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From the site: > Looking for a dead-simple way to share some images but are ashamed of what Imgur has become? I don't even know why I should be ashamed of wha
by SkyMarshal 5y ago
From the site:
> Looking for a dead-simple way to share some images but are ashamed of what Imgur has become?
I don't even know why I should be ashamed of what imgur has become. I still use it to host images I want to post to social media, be they funny memes, or screen shots of system/programming errors I'm seeking help solving. It works fine. What's the problem with imgur exactly? I imagine I'm not the only imgur user who doesn't notice any issue with it.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago> What's the problem with imgur exactly? Since yesterday, it's owned by the company that runs Genius.com https://www.medialab.la/ https://www.medialab.la/
- rexreed 5y agoJust wait. The company that brought you Kik and Whisper and Genius is now the proud owner of Imgur and all the fabulous images and data contained within.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoDid Medialab actually "bring" us those companies, or just acquire them after their founding teams already had?
- rexreed 5y agoThey acquired the teams and the product, but they brought the business model. Much as will happen here.
- statico 5y agoWhat's wrong with Imgur: Imgur started as a way to share images on Reddit. Imgur was even a great way browse all the images in a subreddit at once. Eventually Reddit implemented their own image uploading and hosting and added the new layout, which makes images bigger when browsing feeds. Imgur pivoted into being their own social network, and use cases like yours began to be ignored because they generated far more abuse than they do revenue. Even if you once paid for Imgur, like I did, the non-social features are completely broken. I can't even view my own images using https://statico.imgur.com/all https://statico.imgur.com/all, and I can't get to my old albums of images.