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Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by srett on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:46PM (#14598452)
For me it's quite the opposite. I like browsing the web in the evening on a 5 year old tablet. Ever since imgur started redirecting mobile clients to the full site for all direct image links the experience gets worse and worse. They keep adding more scripts and shit over time so currently when opening an imgur link the tablet freezes for about 4 seconds until it starts showing the loading spinner and then it takes another couple seconds depending on image size until I can finally see a plain old jpeg. Every fucking time. I mean I don't understand the decision to redirect mobile but not desktop at all. Desktops are faster (cpu and connection) and got more screen space to show ads. Why not the other way round?
Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by CountSessine on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:55PM (#14605568)
Me too. That awful gifv has never worked on my older Samsung tablet. I don't understand why not and I gave up trying to diagnose the problem.

Other imaging hosts that serve up .mp4's as substitutes for .gif like giphy work just fine. It's just Imgur that couldn't figure out how to make this work properly.

Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by Dylan16807 on Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:13AM (#14610826)
It's very likely the terrible redirect shenanigans they do on gifv. And have just expanded to all files on all platforms, oh boy.
Re:The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's N... by samstave on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:19PM (#14598708)
Imgur has a ton of flaws, my gripe with reddit is the admins; as a mod of a controversial /r/ - I just don't trust their ability to be for free speech...