Talk:Imgur

Irrelevant Parrot?

Is that picture of the parrot with the description of something along the lines of "an irrelevant picture of a parrot featuring overlaid text in the font commonly used for memes" genuine or vandalism? Because it looks kind of like vandalism and doesn't seem entirely relevant to the section it's placed in.

123.243.215.175 (talk) 11:51, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

How to pronounce the name

So it'd be great to know how to say it. I say the name like it looks (to me), which would be spelled /imgur/ while another friend of mine says /imager/ (OHHHH like img = image + ur, literally an ah-ha moment) Anyway, anyone know? cullen (talk) 09:32, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

It's pronounced "imager" as explained in the FAQ. Adrian Malacoda (talk) 04:25, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Could somebody please put this in IPA? "Pronounced imager" is still very ambiguous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.91.177.143 (talk) 21:32, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Why popular on Digg/Reddit?

It mentions this, but doesn't explain why tinypic, etc., are eschewed in favor of imgur. --Spoofed IP 71.203.125.108 (talk) 15:30, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

The creator says: "I created imgur because the other image hosting sites forced you to see their ad-ridden pages (TinyPIC). I would never do the same to you. If you want to direct link to the image, then by all means do so." --Pmsyyz (talk) 01:38, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Inconsistent numbers in table

The numbers in the table in section "Popularity" are internally inconsistent.

E.g. with 213M image views per week it should be 213M / 7 = 30.4M per day. But the table lists 28M.

Or 118 TB per month is 118 TB / (365/12) = 3.88 TB per day. It is listed as 3.96 TB. Or using the figure per week: 29 TB per week is 29 TB / 7 = 4.14 TB per day.

Or 118 TB per month is 118 TB / (365/12/7) = 27.2 TB per day. It is listed as 29 TB.

--Mortense (talk) 19:22, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Why did my updated statistics get rolled back? Wikipedia, come on.. 85.11.232.150 (talk) 13:15, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Should verify if bandwidth numbers are correct. Usually bandwidth is expressed in bits/sec not Bytes/sec. --216.223.3.32 (talk) 17:21, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Business model?

Does anyone know how Imgur makes money? There are no ads that I can see, so how are those insanely busy servers kept active? Scartol • Tok 15:21, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Hmm. The FAQ says it's all from donations, but that seems a little hard to believe. Maybe I'm just being too skeptical? Scartol • Tok 15:22, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The point is not to make money but provide a bad ass image hosting service. There is a pro version. See the the reddit AMA with the guy who runs it. --Pmsyyz (talk) 01:22, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

It's now been a couple more years, I'd like to see an update. The Reddit AMA was a long time ago. (oops, forgot I wasn't logged in...) Gar37bic (talk) 01:37, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

There are ads. Imadeausername! (talk·contribs) 14:58, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Question on criticism

The FAQ that describes how to pronounce "imgur" also outlines the timeline of the image deletion policy. Images viewed once in a period of six months are retained - http://imgur.com/faq#long

After reading the criticism beyond the citation it needed, I'm less convinced of it being a valid criticism. It mentions that the six month timeline is not clearly advertised and many users are unaware of it. In looking at the website, there is very little actually advertised at all in keeping with the uncluttered structure it seems to convey. The FAQ along with blog, contact and site stats are as readily accessible. So either all of those information pages fall under the same criticism, or they are in fact "plainly advertised" in terms of any information about the site being within one or two clicks. The ease of clarifying the pronunciation seems to be at the same level as clarifying the deletion policy.

Just hoping to get the input of others before I let my newb hands get to work on any actual editing.

Jonnymorgue (talk) 21:52, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Capitalisation of proper nouns

I have capitalised all instances of Imgur and Reddit on this page, as this is Wikipedia's style policy, despite how these companies choose to stylise their own names. HorseloverFat (talk) 12:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

How old it Imgur?/When was it made?

I noticed the article does not explicitly say when this website went up, which I figure is a pretty basic piece of information taht should be featured in the article.

Just thought I'd mention that.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.9.243.177 (talk) 17:18, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Cons

• Slow and runs out of bandwidth frequently
• Sometimes image doesn't load at all and just shows you the html alternative text — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.240.53.163 (talk) 23:53, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Linking blocked?!?

Just opened an email I had saved, and clicked an imgur link. Response was "403 forbidden". Hit "refresh" and the image loaded. Repeated to verify this is what is going on. Sure, this is normal operation for most websites, to block remote linking. However, this wiki entry suggests that imgur is an image hosting service. What, exactly, is an imaging hosting service if it disallows remote linking of images? Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose? In any case, it demonstrates that there is clearly more to imgur than image hosting, as the simple service of image hosting is no longer being provided.

