> At first, the service took off not because it did a lot, but because it did so little. "Nobody really wants to put images up on the Internet," he explains. "What you actually want to do is share it with somebody. So I stripped out everything that other image hosts even had, because when you just get to the point of sharing, what's really important is speed."

> "I had this insight—that ended up being wrong, by the way—which was, 'This content's so good, let's just have it stand on its own,'" he remembers. "'I'm not even going to put titles or descriptions or anything on this stuff.' Turns out that's actually a dumb idea, because people need context."

Whats funny to me, is that I stopped liking imgur when when added the community/context stuff. I liked it when it was small and simple. It's gotten so bloated that it's become a pain to use.

It seems like nobody can have a "community-less" image sharing site.