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I only briefly read it but it seems they'll still support uploading legal NSFW for any subreddit just marked as hidden so it doesn't show in their public gallery, which makes sense to me.

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Yeah, does anyone browse subreddits using just imgur anyway?

So long as you can load images on reddit itself I don't see the problem

Imgur is nice for loading galleries so it's heavily used for nsfw comics on /r/doujinshi

Was

There is a weird segment of "imgurians" who comment only on imgur posts. They're a bit of a joke on some communities, like /r/repsneakers where users buy replica designer sneakers (aka fakes) and post them to imgur with titles like "Couldn't afford rent this month but got these" and the imgur people flame the imgur comments.

In fact there is a running gag that imgurians are like a tiny world populated by a people that is oblivious of the fact that there exists an outside world (Reddit) and that they are constantly being observed by people in said outside world.

It's a modern day Plato's cave it seems

Only that I had no clue there was a community or comments for a long time. Imgur was the reddit community image bucket and nothing more, until I learned people use it as a lilliputian version of reddit

They've been drifting apart for a while now. Reddit now has its own image hosting and Imgur has been distancing itself from Reddit and promoting itself as its own platform.

As someone who couldn't care less about their shitty platform, what alternatives are there? I can remember when Imgur was first launched as a super-simple image host that wasn't full of crap and watermarks like Photobucket. Now it seems as if history has repeated itself, with Imgur becoming the very thing it sought to displace.

I think that means one of two things, with two different outcomes:

A. Creating a super-simply image host that isn't full of crap and watermarks like Photobucket or Imgur will yield a profitable business.

B. A is in fact not profitable, and adding crap and watermarks is part of the normal evolution of an image hosting business once you gain moderate amounts of traction that starts to stress your finances.

It's like Jamie Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, but applied to image hosting sites: "Every image host attempts to expand until it is no longer able to host images. Those image hosts which cannot (or refuse to) so expand are replaced by ones which can."

Pics or it didn't happen.

People have been comparing it to the civilization inside the locker in Men in Black. Kinda hard to find comments, but here is one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ag2vpg/a...

Little known (?) fact: buying knock off anything from outside the country is a great way to be excluded for eligibility in Global Entry. They see you as an importer of counterfeit goods, regardless of the quantity you are importing.

Clearly some people are.

I once posted some random photo on Imgur to share with a larger group of friends, and I guess I left the display option set to the default of public. Next thing I know, I get a comment from an Imgurian who found it through the Imgur image listing saying something like "What is this? Why did you think I would care about this?"

Yeah I've uploaded stuff in the past to imgur for sharing on reddit and come back later to some very strange comments.

Its super common. The imgur app has it shared to the public gallery by default and you need to mark it "hidden" manually each time you upload.

If you browse imgur's New gallery you see images posted by mistake all the time.

If I'm reading correctly, you will also need to log into Imgur. "any pages that we know to contain NSFW content will now require that a user log in and acknowledge that they are 18+ years of age in order to view."

So this is making the Reddit -> imgur experience more crappy for people browsing Reddit.

Imgur has been on a trend of walling off their garden, first deprecating the Mobile Web experience in favor of their frigging app, and now this. I can understand why they want to reduce their footprint for NSFW image hosting, but if you just wanted to look at an NSFW subreddit to see some images, this is going to make things more annoying.

If you're only interested in scrolling through images, Imgur offers a much better user interface for that. can browse with just the arrow keys.

You also now need to login to their website to see it. Which is quite a hurdle, I’d say.

IIRC creating an imgur login requires using a "non disposable" email address, ostensibly feeding into the larger surveilliplex.

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