L4sBotReddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
Captain_PatchyReddit isn’t profitable, despite having a billion dollars in advertising dollars coming in every year? And someone thinks that spez should remain in charge?
cyanarchyMy gut reaction is that a multimedia website the size of reddit must be a juggernaut of server and hosting expenses.
Idk but in my opinion describing red*it as a juggernaut for hosting multimedia is a bit far fetched, since their own image / video hosting platform is pretty shit and most of the media content is actually hosted on other platforms.
Reddit bought imgur though, didn’t they? So that’s part of their expenses.
Oh I actually didn’t know that. That indeed changes my perception a little bit
When did reddit bought it? Wikipedia said owner is MediaLab AI, Inc.
Ok, I wasn’t sure, hence the question mark.
ikiddImgur started out as a convenient way to host images for Reddit, but Reddit did everything they could to make sure Imgur didn’t stay that way. That’s why they introduced their shitty inhouse image hosting.
Imgur just kinda goes on by itself now, fairly successfully it seems.
I didn’t mean to imply they were good at it, just that the volumes of data involved are certainly not trivial.