Saikimo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I use the development version of RES at the moment (cloned from github and build on my system), because I was impatient and annoyed by not having RES' expando for reddituploads.
And the dev version works great with OP's gif. So I was wondering why everyone was complaining in here.
I don't know why we didn't get a hotfix for that already...
RES dev team is not as large or active as you might think, and I don't think they feature branch for little things like this.
Saikimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I know that the dev team isn't very large. And I don't know enough of the inner working and release policies of RES I was just wondering why they don't release a quick fix when it's already working (but could also be that it just works fine for me and that there are still issues to work on that I'm not aware of), so that people stop complaining.
What I meant with them not feature branching is that, new versions usually include a bunch of changes rather than just one specific thing. So there's likely a few things in that build that aren't quite ready (or tested) for a release.
Alternatively there might simply be one more thing they want to finish before the release.
I make browser extensions for reddit myself, have talked to the RES devs quite a lot and have looked over their source code. I think I even have a tiny little pull request in a previous build somewhere.
The actual RES devs are of course welcome to point out that I am wrong, but otherwise I rather doubt this involved a major code change.
So it's a small change that needs to be made to RES, to facilitate a massive change across Reddit?
So why hasn't RES integrated it yet, if it's such a small change on their part? If they only have a few devs, that should be easy, no?
I was under the assumption the argument was "They should only make changes to RES when Reddit itself changes a lot. They shouldn't waste their time making changes to RES when it's only a minor change to Reddit itself, because they only have a few devs.":
The quote in question: "I don't think they feature branch for little things like this" (the "thing" being talked about being that Reddit now uses its own self-hosting service - i.e. the devs shouldn't concentrate on 'little things' like the fact Reddit now hosts images)
More like "That url gave me ebol6d6e89f192f516c8298627f0d32889c7c59e7f1595d73e878a85539df8e6c0c6cf6c84268decc00fff388aad722d433bfd110a24cc820f86cbc41801cd94416f failed"
Con confirm. If you have the Chrome extension Imagus you can preview images from the links. And in the settings you can decide whether those previews trigger a browser history entry or not. Love Imagus.
BCMM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it would work fine in RES (and probably quite a few apps) if the URL had ".mp4" instead of ".gif" in it.
The actual data returned is video/mp4, but, if I correctly remember how RES works, the ".gif" in the URL tricks RES in to trying to load it in an <img> tag instead of a <video> tag.
tehnico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good, that's what I see too. Was worried for a second.
gifv isn't a real format though. It's just what imgur did to represent converting a gif to mp4. The admin though added &fm=mp4 to the image. It's pretty neat that it can do that.
To be fair, they're mp4's typically with h264/5. So when uploading they [reddit, here today] could make the uploading interface or backend figure out what the file is by the header or the content of the file and figure it out itself.
File extension is a Windows thing, and doesn't actually change the file. I can change the file extention of a movie.mp4 to .docx (Microsoft Word document) and open it with VLC and still play the movie!
You answered too fast :P. This time I was on a gifv that actually didn't have an mp4 first. So I was confused.
I checked again and it was there, but weirdly, if you just view source, the video tag doesn't exist on one that is just a gif, but the object tag does exist*
So if you go to a gifv
If it has an mp4, it returns a page with a video with an object inside. If it has no gif, it still has a video tag but with no sources, but has a div "video-elements" that has two source tags with webm and mp4 (which just redirect to the gifv) and an object tag, but they all get removed by the javascript
That's bonkers. It's definitely a bug maybe in their retroactively mp4ing of every gif? It just shows a gif, so I get there's no need for a Flash fallback. Still strange that they had a 5MB gif limit and now only gifv every gif that's 10MB or larger.
Turence ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I really the only one that has issues with gifv? They do not play at all in my mobile chrome browser in forced desktop mode. I either have to erase the V and enjoy my .gif, or turn off desktop mode.
I read your comment and decided I should tell you that gifv isn't a real file format. It's something imgur had created. Then I read the replies and over half the replies already corrected you...so...what harm is it to have one more "know-it-all" to tell you that gifv isn't a file format.
Gifv isn't a file format.
_Eggs_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The #1 reason I use Imgur is so I can PASTE pictures there. Will you guys add that feature as well?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:36:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mp4 isn't looping for me like a true "HTML5 gifv" type gif should. I'm on Windows 7 with Firefox.
Is your plan to convert uploaded gifs into HTML5 videos (mp4 video)? You want to make sure you have maximum exposure to your audience (for usability) and with the growth of mobile devices gifs it takes too long for an end-user to download a gif.
Throtex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that was the point ... 100 MB gifs?!
I'm so happy someone thought of this and all you had to do was 'update the link' to correct the issue! That means someone on the team knows gifs are shit for video!
But.. if someone could upload video... directly? That would ice the cake
Same as gift. Just an extension. Still a h264 encoded video file
Turence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining this.. there is nothing special about gifv. Not to mentiom they simply do not load on my android with chrome. The extension must be editted to .gif, or take the page out of desktop mode.
o_o how many new messages you got? I'm excited whenever I get one, that novelty must've worn of for you
Denroll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:46:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope this reply gets you excited, but not so excited that the total lack of content in the message becomes a total let-down which in turn causes you to crash from the temporary high you just experienced. I'm shooting for "just good enough" here.
Thanks :) Usually I get one or two messages every few days, depending on how much I commented on things. On such a large website as Reddit, it always seems nice if someone noticed your comment amidst the crowd.
Have a nice day to you to. It counts double, because today is the Longest Day (Or shortest.. if you're a Southern-Half of Earth kinda guy).
Denroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm wondering what would happen if I gilded /u/Thedutchjelle? That would probably be a lot of excitement.
Maybe we can cause an excitement overdose with multiple gildings? Anyone else up for an experiment? Let the goldkakke party begin!
I honestly don't know what to say. Thanks for the gold /u/denroll :) !
Sorry for ruining your experiment Denroll, but I don't need further gold people, please save your money for something more useful (like perhaps an upcoming Steam Sale..)
Thank you so much for pushing this. I really support this change not just here but on the internet, everywhere. It's quicker for the end user to load and from the servers to you, much.. MUCH less data. Really wasteful on my phone to browse reddit without it. Why use 9mb+ per gif when I can use 900kb. Fuck. like why! Why aren't there websites that check your browser compatibility, and send it by default, or have an option etc to enable this mode.
I really wish more people embraced this. It really makes a networking difference. Gifs are such an outdated format. And people still convert and upload as massive gifs these days. I see it
โ๐๐๐OH MY GOD๐โTHIS!!!๐๐๐I LITERALLY๐๐CAME๐ฆHERE๐ฐ๐จ๐TO POST๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐ฒTHIS๐ป๐โEXACT๐๐๐COMMENT๐๐ฌ๐จ
I like how RES allows me to resize imgur images with a click and drag. Any plans to work with RES to make that work with these reddit hosted images? Or add the feature to reddit?
I'm saying it's not their responsibility because it's not their app. It's a private personal browser add-on. The entitlement you all have towards reddit the company is appalling in regards to this
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:55:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you said "TIL ~2.5m RES installs is not a lot." which implies that I said it's not a lot
I never said that...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have the shortest memory ever?
canipaybycheck -3 POINTZ 1 OUR AGO
is used by most of the redditors
TIL 2.5 mil out of 231 mil uniques is "most"
And I replied with:
pancakesimone 1 POINT 54 MINUTZ AGO
I never said most. I said 2.5 million is a lot, which is a correct observation. Get off your fucking high horse.
I'm not going to argue with you about this again. You're literally grasping at straws from hours ago to try to sustain your bullshit attitude and argue more. I'm not doing it again.
Doesn't change the fact that it's a personal browser add on that's not affiliated with reddit in any way...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:12:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And? Did his comment really touch you so deeply that you decided to argue with him? Who the fuck cares? It's not harming anyone, he's just saying images are broken when using RES. Not as big a deal you're making it out to be.
It's the wrong place to ask because it's not their responsibility; it puts the site into a negative light when there's a "problem with the site" even though the problem is with RES; and it takes up room from a potential valid response to the admins. If you think I should've just ignored it why not use that same logic on yourself in regards to my comment? Did it bother you that much?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please show me where the original comment asked for the problem to be fixed. Let me give you a hint, no one has asked Reddit admins to fix the issue with RES.
and it takes up room from a potential valid response to the admins.
Oh good God, it's their fucking job to interact with the community and answer questions we might have. Worst that happens is they have to scroll over the original comment. Are you going to complain an admin might have to use their finger to scroll a little bit further now? Too much effort for them or something?
...about reddit. That guy posted a picture of his extension's functionality, not a reddit function.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:07:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ you're fucking thick.
RES is a large part of Reddit. The admins are allowed to comment on non-Reddit products, it's called fucking freedom of speech. Is that seriously your argument now? You know everything you're saying is such bullshit, just stop trying.
Why are you talking about what the admins are "allowed" to do? That's not relevant at all
I'm saying it's stupid to ask the admins to fix a browser extension that they're not affiliated with and that they don't run.
And really freedom of speech? Privately-owned websites don't care about free speech, the first amendment only protects you from government censorship, and reddit's not the government.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:18:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm saying it's stupid to ask the admins to fix a browser extension that they're not affiliated with and that they don't run.
No one fucking asked the admins to fix the extension you cockface, how do you not understand that? Your argument is literally built on your delusions. The original comment said NOTHING about fixing RES.
It's a picture of his RES function failing. What's the point of that comment if not to point out that it doesn't work? *"it" being his inline viewing feature that's part of his personal extension
Your name calling just shows your age
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the point of that comment if not to point out that it doesn't work?
He's showing it doesn't work. He never asked the admins to have it fixed. Your entire argument is built on the fact that you think he wants the admins to fix RES. You literally said it right here:
I'm saying it's stupid to ask the admins to fix a browser extension that they're not affiliated with and that they don't run.
I am not disputing the fact that he is showing the feature is broken. I am disputing the fact that you think he said he wants the admins to fix RES.
Do you agree with me when I say that the original comment never said anything about fixing RES? Yes? Then your entire argument is pointless.
It's implied that he wants a solution to the issue, otherwise he wouldn't have posted that there was an issue. The context is a reply to an admin, if you want to ignore that context then go ahead.
Of course you're a teenager. Haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good god. How are you allowed to be a mod of /r/AskReddit? You're not fit to mod anything if you imply that based off that simple original comment. Whatever, you've been downvoted like crazy which should show you that you're just wrong. So if you don't get it at this point then there's nothing else I can really say. Good luck in life, it's clear you need it.
Huh, well... that's a disappointing first impression. RES treats that link as an expando, but when you click it to view the video inline, all you get is a "broken image" icon. Clicking the link directly shows the video just fine, though.
This is my only complaint - that and that they're massively oversized against the browser when you do open them with RES. All of this is mostly that RES needs to build an update to incorporate this new service.
It did work with RES when it was a gif. People complained that gifs are obsolete and he switched it to mp4 (which broke the link for RES). Now he added the .gif link.
So you can either have HTML5 video --OR-- RES installed.
It doesn't work with Hover Zoom+ (or similar plugin)... which makes this essentially break Reddit for me and the countless other's I've gotten into Reddit. I tell them they MUST install hoverzoom for the perfect experience- Just cruising down the homepage, rolling over images after reading the title and having them pop up like a punchline!
[deleted] ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 17:02:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So you see an image, but it's too small to see something in it, you click the image and drag it down or to the right to zoom it, or up or left to shrink it back. It's awesome.
lol, now you know. Did you also know about the View Images option on the top middle part of the page? Makes all images visible as you browse. (I wouldn't click this if you have kids around)
Admittedly, I just view most images using Imgus to hover-view them, but I'm sure this will be very useful for many things. Amazingly, I never noticed the "View Images" tab either...
Same. This breaks my experience and makes me have to click on links like a savage. Please work with Hoverzoom/Thumbnail Zoom to make this work.
Edit: /u/Squallid pointed out below that the latest Thumbnail Zoom Plus update fixes this. I tested, and it does. Thanks Squallid, TZP and Reddit team!
I also use hoverzoom, It is a MUST for reddit i can just mouse over a Thumbnail and wach the gif/movie or picture instantly without having to click the link and what not.
mobuco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm using hover zoom+ and it works. The problem is that where it says "655 comments" or whatever below also makes it zoom, which makes it difficult to click sometimes. Not sure why it zooms on that.
RES didn't open the link correctly either, though that may be a firewall issue (I'm at work). But I can click on the link and open it, so maybe it's not firewall related.
N6TJA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lenovo yoga 2 1050L. Appearantly it was released in 2014.
ekfslam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works for me on my lenovo a3000 and i'm sure it's the most low end tablet they sold back then. It works for both firefox, chrome, and redditisfun. Is your software up to date? I also have the flash player on mine. Maybe it's that.
Then this needs to be fixed. Chrome is a fairly major browser and not being supported is not acceptable. Reddit worked yesterday for me, any change that makes it not work for me today is not a good thing in my book.
All according to plan...mmwwhwhwhhhwhahahhaahahha"
azatoth ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:51:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seems it won't work with RES :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The admins used to give RES devs a heads up before new stuff like this dropped so they didn't get blindsided
I'm guessing ever since (?|?) they either stopped or the RES guys stopped giving a shit since they get flak whenever the admins break something anyways lol
Any plans to do a Chrome Extension? There is one for Imgur that allows you to right-click an image and select "Rehost on Imgur" which then uploads it there and takes you to it.
Also, having a landing page of some sort where I could paste an image from my clipboard and have it upload would be very useful. Those are the two features I use on Imgur the most because they are quick and easy.
The the exact Ingur Chrome extension that /u/geoman2k is acknowledging already exists. He asking if reddit plans to create their own Chrome extension for image uploading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes I was just linking it for anyone curious
Hawtre ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My current complaint with the new upload system is that when I open it in RES, it doesn't turn the link purple. I have to open it into a new tab or click on the link. I have not tried it without RES and maybe it is still an issue.
Annoying.
Zedrona ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's probably an issue woth how RES is opening it, rather than anything else. Have you submitted a bug report?
[deleted] ยท 2945 points ยท Posted at 16:18:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past when it came to controversial/illegal content, you've stood on the premise of "we aren't hosting the content, just pointing to it." Does this meaningfully change your content strategies and/or policies?
