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The other big boost to images taking over was the popularity of imgur. Other picture hosting sites were so poor that I think it actually reduced the amount of p
by officemonkey 13y ago
The other big boost to images taking over was the popularity of imgur. Other picture hosting sites were so poor that I think it actually reduced the amount of picture content prior to 2009.
- cheapsteak 13y agoHere's imgur's creator's post from 4 years ago introducing the site to redditors: My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you think? http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to... Here's an AMA (ask me anything, reddit interview post) he did: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_ama http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur_... Interesting quote from the AMA: "Imageshack tried to buy it 6 months after I made it". I'm sure everyone is glad he didn't sell. IIRC half of imageshack links were "bandwidth exceeded" messages
- Mythrl 13y agoIf I recall correctly, he specifically created imgur because Reddit links to Imageshack and the like would always die.
- skeletonjelly 13y agoI went from Digg to reddit due to digg being heavily saturated with pictures. :( Now it's the opposite. FYI MrGrim created imgur for both reddit and Digg. He now needs neither though.