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Here's a thread that led to people's hate of imgur: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/46cjo5/i_just_want_to_say_fuck_imgur_for_overpowering/?ref=search_p

• debaserab2 10y ago
  In fairness to imgur, they did start off as the user friendly image upload site when compared to others such as tinypic or imageshack. At one point I remember them being the good guys. They seem to have spent their good will in exchange for crappy auto-playing sound ads, incessant mobile-app install prompts, non-obvious URL resolving rules, and browser hijacking navigation. I don't think this was done in bad spirit, they are a growing company with investors to report to. It seems like they forgot what made them popular in the first place and makes me wonder if user experience was more of a company principle if they'd be in this predicament now. It makes total sense that reddit would want to not only improve the image content sharing experience but also acknowledge that imgur is indeed a competitor with it's now own thriving community. It has been for a while and now reddit is treating it as such. In retrospect this whole thing looks as inevitable as Twitter pulling the rug out from it's third party developers.
• oe 10y ago
  The hate seems to go both ways. Imgur community dislikes lame images from Reddit appearing on Imgur front page and would like them to go away.
  • unlinker 10y ago
    That's funny, when the quality of imgur images and comments is similar to that of 9gag and reddit itself. At least on the default subs of reddit you can find a handful of good comments if you only read the parents. If you go to the children, they all become obnoxious.