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Imgur used to be just an img tag. They found out they couldn't make money that way. Eventually the images became the 110th most important thing on the page.
by halfjoking 7y ago
Imgur used to be just an img tag. They found out they couldn't make money that way. Eventually the images became the 110th most important thing on the page.
That wasn't an engineering decision - it was a business decision made to force people to switch to the app. Ever try browsing imgur on mobile web? You can't - it keeps popping up the 'download the app' button. Infinite scrolling breaks because of that popup (by design). If you don't want to support a business that tries to force people to use their app by making the mobile web version horrible you don't have to.
- jml7c5 7y ago>If you don't want to support a business that tries to force people to use their app by making the mobile web version horrible you don't have to. There's no hypocrisy in using something while complaining that it's absolutely terrible. (Particularly if there isn't a real alternative; "don't ever open any link to any image hosted on imgur even though you'd prefer the person had hosted it somewhere else" is not reasonable.)