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Normally, I don't think much of the name of a product. Descriptive, flowerly, pie-in-the-sky, complete bs, etc. This one is genius.

• olalonde 7y ago
  I strongly suspect the name came first.
  • graphememes 7y ago
    If I remember correctly it used to be unsplash.it, github seems to confirm.
    • dmarby 7y ago
      That's correct! We changed the name to avoid it being confused with unsplash.com as the sites grew in traffic
      • Theodores 7y ago
        Do you get sponsorship from Digital Ocean and that CDN company? How does that work out?
        • dmarby 7y ago
          DigitalOcean sponsors our infrastructure, and BelugaCDN covers our CDN costs, yep. Very happy with both services, been a customer of DO for years.
    • cyberferret 7y ago
      Ah, I was just about to say that this looks like unsplash.it (which we actually use in our SaaS to generate random images on our 404 and 500 error screens [0]). Glad to see that it is one and the same! [0] - https://medium.com/@dsabar/error-messages-don-t-have-to-be-boring-ddb8f211451f https://medium.com/@dsabar/error-messages-don-t-have-to-be-b... EDIT: Wonder it we will have to change the domain on our app to point to this new domain, or will the old unsplash.it one still be used going forward?
      • dmarby 7y ago
        That’s a really cool use of Picsum! The old domain will keep working, but I’d encourage you to switch to the new one. It’ll save you a redirect as well :)