Wow, sad to see this much history go. It's tough running an image hosting service.
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Frankly I'm surprised Imgur has made it this long. I suppose it's because they morphed into a community in and of itself.
I suppose it’s because they morphed into a community in and of itself.
I always found the Imgur community hilarious - I lovingly refer to them as sewer rats. Some of the communities I've been part of are less tech-savvy, and people accidentally enable the "post to community" feature on their images intended to be viewed solely on reddit. The Imgurians were not happy seeing designer goods in their feed.
Yeah, I remember when imgur came out when the previous image hosting companies started getting greedy.
oh god damnit Can we get an open source alternative to gfycat and tenor? We can build in some slash commands everywhere for it.
Tenor has become so inundated with shitty ~~gifs~~ ads for shitty TV shows that it's near unusable.
$prompt> boromir this is a gift
response> (some gen Y in a shitty netflix show laughing)
The infrastructure costs money. It's gotta come from somewhere.
I'd certainly welcome an Activitypub version.
The issue with creating a gif hosting service is not the code itself (which open source would solve) but the cost of doing so and the fact its not very profitable.
Covering expenses (and let alone being profitable) is a huge issue with most online services. People are loath to pay for content and services even voluntarily nowadays, but they also don't like ads (for a good reason, mind you), so staying afloat is tricky. Especially open source projects can have problems with this; I've seen many FOSS projects start getting hostile comments from users when they try to somehow monetize (even without it being "predatory" in any way) simply to be compensated for the time they put in
Social media and data storage/distribution has clearly become an integral part of modern society. Time for governments to treat them as the utilities they are.
Yeah, I definitely agree. Online services are still sort of treated as just being "fluff" in some sense, instead of huge parts of our daily lives that have similar implications that "meatspace" utilities do
It's been a long time since I last heard millennials referred to as Gen Y
I guess all these free services had to implode one day, I just didn't think they'd all choose the same day...
Many of these have the same underlying external cause of money no longer being free so they can't keep the merry-go-round going for their debt and/or their investors are no longer content to just pour more money into the engine.
Did they feel left out with all the news about Reddit and Twitter doing dumb shit?
I had wondered how image hosting sites were ever going to turn a profit. Guess that's my answer.
Nippy. Kind. Langur.
:(
Whoa, the memories
Checked my account and found video game clips from 8 years ago, nostalgic af
Guess the value of the company wasn't in the gifs.
Is redgifs gone too then
It appears that Redgifs was acquired by a third party a few years ago. Not sure who, though.
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The end of an Era :(
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