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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by pr337h4m on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:25PM (#35736524)
What's stopping Reddit from making a copy of every Imgur-hosted image linked to on Reddit, hosting it themselves, and thus ensuring that nothing is broken for Reddit users? Or just buying Imgur, for that matter?
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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by dilyevsky on Friday April 28, 2023 @01:17AM (#35737688)
The fact that money isn’t growing on trees? (Not anymore at least)
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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by tjpnz on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:16AM (#35740920)
Context is already lost on posts past a few years given the proportion of deleted accounts and comments. I'm not sure if there's much to be gained from archiving the images themselves.
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Re:The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going to Break Large Parts of the... by rchaud on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:10PM (#35743242)
I think Reddit has bigger priorities, like attracting advertisers that aren't fly by night companies that can no longer afford to advertise on FB.
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