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I remember the day that Imgur launched on Reddit. The post title was something almost exactly like this. At the time it was a revolution, every other photo up
by habosa 7y ago
I remember the day that Imgur launched on Reddit. The post title was something almost exactly like this. At the time it was a revolution, every other photo upload site was shady or slow or expensive or some combination of the above.
~10 years later and Imgur is basically a social network itself. I hate seeing an imgur link now.
Photo upload doesn't seem to be something that can be offered in a way that pleases everyone. I wish you the best of luck in pleasing at least some people!
- StavrosK 7y agoThanks! I think Imgur got the "I want to upload some memes" crowd, I'm going for the "I just want to share a screenshot" crowd.
- jefftk 7y ago"My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think? I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;) I'll be listening if anyone has some suggestions." -- https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...
- squeaky-clean 7y agoI searched for the original imgur posting before clicking this post because I remembered the wording being so similar. https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t... > My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think? And their comment explaining it > I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;) Seems like different goals though. imgur chose ease of use over business sustainability and over the years had to add on more and more ways to make an income.
- ryandrake 7y ago> ~10 years later and Imgur is basically a social network itself. I hate seeing an imgur link now. Photo upload doesn't seem to be something that can be offered in a way that pleases everyone. It seems like it can start out good. But then, inevitably, some “product owner” or UX designer won’t be able to keep his or her hands off it, and will eventually ruin it with chat, social features, newsletter subscriptions, JavaScript, scrolljacking, clickjacking. It always ends up like “imgur 10 years later”. This is how so many good software products go bad. People can’t just leave it alone.
- aeorgnoieang 7y agoI think a lot of site re-designs are make work for designers. I'm of two minds about it tho. I almost always personally hate re-designs; they're almost entirely extraneous for me. But what else are full-time designers going to do?
- Sohcahtoa82 7y agoIn the case of imgur, I think the problem was financial. Running an image hosting site for you to share memes or screenshots with a couple friends is cheap. But becoming the primary method of posting images to reddit gets extremely expensive fast! Imgur had to expand. They had to become more. They also had to discourage being only used as a direct image linking site, as they needed a way to serve ads. The alternative was to go bankrupt.
- Sammi 7y agoSeriously, how do you finance a free image hosting service? It's an oxymoron.