It was cynical from the beginning: the author made the same post on Digg also, it just didn't take off there.

This is an often repeated myth, from the creator:

>"Yes I did" [create it for Reddit] There's some conspiracy theory going around that I actually created it for Digg. So, here's what happened. I posted it on Reddit, Digg, and a couple forums that I frequent at the same time. The server actually ended up going down and the Reddit post got spammed with "It doesn't work!!". So, I deleted the thread, corrected the problems, and posted it again the next day. I didn't bother deleting the Digg thread; that's why it has a timestamp one day before the Reddit one. I'll try to update this with links to whatever proof I have, but I don't have time right now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9tlwi/im_the_imgur_gu...

You seem to confirm what GP was saying. The myth seems to be a separate discussion about which was first.

Do you have link/source?

Time for someone to create an image hosting service that doesn't suck part 2?

More like part 2,000,000. It's an unsolveable problem. To Imgur's credit, it lasted longer than I thought it would.

It is not unsolvable.

People with the money, time, and luxury just are not capable of solving it, as they exist in ivory towers far away from real problems, and can not fathom investing in people outside their circles with solutions.

So what you are saying is it is easily solvable as long as you have an infinite source of free money.

That is not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying the solution to many "unsolvable" problems might just be in the brain of an unknown person operating within the drudges of wage slavery, like a Subway worker for example [1].

There are countless unqualified people wielding an "infinite source of free money" already. Why should they, while others are left to rot? Why are we all okay with their autonomy to use "free money", players winning in a made up game they created, while others are crushed by the weight of survival?

Most people don't need infinite money. They just need enough to survive and be happy, while also have a direct stake in the fruits of their labor instead of having to turn over all their fruits to people who have free money. An exchange of survival for someone's life work is not an exchange worthy of even considering.

This suppresses innovative solutions across the board. It saps away the energy and motivation people have to contribute their solutions. It is an underlying mechanism to a modern dark age.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang?wprov=sfti1

Heck, I'll solve it for half that much!

The solution is to keep building new image hosts that show user growth and then sell the company to a greater fool that thinks they can monetize that user base. Rinse and repeat.

You jest, but Nikita Bier has made millions of dollars with this formula

It might still last; Tumblr is still there, albeit in a lesser form. And as other posters mentioned, the pushback against NSFW content isn't just Imgur.

something something blockchain

Or rather bittorrent.