Long story short, imgur is no longer just an image host - it is an image-sharing site to compete with reddit's image-based subreddits. Providing significant tra

Long story short, imgur is no longer just an image host - it is an image-sharing site to compete with reddit's image-based subreddits. Providing significant traffic to it is likely slowly bleeding reddit's image-based communities dry. Additionally, having to upload images to a different website which isn't linked from anywhere on reddit, needing an entirely different account to manage them, is just confusing. Reddit isn't really a pure link-sharing website, and original/remixed content is important to its users - so managing that should probably be something integrated into the site.