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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by ryandrake on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:43PM (#14597320)
Simpler times. Public facing IP address, web server running on my machine and serving from /var/httpd/public_html or some similar directory. People go with 3rd parties nowadays for the slick web interface and that they do the "hard" work of setting up bandwidth caps and security for you.
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:14PM (#14597568)
> People go with 3rd parties nowadays for the slick web interface

No, they go with 3rd parties nowadays because most home users don't have bandwidth to host their own images.

One of the current top posts on reddit/r/funny has had over 1 million views after being posted to imgur 8 hours ago. The image file is 1.7 megabytes. That means imgur has transferred 1.7 TERAbytes in 8 hours of just that one image. That's an average of about 59 megabytes PER SECOND of bandwidth, or nearly half a gigabit per second.

Less than 1% of home users have that kind of bandwidth, and that's only to host a single image.

If you REALLY think "Oh, people only use image hosts because of the interface", you're not living in reality.

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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by roel_v on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:51PM (#14598928)
In the times the gp was talking about, you'd set up a cron job to download a 1.7mb file overnight, and be happy if it finished by morning. So yeah, apples and oranges (of the gp).
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by ajnin on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:13PM (#14598671)
Errr maybe also because not everyone has their own webserver in their home ? Most people don't let their computers run 24/7 just to host a picture of their cat.
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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by josefresco on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:52PM (#14597390)
simpler times
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