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It doesn't really matter how 'plain' the pages are since most people using sites like Reddit only use direct links to image hosts. The fact is you can't monetiz
by nacs 13y ago
It doesn't really matter how 'plain' the pages are since most people using sites like Reddit only use direct links to image hosts. The fact is you can't monetize directly linked images and its one of the biggest expenses for an image host.
Also, 'easy fixes' are irrelevant. Image hosting itself is 'easy' to do. Upload an image, store image, pull image. It's the details like direct linking and the issues like scaling to handle large traffic spikes that separate a good image host from the literally 100+ free image hosts that exist already and the hundreds that have died due to it becoming too costly to maintain.
- Spittie 13y agoImgur is solving this by creating a "community" with comments and up/downvotes, so that user have incentives to open the full page and browse it (this is, by the way, one of the reasons why I don't like imgur at all). They also offer albums, which can obviously be seen only from the full page. OP should look into adding things like that, some contents to encourage users to link/look at the whole page, and not only at the image.
- dublinben 13y agoReddit Enhancement Suite supports most Imgur albums quite nicely without having to load the full site, or see their gross ads.
- cmelbye 13y agoSure, that's my point exactly. It's not interesting to comment on trivial omissions they made. The shortness of their links is not among the difficult problems that an image hosting service must solve.