We may make changes but for now the existing rules cover them.
shaunc ยท 622 points ยท Posted at 16:58:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is drifting off-topic and probably isn't quite in your wheelhouse, but do you know if there are plans to revisit /r/chillingeffects? Information about DMCA takedowns used to be posted there on a regular basis, but it's been months since anything showed up there.
Short of renewing the subreddit, I'd appreciate if they just addressed the fact that they stopped posting there altogether without telling the community.
Fair enough, took 'em a while, but if you're gonna fearmonger about a potential crisis at least make sure it's not the exact same crisis that already got solved by this same group.
Churba ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the issue is not the time it took, but the reason - coontown was around for some time(iirc a few years), but it would have gone on in perpetuity...if they hadn't managed to get a bunch of media attention.
The reason they were removed wasn't due to the content, Reddit doesn't give a fuck about that. It's because they made Reddit look bad when people found out they existed. It wasn't a good look to be hosting the largest gathering of hardcore racists outside of the storm front forums, so when the public found out, that's the end of that.
If you look back at the announcement thread for quarantining subreddits, spez is quite clear - it's not about keeping people away from bad subreddits or keeping them contained, it's about keeping them out of the public eye as much as possible so people won't criticize Reddit for them.
And that's a valid indictment on Reddit's moral character, but the fact is, they took care of it.
And in the end Coontown existed without the reddit hosting service, so why is it relevant now that they have one?
Churba ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:21:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've missed the point entirely. They did handle it - but what have they done about the replacements that have sprung up since, but have been smart enough not to stick their head above the parapets? Sweet fuck all.
They handled it in the end, sure - because it made them look bad not to. Essentially, their hand was forced by public pressure. Absent that public pressure, it would likely still be going today. There's more factors to this that are important besides just the end result.
Ok, so maybe a better example would be the_donald.
But if you think the crisis of Reddit's massive far-right community trying to game the site has been solved, you've got another thing coming.
Isord ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the_donald is a bit more difficult. I personally agree that they are essentially a harassment subreddit, but it is also ostensibly the primary subreddit of one of the two leading candidates for President. I wouldn't be heartbroken if it got banned but I can understand the mixed feelings about doing so.
The righteous indignation about people coming in from /r/all to downvote their posts after they upvoted a bunch of posts specifically addressed to /r/all.
Then again, it took about one day of being popular before /r/enoughtrumpspam started complaining about brigades themselves so clearly we all are just terrible and selfish people.
I think that if 'people I really don't like use this website for free image hosting, the same as I and people I like can and do,' counts as a crisis, we may need to reevaluate our standards. I'm not approving all the content from many of those subs, but that's the point: I don't have to approve of it. If their being allowed to use the site is a disaster, you might not understand free speech. (Yes, I know, Reddit isn't the government, so they're allowed to censor how they please, but that doesn't mean that them not doing so is necessarily terrible.)
You're joking right? You realise the majority of reddits subs and ALL DEFAULT FRONTPAGE SUBS are incredibly left leaning and liberal. You're threatened by small sites that you need to seek out to even be aware of them because they don't agree with your political opinion or your censorship? Are your liberal values really so fragile you need these subs banned? Clearly.
[deleted] ยท -36 points ยท Posted at 16:57:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I present to you a perfect, in-tact, mint-condition example of someone who doesn't understand that the first amendment protects civilians from the government, not from other civilians nor private corporations!
Marvel at the ignorance! The idiocy! Don't get too close, he'll swat at you in his confusion!
Hate speech is a pretty broad term. You can't use it to insight a fight, but you can put it on a picket and protest with it. Pretty sure posting hate speech on a message board would be covered (though Reddit is obviously free to do whatever they want as it is a private entity).
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only time the first amendment is thrown out the window is when people endanger the government or other people with their words. I.e. yelling "I have a bomb in my brief case; everyone get down!" at an airport or the White House.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:01:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This comment has been overwritten by an open source script to protect this user's privacy. It was created to help protect users from doxing, stalking, harassment, and profiling for the purposes of censorship.
Then simply click on your username on Reddit, go to the comments tab, scroll down as far as possible (hint:use RES), and hit the new OVERWRITE button at the top.
How are reposts handled? If i upload something into /r/aww, get the link for that post's image, submit that link to /r/cats, then delete the /r/aww post, will the link in /r/cats still work?
[deleted] ยท 1874 points ยท Posted at 16:35:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Currently it seems to be socially acceptable (on reddit) to rehost everything on imgur. There is no reason why imgur should get such preferential treatment. I mean, when reddit's image hosting is working equally well. There is no ethical difference.
There is no reason why imgur should get such preferential treatment.
You've been on reddit 5 year minimum. Don't you remember the old days (this isn't my first username)? There is absolutely a reason, all the previous image hosting site blew ass before imgur was created. It was such an issue that imgur was started by a redditor to solve the issue.
code- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember the old days, I've always been aware imgur was pretty good. But currently they seem to be trying to add a parallel social network on top of it, and it's not quite as good as it once was.
But I'm still recommending it to everyone who sends me images hosted in services that only display them along with a ton of crap, take forever to load and block hotlinking. Provided (from now on) they're not on reddit!
Also, reddit doesn't technically let you repost. If the URL has been posted before, it stops you. You need to change the URL to repost. Most people do that by adding fake anchors or GET variables to it, but for images, rehosting checks that box.
What? No, this is why you download the image it re-up it on reddit if you want to repost. (Not that I condone that kind of thing.)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or just rehost on reddit itself. Don't necessarily have to use imgur, all that matters is that you save the image and upload it fresh, and not just use the existing link.
If the images are posted by one guy, and he uses the same link, then the first guy deletes their post, the image that was cross posted gets deleted too, leaving a post linking to nothing.
Yes, reference counting should be the way to go. However if there is one-to-one relationship (like clicking the image takes you to the thread) as we have now, reference counting can get messy.
Yeh, you'd need the image to take you to the "other discussions" tab. You could then have a simple mark and sweep collector run over the db periodically
glitchn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think its best to be able to delete images instead of not being able to remove your image because someone else linked to it. Lots of subs would hate not being able to remove them from reddit like /r/gonewild for example.
I know it's just as easy for the same people to rehost on imgur but there needs to at least be an illusion of privacy and control. Plus if the url has to change for the new poster then at least anyone who had the old link wouldn't be able to access it any longer.
Dykam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be smarter if they detected an existing reddituploads image, and offered to rehost it under a new url.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe a [Repost] button that does the whole thing for you
Dykam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's an addition, but not enough to intercept the accidental ones where people don't realize an image might just poof.
Although imagine the schadenfreude if you see some shitty reposter getting all the karma from your own content and you can just go and delete your original post.
Or if you can edit your image after posting, you now have the power to replace some front-page post by someone else with goatse.
nermid ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:30:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or if you can edit your image after posting, you now have the power to replace some front-page post by someone else with goatse.
Man, I just became drunk with power merely by imagining that.
You could just upload the image again to the other sub, though. Then you'd have independent control over each instance.
[deleted] ยท 159 points ยท Posted at 16:44:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bug, not a feature.
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 17:18:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what they did. If you upload something and no longer want it up, this could be a good feature. It prevents people from re-linking your image and keeping it up forever (e.g. you post a screenshot of something from your email and forget to censor one of the addresses in the conversation. If someone else links that picture, it's there forever). On the other hand, a legit cross-post could end up being broken when the original is deleted for whatever reason (e.g. I upload a nice tea set picture to /r/tattoos, realize my mistake and just link to the same URL in another sub and delete the original post).
There are drawbacks to both approaches. I believe the OP should have a "allow re-linking" option as long as their post is active
It doesn't prevent you from downloading the image and reposting it yourself as a separate image, how in the hell are people arguing this is useful? If you decide you don't want content available, tough tits, someone already downloaded it and will gladly re-share it without your permission. Deleting the original doesn't delete the saved version.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:02:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Only if the default setting for the option is "no relinking" - which is basically what we have now. See my reply to Doctor_Insano_MD upthread a few levels in response to this.
I believe the OP should have a "allow re-linking" option as long as their post is active
This doesn't really solve the problem. Whatever the option is, it's going to have a default setting ... and 99% of images posted will be posted with the default setting, so we're back where we started.
To take your example, if the option defaults to "allow" - then OP would have to manually change it, with the active thought "maybe I made some sort of mistake" - if they have that thought, they might as well recheck the image ...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It all depends how it's implemented. You're right, though. Whatever the default is, most people will have it selected.
That's their own fault though. It's great that people can delete their images along with their posts if they want them gone. And if you link to something that you have no control over, you always risk it being deleted.
I dunno man. What you just described sounds like a feature to me.
Furthermore, a bug is behavior in software that isn't intended. A better word to use would be "issue": a term that includes bugs but also unintentional consequences of intentional features.
It sounds less like a bug and more like it was just an oversight. I imagine they'll change it in the future if it becomes a problem. Then again, I'm sure this costs a TON and any space they can save is probably useful to them, so who knows.
That's exactly how any images hosted anywhere work right now. If someone posts an image from imgur.com that someone else uploaded and then deletes, obviously the same broken link occurs.
No it's not. If it was due to unplanned effects that weren't expected, then it would be a bug. It's not a feature or a bug, just an outcome of the hosting system.
Omnifox ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:53:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CANT STEAL MY PICS THEN!
Though, I get where it is coming from. The idea is that if YOU delete your OC, it should delete any related links. You still "own" it.
I mean, depending on the TOS.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:09:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This and the SFW restriction dramatically reduce the utility vs. Imgur. Are these decisions firm?
Would it be possible to reassociate the image with the repost if the original is deleted? That wayvcross postings could still remain linked. Only delete the image if all reddit posts referencing it are deleted
Interesting, thanks. Reddit has the "other discussions" feature that identifies a unique URL across other posts, why not have that same algorithm be checked before deleting an image?
That's kind of a weird way of doing it. I think images should only be removed once no link posts are pointing to it. I mean let's say someone uploads an image to a small subreddit which gets reposted by others to huge subs then if the original uploader deletes the post (or it gets deleted by mods) then all major subs will have a missing image which means the same image will be reposted all over again - if I'm understanding it correctly.
ztsmart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is going to have a negative impact on my ability to be a re-posting Karma whore.
That's a serious bug. What if I upload an image to 2 subs (let's say /r/EarthPorn and /r/wallpapers) then the mods of /r/EarthPorn delete the post because it doesn't follow their strict guideline? the link in /r/wallpapers will break without me even knowing about it. Forget about mods, what if I want to delete the post from /r/EarthPorn because I found out someone else posted that image just yesterday. Now I need to re-submit to /r/wallpapers. Doesn't make sense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe hash the image and if there's a hash collision and verified dupe, just link to what has effectively become a "stock" image. It would also nuke all the re-posts simultaneously if it turned out to be copyright violation or something.
dkitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the original post is removed by a moderator?
Isn't that going to have the potential to break a lot of posts in the future?
Example: Someone uploads a tipsheet to a tech support type subreddit (/r/buildapc). This tipsheet gets posted elsewhere to another subreddit.
The OP of the tipsheet deletes his post to make a new/updated one, but now has to upload a new copy of the tipsheet, instead of using the previously-existing uploaded copy.
The post in the other subreddit is now broken, as the original tip sheet dies with the first post.
A little late to the party, but I moderate a few subreddits that beta tested this feature and have appreciated it. Is there anyway we can reference internally hosted images in our stylesheets? The current size limitation for subreddit images is 512 kb, and we can have a maximum of 50 images. Bumping that to 20 Mb would be a huge help! I know it's a different load on servers to load images once than to load them with every pageview, but thought I'd ask :)
What happens if mods delete the original post and not the uploader? Given the /r/news debacle, I wouldn't want to put even more power into the hands of mods.
Hehe, years ago a rival sports board was found to be hotlinking a ton of images off of our board, so of course we went in late at night, changed all the filenames, and linked porn to the old filename. Not sure you could do that here, but it brought a laugh when I was reminded of that.
No silly, you need to find a cute post on /r/aww, then download; crop, resize, or adjust the color balance to fool karma decay; then upload again as Original Content!
atom138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:37:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like if the pic was uploaded with the r/aww post it would be associated with that post specifically. Therefore if you delete the r/aww post the pic would be deleted too and the image link would no longer work. They should add an option to upload via link instead of only from local storage. That way it would be just as easy as linking the image originally but would prevent the link from dying should the original post be deleted.
When the image is removed from S3, you might want to replace it (via a PUT right over the existing object) with a zero byte object (which would have an immutable cache header, ensuring the your CDN only needs to request that object once from the S3 origin after being removed via this scheme) that redirects to a fancy Reddit 404 page (which should also be in S3) so folks don't receive the ugly "access denied" S3 response.
Didn't they fire some dude with cancer because he was too sick to move? Or maybe they made him move and then fired him...something like that. Reddit doesn't sound like a good place to work.
Ajreil ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:01:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jij ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha... I had that exact excitement and crushing realization like 3 years ago :p.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That policy didn't take effect until at least last year or the year before. Pao closed the remote locations.
jij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All their job postings before that were still all "move to SF", I don't know the circumstances of them hiring remote before that but I suspect it was a special case by case basis. /shrug
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the OP was joking, but why wouldn't people care about bitcoins? At their release, bitcoins were worth 1 cent apiece and were mined freely and fairly easily. If you had spent 1,000 dollars and bought bitcoins in their infancy when they were first for sale, those same coins would be worth $30,000,000 today. Many believe that bitcoins even now at their current value of $667/coin are only a fraction of what they'll be worth in the near future. Many people are investing their extra money into bitcoin. I'm one of those people. I haven't sold yet but just the small amount I've invested this year (around $1,000) has already more than tripled. Bitcoins could be a great investment opportunity.
Everything "could be" a great investment. Hindsight is a terrible reason to invest.
Bitcoins are as high risk as you can get. If you like high risk investing, Bitcoins may be your thing. But otherwise I would stay the hell away from them.
That ain't got shit to do with reddit. If you want to invest your paycheck in bitcoins or fine wine or gold bricks or beanie babies you can do it yourself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've considered this, but one thing thats always concerned me is how do you transfer cryptocurrency into real money? Say you bought 100 coins back when they were cheap. Now theyre worth 66,700. Do you just sell it and transfer that to your account? Or is it locked up in the internet as a cryptocurrency?
