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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.452s | source
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transcriptase ◴[02 Sep 25 14:33 UTC] No.45103652[source]▶
I remember when imgur was created as a fast, no login-pushing, non-scummy alternative to ad-ridden clickjacking hosts that censored nsfw and controversial content.

Then it became all of that on steroids except with a comment section and a weird community that didn’t realize they were living in the plumbing of other platforms like Reddit.

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1. ebiester ◴[02 Sep 25 14:53 UTC] No.45103899[source]▶
They knew. Most of them migrated from another community. They migrated on the community reputation of MrGrim and his community cultivation.
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2. hbn ◴[02 Sep 25 17:23 UTC] No.45106162[source]▶
r/IgnorantImgur proved that no, a good chunk of them did not know

(looks like that sub is private now in protest of API changes but I'm sure you can find some old content hosted other places)