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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by cortesoft on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:59PM (#11948417)
Imgur started off as a benevolent gift to Reddit users, but then as more and more people started to use it, the expenses became too great to keep it the way it was. There is no money in serving images directly with no advertising, but there is certainly costs. What were they supposed to do?
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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:01PM (#11948439)
The only clean route would've been for them to be acquired by Reddit.
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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by mmanfrin on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @03:54PM (#11948926)
s/imgur/imageshack

s/reddit/somethingawful

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by NamTaf on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:49PM (#11950791)
Absoutely. See also: Waffleimages after it.

This is cyclical, an image site gains critical mass, builds in size and then buckles under the weight of providing a free, clean, high-bandwidth service.

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