Doesn't cost me anything to suggest an improvement to the product, and it provides a better experience for everyone at almost zero cost. I'd be crazy not to suggest it!
Good eye ;) Doing devops for a startup without management responsibilities currently in return for getting to work 100% remote. What's next after this? Who knows! That's the exciting part :)
Seriously though, I have a large emergency fund thanks to /r/personalfinance, have made drastic lifestyle changes to reach early financial independence (retiring at ~40; and by retiring I mean tinkering on my own projects/startups for funsies each day), and have been extremely lucky/fortunate to have a skillset in heavy demand (~2-3 recruiter calls a week with job offers).
PM me if you're in the tech sector and need help or a mentor. My life has shifted long ago from leveling myself up to being the shoulders others stand on.
Stumbled onto your comment because of the tech DevOps stuff you wrote - is it ok if I pm you a question about a DevOps product my company makes? Just trying to get a feel of how well known it is in the market. Thanks
Got the PM, just haven't had time to get to it yet. Promise I will!
EL337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is incredible demand for experienced devops engineers right now. I get 2-3 recruiters contacting me per day asking if I want to go to a new company. .
As a developer, it's much easier to deal with since you know there's a ton of places wanting your skills.
Once you're at a certain level, there's an almost endless list of jobs from where you're at now down to $70k/yr - so there's very little risk of going to zero.
Technically it's getting tech support from its product. You don't pay for Reddit, you aren't a customer. Their customers are the ones buying data on our habits.
This is much like Google. You aren't a customer, you are a data clearinghouse product for marketers.
An HTTP Put method is the way to update a file or database or whatever using a RESTful api.
There's also Get, Post, Delete, and Patch. They all do different things but it's how any programming language will be communicating with a server. In this case, S3 is Amazon's AWS storage solution and the data is only accessible through their RESTful api.
you may be thinking of something like the ruby language where "puts" logs or prints to standard output like console.log in js or printf in c. PUT in this case is the HTTP method, and is usually for replacement of a resource
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What should I study to learn more about what you know? I've been a web manager for 8 years and know a thing or two about nearly everything but want to improve the depth of my knowledge in how the web works for more enterprise level solutions.
TRL5 ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 16:24:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So, if we link to a reddit hosted image in comments it can disappear?
Edit: Just want to be clear that this isn't accusatory, the same is true about linking to a imgur hosted image. I just wanted to be sure I understood the system.
madlee ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:31:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything a reddit submission links to has a non-zero chance of disappearing, with the exception of example.com, example.net, example.org and reddit.com .
anchpop ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:07:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So reddit has zero chance of disappearing in the time it takes for me to read a thread?
At the moment reddit disappears, the submission disappears, so the submission is no longer linking to reddit. As long as the submission was linking to reddit, reddit hadn't disappeared!
Eh, I just searched for my posts from about 1 year ago (June 1st 2015 to June 16th 2015), and basically all of them were /r/spam posts which generally are safe to delete, so I used the first one I found.
arvr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If so, how would one remove an image associated with an archived post?
by posting the image on another server and not reddit
You don't actually delete posts as a mod, you just remove them from being shown on the subreddit. That's why you can still visit them from a user page or PM.
Confirming that mods cannot screw with image links. There is still the possibility that Reddit admins may alter links, maybe even doing it on the fly per-user. I don't see any garuantee that a Reddit-hosted image will actually be the image the original poster intended.
At least with 3rd party hosting there is a lower likelihood that anyone will try to monkey with the image links.
user's post history. /u/bajneeds is a bot. It's posting random stuff all over reddit to increase its post count.
He's actually taking his reply to a topic and posting it instead in a second, different topic. Then composing a reply to that second topic and continuing the chain on into a third topic.
As in, he posted this as his next post on reddit, in a thread about the steam summer sale:
confirming that mods cannot screw with image links. there is still the possibility that reddit admins may alter links. i don't see any garuantee that a reddit-hosted image will actually be the image the original poster intended.
at least with 3rd party hosting there is a lower likelihood that anyone will try to monkey with the image links.
Kind of fun to go back and read his posts and make sense of it all!
arcrad ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 16:30:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Don't worry, delete never means the images are actually deleted. They are marked "deleted" and can be reinstated at any time. (This is an assumption, but I'd bet it is accurate )
Whoa, why the downvotes? Anyone care to oppose my opinion or do yall just down vote when you don't wanna hear the truth?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:47:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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arcrad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Previsely. Typically, to ensure data integrity, things are never deleted but simply marked as deleted. Some boolean value in the database marks if things are deleted. This ensures that the database won't ever get into an inconsistent state. Deleting things is dangerous and should be avoided if possible.
nermid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once your image is on the internet, it's permanent!
It's actually interesting that we reached that point. For a while, things would come into being on the Internet, be fun, and then somebody would quit paying for the domain, server space, or would graduate from the college hosting their stuff, and it would just be gone forever. Transience was the law of the land: enjoy what you see on the Internet, because it may not exist tomorrow.
Now, the law is permanence: no matter what happens on the Internet, there's a record. If it's not the NSA or the Archive, it's some guy who packaged it into a Torrent and seeds it for all three of the people who care.
I wonder if future historians will consider the early Web to be the last time at which information just went away.
Seeing as how there is a 641 GB archive of the old Geocities, a site from the mid-90s allowing anyone to make a website for anything, there really is a seed for just about anything. Even for marginal companies that were bought out by Yahoo in a strange attempt to stay relevant when Google was kicking their asses, there is an archive out there somewhere for a lot more than people even bother to look for.
nermid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's an archive of Geocities as it was in 2009, not a full archive of the life of the service. Certainly, many Geocities pages had shut down prior to that (many users deleted their pages over watermarks years earlier), and even then, archives were only made after Yahoo! announced the site's closure. Had they not told anybody beforehand, large chunks of that 600 gigs of Internet history would have been lost even in '09.
That's very rare for HTTPS. CloudFlare's proxy servers seem likely though. Maybe even Amazon's.
oronas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm getting
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<style type="text/css"/>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>7830E9327A9885C7</RequestId>
<HostId>
QnmUhKSTeewu3tiMk8QSjSuAkBkjrp5OyjfZwpYyWHrSxClVacDPaZnAzLzNyDRcbiF5bAme/os=
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</Error>
Amazon S3 (the storage backend Reddit is using) is eventually consistent. There will be a lag from when the post is deleted, to when the command to S3 is issued to remove the content, to when the content is actually purged from S3.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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argh523 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:43:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's the same thing, just different browsers reacting differently.
Its in my blood :) When not doing devops/infrastructure engineering, I try to save all the bits for the future. Right now I'm trying to coordinate laser scanning and imaging of a village in Tibet China is about to raze.
Sidenote: If you're anywhere near this area in Tibet, or are going there with a recent version of a smartphone, get in touch ASAP via PM.
I hope people pay you for this
I wish! Maybe one day; Until then, its just a hobby.
Not until after I've collected all of the necessary data to preserve; I don't want anyone to be alerted before then preventing the saving of that piece of culture.
My goal is that you'd be able to use photogrammetry to reproduce the physical environment in its entirety in something like Oculus, but I could see how it would be also be useful for DS work.
Always report those to reddit admins by messaging (with a link) to /r/reddit.com mods (which are the reddit admins). I'd also let the subreddit mods know as they might be able to act faster; but I'd let both know.
Mods are volunteers (I know, I used to be a default mod); admins are definitely obligated to act on illegal images.
Is any metadata retained after an image is deleted?
Dre_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By metadata, do you mean the EXIF tags and whatnot on an image, or do you mean stuff like post title and time uploaded? Because the latter is probably kept so it can be displayed on the post page itself.
Really all of the above. I'm curious as to what data, if any, is retained after the deletion.
Dre_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would assume no EXIF data gets stored, as it would be deleted with the image. I would assume all metadata related to the post (time uploaded, what user uploaded it, vote count) is probably retained so that it can be displayed/used, but I don't know.
Who is "you" in that? I think you should use the passive voice here (if a post is deleted...) as I imagine (but maybe I'm wrong) that admins want to be able to delete?
A few years ago sites like gmail actually found it was cheaper to just buy new storage space rather than trying to go through and delete data for room because bigger drives become available for less money. So it's become pretty standard to assume once it's there it's there permanently for better or worse.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The retention policy will be: if it's not against our narrative, it can stay.
I think it's shitty because reddit was basically built 99% on the back of imgur, but rather than recognizing that and partnering with them or something similar they're just going to cut them out of the equation. I call that shitty, you can call it what you will
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:50:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call that business and Imgur going to shit anyway.
Regardless, a different image hoster would have stepped up to the plate if it meant being able to show ads to literally millions of people a day. If Imgur hadn't, someone else would have. That's hardly a shitty situation.
I was around before imgur was a thing, and yeah it did make a lot of things simpler and probably helped with some small amount of reddit's success, but reddit was by no means small or struggling before imgur.
You're completely missing the point. Imgur allowed reddit to scale up incredibly quickly when their user base began to explode, there's no way in hell they could have done it alone. The front page is 95% imgur links on any given day. But whatever, if you don't see it for what it is, continue to jerk off the reddit powers that be if that makes you feel whole.
Haha naw man I think reddit at large is a cesspool, honestly. I just know the facts of the situation. You seem oddly personally invested in this. It's okay man, none of this is targeted at you. Chill.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:52:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Continue asking "BUT DO YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY NOT STORE IT!?!" like everyone else seems to do.
Eventually they'll slip up and admit they want to spy on your dank memes. /s
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:06:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is surprisingly tough to not store it, as your password may be being transmitted over a secure connection in raw text - so your password lives again on the server in its memory if the app implementer doesn't want to give the client your hash/salt implementation. This makes TLS (HTTPS) as a first defense a necessity, with all of its certification cruft and possibility of losing your private key(s) to private parties.
I asked about a pointer to the source code where this is done (fishing for a deeper description of the reddit implementation) - for my app one approach is to minimize the amount of time that raw string is in memory by zeroing those addresses immediately once the text is hashed/salted.
Here's where I left off in golang:
func EncryptAndClear(password []byte) ([]byte, error) {
defer clear(password)
return bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword(password, bcrypt.DefaultCost)
}
func clear(b []byte) {
for i, _ := range b {
b[i] = 0
}
}
I was referring to the image EXIF data discussion, actually. In that circumstance I believe it should in theory be relatively simple to simply null-out the relevant fields, or not read them at all if the image is being re-encoded.
Thank you for the interesting details on password storage, though :)
Complain that they could make more money and make reddit better by keeping the exif data and selling it. We can find anything to complain about if we try hard enough.
They couldn't put a particularly effective block on that in the user agreement, as the EXIF stripping takes place on their servers, requiring them to store it temporarily, even if it's just in RAM. So at the very most they could only say they won't keep the EXIF data for more than x minutes, but of course something could fail on the server causing an image to be present on the servers for longer than that with the EXIF data intact, so it's unlikely they'd realistically be able to put that in the agreement.
If you are that concerned about the EXIF data in images you upload being used nefariously by reddit, you shouldn't be relying on the user agreement to keep them honest and should be stripping the data out yourself.
spam99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and that is exactly where we should have a red light go off and stop using the service, but they know we won't, so instead we will accept that their word is true fact, when really it is just perceived fact without any evidence.
Oh and on top of that you know there is legal ways you can say what you said, because it is not you or who we implied would collect the exif data, but rather a third party moderating and spectating non profit. Which also has wording in their eula that they do not share their collected data for their non profit research purposes on the tax payer dollar, all while a loophole allows them to sell portals for others to backup the data without looking at it so they are not technically accessing the data.. and we'll add 5 more such company services and you get this guy saying "reddit does not collect any exif data or retain or sell it"
TLDR: through 5 company eula loopholes you can say you do not do something publicly that in corporate speak leaves out all the other ways they DO collect and sell your private data through external companies and vague and unprovable company practices.
Strip your own data, problem solved. There are programs that do it.
spam99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why does reddit not tell us to strip the EXIF data and then upload pictures? Or have an option that we can click so that all exif data is removed prior to the file being uploaded to reddit but through the reddit image upload?
Why does reddit need to read the exif data at all if it will not store it for "some" purpose or other
Can you team up with an editor and make that response
A: not be a wall of text, and
B: readable?
Erra0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:02:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His main point is that they can say they won't collect the data but maybe they actually will because of EULA or something. I think that comment was upvoted by people who are looking for something to be mad about. It doesn't actually make much sense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What part doesn't make sense? Do you think these statements made by the admins are legally binding?
spam99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly, and like i said.. they can use lingo that delves into 3-4 different "services" and their eulas.. and how Company A does not come in contact with company D, but really A shares data with D through company B which does not share with D but shares with C, which then shares with WHO THE HECK CARES.. but basically you can say something does not happen when really it does.
Just because they do not share.. does not mean they do not let others "view" because those 2 terms can be infinitely different the more you pay a lawyer.
Can this be optional? As a photographer if I post something I'd like my copyright info / shooting info to show.
madlee ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:57:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We discussed this during the beta โ we can definitely see the benefit for some communities, but we decided to keep it consistent across the board for now.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When is API access coming?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all likelihood, any parties interested in the EXIF data read it before reddit's own servers strip EXIF and archive the image.
Don't trust https browser connections. Reddit may be decrypting and looping this traffic back to a landing where 3rd parties can sniff it. And especially don't trust stand-alone mobile apps.
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If no third parties currently archive the EXIF data, can you please add a canary to let us know if you receive a National Security Letter forcing you to archive EXIF with a 3rd party?
Blink twice if you're already operating under such an NSL...
I uploaded a png and it still has this stuff after upload:
XMP
XMP Toolkit Adobe XMP Core xxx xxxxx, 2xxxxx-xxxx
Original Document ID xmp.did:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Document ID xmp.did:E7xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Instance ID xmp.iid:Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Creator Tool Adobe Photoshop xx (Windows)
Derived From Instance ID xmp.iid:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Derived From Document ID xmp.did:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
what's up with that?
