.
- Kiro 10y agoFarewell Imgur? I browse Imgur a lot more than I browse reddit. It's the 16th biggest site in the US. It will do fine on its own.
- bmon 10y agoEven with the distinction, don't the imgurians feed off content posted on imgur with the intention of being linked to reddit? I think imgur relies on the freeloaders for content as well, if a whole bunch of people stop posting fresh content won't people go elsewhere?