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I think Imgur tried to become a social network in its own right. It seems like the owners had ambitions beyond just serving advertisements.
by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I think Imgur tried to become a social network in its own right. It seems like the owners had ambitions beyond just serving advertisements.
- saynay 3y agoI think that was more because places like Reddit just linking directly to the image meant they couldn't serve ads to pay for it. So they needed to make an incentive for people to directly visit the site, and the most obvious way was to just cut out Reddit as a necessary component to a user discovering more images.