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you point me at the image you are referring to? XMP and EXIF are not the same thing, but I don't think XMP data should be getting preserved either.
madlee ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:49:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:52:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Youre suspiciously not red anymore, got anything to say for yourself?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think if the admins too often are noticeable while saying "nope" to this line of questioning it'd be a case of doth protest too much and would look bad for the company.
say592 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you consider putting that statement into the privacy report that is periodically published. "Reddit.com does not retain EXIF data from uploaded images in any form."
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming site == store, no.
Triapod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something someone storing EXIF data in a separate database would say.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this is a good place to ask - is there is a link to this function in the open source code? I'm developing a web app and have to handle a similar thing and want to be sure to get it right.
Can someone uploading an image via https safely assume that third parties won't inspect EXIF data?
Is https traffic converted to http and loopbacked to a landing before hitting Reddit servers a second time?
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are paranoid about us (reddit) lying and secretly doing something with your EXIF data, I recommend stripping the EXIF data yourself before uploading it. There's probably nothing I can say to satisfy you.
It's just that saying "we" don't keep the data is somewhat duplicitous.
Can you yes-or-no confirm whether 3rd parties have access to securely uploaded EXIF data? It's a real simple question. I'm not trying to make you look bad or force you to put your foot in your mouth. Just answer. Yes or no. One word is all it will take to satisfy me.
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. My use of "we" wasn't intended to be sneaky. We don't keep exif data and we don't send it to 3rd parties.
There is only 1 thing we do with exif data directly: We check if there is an orientation exif tag โย if there is orientation info in the exif data, then removing the exif data will cause the image to display in the wrong orientation. We check for the existence of (and value of) this one tag, and transpose the image accordingly to fix this issue. The function that does this was preexisting in our codebase so you can already see that here. After that, we resave the image using PIL, which removes the exif data entirely.
TBH, before releasing image uploads to beta, nobody here even entertained the idea of keeping (or otherwise doing anything with) AFAIK. The only time we considered keeping it at all was after we got several comments from users who wanted us to keep itย โ in photography related subreddits keeping the EXIF data attached to the image is desirable, or at least some of it. We talked about having an opt-in to keep it, but it sounded like it'd be messy to implement so we punted on it.
Still, all that being said, if you are very concerned with privacy, there's nothing wrong with stripping EXIF data yourself before uploading to reddit.
Can you speak about whether incoming https traffic is converted to http and sent thru a loopback? That would permit, uh, "certain parties" to sniff data that they otherwise couldn't.
For example, domestic voice traffic often takes trips offshore so that it can be examined as if it were foreign voice traffic subject to different privacy laws.
A person using the https interface to Reddit might presume that any EXIF data will be scrubbed. Bouncing that traffic out and back in again as http gives NSL partners an opportunity to inspect that traffic, yet an unencrypted loopback doesn't specifically imply that you're sharing anything in particular, just whatever Uncle Sam cares to sniff.
Good luck, if and when you do get that NSL for image metadata.
madlee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:28:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As one of the devs that worked on it, I can tell you absolutely we don't store it. If that's not enough, we'll be opensourcing the code soon enough so you can see for yourself :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically, is https traffic converted to http and loopbacked to a landing?
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madlee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're very concerned about it, I'd recommend stripping the exif data yourself before uploading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what we did at my former employer (not Reddit). We released our source code, but without all the stuff that keeps law enforcement happy. It's quite sad the users of this site would downvote such questions. Regardless, screenshots and an archive of this are going into my "I told you so" folder for later karma.
octal9 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing here is that you either
a) take them at their word and use the service or
b) strip your EXIF data and use the service or
c) opt-out entirely.
You either trust them or don't. This is true of all free services.
It's quite likely that images uploaded to reddit pass through a landing where "third parties" can inspect the traffic before Reddit themselves process and store the images. If Reddit is under an NSL they can't even admit this. That's why it's important to add a canary NOW, specifically for 3rd party EXIF sharing.
what do you want them to say?
Either
(A) Yes, that could happen in the future, and that's why we're adding a canary, or
(B) Yes, actually, we might already share EXIF data with third parties (third parties meaning anyone other than "we"). The fact that we're already talking about it means we're not under a National Security Letter, but we could always add a canary in case we do get an NSL, or
(C) *crickets*... implying they're already under NSL.
So are you saying that they should have a canary for every single thing that reddit could ever do and then slowly remove canaries one by one? Because they already removed their canary.
Their blanket canary already died, so we can assume something went down behind the scenes. Here's an opportunity for Reddit to re-establish trust. Since native Reddit image hosting wasn't rolled out until after that canary died, it's kosher to add a new canary specifically for this case.
99.9% of users don't care about privacy. The remaining 0.1% will never be completely content. Why should the admins spend time trying to satisfy the insatiable minority?
When a business takes measures to protect their customers from cybercrime, we generally call it a good thing. When they don't, well, it tends to make them look poorly.
If a business takes measures to protect their users from overwide, unconstitutional data collection by government security agencies, that also is a good thing. Big websites and telecom companies in particular have to tread a fine line when it comes to the US surveillance apparatus.
Do you even remember who Aaron Schwarz was? Reddit hasn't always been a place where "99.9%" of users have their heads up their asses. Shame on you for even implying that it's that way now.
Do you know why the world is so fucked? Because it's full of people who think that if they don't have a particular problem, then it doesn't matter.
Guess who said that quote above. Are you saying that 99.9% of redditors think they don't have a particular problem?
On i.reddit.com, on iOS 8, if I click an i.redd.it image link, it takes me to m.reddit.com, then I have to click the link again to see the image.
m.reddit.com is much slower and less compact, and it doesn't really make sense why it's redirecting, when it should be taking me directly to the image, not back to the comments. Thought I would pass this on.
umbrae ยท 444 points ยท Posted at 16:57:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a bug, thanks for flagging. We'll look into it.
umbrae ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:08:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it reliable on a single link? As in, if you try it multiple times does it always redirect? If so, I'd love to know what link triggers this behavior for you.
It's only happened a few times, and it is reliable per link, but it has an additional weird aspect. It happens when I'm on the front page, and I click (touch with stylus on tablet screen) on the thumbnail, and it takes me to the mobile Reddit front page.
But if I open up the comments, and then click on that image, I actually open up the image.
Edit, it happened yesterday, if I find another I'll get back to you.
umbrae ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:21:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Imgur fuck you over, also? I honestly have many more problems with that piece of shit. Basically, if there's too many pixels in the album, it'll crash RiF.
Yeah it's gone to shit too. I'm sick of having to view whole album pages when I don't want to and when I do gifs in albums just don't load anymore. I just see a big gray play arrow that I can't press.
Likely because it in lines ads and it's more difficult to ad block.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:59:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
m.reddit.com is a piece of junk that is way less usable than the desktop version. The biggest problem is readability, the text is too small and you can't change or zoom. That whole site needs to go away, and instead make the desktop version a bit more responsive or customizable.
EXIF data is JPEG metadata. Most people don't realize it exists and it can have very personal information in it, such as the location the photo was taken.
EXIF data is basically information about the image embedded within the image itself. It has information like the colour definition and resolution and such like. This on its own isn't a problem.
However most, if not all, phones embed extra information. Such as the exact GPS co-ordinates of where the image was taken and possibly other personal identifying information (I've not looked at the exact data a phone adds so I can't confirm with 100% accuracy. The location is a definite though).
As you can imagine, if someone posts an image in their home and anyone on reddit can use that image to find where it is, that's a big privacy risk.
As someone who was trying to make an app that plotted a bunch of images using their geotagging, it was a pain to find geotagged images online. Even Facebook, who doesn't give a shit about your privacy has all the geotagging stripped.
EXIF data holds information about the image, like day and time when it was taken, what camera and settings you used, and sometimes a geotag with the location you took it at. This is pretty sensitive information, which you wouldn't want to unknowingly post on the internet.
There is meta-data included in most image formats that reveal things about the creator of the image. Notably you have GPS tags added by certain camera brands and other information regarding the owner of the photo management software used to process the image.
This hosting would be great in the /r/picturechallenge sub were it not for the EXIF stripping; we use that to verify when the pictures were taken and that they fall in the challenge window.
Is it possible you guys would consider making including the EXIF info an option? Maybe allow users to toggle it on and off?
EDIT: Yes, I know EXIF can be edited. We kinda work off the honor system and trust our users not to do it... the only thing that winning gets them is the chance to choose the next week's topic.
mrbooze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:40:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You son of a bitch, let me see that camera!"
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lx45803 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A checkbox like 'remove embedded private information' that's checked by default would be good. Don't make it something that can be turned off by default, but do make it visible.
alexm42 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:49:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe even hide it behind an "advanced settings" menu that you have to click to access, to make it one step harder to do accidentally.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have no idea how much of a pain in the ass that is, though. How can you strip the name/author/creator/photographer/geo fields from EXIF data when it seems like every camera manufacturer has its own "standard" for these fields?
To keep it, it's not much work. To strip it, it's not much work. To go through it and remove what is "sensitive" is a lot of work, and that's not even getting into the fact that people can't even agree on what constitutes private meta data.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:10:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think sensitive embedded information would just be a more accessible euphemism for EXIF data.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But EXIF is almost entirely not "sensitive" in nature.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
almost entirely not
lx45803 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'd err on the side of safety. If things get too complicated, people stop reading, and that's gonna end badly. Most posters won't need the viewers to have the EXIF data, and those that do will likely know about the setting and its risks, and filter the data themselves before they upload.
lx45803 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, exactly what I meant. Keep it nice and simple for people who don't know what they're doing, but leave in the flexibility for people that want to include that info. Being able to include information like field of view and stops and such are great for people trying to work with the image further.
smiba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make it a checkbox that needs to be turned on.
Some bugs or glitches (in browsers) can turn checkboxes value to null or "0", causing it to get unchecked.
No offence but your singular use case probably warrants a dedicated system (maybe even one designed to flag tampering since exif data is absolutely trivial to edit) instead of trying to break a security feature that every other sub wants, in an attempt to get it to fit your use case.
This is stupid as fuck. Exif data can be manipulated by a 5 year old with a tablet. No, it should not be an option.
lcq92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember, as /u/Amg137 said, this whole new reddit image hosting service while always be optional. So I think it'be more wise to always strip EXIFs, and subreddits needing EXIF should recommend the use of another third-party image upload site.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your sub could make use of some cryptography for the purpose of time stamping. The only issue is that if the image gets manipulated or compressed, it could break the signature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
The only issue is that it requires internet access to get to the trusted time stamping server, which might not always be available on a remote mountainside, for example.
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even know this was a thing. Do you know of any kind of tutorial that talks about posting online that would include this as well as all the other important things I am currently blissfully unaware of?
EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and EFF both circulate similar sorts of information. The type of data you can leak inadvertently is pretty hotly discussed and has been for decades.
Watermarks are quite easy to remove if you've got decent photoshop skills. Plus having copyright info embedded helps protect your photos from becoming orphaned works, if people can't find the owner and want to declare it public domain.
geo38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That means all of the upside down iPhone pictures won't get displayed correctly, or is the image rotated if the EXIF record is present?
Fucking Apple for not rotating it in the damn phone immediately.
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They could read the EXIF data rotate the image then discard it.
That's disappointing for those artists and content creators who use metadata to help protect their copyrights.
hbk1966 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but if someone uploads a image from their phone it could have their GPS coordinates. Also, how would using the metadata help protect a copyright. It's not that hard to edit the EXIF data...
It's good that it is removed. For example, it reduces the risk of people exposing their location by the geotagged photos from their phone.
skztr ยท 698 points ยท Posted at 16:12:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What has changed which made you want to do this yourselves?
calsosta ยท 142 points ยท Posted at 16:17:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I had heard (and experienced) was that imgur was causing issues. Forcing people to their app, overriding default mobile actions such as swipe, which caused a really bad experience for users.
Imgur is also blocked at my job, so it made viewing images trickier. Uploading was pretty much a no go, so I had to use a alt site that was not blocked. I like the fact I can view the images with inline image viewers from reddit hosted links, versus opening in a new browser.
yaarra ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:10:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck imgur's mobile user experience. Companies that produce that willingly deserve to die at our pitch forks.
To be fair, Reddit's currently isn't much better. m.reddit.com is wonky as shit.
Give me fucking mod tools, or just let me use .compact. Stop forcing m.reddit.com on me.
oldbean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes on Alien Blue I like to swipe on an imgur photo, to navigate to something completely irrelevant and off topic. JK lol.
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 913 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We did it for 2 main reasons:
1) Seamless User Experience
We want to make it as simple as possible for all of you to use Reddit. It was one of the most requested features by users.
2) Providing Choice
We want to offer all of you a choice. You can still use third party image hosting services to upload, but we wanted to provide an option for a smoother experience.
It was bound to happen. The redditor who made it was thrilled that it got so popular. But as reddit grew into a massive site where the easiest way to get upvotes was to post a pic/gif, it was clear that he was going to eventually tap into the full revenue potential or sell it for a small fortune to someone who would. And I only say that "it was clear" because that's what almost everyone does in that situation. It's nice to think you'd just make sure that you'd only monetize enough to pay all of the bills, but almost all of us would eventually stop ignoring the piles of cash just sitting there waiting to be collected.
Not to mention it is insanely expensive to run a hosting service be it pictures or especially video. Those pics and videos may be compressed but if your hosting platform is at all popular that is still a ton of bandwidth/storage you are paying for. Google for instance has Exabytes of storage space in their million+ servers. A huge portion of this is purely youtube. In case you didn't know an Exabyte is 1000 Petabytes and a single Petabyte is 1000000 Gigabytes. Also in another way of saying it 5 Exabytes could hold every single word ever spoken in all of history.
Areonis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:31:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
5 Exabytes could hold every single word ever spoken in all of history.
I'm a little skeptical of this claim. I doubt this would even be true with perfectly efficient encoding, but it's certainly not with the current standard of 1 letter equaling 1 bite. One study put the average number of words spoken per day per person at ~16000 words. If the average life expectancy for most of human history is ~40 years or so, that would be ~14000 days of speaking. If we lowball the average word length as three letters, that gives us (14000)(16000)(3) = ~700 megabytes per person. There have been ~100 billion people in human history, so that would be 100 billion * 700 megabytes = 70 exabytes.
