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Very impressive to have bootstrapped this far, I'd imagine their hosting costs are fairly immense. Hopefully this doesn't affect their core value-proposition (
by pkfrank 13y ago
Very impressive to have bootstrapped this far, I'd imagine their hosting costs are fairly immense. Hopefully this doesn't affect their core value-proposition (simple image upload).
It's interesting that Reddit also made a modest investment. As Imgur's community has grown, I'd imagine that they're increasingly battling for the same audience as Reddit.
- doctorcroc 13y agoAbout Reddit and Imgur - I think they share a more synergistic relationship. A lot of imgur links make up the content on reddit, and by funding them, they ensure a better experience for their visitors. Meaning more ad revenue for reddit - makes sense to me.
- pavanky 13y agoimgur has had voting, comments and it's own little community for a while now. It could cannibalize the image macro based subreddits (like /r/pics /r/funny) which drive so much traffic to reddit. imgur is also not getting as much money as it could from reddit because links are posted directly to content bypassing the ads. I wonder how much longer the synergistic relationship will continue to exist.
- harvestmoon 13y agoIf Reddit banned imgur, that would be very bad for it. They banned Quickmeme, which decimated its traffic.
- DavidBradbury 13y agoQuickmeme was banned because they were manipulating the voting system. I don't think imgur would or needs to do that.