Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz

Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by zimpenfish on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:07AM (#7522501)

Let's hope they use some of it to fix the mobile app (fatally broken on my 5s 7.1) and their mobile web experience (a catastrophe of hanging AJAX and appalling UX.)

Oh and hiring some moderators to control the flood of soft porn in user-sub would be nice.

(Although it does worry me - people taking money and board members from A16Z do seem to get acquired by the biggies rather more often than I'd like.)

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by petercooper on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:16AM (#7522545)

I wonder if user-sub is already moderated and they actually allow the 'soft porn' through? At least, there's quite a bit of hardcore pornography hosted on imgur but I don't see any on a browse through user-sub right now.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by zimpenfish on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:33AM (#7523062)

http://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/201738527-Gallery-Ru...

Since user-sub lives under imgur.com, I'm assuming it's covered by those guidelines (tl;dr: "no porn, work safe, or hellban")

I'm guessing they'd rather keep the porn under /r/

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