Still insane that's its within a couple orders of magnitude, but it's not 5 exabytes.
I didn't say it was impossible to be profitable I just said that it would be absurd to run that kind of platform without heavy monitization for long. The thing Imgur turned into was 100% inevitable as the site grew more and more used.
Google spends around 8 Billion USD a year on their insane amount of servers.
You're absolutely correct in that it has to be a massive amount money imgur needs to generate just to break even on the AWS. Even before the site's migration and popularity surge on AWS, the previous hosting costs were still huge.
It's not like he actually ran imgur out of kindness and just paid for everything with his own money. He asked for donations, but even with those I remember having and seeing other's conversations about him starting down the path of slowly becoming just like the sites he eventually crushed by being nothing like.
"The Circle of Life" literally started playing in my head while typing that. I need less sleep deprivation.
I have already seen this process unfold twice in recent memory. First Mediafire went from amazing with no ads and decent-great speeds and no real limit on file sizes, then it got worse every single year. Another one was pomf.se which was amazing with no real file limits but then they shut down last year because it was too expensive and stressful. Some clones did pop up though like https://pomf.cat/, but they aren't as good as the original.
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Neesnu ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:17:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is kinda how caching works - the image you want is viewed much less than the ads, so the ads get cached at your local telco, where the image is still hosted all the way on imgur/reddit/hostofchoice servers and has to negotiate further back to your computer.
While I understand this feels like bad user experience, its just the way things work to try to get you everything faster =/
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:38:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck what the fuck do they want with us with the 'Open in App' bullshit.
Like, am I supposed to constantly be shifting between Reddit is Fun to Imgur, app-to-app? Fuck that, I swear, sometimes I think app companies believe they are the only app company.
Wow, I didn't realize you could do that with iOS safari (I was using Dolphin or Mercury for that). What's your method? I googled and found:
Start by pulling up a mobile website on Safari; I'll be using Wikipedia for this example. Once it's loaded, tap and hold the Refresh icon in the URL bar and you'll see the option to "Request Desktop Site" at the bottom. To go back to the mobile version of the website, just repeat the process.
Why is it that mobile pages are pure cancer? They took away my zoom, fucked with the scrolling physics, and disabled many features of the webapp. Where is the incentive?
Reddit actually stopped honoring that "request desktop site" feature, but whenever it links me to the mobile version I just click the menu button at the top and desktop site is an option there. I actually recently compared desktop mode safari to narwhal for someone, you might find some of the info interesting:
Except they planned to become the villain all along. Imgur completely played the Reddit userbase - they knew they could act friendly long enough to build up their userbase and valuation until ultimately having to start being the villain.
The entire reason why other image hosts sucked was because it's an extremely expensive business to run and it's absurdly difficult to monetize. Plastering ads is about the only way to do it. There's no way Imgur wasn't 100% aware of this when they started.
plastering ads isn't great but its no excuse for making the rest of your site also shit. its no excuse for adding things that are deliberately inconvenient like having those stupid cat paws.
Icil ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 18:02:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but there isn't a 'they'. Imgur started as one person's pet project for providing Reddit an image host; during Imgur's first launch & AMA, monetization was a far-off dream. He just wanted enough donations to break even on hosting costs (and that sweet sweet karma).
There were plenty competitors out there doing it better, but we collectively embraced Imgur as a FUBU-type of thing โ we thought it was cool (I personally still do) that one person, from Reddit, built this thing just for us.
zhaoz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:33:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know what happened to that guy? Hopefully got bought out and on to the next thing?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:40:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's still running it with his sister Sarah. They're doing really well over there, though.
It's so nice to see other people who have been around long enough to remember all of this. People from the long ago; the time before the Great Digg v4 Migration. The halcyon days of 2007-2010 when the competition for karma was determined by the content quality of your post/comment, and not image macros or one sentence "zingers".
Icil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing I learned about communities, way back on my first internet forum (as a 12y/o on GameFAQs), was that you gotta go out there and spend energy and time to find camaraderie โ it doesn't just come to you because you have the shared interests.
As community leaders push for growth, 'outsiders' with less shared interest and less-good intentions start joining. Maybe you stay and resent them, maybe you pull away and look for greener pastures. Either way, as communities grow the eldest members are quick to compare it.
These comparisons can sometimes build up negative thoughts, and those thoughts can isolate you if you don't feel willing to 'compromise' for new members joining the group (some would rather use more negative words like 'conform' or 'tolerate').
These days I just visit small subreddits and I treat r/all like it's an ongoing sitcom. I imagine I'll 'isolate' even further as time goes on.
You're right, of course. I do hold quite a bit of negative sentiment. In the early days, reddit reminded me of the great BBS communities I had been a part of a long time ago. I know some still exist and are very active to this day, but it's not the same community in my opinion.
So when I found reddit, I felt like I had stumbled upon the rebirth of what made me love the internet so many years ago. Sure, I was older and college was already a pretty distant memory, so some of the humor and conversations weren't relevant to my interests, but for the most part things were great.
Then Digg v4 happened, the Digg users almost instantly broke reddit, both literally and figuratively. Things only got worse. I think it's evened out now to be a place that 14-22 year old white men find very engaging. Which is great and all, but try to look for a good active site similar to reddit which isn't young white men. I have absolutely nothing against young white men at all. However, the majority of the internet being focused on catering to that demographic is a somewhat alienating experience when you don't fit that demo.
For me, that all comes down to choosing the pain I'm used to. The alternative isn't worth all of the bother when it's only going to be a different URL to get to people from the same pool as the users on reddit. So I'll stick around until I get to old, or until there's not even a tiny private sub tucked away in the basement of the site that hasn't been changed into just another place to cater to whatever the mods don't feel like fighting against.
That's just the narrative that he spun. I remember clearly when it happened - he tiptoed around every comment about how this venture would be impossible without advertising, and that eventually Imgur would just turn into any other random image host. He knew what would happen.
He didn't do it from the goodness of his heart, he did it to build a giant successful business, all on the back of the Reddit community's gullibility.
Yeah what a piece of shit. He tried to gain the communities trust by providing free light weight image hosting with minimal ads for 7 years and then tried to fuck us by making a cat paw animation and an ad for his own app.
Doesn't he know we're Reddit? He should have just worked a second job of he wanted to make "money". We demand he provide infrastructure to us for free on our terms with no monetization. If this mother fucker thinks he can make money off providing us a service he should just be put down because that's next level stupid.
I'm in complete agreement with you - no one should ever expect to monitize an intangible service. Only goods I can touch and feel have value.
Uhh is it so hard to accept that someone won't do something just for money? How is this on the back of reddit gullibility? Since reddit didn't provid the service someone needed to, and you can't host images for free, it's expensive.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:04:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't feel so much that they became the villain, so much as "the student has become the master." Maybe not the best comparison, since they never started out as a direct reddit competitor, and all this happened more through "osmosis" than anything. I don't think they're bad, they've just grown into a rival.
This would be a non-issue for single images if people actually knew how to use Imgur and used the direct link (i.imgur.com). None of the shitty Imgur site is loaded, it's literally just the image/gif.
I keep telling this to aspiring developer friends of mine; if you're pulling all your content from the 'net, an app is worse than pointless. Terrible ROI.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst is when they remove functionality from their mobile website in order to encourage you to use their app instead.
I don't want tonnes of apps on my phone, I want to get everything I need from the web browser.
Especially if you're like me and your sucky phone sucks and you're out of space for new apps. Not everybody is a rich San Francisco techie with your 5000 a month lofts and your disdain for the homeless
Instagram is literally mobile app only.
A lot of apps are mobile only, but when you start to think about how to develop things such as authentication, GPS, etc, then it starts to make more sense.
Having said that, as both a user and a developer, I tend to agree with you: we should be able to consume their content as we see fit, using whatever method we choose.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:53:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen the instagram app on ipad? It's literally just a scaled version of the phone app. It looks terrible.
I don't actually have much of an issue with something starting (or staying) exclusively as an app. It's when something moves from being website based to being app based that I get annoyed.
So all that effort put into the app should just be put into the website. Then you don't have to futz around with porting it between iOS and Android and keeping both code bases up-to-date. Or even the other mobile OSes if your target market is mostly made up of serial killers and old people.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't mind apps, I mind the "oh I see you are installing our flash light program, we will need complete control of your phone and access to all hardware, kthxbai"
The issue with apps is most of the time the only reason for them is because the mobile site.
You can use the desktop version which runs worse or relies on flash or is clunky or has ads that break mobile sites and etc. And then the mobile site Suck.
Like reddit I don't use relay for reddit because I like to I use it because the desktop version isn't usable due to text resizing and the mobile version is just isn't as good so here I am. Otherwise though I don't need an app for most websites. Cause this is what the Internet needs a lot of individual device specific programs rather than good Web design.
And yet here I am feeling like I'm one of all maybe five people using reddit.com/.compact instead of AlienBlue, RedditIsFun, BaconReader or any other plethora of reddit apps.
The issue is really more that the mobile site kinda Sucks. The apps don't offer much over what a website could the websites just are a worse experience but that's not that apps are superior just an issue with mobile sites in general
The worst thing is that sometimes imgur fully redirects you to a scam page telling you that your phone has a virus, and the primary response is that you should download the app because it has no compromised ads. Fucking scam.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used their app cause it loaded gifs much faster over a shitty wifi connection. only reason, otherwise idgaf.
Norci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is the app's hosting features are complete garbage, so is the mobile site now.
[deleted] ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 17:08:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who in the FUCK thought that was a good idea? And do they still work at imgur?
Veskit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be they knew reddit image hosting was in the pipeline and tried to get some redditors to get their app while they still frequent imgur. Makes sense to me.
People don't use Imgur's actual direct links, which are literally just the image and nothing else. No webpage, no cat swiping etc, just an i.imgur.com link.
Half of these problems would be solved if people just learned how to use Imgur properly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's an ad for the imgur app. Either way whenever it showed up I immediately hit back on my phone because it's distracting and little bit creepy.
So if you're on mobile and don't have the imgur app installed and you click on an imgur album this creepy cat paw would come out of nowehere and shake the screen. I have no idea if they finally decided to get rid of it but it was a terrible idea on their part.
So if you're on mobile and don't have the imgur app installed and you click on an imgur album this creepy cat paw would come out of nowehere and shake the screen. I have no idea if they finally decided to get rid of it but it was a terrible idea on their part.
I'm not afan of having separate apps for every website I visit. I've gotten so use to navigating on the desktop site with my phone that it doesn't really slow me down and saves me from learning another UX/UI to get to specific features. Also my phone is not my primary device for browsing reddit so the possible time I could save properly learning an app in and out just doesn't seem worth it if I don't spend a decent amount of time with it.
Have you tried viewing an image in the new mobile app? If it's something with text, I first have to open the post, then open the image in the internal browser, and then push the image to the Imgur app just to get it to load a high-res version.
Imgur is really bad now, I'm sorry to say. They used to be a go-to site for images, but now...ugh.
inflew ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:13:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what? Really?
Kelmi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has some very strict rules on what they show on their own front page and you can choose to publish your own images there or just not to publish them but to keep them private. Basically everything posted to fatpeoplehate was removed from imgur front page so they got removed if you ticked the "publish" box.
People saw this as major censorship for some reason and someone made slimgur.
This anti-censorship agenda is very strong on alt-right forums and they are were the main forces using it. The_donald sub started to use it at one point and got a big boost to it's popularity as well.
I'd just rather use some other host, but it's still just an image host, no biggie in using it.
inflew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing something about that from the_donald on /r/all. I thought when they said imgur 'removed' their pics that they were actually removed (as in deleted), but they were just removed from imgur's gallery? I don't quite see why that would be upsetting for them.. I guess they just needed something to be offended by?
Still, thanks for informing me!
Kelmi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the cries about imgur censorship have always been very silly.
They only delete the images if you decide to share it with the imgur community and it breaks one of the many rules. You can still use it as a host for all kinds of vile content and link it to Reddit, as long as it's not illegal(child porn etc.)
Desktop got fucked over too. It wasn't broken so they "fixed" it. It's bad that we need another option. Reddit is preying on that... but Reddit is not the option we need either.
On the other hand, imgur is the only image host that works on the (unofficial) Reddit Offline app.
Not even the official Reddit image hosting works on the Reddit Offline app.
Kruntch ยท 1285 points ยท Posted at 17:25:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2) Providing Choice We want to offer all of you a choice. You can still use third party image hosting services to upload, but we wanted to provide an option for a smoother experience.
RemindMe! 2 years
[deleted] ยท 350 points ยท Posted at 17:33:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
our servers, our rules, citizen. (The dramatic "hey, lets just sit down and talk about the changes over a mug of some hot chocolate, maybe take a mountain bike ride to the Frisbee game after, cool?" in zoolanders voice)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did we end up in this situation of having a small bunch of jerks make all the rules ?
This is like that annoying kid that took his ball and went home when we didn't follow his rules. That little shit !
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:25:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what you're talking about. He has reestablished a relationship to the community. It's one where he ignores us and does what he wants. He's not wrong! What a relationship
He didn't say anything remotely close to that, though.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:16:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh...he didnt use that kind of language, but the end result was the same. He claimed there was no censorship even though their obviously is. The sub is infamous for deleting anything that goes against the picture the mods want painted.
There is a reason that the white supremacist controlled /r/uncensorednews has 80k+ subs. And its not that they are all racist. They just got tired of the blatant censorship.
Reddit loves to throw in their "crisis" excuses for reversals of policy. They banned subs linking to J-Law nudes, according to them, because they got tired for responding to a "mountain" of erroneous DMCA takedown requests (which they themselves admitted were all erroneous).
They forced gun subreddits to remove images of Reddit-approved Reddit-branded AR-15s because of "confusion."
They'll find fake reasons to do whatever the fuck they want to do.
Quick question: does messenger still use my camera and microphone at the apps' discretion?
I removed the facebook app because of this but would be willing to consider getting messenger if this is not the case.
Messenger uses the 'camera' permission to allow you to send photos from within the app (you can take pictures within the app and send them straight from there). The same thing goes for the 'microphone' permission that it requests.
If you don't want to use that, you can always use the Messenger website, although you may need to select 'Request Desktop Website'.
