Imgur was good for serving as a quick cut and paste to share images. It was not good for being Reddit or image sharing and discovery. It filled a need better than anyone else and now it doesn’t.

I don’t see the value in creating an account to upload an image to share it for two people to see it. It’s just an extra step. It’s not just the hassle, it’s that I don’t want a profile of all the images I’ve ever shared.

I was always surprised by how gracious imgur was and wondered how they made money but assumed their costs were super low. And I suppose it was fun while it lasted.

This also makes me really appreciate my $30/year shared web host that’s run without problems for almost 20 years (knock wood). Images posted there never go down. Or at least I get to choose when they go down.

I think everyone would be better off by just paying $50/year for a random host that ran email, cloud storage, images, etc and could be easily ported to any competitor by copying some files and changing DNS.

SaaS ultimately lets you down.