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because lame marketing. the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth, and the imgurl team is only delivering crappy feature on top of c
by gcb0 12y ago
because lame marketing.
the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth, and the imgurl team is only delivering crappy feature on top of crappy feature that only makes things worse.
their goal is not pleased users, its a big fat huge "exit". thats why new feature and buzzwords abound. it impresses investors, which is their goal.
- darkstar999 12y agoi-m-g-u-r pronounced "imager"
- JamesSwift 12y agoInteresting. I've always pronounced it im-gir (im as in nim, gir as in girl)
- darkstar999 12y agoI do too honestly. But I thought I'd point out the "official" pronunciation and spelling.
- gcb0 12y agoheh. i always pronounced img-url... because that is what i thought the domain was :) well, not like i would ever typed to reach it on purpose anyway. it is just reddit's image anyway.
- Scuds 12y ago> the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth They serve 2 billion images per day, and they never delete pictures that are still actively accessible from the internet. At no cost to the user. In any case, cache is golden, and a 5 MB gifs off of their front page could be a 500kb MP4. That difference adds up superfast it's off of their front page and has 30M views.
- gcb0 12y agoyou are replying to my comment out of context. the post i just answered to asked what is so special about gifv if all they are doing is a video tag. also, similar arguments where done when adding lazy loading etc... with the idea that "loading images progressively is better" etc... it all backfires in the end when done by those guys. now the user actually PERCEIVES the slow loading. before, images would take a long time, but if you waited you could see the whole album. now, thanks to lazy loading done bad, they will load AS YOU SCROLL... you get to witness all the wait! it is hell.