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At some point imgur built a front page. Initially it mirrored reddits front page. And then it diverged, and very strangely for an image hosting site, most of th
by kevinmchugh 4y ago
At some point imgur built a front page. Initially it mirrored reddits front page. And then it diverged, and very strangely for an image hosting site, most of the content on the front page was text. Often about current events, engaging in a superficial way (so, falling into the traps that HN is set up to avoid) but sometimes just tweet screenshots.
This i guess is another move away from image content for imgur. Dunno.
- raverbashing 4y agoThere's this weird world of people who get their memes from Imgur directly and don't know about reddit or their other sources Looks like the shadow theatre has a captive audience
- kevinmchugh 4y agoA lot of the Reddit posts they're reading a xerox of are just tweets. A copy of a copy!
- raverbashing 4y agoAh yes there are multiple levels of indirection
- oblio 4y agoI've seen reddit posts of screenshots of Twitter messages containing screenshots of Twitter replies. We're this close to prints and scans, like grandpa.
- preciousoo 4y agoImgur is how I found Reddit, but that was a long time ago
- tux2bsd 4y ago[dead]