Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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jabroni_salad ◴[02 Sep 25 15:31 UTC] No.45104397[source]▶

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We knew. The situation is the opposite-- external users did not understand the interface and constantly posted things that were meant to be private onto the public feed.

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1. jacobgkau ◴[02 Sep 25 16:42 UTC] No.45105556[source]▶

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You got downvoted, but anyone who's used Imgur within the past decade or so has to have seen indications of this. I remember around 2016 when I went to upload some photos for a Reddit post, I found the two different profiles (old-style and new-style) confusing. I could post something private on the old profile or the new one, but if I wanted to bring a post from the old one to the new one, it would get set to public, and also re-post it with a new timestamp... things like that.

Once Imgur stopped being a dedicated image hosting service, you had to go out of your way to lock down your posts if you wanted to use it as a dedicated image hosting service. Which I can see being confusing for both sides of the party.

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