There are a few others and here are the reasoning for Messenger asking for the permissions:
Directly call phone numbers: You can call Messenger contacts by tapping on the phone number.
Receive SMS: Account verification.
Read contacts: Allows you to add your phone contacts into Messenger.
I am pretty sure it doesn't use the camera at all unless you are taking a picture with it (if it did, my camera module would become super hot) and pretty sure it doesn't use mic either. Only problem with Messenger app would be if you dont like Facebook. I dont care, so for me, its practically the perfect messenger.
On modded android phones (Cyanogenmod and others), you can actually allow/deny the microphone, camera and contact access the first time the app tries to access it.
Contact access is asked at the first time you launch the app (right after you log in). Camera and microphone is not asked until you open the camera / voice message module in a conversation.
On Cyanogenmod you can also see a log of permissions last uses for every app, and it looks legit.
TL;DR: They use permissions only when necessary.
yarow12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the problem: I do not have and do not want Messenger. Now I have a link to Facebook's full-site saved as a bookmark on my phone since it doesn't seem accessible through the mobile-site anymore. Bloody coincidence, 'ey?
In the past week or so they have started A/B testing forcing you to the Play Store app page if you try to access it directly on the mobile site. So it's been hit or miss on Android recently.
I guess one could--if they didn't want to install the app--use the Messenger website although they might need to "Request Desktop Site".
I did notice that they heavily suggest USE MESSENGER and do also link to the Play Store but hitting back has worked for me.
The reasoning is almost certainly because they're mostly splitting Messenger from the main Facebook platform (allowing a much better user experience, like the payments, the voice and video calls, a chat bot API*, etc). I like it and haven't had any problems with it.
I get that many may not want to use it, but I feel like the benefits outweigh the negatives, at least in my experience.
They've also gone and disabled messaging via the mobile web site now, despite it working perfectly fine. (after 2 weeks of opening the play store to their app when you view messages.). But they'll still notify you of messages within the web site. Bastards just want to spy more.
I noticed that recently. I had logged out of messenger once and didn't get around to logging in when all of a sudden it was immediately directing from the mobile website to the app. That annoyed me. I can't even log out anymore (at least, I can't easily find it).
Google name merging -> something about merging android & chrome OS? no idea what's being referenced here.
Gmail secure email iOS 6 -> users complaining that iOS 6 doesn't support OAuth 2 and that's somehow google's fault?
Facebook Moments and Messenger -> I guess facebook discontinued their photo storage and threatened to delete a bunch of photos if users don't migrate to their new app. pretty harsh, and on-point for the topic. thanks for sharing, I guess. It still took a lot of digging to figure out what the hell you were referencing.
The other two notes (Reddit-specific) provide enough context for what happened that I was able to look up details.
Why is that their problem? If you are the one who wants to know, they gave you enough material for you to go do it yourself. This is the internet, not middle school.
Constructive debate is not restricted to middle school.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:22:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want constructive debate, you're going to have to put some effort in yourself. Nobody here is paid to spoonfeed you the information you want. Calling it constructive debate doesn't obligate anyone to provide more information for you. He provided plenty for you to look for. Either you care enough to look, or you don't. The person here who needs to do the work now is you.
I'm not going to "work" for baseless allegations with no context.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one cares what you do or don't do. They're just responding for your demands here that they give you more information.
If you want to talk to someone who cares about what you want or care about, go talk to your mother. I don't care. If you decide its too much work, its even less work to not post at all.
They removed subs like the fathate one, as well as some racist ones, and added a policy about hate subreddits.
People are still pissy about it I guess.
MoocowR ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 18:53:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the same scenario at all lol.
This is the new MO of businesses like Reddit. Roll out new "features" which are completely unimpeachable because they're "optional" and then several months later have some bit of contrived drama that "forces" you to take away every option except for the in-house option.
That has literally nothing to do with the removal and quarantine of subs like FPH and coon town. The issue is exactly how he listed it.
People are cautious of "optional features" because more often then not those features no longer become optional down the road, so you're forced to use something you don't want. Since they gradually implement it, then people don't get as angry and they can sneak it in with minimal repercussions.
Every business goes through changes. To expect the businesses you frequent to remain exactly the same is not just folly, but harmful to the business.
There's no evidence that Reddit is going to stop allowing links to Imgur or other photo hosts, which appears to be the insinuation.
But some people are very averse to change of any kind. I joke that if you give some of these people gold bars, they'll complain that they're too heavy.
MoocowR ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said FPH and "racists ones" which was Coontown and random no names, neither of those are the fappening lol.
meeu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got an example?
Cronus6 ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:08:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cronus6 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you experts say.
Clearly they are not the enemy....
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:19:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the "safe spaces" initiative that Ellen Pao pushed through. Everyone went apeshit and hated her. They got rid of her and everyone was happy. You know what they didnt get rid of? The safe spaces bullshit.
Yep. That was the plan all along: get in between the doctor and the patient and control that interaction to reduce costs.
Both in terms of preventing patients from seeking care (limiting available doctors, or pushing patients away from care in general) and in terms of manipulating care a doctor provides when they do see a patient (limiting reimbursement, altering reimbursement schemes, creating strict schedules for care, etc.) the goal is to reduce options for patients and doctors and limit remaining available options to the cheapest ones.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
interesting. what resources can i use to learn more?
Ask anyone with a chronic illness or cancer in a country with socialized medicine like Canada.
It's awesome for routine things that people generally know things about, like delivering a baby, broken arm, etc. However, if it's a disease that people are known to die from then you'll be getting the best 3rd rate care money can buy if you survive the waiting list.
Our government just scares us with articles like 'It cost $200,000 to deliver a baby in the US' and not articles like 'It cost $50,000 for cancer treatment, and its gone'
Falark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I have a source on that? This Blog suggests otherwise, though this was the top of my quick search. I can't believe in any way that any kind of care is worse here for whatever reason - but I'm open to hear otherwise
Wouldn't you want more care to be given though, as that would result in higher revenue?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The insurance companies have always functioned in this manner. The proposed plan was to move towards a single payer health care plan, but that's "socialist" and therefore evil. Consequently the entire plan got kneecapped from the beginning. At best it is now government run insurance instead of private run insurance.
Insurance adds nothing to health care, while massively driving up costs. Government managed single payer health care has decades of evidence in multiple countries as being more cost-effective, and providing a higher quality of care.
No one should have to go bankrupt because of cancer so that some insurance companies can get rich.
SNRatio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nowadays, well over half of Redditโs popular content links to Imgur, causing Imgur to become one of the top 50 most-visited web sites on the Internet (according to Alexa).
Imgur has now grown into a full-fledged online community focused on image sharing, and is arguably a direct competitor to Reddit. In a sense, Imgur has gotten too big for its britches, and itโs probably too risky for Reddit to continue relying on a direct competitor for image hosting.
Combine these observations with Imgurโs recent aggressive monetization campaignโlink-jacking direct image links on mobile devices to display ads, for exampleโand itโs really no surprise that Reddit wants an in-house image hosting service to supplant Imgur. Until Reddit makes an official statement, all we can do is speculateโฆ but this explanation makes sense to me.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:06:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, I think this is really the start of a long play to get slimgr.com off of Reddit, it's been being used for images posted on subs like /r/The_Donald because imgur is complicit with Reddit's censorship. Following this they will have full censorship control of the site, and no opinions they disagree with will be allowed.
imgur has grown into it's own community though. They are a direct competitor of reddit. If I owned a fast food restaurant that featured Adambombs french fries, then you went ahead and opened your own fast food place next door to mine, wouldn't it make sense to start making my own fries and stop endorsing yours?
Yeah, for real. And plus, even if whatever adambombs is saying holds a little truth (which it probably doesn't, but let's say the first part does), what makes it to the front page of Imgur, 99 times out of 100, is not politicial, whereas look at the front page of sli.mg and it's all alt-right memes and such.
An image site which that much of an agenda to push, be it left or right, would turn off some portion of users, so of course they wouldn't want that.
And these aren't even hard blocked. ED is only soft-banned (all posts that go there get queued, as ED often has posts that have doxx) and Gawker isn't blocked iirc.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember the history, but I read somewhere the admins put a site-wide restriction on Gawker.
This was a reaction to the ViolentAcrez incident. Many subreddits elected to ban Gawker links, and this was temporary and not intentional.
In any case, I highly doubt that reddit will move towards unilaterally pressuring use of their own image host over imgur & slimgr, not to mention the inevitable porn subs. Can you imagine the bandwidth burden it would be for reddit?
No kidding, it'd be a nightmare, with 503s probably happening way more often than they do now.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is dying anyway, after they started censoring and pushing political agendas and manipulating their algorithm they doomed the site. Happens the same way for every platform that starts to censor its users and push an agenda.
I'd bet in 12 months there'll be a front page post using a 3rd party image hosting site which ends up having porn in the sidebar or some other bullshit
Nevermind that one or multiple porn/erotic link posts reach the front page every day.
I love you people, you'll always find room for concern even if there's nothing to be concerned about.
Yeah, that does sound a little bit like microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" methodology in it's beginning stages. With how reddit has gone in terms of monetizing and censoring/vote "algorithming" certain types of posts, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes full digg in the next few years.
It's already going digg, this was the point where many of us left digg to go to reddit, the mass exodus followed quite a bit later and then went full blown when v4 came out.
When you submit a picture from a third-party, all you are doing is submitting a link. Do ypu honestly think Reddit will kill off /r/news, /r/videos, and any other community that relies on posting things other than images and self posts? And they would do this - killing off a large section of their content - just so they can spend a ton of money hosting images? What's the incentive there, and why is greater than the disincentive of killing off thousands of communities, with millions of users who look at ads and buy gold?
The incentive, like any other company, is that they own the data. They decide where that data is stored, and what to do with it. Not to mention it drives more traffic to their site if it's linked somewhere else on the internet.
Since reddit treats imgur links as just links, the only way to block uploading to such sites would be to block posting links at all, which would kind of hurt their business model...
They already filter links from certain sites, just add imgur to the list. Sure it's whack-a-mole but they will win over time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The could actively filter imgur and any type of proxies or mirror sites linking to it, if they really wanted to get tough. It's quite easy. I don't think they will, but it is quite easy to do.
Still does. If you don't keep up with the community side of Imgur, one of their engineers talked tech in a blog post a couple months back, after a flury of complaints about long response times and connection failures.
That talk didn't seem very techie to me. He just rattled off a few different service names without much detail and provided a graphic. Yes it seems imgur is getting a bit slow on mobile lately, not really touching on that though, imgur blew everything else out of the water when it came out and still does pretty much. I'm interested to see what happens with this reddit thing, but sfw only are you kidding me.
No argument here, but OP should have been candid about this. To leave out the business rationale is disingenuous and a bit insulting. SOP for corporate America, but a glimpse into reddit's management's culture, and probably also a glimpse of where they're headed.
nermid ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:14:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How so? People come to Reddit, are served links (which take basically nothing to host) and sidebar ads, and then are sent to imgur to pick up images (which take comparatively huge amounts of overhead for the company store and deliver) and ads (if the link submitter didn't link directly to the image, anyway. In that case, no ad revenue for imgur). Reddit's the leech, here, not imgur. They put in the heavy lifting of storing and delivering images, while Reddit skates by collecting ad revenue from hyperlinks.
Taking on image hosting is going to be a massive investment of resources for Reddit for very little extra revenue (if any), and frankly I don't know how Reddit can think they're ready for it when even the text site still breaks down frequently for going over capacity.
Dealing with dynamic content, e.g user generated voting systems, etc, is the much harder than pushing static content. Sure there are problems with image hosting, and imgur solves them well, but in terms of complexity reddit is a much harder beast, hell even something as big as Stack Overflow is simpler than reddit because it's largely Read Only.
To be fair, Imgur was created by a redditor for the primary purpose of providing a simple, easy to use, and reliable image host for people to use for this site. Then things got expensive, so ads were needed to fund the upkeep. Now however Imgur has bloated into its own social platform (as childish as the community on it may be) that a fair number of people switched over to using as their primary content consumption platform.
fdij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering reddit is responsible for the growth of imgur is it not fair to bring some of that back?
Holy shit you are a god. I've been here for years and never knew that.
clb92 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:46:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on, people... Has no one ever looked at the "formatting help" popup and thought to click the "check the commenting wiki page for more detailed help" link to see all markdown options?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The formatting still isn't that nice and easy to use. I shouldn't have to remember syntax that relates to line breaks. I still prefer BBcode because I only have to remember a set of commands (B, I, Link=, etc.) and the formatting is the same for all of them.
With Markdown, I have to remember that a certain number of * or ~ or whatever might be italics, or bold, or extra bold, and they don't stay in my memory as well.
clb92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I personally prefer Markdown. BBcode reminds me too much of HTML elements and attributes, but with completely wrong syntax, and as a web developer it just kind of annoys me to look at.
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1) We want to inflate our pageviews, because that's a metric that business people use to quantify website worth. Make no mistake, we're here to monetise this baby. Don't believe me? A few months back, imgur was serving 5 billion pageviews per month. Bringing those pageviews back to Reddit increases our perceived worth.
2) We want to introduce a licensing model to news & media organisations that already write articles about content our users create. We can charge more if we own the rights to the picture(s) the thread discusses or references.
1) We want to inflate our pageviews, because that's a metric that business people use to quantify website worth.
I work for the local newspaper as a reporter. About six months ago, we were told to stop tossing the photos we didn't use in a story. We typically had 2-4 photos per story. Now we have photo galleries with almost every story. The increase in pageviews has been phenomenal.
fuzzb0y ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:49:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People like pictures. People love pictures of funbutting.
Taubin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:26:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a quick way to make it to my personal website blocklist. Especially if it's bullshit like "Totally awesome cake recipe" with each step having it's own slideshow photo.
There are simply too many websites out there to get the same information without making me click through 30 fucking slides to get the information I need.
"Totally awesome cake recipe" with each step having it's own slideshow photo.
I refuse to visit those as well. I personally rarely visit my paper's website and only point people to my stories if I really think it's interesting and/or important. I don't think I've ever pointed them to a photo gallery.
AKluthe ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 02:56:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the real answer right here.