Found another email with a different image, repeated the test a few times. Exact same results, so this is not a problem from one particular image on imgur.

Can someone explain the correct nature of the imgur service on the wiki? The current text is somewhat misleading, as it implies imgur works in a manner similar to, say, tinypic. Zaphraud (talk) 02:30, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Although I recognize this comment is old, imgur does work in a manner similar to tinypic. I believe you encountered an old bug that was fixed. 208.54.70.241 (talk) 18:17, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

User has what?

The following makes no sense without some sort of clarification

"the user has pro"

Maybe someone can add something to explain what "pro" is.99.245.248.91 (talk) 02:53, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Clarified. ーHigherFive^ＴＣ 04:48, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback is not enabled for this page, so why does it show up at all?

Hi, I tried to leave feedback but it got rejected. When asked if I found what I was looking for, I clicked No, then wrote:

I was wondering where their offices were located. I'll go find it elsewhere.

What if I'd written a short essay instead? My effort would have been wasted!

The fact that Article Feedback is disabled needs to be told the user up front, not after the fact. To avoid such confusions as I've just suffered. •ː• 3ICE •ː• 12:40, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Unreliable Source/Unverified Claim

This sentence "Imgur is the home to the web's most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing." has Imgur's twitter page listed as a source (pulled directly from their twitter short bio thingy). Definitely doesn't qualify as a reliable source.

If "Imgur is the home to the web's most popular image content" is going to stay in it needs to be backed up with some evidence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GorchaOrg (talk • contribs) 06:53, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Imgur being blocked by UK ISP's? =

Did a traceroute when Imgur wasn't loading images and found that one of the domains (i.imgur.com) was seemingly routing via a filter server. Anyone else here heard about this in a reliable and citable source? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 21:15, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Image Removal section under History

I hope the archives I cited are adequate referencing for this. The policy from 3 months in 2010 and 6 months in 2011-2014 is basically identical except for the 3 to 6 change so there might be a more efficient means of explaining this than my initial phrasing if anyone wants to simplify it.

I believe it is necessary to use the 2 instances of each of the archived URLs. The upgrade page is the earliest archive I could find and then the first I could find (conveniently the first of the following year, I checked the last archive from of 2010 and it was still 3 months) while the FAQ is the first I could find (mirroring a maintained 6 month policy) and the one immediately after it (conveniently also the first archive of the following year) which shows the change from 6 to infinite. --174.92.135.167 (talk) 18:40, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Very informative

This article helps people who are new to Imgur or just do not know everything there is about it. I believe that the pronunciation is correct in the article, but I also acknowledge that this is the Internet and people will always look for something to argue about. Also, the majority of information was taken from Imgur's own website, which makes the article very self-influenced. Other than that, this is a well-crafted article!Camden Marcucci (talk) 20:58, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Imgurian userbox template

For anyone that'd be interested I made a thing:

 {{Imgurian}}

This user is an Imgurian.

— IVORK _Discuss 07:29, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

EXIF data

Imgur founder on Reddit:

The exif data gets killed before the image ever reaches our database and it doesn't get stored anywhere.

— Alan Schaaf, Reddit

Courtesy-of (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Updated traffic statistics?

Would anyone be in a position to update Imgur's traffic rank? The Sanity Inspector (talk) 16:02, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Data: number of employees and cash reserve

Can we get information about this for imgur, the company, on the wikipedia article as such? The reason I am requesting this is not because I am interested in buying (lack the funds!), but because I am using the free imgur services a lot. Thus I'd like to know whether image-hosting may be available for the future too, as otherwise I may have to change tons of links to these remote images hosted by imgur. I kind of use imgur like a "web-archive" now; in the past I always kept images locally, but since about 2 years I started to forego this (to some extent), in particular when it comes to web-content such as images that other users should see too. That's why I found imgur interesting, but I just read that it has been acquired by another company a year ago, and we all know what happens to some companies when they hit the "under new management" syndrome. So any information pertaining to this would be really helpful. I hope I could explain my use case or rationale in that regard. 2A02:8388:1600:A200:3AD5:47FF:FE18:CC7F (talk) 14:01, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Technical aspects of imgur

I think it would be useful if we could also have a subsection explaining how imgur works on image hosting. They are still quite popular after all; I see tons of images being hosted at imgur. 2A02:8388:1641:4980:0:0:0:2 (talk) 04:23, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

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