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Which is what drives the circle of life for image hosts. "Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna c
by redthrowaway 10y ago
Which is what drives the circle of life for image hosts.
"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"
"This image host is going well, but the bills are killing me. We'll have to add ads, but obviously only where they're unobtrusive."
"We're still bleeding cash, but we've got a huge userbase. We need to monetize it better. We'll toss in a couple interstitials to drive up ARPU."
"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"
- InclinedPlane 10y agoI don't think that's it, quite exactly. I think it's more that when people see stats for lots of eyeballs they too often think "if we monetize those to the max, think of the money we could make" and then that shifts into thinking they're leaving money on the table.
- oblio 10y agoThe thing is, while there is huge demand for image hosting sites, that demand is really low "quality". After all, we're talking about sites hosting memes and screenshots from games, not original works of art created after tens and hundreds of hours of laboring in Photoshop.
- boyce 10y agoAll the pictures of text too, just because text posts on Reddit don't earn karma
- NoGravitas 10y agoAnd to get around the 140 character limit on Twitter. Though admittedly, most of those are on twimg rather than imgur.
- kristofferR 10y agoYeah. https://sli.mg https://sli.mg seems to be the new imgur. I wonder how long until they start going downhill. I like their moderation log though, that's a good step.
- redthrowaway 10y agosli.mg is the new imgur for /r/the_donald, and other subs whose content imgur regularly censors. I haven't really seen it used "in the wild" on more mainstream subs. It does have a nice, clean and minimalistic interface, similar to what imgur used to have.
- pjc50 10y agoHow bad are they that they're getting censored off imgur? What for, racial hatred?
- unlinker 10y agoimgur CEO: https://i.imgur.com/D2j9SlH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/D2j9SlH.jpg
- dang 10y agoPlease don't do this here.
- kristofferR 10y agoIt's like on Facebook - if something gets reported enough times on imgur it get's auto-censored until it maybe is manually restored by a imgur employee. Because of that a lot of relatively benign Trump content gets censored on imgur because a lot of people find even his name to be offensive. Some even think his name is violence. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/emory-university-students-think-donald-trump-is-out-to-kill-them.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/emory-unive...
- newacct23 10y ago
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