I totally see your point but shouldn't they monetize what they have now before go on to tackle other revenue venture?
Or is it better to tackle all possible revenue venture at the same time?
I feel like it's stretches them thin no?
Especially in startup, it seems like they're always looking for way to get their investor to invest more. There are many cases where I thought it being so shady.
I acknowledge business people and what they do but there are things in the this industry where it's just not for me.
I thought that their own image service would bring back missed revenue from imgur (which it has appeared to do since it has caught on). Unfortunately to do this they designed it to disallow direct image links (and the reason that it is banned).
Not to mention it's just downright slower than imgur.
Although, it's not like imgur is without fault nowadays, in their continued efforts to foster their own (IMO, awful) community off of the back of another (Reddit), it is nigh-on impossible to go directly to an image on the mobile site now - instead you get forced back to their gallery-style page full of 'related content', which only serves to slow the loading of the shit I actually want to see.
Relatively. CDN costs have plummeted over the years. It now costs $5/TB to serve videos, and under $3/TB if you're in petabyte ranges (BunnyCDN, BelugaCDN).
They are going to start getting hit with more and more DMCAs, etc. The compliance cost for video and/or audio goes up alot in my experience. Also more likely to be sued (a la Youtube).
For the most part, still pictures, its rare to get any kind of DMCA notice and you basically never get sued.