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I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some o

I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.

InCityDreams 4y ago
And still you return?
- throwaway2990 4y ago
  No. I haven’t been there since 2021. It got worse during covid so I just deleted my account.
mrweasel 4y ago
The users on Imgur is incredibly protective of their little cornor of the internet, but as you point out also extremely toxic, making even Reddit look half-way decent. I wouldn't recommend Imgur, sure some of the images and comments are fun and lighthearted, overall though, it has become a dark place. The frontpage is overrun by US politics, everyone is depressed, have some sort of mental disorder or disability and work minimum wage jobs. When Imgur was created I doubt that much thought went into why it's so difficult to build a good image hosting site. There's no profit in it. You need to add a social layer, or some other hook that make people stick around and watch ads. As storage and bandwidth has become cheaper, it makes sense that a site like Reddit just went ahead and did their own image hosting. Imgur has become disconnected and needs to find its own audience, which is has, it just so happens that their audience is terrible. 4chan looks downright cheerful compared to Imgur. Maybe they managed to carve out a niche? One that could be profitable if they get rid of X amount of storage, hence deleting NSFW content and older anonymous uploads.
dataengineer56 4y ago
I'll never understand people who actively use Imgur as if it's a social network.
- transcriptase 4y ago
  A few years back someone posted this comment about the imgur “community” which I thought was apt: “They are like rats living in a sewer. They feed off of the shit that gets pumped through it but have no concept of the fact that it’s simply a piece of infrastructure for a large city above them.”
realworldperson 4y ago
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yreg 4y ago
Imgur was wonderful as a stable image host that didn't mandate accounts and allowed hotlinking. Just open the site and drag the file. I couldn't care less about their discussions. I remember some years ago taking a look there and it was super eerie, because the people where discussing images posted to reddit without having any context whatsoever.
formerly_proven 4y ago
Well the userbase seems to largely be edgy teens and those that failed to grow out of that mindset. It's all very capitalism-bad america-bad libs-go-fuck-themselves behead-landlords socialism-right-now and also children need to be beaten when they don't function right, which is when I got off that train.
cmilton 4y ago
Yes, anything we do not agree with should go away entirely. I do not agree with throwaway accounts. They should go away entirely. You are being just as "toxic" in your motives.

InCityDreams 4y ago

And still you return?

throwaway2990 4y ago
No. I haven’t been there since 2021. It got worse during covid so I just deleted my account.

mrweasel 4y ago

The users on Imgur is incredibly protective of their little cornor of the internet, but as you point out also extremely toxic, making even Reddit look half-way decent. I wouldn't recommend Imgur, sure some of the images and comments are fun and lighthearted, overall though, it has become a dark place. The frontpage is overrun by US politics, everyone is depressed, have some sort of mental disorder or disability and work minimum wage jobs. When Imgur was created I doubt that much thought went into why it's so difficult to build a good image hosting site. There's no profit in it. You need to add a social layer, or some other hook that make people stick around and watch ads. As storage and bandwidth has become cheaper, it makes sense that a site like Reddit just went ahead and did their own image hosting. Imgur has become disconnected and needs to find its own audience, which is has, it just so happens that their audience is terrible. 4chan looks downright cheerful compared to Imgur. Maybe they managed to carve out a niche? One that could be profitable if they get rid of X amount of storage, hence deleting NSFW content and older anonymous uploads.

dataengineer56 4y ago

I'll never understand people who actively use Imgur as if it's a social network.

transcriptase 4y ago
A few years back someone posted this comment about the imgur “community” which I thought was apt: “They are like rats living in a sewer. They feed off of the shit that gets pumped through it but have no concept of the fact that it’s simply a piece of infrastructure for a large city above them.”

realworldperson 4y ago

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yreg 4y ago

Imgur was wonderful as a stable image host that didn't mandate accounts and allowed hotlinking. Just open the site and drag the file. I couldn't care less about their discussions. I remember some years ago taking a look there and it was super eerie, because the people where discussing images posted to reddit without having any context whatsoever.

formerly_proven 4y ago

Well the userbase seems to largely be edgy teens and those that failed to grow out of that mindset. It's all very capitalism-bad america-bad libs-go-fuck-themselves behead-landlords socialism-right-now and also children need to be beaten when they don't function right, which is when I got off that train.

cmilton 4y ago

Yes, anything we do not agree with should go away entirely. I do not agree with throwaway accounts. They should go away entirely. You are being just as "toxic" in your motives.