Originally Reddit was designed so people could post all their content and content they find on one site, ie: content aggregation. Imgur was designed to be a simple host for that purpose; it loads fast, doesn't get tanked by heavy traffic and you don't have to scroll to get to the content once you click.
Over time Imgur has grown. A lot. It's now its own community. People don't just use it as a host for other sites now, they post to Imgur for the sake of sharing with the Imgur community. They hold discussions and socialize there. It's become what Reddit was designed to be...or one could say, a competitor.
Now one nice thing about Reddit being a content aggregator is it encouraged the whole community to post links to the best stuff from around the web. Or it did. Reddit has also changed. Users want direct links to Imgur so the content loads fast and they don't have to scroll. The less work, the better.
In addition, anti-spam and self-promotion rules mean most subreddits won't even let you regularly post your own (new) OC without offloading it on Imgur or a similar site to cut off any pageviews you'd get from it and circumvent those spam rules. That way users don't have to leave, you don't get an compensation, and Reddit gets more content viewers, more page views and the content.
Those business people you mention like pageviews because they're the lifeblood of web content. Hosting anything or creating anything for the web has to generate revenue. Either you're charging for entry or a subscription, you're charging by the ad (page views), or selling some sort of product. It all has to make money somewhere.
Not surprising, but all of those people creating content for the internet also like getting pageviews.
Except Reddit has trained its users to like content fast and free, via uploading to Imgur. Rather than just aggregate, Reddit has begun harvesting content, slapping it on a third party site and repeatedly serving it back to itself without credit or concern for the people that create it. I've seen 3 minute comedy videos converted into a gif (so no audio, no playback functions) posted here and people defend it because "gifs don't have sound and I might be at work!" or, more commonly "I don't click Youtube links/I get more clicks if I post a gif." (Kudos to CorridorDigital, Darth Santa was a funny video and deserved better than being frontpaged in gif form.)
Reddit has gone from content aggregating to straight up freebooting.
Supporting uploads without leaving the site and displaying them without leaving the site is just the next evolution of it.
You either die a Digg or live long enough to see yourself become a 9gag.
The facts of the situation aside, will it always be necessary for us to burn down every fucking boat we build, usually while we're in it? (I'm not criticising your perspective--it's valuable, and worth discussing.)
Is it simply the nature of the relationship between individuals and corporations?
I'm neither accusing nor excusing, I just honestly wonder if... well... nothing gold can stay?
If it costs money to get through the door on the first day of a site like reddit then they won't get the critical mass to run a community based site like this. if the site waits til it has that critical mass then starts charging for its content then the user base revolts.
people want a great service but they don't want to pay for it in any way. I'm not judging that attitude, but it's a fact.
I think the thing that rubs a lot of people the wrong way is that reddit relies on 100,000s of contributors (content creators, mods, etc) to give away a little bit of their time/effort for free and they want to monetise that for profit. At the same time, the users who are here for the content which reddit essentially gets for free, are the product which is onsold to advertisers. reddit is providing a platform but they're crowdsourcing all their content and hoping to get rich by selling out their captive audience to advertisers. I'm sure there are lots of users who resent being onsold but i doubt there are enough to noticeably change the site if they all walked away tomorrow.
AKluthe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:00:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure there are lots of users who resent being onsold but i doubt there are enough to noticeably change the site if they all walked away tomorrow.
If Reddit survived the huff about Ellen Pao, they'll certainly survive this.
The bulk of the users here either don't understand or don't want to understand copyright issues, original content, or how they're being monetized. They just want to see cat gifs while they poop and get the most imaginary internet points for their caveman SpongeBob. Whatever makes that easiest will keep them on the site -- which is exactly what the people in charge of Reddit want.
To be fair, you can blame reddit but mostly the users are to blame for the way content is distributed. We want to consume as much as possible in the shortest amount of time and this generation has a view that everything on the internet should be free with no sense for copyright, or even asking the creator whether they can distribute or not. I'm part of the problem, I often view article then go right to reddit comments without even reading them, I also skip videos but will always load gifs.
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there's blame on both sides.
My complaint on Reddit's part is that they don't do anything to discourage content jacking and then profit off of it. The site has no global rules about not breaking copyright law, yet has global rules that say you can't link to the same piece of original content on more than one subreddit because you'd be promoting yourself.
Only 1/10th of your submissions are allowed to be your own content, even if 10/10 would be relevant OC. Now you and nine other people can submit those 10 pages and it would be fine. 100 different people can reupload and submit the same one 100 times over. You can even upload them to Imgur yourself, forfeit any traffic your regular site would gain and be within the rules.
Reddit doesn't have to forfeit any of the pageviews, mind you, but you the creator of the content do. Because it would be self promotion.
Wait what? I had no idea about that rule only 1/10th can be your own content, that's just stupid, but also is it actually enforced? Like Shen in /r/comics posts his works, oh but does he use imgur, then put the link of his comic in the comments?
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:39 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a twice I've been reported for "spam" (only once did anything come of it, the other I found out later when I asked about some specific rules and the offending mod got called out by his/her peers). So it's enforced, but it probably also depends on the moderator and the subreddit. /r/comics is very relaxed about it and even has rules specifically saying you can self submit.
Shen also posts Imgur links with his URL in the comments, so it's within Reddit's rules -- if you the creator don't get anything out of posting it, it's okay.
I believe /r/funny asks creators to post Imgur links with the source in the comments if they're going to self-submit. The thing is, there's a massive difference between the kind of traffic you get from submitting the source and the kind you get from submitting in the comments. We're talking 50,000 visitors versus less than 100 visitors. Plus there are a ton of variables that come with posting in the comments. If Reddit breaks out a combo of quotable responses, the top voted comments will all be jokes instead of links. I've seen cases where people have downvoted users linking to the source. The voting system is fickle and the same thing can end up hidden just as easily as it can end up at the top.
I get why the rule exists. Reddit doesn't want the same person linking to the same dumb thing every day to try to dig up some page views. They don't want Reddit to be one big commercial, especially while they're selling ad space.
But the way it's worded and can be used actually discourages people from submitting OC and encourages users to post the same tried-and-true material and Imgur links.
Sad but very true. For what it's worth though, that is what the internet has become. Creators are the suckers of this scenario. Companies like google, facebook, pinterest and co just suck up all content from sites, and make billions by serving it (google even just hotlinking).
Can't blame reddit for doing the same. The users or the internet structure has to change to stop this.
Not to go too OT, but your comic's hilarious. Have you run into any trouble posting it here? You're at, like, 53%.
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:51 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, thank you! And to answer your OT question, yeah, early on I was casually flagged by a mod somewhere and subsequently shadow banned. After a lot of leg work I was able to contact an admin and get it appealed, in part because I'd also dug up dozens of submissions showing my comics being highly upvoted and also rehosted and submitted by other users without any credit. There was also the fact I was regularly posting on r/comics and r/webcomics (who have rules specifically saying you can post your own comics.) and I do way more commenting/discussion than I do submitting.
Which is part of why I realized the anti-spam/promotion rules are so strict they stifle OC while promoting the same old regurgitated submissions and stolen content.
All those guys who reposted my comics without credit? They did it and will continue to do so. No one flags you or shadowbans you for throwing someone else's video on Imgur. You can submit a hundred reuploaded comics with no link back to their respective writers or artists and nothing will happen.
You can post a hundred awkward seals with new text and it's not spam.
You post a handful of different funny comics or stories you created on your own site and you get banned and they don't even have the courtesy to tell you your posts are now invisible.
I'd actually like to post on /r/funny or /r/gaming from time to time, but their mods enforce the spam/self promotion policy, so they strongly recommend artists rehost the content on Imgur first. I never got around to working with them and setting up custom flair and, to be honest, am kinda nervous to set the example of rehosting my own content.
This announcement is part of a larger push on the part of the reddit admins, as the post this is a child of shows.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:10:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to make your point, stop calling them the Reddit admins - they're Reddit employees. It's all designed to turn a profit. At the same time, remember that without someone trying to make a buck, it wouldn't be here.
I love them trying to make a buck, I think they should. I was pointing out the difference between a win-win (image hosting), and a win-lose (Ellen Pao). The parent commenter and I are reminding them (the admins) to do the former.
Booo no, I want this free website that I use daily (don't forget I have adblock installed!) to hemorrhage money until it is financially unsustainable to run and has to shut down! I also want it to always be improving, and run seamlessly. I will rage every time the site goes down (huge websites don't cost money to run, right? what are servers?), and rage at any attempt at revenue generation and label it an evil conspiracy theory.
Why are either of these an issue that we are supposed to get all bent out of shape about? Reddit is a business and if they are doing this to increase revenue, good for them. Why is it that anytime someone tries to make a buck on the internet these days they are automatically branded a money grubbing asshole?
Because they're billing it as a "Omg look we totally listened to our users!" when they have repeatedly shown they do not listen until something gets tipped over and set on fire (I.E. /r/news) so its important to call out their bullshit for what it is lest people get the wrong idea.
Yes and no. Users may have requested the feature, but they aren't adding it because of the users. There are many other issues that users complain about far more frequently that are completely ignored until they burst (again, /r/news). If Reddit was actually paying attention to and responding to users we would see more additions that are not solely driven by business-related reasons like OP mentioned.
Obviously businesses need to do what they need to do to make money, but the only reason they added this feature is because it's profitable, not because users wanted it.
I'm sorry, this reeks of insane entitlement. They've added a TON of features that make no difference in their bottom line for the users over the last couple of years and yet that counts for nothing.
I guess this is just a situation where people just wanna be mad about something.
AKluthe ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:04:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because it's also making a buck at the expense of others.
There's been a lot of growing complaints about Facebook and other sites becoming a notorious breeding ground for freebooting -- downloading content you didn't make, then uploading elsewhere for recognition and/or profit.
Creators have little recourse over this when the business (such as Facebook) doesn't prevent it in the first place. And assuming the creators/copyright owners do eventually find out it's usually too late to do much besides request the company pulls the video...in 24-48 hours. At which point the uploader has already profited. No one takes the money or views away from the uploader, and the creator gets nothing for their work (except thousands or millions of people who have watched/read it with no reason to do so again.)
Now Reddit wants its users to take all that content and conveniently reupload it to their own site, with their own ads and inflate their own pageviews.
That and they're spinning it as "It's all for you guys!" rather than being upfront that it's a business decision to serve themselves at the expense of content creators.
alive1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:36:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, imgur needs some incentive to stop trying me to download their app, or scare me with sudden cat paws over images I'm looking at. They've really been pissing their users off lately.
Sorry to dig up an old comment, but have you tried using a decent ad blocker? I've been running one for quite some time, and I kept hearing about it, but never saw it until I disabled the ad blocker just to see it for myself. uBlock Origin works on the desktop and mobile platforms.
alive1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:49 on September 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I use ublock origin as well. Just not on mobile.
Well would they really tell the truth? It seems natural they would say it's for us, given it is useful and many people have requested, so I really can't blame them, they're a business, they want to look good. I thought that the feature was mainly for things on people's desktops, so they don't have to make an account with a third party like imgur in order to upload, but will people really download say images, then reupload to reddit? What's the point of that, is it so it's faster or something?
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but will people really download say images, then reupload to reddit?
The same reasons people find a funny video on Youtube, record it as a gif, upload it to Imgur and submit it here instead of just submitting the link.
Mobile apps support imgur inline so you can scroll through the images without leaving Reddit.
Imgur links are guaranteed to load quickly and take you right to the content.
More people like no clicking/easy clicking, therefore they upvote that content.
Now Reddit will be able to do all those things natively, with the addition of getting extra pageviews and ad money for it.
Isn't that kind of similar to when movie studios complain about pirating and people justify it by saying they aren't delivering the content in a form or method that they want? The biggest difference is obviously that people are actually making ad money from freebooting. With how crazy the internet is I feel like you either have to exhaust every method of content delivery yourself or someone else is going to. Which is a ridiculous standard to have for smaller content creators, but that's kind of the nature of the beast that currently exists.
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's truth to convenience (or the right format) reducing piracy. When it becomes easier to buy or easier to acquire in a format you like, people will choose that option.
You'd think this stuff would be the baseline of convenience. There's no subscription to get on Youtube, the videos are right there. I give a comic away for free every single week, you can view the whole backlog of 'em -- almost 300 at this point -- on my site.
Reddit and Imgur have set the bar so low that people want the content without leaving the site they're already on. They say things like "Oh, I didn't want to crash your site, so I rehosted it." when they really mean "Oh, I don't want to risk clicking a link and not have a funny picture."
And maybe it is time to innovate web distribution!
But the rehosting model has done plenty to benefit Reddit, and now them directly rehosting only benefits them more. Without the content, this site would be nothing. It has to come from somewhere, it's not all just going to originate from this on-site file host.
"Oh, I didn't want to crash your site, so I rehosted it." when they really mean "Oh, I don't want to risk clicking a link and not have a funny picture."
I don't understand, risk clicking a link and not having a funny picture? Especially with small creators I think people should ask or find out their policy before re-uploading something, I think the not wanting to crash the site can be legit though. It's annoying when there's content you can't view because the site has crashed, but again, you have to ask the creator.
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be, but on small subs with low traffic it's not an issue. On larger sites it's not an issue. On sites like DeviantArt and Tumblr it's definitely not an issue. It's become the catch-all excuse for not even attempting to give credit.
Redditors are trained by other Redditors to say they didn't want to hug-o-death you so they decided to give you...no traffic and no credit. But they're not that concerned about you or your site, they're concerned about the link not working after they submit it. It's a way of spinning personal convenience into concern for the person they've grabbed the art/video/whatever from.
Most of the webcomic people who have been asked will even say they'd prefer a direct link, first and foremost. We don't care about a hug-of-death and would prefer posters link before they reupload. The downtime isn't usually significant and even a couple hours of downtime with a huge spike before and after means you get more out of it than the reupload alternative, ie: nothing.
What do you think if someone then posts a reupload but in the comments they post a direct link?
I think it's true that most people don't care about the content creator, they just want the link to work
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:22 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this in another response just now, but I prefer a direct link. Mostly because the kind of follow through you get it very, very different. We're talking 50,000 visitors instead of less than 100.
