Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz

Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by joshdance on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:41AM (#7523123)

Not super knowledgeable about image hosting or ad revenues. If you have a super populate photo, would the ads on that page pay enough for the hosting? If that is true, repeat by a million and Imgur has a great business. If not, seems like it will be difficult.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by ______1 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:58AM (#7523263)

Most people that use Imgur share the direct link to the image. When the direct link is used no ads are displayed.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by ShaneOG on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:19AM (#7523432)

Unless you access the "direct" link via Facebook or Twitter. In which case you are redirected to the standard page

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by zimpenfish on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:01AM (#7523300)

It's a wise choice - the comments are often terrifying.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by giarc on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:24AM (#7523460)

In design or quality?

I commented on an image I posted once. I was horrified to find that you had to individually expand each child comment. Doesn't allow for much discussion.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by claudius on Thursday April 03, 2014 @12:09PM (#7523803)

There’s an ‘Expand all comments’ link. Personally I find the community there to be a nice complement to HN. Less serious, less important issues, more usable when tired.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by zimpenfish on Thursday April 03, 2014 @12:07PM (#7523788)

Quality. It's often "sketchy at best".

As for design, there's "Expand All" up the top right of the comments. But yes, the "hidden by default" arrangement is a bit nuts.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by ______1 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:42PM (#7524576)

I find it just as surprising that HN doesn't allow you to collapse a comment chain. I use a GreaseMonkey script to do it on my desktop, but when browsing from a mobile device I have to scroll down until I can find the next root comment.

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