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What's stopping Reddit from making a copy of every Imgur-hosted image linked to on Reddit, hosting it themselves, and thus ensuring that nothing is broken for R
by pr337h4m 3y ago
What's stopping Reddit from making a copy of every Imgur-hosted image linked to on Reddit, hosting it themselves, and thus ensuring that nothing is broken for Reddit users? Or just buying Imgur, for that matter?
- tjpnz 3y agoContext is already lost on posts past a few years given the proportion of deleted accounts and comments. I'm not sure if there's much to be gained from archiving the images themselves.
- rchaud 3y agoI think Reddit has bigger priorities, like attracting advertisers that aren't fly by night companies that can no longer afford to advertise on FB.
- dilyevsky 3y agoThe fact that money isn’t growing on trees? (Not anymore at least)