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Which is what drives the circle of life for image hosts.

"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"

"This image host is going well, but the bills are killing me. We'll have to add ads, but obviously only where they're unobtrusive."

"We're still bleeding cash, but we've got a huge userbase. We need to monetize it better. We'll toss in a couple interstitials to drive up ARPU."

"Man, all the image hosts suck ass and get in the way of me just seeing the damned image. I'm gonna create a new one, without all the cruft!"

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Yeah. https://sli.mg seems to be the new imgur. I wonder how long until they start going downhill.

I like their moderation log though, that's a good step.

sli.mg is the new imgur for /r/the_donald, and other subs whose content imgur regularly censors. I haven't really seen it used "in the wild" on more mainstream subs. It does have a nice, clean and minimalistic interface, similar to what imgur used to have.

How bad are they that they're getting censored off imgur? What for, racial hatred?

imgur CEO: https://i.imgur.com/D2j9SlH.jpg

Please don't do this here.

It's like on Facebook - if something gets reported enough times on imgur it get's auto-censored until it maybe is manually restored by a imgur employee.

Because of that a lot of relatively benign Trump content gets censored on imgur because a lot of people find even his name to be offensive. Some even think his name is violence.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/emory-unive...

Not racial hatred, images of Robert Byrd kissing Hillary Clinton will get censored. Basically anything that is a joke at the expense of Hillary Clinton will get removed.

It was started in response to censorship of fatpeoplehate content.

Here's the AMA

https://reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/4erynj/we_are_slimg...

Funny, so limited it's good

https://sli.mg/lrrDOF #testt

Somehow I was surprised to see slimgur here. No accompanying reference to https://voat.co? :)

I don't think that's it, quite exactly. I think it's more that when people see stats for lots of eyeballs they too often think "if we monetize those to the max, think of the money we could make" and then that shifts into thinking they're leaving money on the table.

The thing is, while there is huge demand for image hosting sites, that demand is really low "quality". After all, we're talking about sites hosting memes and screenshots from games, not original works of art created after tens and hundreds of hours of laboring in Photoshop.

All the pictures of text too, just because text posts on Reddit don't earn karma

And to get around the 140 character limit on Twitter. Though admittedly, most of those are on twimg rather than imgur.

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