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They started enforcing this pretty strictly in the last few weeks. It's a massive turnoff as a service, but considering they're a "social network" now and not j
by eganist 8y ago
They started enforcing this pretty strictly in the last few weeks. It's a massive turnoff as a service, but considering they're a "social network" now and not just a reddit-specific image host, it's not a surprise.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAh, the undending cycle of image hosting services. First they start clean and useful, then they gradually degrade in an increased effort to be profitable, then they get replaced by something new that's clean and useful...
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoOnly for as long as initial investor money lasts I guess. There's just no money to be made in 'free' image hosting without starting to do some nasty tactics, mostly involving direct (hot) linking.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoHow do you make money off hot linking? I thought hot linking was the thing users want to be able to do, that's inherently impossible to monetize.
- marksomnian 8y agoWhich is why you directly charge the users for it. cf. Photobucket
- TeMPOraL 8y agoWhich is what makes people not want to use the service, and switch to whoever allows hotlinking at the moment. That's how imgur came to be.