Comment by brian21 on 21/06/2016 at 16:17 UTC

142 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)

View submission: Image Hosting on Reddit

Yay! Imgur has become the same bloated hosting site that /u/MrGrim was trying to replace.

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Comment by essidus at 21/06/2016 at 16:29 UTC

96 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Naw. I remember when photobucket and imageshack were basically the only choices. Painfully slow load times, terrible uptime, hideous GUI. Imgur, for all of its current flaws, is still markedly better as a service than anything at the time. That said, imgur has also outgrown reddit, and has its own userbase that often don't overlap with reddit users in the venn diagram. They made the right business choice to split off from their roots, but they also have to accept that they'll lose reddit traffic because of that.

I'm not entirely thrilled with reddit self-hosting considering the ongoing uptime issues it has, but I'd rather it stay in-house than have to start using that stupid redpill alt service slimgur.

Comment by [deleted] at 21/06/2016 at 16:31 UTC

3 upvotes, 2 direct replies

How has linking an image (almost everyone links the PNG directly) been bloated and how is readdit not in the same sense?

Comment by JimmerUK at 21/06/2016 at 18:14 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.