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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 5 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 1.124s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[02 Sep 25 14:27 UTC] No.45103567[source]▶
What's interesting about imgur, and telling of how times changed, was that it was created mostly to fill the gap in unreliable uploading of images to reddit.

Which begs the question: What the hell was reddit doing that they didn't immediately implement an image hosting feature to keep users on the platform? Imgur rose to fame because it was the darling image host of reddit users, and it wasn't long before imgur needed to pay hosting costs and started sucking users away from reddit and into their own "imgurian" sharing hub.

I guess the internet back then was still in the "Open effort to make the internet awesome for everyone" phase, and hadn't yet gotten to the adversarial "Capture users and never let them leave" phase.

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1. duped ◴[02 Sep 25 15:13 UTC] No.45104158[source]▶
> What the hell was reddit doing that they didn't immediately implement an image hosting feature to keep users on the platform

Reddit was a hub for illegal porn so presumably, they didn't want to face a crackdown for hosting that kind of content. It still is, but nsfw posts are banned from /r/all now.

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2. Jleagle ◴[02 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45104210[source]▶
I don't think any of the porn on Reddit is illegal.
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3. Aurornis ◴[02 Sep 25 15:21 UTC] No.45104244[source]▶
Illegal posts were never allowed, but I imagine any site focused on sharing porn is going to become filled with copyrighted content.

They also had a lot of severely creepy subreddits involving underage children or adult photos talents and shared with consent.

It was really bad. I left the site for years because that type of content was everywhere.

4. mock-possum ◴[02 Sep 25 15:27 UTC] No.45104334[source]▶
Ohhhhhh think again
5. duped ◴[02 Sep 25 18:02 UTC] No.45106779[source]▶
Except for all the revenge porn, creep shots, and the infamous "fappening" over 10 years ago
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