The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250828134656/https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/
The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250828134656/https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/
The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.
Seems like it did okay for many years before selling to private equity that absolutely destroyed the site and filled it with obtrusive advertising
There’s probably a middle ground between a project like lemmy (for example) and whatever imgur has become