Most "sites/blogs" can't handle the traffic that reddit sends when content makes it to a popular page. Users have learned the hard way that imgur (and a few oth

Most "sites/blogs" can't handle the traffic that reddit sends when content makes it to a popular page. Users have learned the hard way that imgur (and a few others) are the only reliable links. Personally, I almost never click any image that's not on imgur because they time out or displaying the image is just incidental to displaying ads.