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Imgur used to be an image hosting service for reddit for many years. Without reddit, it wouldn't be. However like any image hosting service this wasn't very pro
by doublerabbit 2y ago
Imgur used to be an image hosting service for reddit for many years. Without reddit, it wouldn't be. However like any image hosting service this wasn't very profitable.
So Imgur made itself a social network like Reddit and which then started removing the ability to direct-link to images. The link you clicked than redirected to their own platform of image and comment discussion.
Reddit then caught on and shunned Imgur out of Reddit and Imgur expanded to it own social media thing.
Some History: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoWhat's ironic is that when Imgur was first created, it branded itself as the image host that doesn't suck. The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive. Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.