Why does imgur hate 9gag

You'll likely spend more time facepalming than having fun in there. I don't like fun things. Follow my music on YouTube! I used to be into it but now it's kind of cancerous. I was into 9gag way before I even started watching anime much less know that MAL exists.

But 9gag nowadays are getting less funnier than it used to be. So many posts about a cheating girlfriend or a virgin guy finally scoring on chicks for the first time and shit. I want the old 9gag back. Signature removed. Follow your memes everybody. More like Xybirk said: 9gag?

If I want my daily dose of funni maymays, I'll just browse 4chan. A lot of 9gag's content is cringe-worthy and the community is just as cringey. Princess said: Xybirk said: 9gag? Used to be fun long time ago, now it is hard to find something funny there. It is just a bunch of reposts, memes and unfunny things. Chloroform-chan said: MintPanda said: Yep, there are sometimes some really interesting things posted on imgur with real discussion.

I browse it every night before going to bed. I don't like scrolling for hours to find 1 slightly funny picture so no, never go there. Also known as "Reddit's other, slightly outdated frontpage. Never heard of it,doesn't feel interesting enough to check. Never liked memes that much tbh. DontGoBreaking said: Never heard of it,doesn't feel interesting enough to check. Protaku Offline Joined: Apr Posts: Stalker-tan Offline Joined: Dec Posts: BBCode last. Drakehawk Offline Joined: Aug Posts: Mint Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Stalker-tan said: imgur master race Yep, there are sometimes some really interesting things posted on imgur with real discussion.

Most of it is, not that reddit doesn't lift content from other places as well. Which, honestly isn't a bad thing if he did. Guess I was right? Notably, when that post was submitted to Reddit, it got eviscerated, nothing that "hey, they provide a service for free, they deserve ad revenue! They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.

JorgeGT on June 22, parent next [—]. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from It's my gift to you. EDIT: The server was moved off of shared hosting after about 4 hours of release.

It's now on a dedicated server with a mb port. EDIT2: This is an old post and it's no longer on just one 1 dedicated server. It's on many, and utilizes a CDN provided by Voxel. This was the original post [0] announcing the creation of imgur 7 years ago.

Maybe in 7 years from now you have your own img42 image hosting emporium! Haha, these posts do look very similar. With my own host, files that were uploaded back in when it first started working are still there - with the same URL despite URL scheme changing since then. You can change the image lifespan to forever. The site has been around since , and images are still up. Awesome, also interesting we both bailed on imgur at the same time.

It must have been around then it got unbearable! Yeah they transitioned into becoming a social network Neat service. How do you plan to offset the hosting, storage, and bandwidth costs though? Costs haven't been that bad, I have floated it since only around 1M images have been uploaded. But I have some scalable plans if it were to take off without breaking the bank. What an awesome UI, I love it.

Thanks for making something so cool. I have long overdue v2v2 killed the original v2 update for the UI. I'll try to post it on HN when I complete it. The UI you see now was done in Same thing with ImageShack. They use to host images for SA and then got really shady with linking images. Hosting images is a high cost service that most people don't want to pay for, so there's very little ways to make money. What is SA?

Something Awful? Ah oops. Well they took a bunch of VC money so they could have a nice office in the middle of San Francisco and presumably so the founder could cash in a little bit. You can't blame him for his choice to take VC money, but this was inevitable. EDIT: It's actually worse if you read their wiki [1]. They were profitable enough early on to have 10 employees AND move to San Francisco, going as far to win a "best bootstrapped start-up award".

THEN they took 40 million in funding. It seems like the only way to have a "clean, simple, easy" image hosting service is to be a billionaire and to do it out of the goodness of your heart. Imgur has been trying to do more "native" ads. That's what the lore tells us, but maybe it's just plain wrong and the old incumbents were just greedy and terrible.

I think imgur was bootstrapped for a long time and didn't have much in the way of monetization, certainly hotlinking still worked then. The changes came when imgur took VC money. Voxel founder here. That doesn't really make sense, as others have pointed out.

Imgur was indeed a valued customer, and we grew together and had a great relationship with them. Customers like them helped us achieve the necessary scale to build out our network. But pushing more bits costs more, not less ;. I'll admit it's poorly worded.

My intention was to say there was an economic value in providing less-than-cost or even free -- only you and your accountants knew bandwidth in order to scale out your network and increase value to customers paying much more. You're absolutely right.

Getting high traffic customers like Imgur allowed us to negotiate better commits, establish new peering and interconnection agreements, and otherwise lower the "unit costs" of the network we built. It was generally never worth it to do this for free, but you're spot on that in certain cases it was worth it to do it for less than current per unit costs.

Oh wow you guys re-branded. You could do with a landing page knocking about somewhere mentioning your old name! I was trying to dig through the web fairly recently trying to find you Knowing you'd survived hosting imgur for at least a time!

Ended up with KeyCDN for now. We got acquired by Internap. They killed the brand. I would have loved for it to live on but it was their decision ;. I guess traffic gets a lot cheaper beyond a certain volume. So they can cut prices for their offerings and have more revenue and growth due to paying less for the traffic.

Having these volumes of data also allows them to approach potential clients with some solid data e. I have no data, just speculation I could imagine that imgur traffic paid for itself. So I should start a burger joint and give away food for free to prove I can handle the throughout and my cost will be essentially zero? If you have robots in the entire supply chain down to the production of the fertiliser for the plants without any humans then why the hell not?

Burgers are not bits. Comcast will interconnect, settlement free, to networks who exchange 7 or more Gbps. How much is that additional 2Gbps of traffic to Comcast worth? Maybe the only people willing to nurse along a free image host are the ones hoping to somehow, in some way, get rich off of it.

Yeah, you either have to convince people to pay to upload or use it to feed into some other money-making enterprise like serving ads. We really need a better way to pay the people who create and serve the content we all love to consume. Kluny on June 21, parent prev next [—]. Limit gif uploads and don't insist on viral growth.

Pretty simple. There was also a muddy middle when Reddit's management was going through various messy leadership dramas. Reddit gave Imgur an almost impossibly wide berth compared to other "made for Reddit" sites and allowed the owner to get away with all kinds of site policy violations. Imgur also set up various restrictions on content that were conveniently waived for Reddit images.

It turns out it was because Reddit took an investment stake in the service and didn't make it known for a long while. Then Imgur decided to just become Reddit because, hey after all, they're responsible for some huge percentage of all traffic for the site -- this being entirely contrary to the communication the site put out about what they were and were going to be doing.

Now Reddit is just wholesale replacing it with an internal service -- which is what should have happened in the first place. It's been obvious for years that this should have been a core service, but the terrible previous management of the place had pretty much frozen all improvements to the site. I think this move speaks more to the sane new management team doing the correct things than anything else.

I'm really happy with the job that Steve Huffman et al are doing with the site, the decisions seem reasonable, well intentioned and generally in a good direction. I was wondering about what you said about linking to a direct image being tricky. It's tricky because your direct image link redirects me to the full page with ads, and it's not obvious to you. Try hard refreshing your image link. I'm pretty sure the way it works is: it shows the image for certain referrers, and when you load the "full" page it requests the image with a referrer of imgur.

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