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Presumably, because the closed source one got some traction, so people are pointing out the open source alternative.

Likely because of this comment[1] in the other thread which made people submit this link, and when multiple independent people submit the same link in a short period of time you're very likely to end up on the front page (this exact situation happened to me once)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42568121

Yeah, that's where I got the link from.

Offtopic and meta, but, you share a screenshot using Twitter/X? That's really bizarre to me. That is all, just had to say that.

how is it worse than photobucket or imgur