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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Havoc ◴[02 Sep 25 16:48 UTC] No.45105644[source]▶
Can’t say I’ve ever seen it as a stand alone platform with a “community”. To me it was always a utility that goes with Reddit or whatever as image host.

And when they opted to actively break large parts of Reddit by deleting nsfw images I kinda new the party is over even in its very tangential utility role

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i_am_jl ◴[02 Sep 25 17:07 UTC] No.45105914[source]▶
It definitely exists.

I use imgur to share stuff with friends, sometimes I forget to mark it private and users will vote and comment. I didn't notice until I got a dog and started posting pictures the community cared about.

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simianwords ◴[03 Sep 25 05:13 UTC] No.45112431[source]▶
This is heartwarming for some reason
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1. violetthrift ◴[03 Sep 25 07:49 UTC] No.45113263[source]▶
It is, though the other side of the coin was always uploading an image for your niche hobby sub and being inundated by sneering imgur users who wanted to know why your keyboard looked "stupid." The site developed a reputation (among reddit users) for being full of thoroughly incurious people with very confident opinions on your niche interest.