Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur

Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by redthrowaway on Thursday May 26, 2016 @02:19AM (#11775956)

Which is what drives the circle of life for image hosts.

"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"

"This image host is going well, but the bills are killing me. We'll have to add ads, but obviously only where they're unobtrusive."

"We're still bleeding cash, but we've got a huge userbase. We need to monetize it better. We'll toss in a couple interstitials to drive up ARPU."

"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by kristofferR on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:44AM (#11776302)

Yeah. https://sli.mg seems to be the new imgur. I wonder how long until they start going downhill.

I like their moderation log though, that's a good step.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by redthrowaway on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:56AM (#11776363)

sli.mg is the new imgur for /r/the_donald, and other subs whose content imgur regularly censors. I haven't really seen it used "in the wild" on more mainstream subs. It does have a nice, clean and minimalistic interface, similar to what imgur used to have.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by SixSigma on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:52AM (#11776977)

It was started in response to censorship of fatpeoplehate content.

Here's the AMA

https://reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4erynj/we_are_slimg...

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by pjc50 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @05:47AM (#11776730)

How bad are they that they're getting censored off imgur? What for, racial hatred?

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by kristofferR on Thursday May 26, 2016 @08:50AM (#11777493)

It's like on Facebook - if something gets reported enough times on imgur it get's auto-censored until it maybe is manually restored by a imgur employee.

Because of that a lot of relatively benign Trump content gets censored on imgur because a lot of people find even his name to be offensive. Some even think his name is violence.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/emory-unive...

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by newacct23 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:20PM (#11780729)

Not racial hatred, images of Robert Byrd kissing Hillary Clinton will get censored. Basically anything that is a joke at the expense of Hillary Clinton will get removed.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by unlinker on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:10AM (#11776814)

imgur CEO: https://i.imgur.com/D2j9SlH.jpg

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by dang on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:30PM (#11782580)

Please don't do this here.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by taneq on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:23AM (#11777684)

Somehow I was surprised to see slimgur here. No accompanying reference to https://voat.co? :)

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by agumonkey on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:19AM (#11776850)

Funny, so limited it's good

https://sli.mg/lrrDOF #testt

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by InclinedPlane on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:32AM (#11776258)

I don't think that's it, quite exactly. I think it's more that when people see stats for lots of eyeballs they too often think "if we monetize those to the max, think of the money we could make" and then that shifts into thinking they're leaving money on the table.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by oblio on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:44AM (#11776303)

The thing is, while there is huge demand for image hosting sites, that demand is really low "quality". After all, we're talking about sites hosting memes and screenshots from games, not original works of art created after tens and hundreds of hours of laboring in Photoshop.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by boyce on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:10AM (#11777051)

All the pictures of text too, just because text posts on Reddit don't earn karma

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by NoGravitas on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:40AM (#11777157)

And to get around the 140 character limit on Twitter. Though admittedly, most of those are on twimg rather than imgur.

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