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As someone who isn't tech-savvy whatsoever... what does all of this mean? ELI5?
Comment by captainAwesomePants at 21/06/2016 at 17:09 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Until now, Reddit only supported posts that were links to other sites or text messages. That means that if you wanted to share an image on Reddit, you'd have to upload it to some other site that let you upload images and then share a link to that site as your Reddit post.
Now Reddit allows users to post images directly, so users can upload images directly to Reddit without having to involve some other website.
This is probably good news for Reddit users, but it's very bad news for the websites whose business was mostly letting users upload images to share on Reddit, notably a site started by a Redditor called "imgur."
I expect that the parent post, an Imgur mirror of this message, is something of a joke because of this.
Comment by [deleted] at 21/06/2016 at 17:08 UTC
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It is a joke. Imgur is what this is trying to phase out because it has become bloated and a direct competitor of Reddit now.