Plus it's hard to control what exactly will happen in the comments. Reddit's upvote system is fickle; the same comment can just as easily end up buried as it can end up at the top. If someone decides they don't like your sourcing early on, down to the bottom it goes. If someone a chain of joke responses break out, Always Sunny quotes, or they start typing the lyrics to a song line by line, that source link can quickly get buried by comments with more upvotes.
Exactly. If people are unhappy, why not just stop using it or go to Voat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it's going to harm the user experience for reddit. Imgur worked great before. Reddit is Fun was able to integrate imgur photos into it's app just like the Reddit app does for only reddit hosted pictures. Instead, Reddit is going to now break that experience in order to try to make it more profitable for them. No one's saying we'll enjoy it more.
Globbi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't see that complaint as an issue with Reddit introducing new features, but rather with them outright lying about the reasons.
There can be multiple reasons. Obviously making money will drive Reddit's decisions (as it does all businesses), and there are far worse ways that Reddit could do that. I'm glad that they would direct their monetization efforts towards something that improves the user experience rather than something that ruins it.
This has me curious, when users start uploading copyrighted media here, and Reddit is making money off of it, can Reddit be sued by the copyright owners?
V2Blast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:25:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit probably can't be sued unless they received a legitimate DMCA request and then ignored it.
Obviously, I'm not a lawyer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think they would for making money off of it. I think it would be more handled by DMCA stuff. It'd be similar to how YouTube handles copyrighted stuff.
trogdc ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:37:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how business works lol. You don't buy a company out of the kindness of your heart. All imgur has that reddit wants is image hosting, and they can do that for a fraction of the cost imgur would want for the whole company.
Also, reddit wouldn't be the site it is without imgur? imgur wouldn't be a site at all, so how does reddit 'owe' them anything??
You don't have to if you have RES. You can open imgur links without ever leaving reddit.
rem3sam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't care who hosts the photos I'm looking at, but my problem with this is that the icon for unloaded reddit uploads is the same as the icon for video content rather than the photo icon, and it also can't be resized on the reddit page by dragging like imgur links do.
Is it really that hard to get? The problem some see is not the blown up pageviews but the official reason given not containing at least the most important business reasons.
Reddit is directly being competed with by Imgur. Imgur was just an image hosting site, to now building their own Reddit. It's only logical that Reddit would build their own image hosting site.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make no mistake, we're here to monetise this baby.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's the comment I was looking for. This is all just reddit trying to lateralize it's business by keeping all content under Reddit, Inc. Especially obvious when you throw in the new reddit app and how the other competitors' are breaking.
Thanks for this. Imgur is a giant PIA on mobile. Crashes browsers all the time on my Android. And I don't appreciate being coerced into using their POS app, just because they (intentionally ?) crash my mobile browser.
Nalmyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's unintentional, check out the CPU usage on a computer. Runs at 60% of one of my cores, while doing nothing...
So if a user were to steal an image from a user, then photoshop that image into porn without the user's will you then remove it? Because as it stands, Reddit admins tend to side with the abusive people who do this all the time.
Reddit's Admins and the Imgur staff were victims of this all the time and never complained. Do the people you're crying to about abuse know that you are /u/honoryourbeetus from /r/FatPeopleHate?
Can you guys please add a tab the user profile page that allows us to view all images that we've uploaded in the event that we ever want to delete them?
neugo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real reason: We lost out on roughly $250,000,000.00 by allowing Imgur to take all of our customers, and we want that to stop.
imhiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rofl, bullshit answer, and everyone knows it!
Just be honest with your users, thanks.
(I mean, I'm sure you also want to improve user experiences, but I just find it dishonest when you're implying these 2 reasons were the deciding factors that greenlighted the project to take over image hosting from a 3rd party - because this was a business decision.)
Was it considered to partner with a third-party Image hosting company (eg make a seamless experience but link to the third party? I get why you might not like that, so just curious.
forgtn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people in the comments right now are giving reddit shit that they're really doing this for revenue purposes...
Well like, no shit... Reddit is one of the most active boards on the internet and it's already struggling to turn a profit. That's why Gold is promoted as such a big feature.
If it helps a completely FREE and excellent service that I use on a daily basis stay alive, then fuck it, go for it. I think a lot of users take what reddit is for granted. In 2016, how many websites still run ads as nonintrusive as reddit? Reddit is one of the few sites that I allow through my adblock filters because of how well done the ads are.
In the last few years, especially, reddit has seen a far larger rate of growth, so not only is it unviable to continue relying on a third party source for image hosting, it's also completely unprofessional. It would be like the equivelent of Amazon using Wordpress to run it's website.
Regardless of whether direct image hosting is or is not mainly about page views to help with revenue flow anyway, it is still undeniably one of the most requested user features, at this point we essentially have a means of almost completely phasing out imgur, which has become it's own community anyway. While this DOES benefit Reddit, it also benefits the users greatly, and I for one am fine with that.
I see an advantage in having pictures stored separate from messages. Otherwise it could in the end turn out to become something as "not web" as facebook... Google+ is better though. What google+ is missing is a way to show images in comments.
Hm, how so? We've been doing the Reddit+Imgur thing a long, long time now (in internet time). They're still fairly different websites and many people use both anyway.
Agreed, many people use both. This could be seen as a problem in Reddit's eyes -- they might feel that Imgur's traffic should (and could) be a part of their own. In other words, there's no reason why Reddit shouldn't be in Imgur's market, since it's a proven source of revenue and the business model is similar enough.
Pretty curious that the image from this post did not load on mobile. Real seamless experience. You also left out getting people to use your crappy mobile app.
espero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2) Providing Choice We want to offer all of you a choice. You can still use third party image hosting services to upload, but we wanted to provide an option for a smoother experience.
!Remindme 2 years
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are not answering his question. /u/skztr asked what changed and you're just giving two reasons why it would have been smart to do it in the first place.
skztr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, that is indeed what I was getting at. eg: Has the cost of media hosting gone down? Are you more confident about the legal issues of hosting media due to some recent precedent? Have you decided that image hosting can be a revenue stream? Do you no-longer trust the ecosystem of external image hosts?
faraboot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We want to make it as simple as possible for all of you to use Reddit
How hard is it? Am I missing something?
edit: wtf is with downvotes, have I said something wrong?
hfxRos ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:58:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How hard is it? Am I missing something?
Currently if you wanted to post an image to reddit you'd have to first upload it somewhere else, like Imgur. That first hurdle might by itself stop users who are not tech savvy at all, or are just lazy. Being able to upload the image directly when making a new post is useful.
It's not "hard", but that doesn't mean it can't be easier.
Also Imgur has been getting more shit on mobile as of late.
It isn't about it being easy, it is about it being intuitive. New user experience and such. Every new user has to figure out that the only way to upload an image to Reddit is to go to some third party site, upload the image, and post a link to that image on Reddit. A bit wonky from a new user perspective.
hfxRos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wtf is with downvotes, have I said something wrong?
The tone of your question makes you sound like a dick. Probably not intentionally, but that's how it comes off.
2) Providing Choice We want to offer all of you a choice. You can still use third party image hosting services to upload, but we wanted to provide an option for a smoother experience.
Imgur has been competing with reddit for years. When they start bypassing mobile requests for direct image links with non direct links with mobile ads is when reddit thankfully steps in.
They started this when imgur started trying to be its own community and social network. In a nutshell - they don't want to drive traffic to the competition.
Other than the positive and/or obvious reasons it's also granting reddit way more control over their users and they might even start to monetize it (unlikely).
Saiing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever the reasons they give, imgur has basically become its own community these days. There is a significant amount of traffic that just goes to imgur, gets discussed there and never sees the light of day on reddit. imgur has grown into much more than just a small project for predominantly hosting reddit-related images and is pulling users away from reddit. This site needs to address it as part of its business strategy if it's going to continue to survive.
Imgur has slowly been going evil, monetizing with aggressive ads, and punishing embedded use. They're not going to mention it explicitly, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a factor.
jc731 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has been successful in making money while reddit continues to struggle?
hennell ยท 426 points ยท Posted at 16:39:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some random questions - apologies if these are asked & answered elsewhere (or are blindingly obvious if you use the feature on a desktop!)
What's the copyright deal when uploading to 'reddit images'? (Can they (offically) be republished by others? By Reddit?)
What's the copyright deal if you get complaints (I.e. a company says it's their picture? What if the uploader disagrees?)
Can images only be viewed via Reddit.com or are you planning a twitter cards style embedded situation etc?
You said images will be deleted if the post is deleted. Can you delete the image separately from the post?
Do you do any smart "this is the same image as that" duplicate managing - if so what happens if one post is deleted?
[1] is the same as comments and posts. If there is a disagreement about removal, we'll handle those case by case.
Can images only be viewed via Reddit.com or are you planning a twitter cards style embedded situation etc?
Image hosting is for images within Reddit today.
You said images will be deleted if the post is deleted. Can you delete the image separately from the post?
Do you do any smart "this is the same image as that" duplicate managing - if so what happens if one post is deleted?
Not yet - on both accounts - but it's likely something we visit.
For those of you wondering what the fine print entails...
By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.
/u/spez could you not update the TOS to specify that Reddit retains the right to display the images on their site or via third party apps but doesn't own them? Imgur TOS seems to be slightly better here: http://imgur.com/tos
EDIT: clarification by "own" I mean have the right to resell for revenue without expressed written consent of content creator or maintain even beyond deletion.
I'm not asking about what they will do, I'm asking what they could do if they wanted. It's very possible someone could post am image that could become commercially valuable in the future.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:29:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's really no such thing as a ToS without these clauses. You can't know what a company's intent will be far in the future. If anyone is that worried, they shouldn't upload their photos anywhere.
And while no UGC site protects the rights of comments, the rights of creative works that are visual and auditory in nature appear to have a slightly higher level of protection such as YouTube's and SoundCloud's which attempt to define the service which the rights are being granted to. Reddit could and should update their TOS for images.
666Evo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:31:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
World's shittiest art gallery?
Dude, have you seen some of the stuff people upload here? Sure, if you include the Rare Pepe's I might agree, but go to any of the "SFW Porn" subs and tell me there's not art in there. Not to mention r/Art...
A TOS on a UGC site should protect both users and the platform. As I mentioned earlier Imgur does fairly good here.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:27:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How exactly is Imgur's any better?
With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content.
To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Imgur pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense. Also, of course, anything you post to a public portion of our site may be used by the public pursuant to the following paragraph even after you delete it.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:32:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense
So if every image uploaded is automatically "designated for sublicense" with a database flag and copied... it's the exact same. It's irrevocable (like any other) with a clause that sort of pretends it's not.
For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.
Technically their TOS can be interpreted to do anything they want like publish a book of submitted images, similar to the AMA book, without the permission of the originating authors. I'm positive and hopeful that it is not their intent to do anything heinous like this, but would rater have the TOS protect users before a problem arises.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is being able to do all that functionally different from owning the image?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the owner retains ownership and can do absolutely whatever they want. An owner isn't a licensee.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they have every ability to do anything with it that the owner could, forever.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:35:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your edit. I looked up indemnify and still I definitely didn't understand what you meant.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just not true.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what way? If I upload a picture to Reddit, what can I do with the picture that Reddit can't?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really simple. Reddit can only do what the terms of the license you grant it allows it to do. It can't do something that is not in those terms. If you believe it's acting outside of those terms, you, as the owner and the person granting the license, have recourse. If you are not the owner, you don't.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So reddit can't stop other people from using it without your permission? But besides that, they basically have all the rights one would generally associate with ownership of something. If I had a snow blower like reddit has our pictures I'd feel like I owned it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a laundry list of things reddit can't do because it doesn't own your image. I can't possibly list all the things.
You also don't seem to understand why the terms are the way they are. Reddit needs you to grant it these rights because all sorts of things are done to the image when you choose to upload it. It can't do these things without first waiving liability.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a laundry list of things reddit can't do because it doesn't own your image. I can't possibly list all the things.
Could you give an example of maybe one or two significant things that would be on that list?
You also don't seem to understand why the terms are the way they are.
I'm not super interested in the why. I'm still not a hundred percent on the what, to start worrying about the why.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you give an example of maybe one or two significant things that would be on that list?
It can't grant additional licenses.
It can't alter the license.
It is bound to the terms of the license.
It can't claim exclusivity.
It can't claim ownership.
It can't claim creatorship.
etc.
An owner isn't bound to any terms of any license. They cannot be sued over a non-existent agreement. A licensee can.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the OPS point was the license is pretty broad. So what is an example of somethin they cannot do? Hypothetically they could print your photo and sell it. That's my interpretation. please someone who knows more correct me
Yeah... no. Sure, 'they would never do that'... unless Reddit goes belly-up, and suddenly everything anyone ever uploaded is part of the intellectual property that gets auctioned off.
Thanks for all the detailed responses. Given that the image and post will be deleted if the original post is deleted, is there a legal justification for the rights to remain perpetual as written?
As a photographer, these are the most important questions.
Vhett ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:27:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. I'm an amateur photographer but I would love to know this information going forward.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bad luck
By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.
Technically they need to say this to display your image even on Reddit, but still.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also interested. My understanding of the english language = they can basically do everything you can do with your image, except for claiming they are the original owner. So theoretically they can print it out (worldwide license to reproduce ... in any medium ) and sell it ( including commercial purposes ) or partner with another company to do so (authorize others to do so). I see no requirement for them to acknowledge you (royalty-free ... unrestricted).
I'm just quoting phrases and applying basic comprehension. If someone knows better (ideally a lawyer) please correct me.
Nope, this is correct. Based on this rule, let's say you take the photo afghan girl and are super thrilled and go to reddit to post it and share with your community or whatever, theoretically reddit has the right to take that photo and sell it wherever. You retain copyright, but by posting you have granted reddit perpetual usage of the image in any way they want.
It would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did that as the negative PR would be pretty huge, but it doesn't mean that they can't or won't do it. Reddit is a company after all, and if it's profitable for them to partner with a stock image company, and take the images uploaded to reddit and sell them to said company, they most likely will do it.
TL;DR - If you're a photographer, host the images on a different site (preferrably your website) and link the images as you used to. Reddit can do whatever they want with your posts, text or otherwise.
nb2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well as you can see from the oldschoolred post (after you posted of course :) ). You still hold hold copyright but you grant them the power to do whatever the hell they want with it.
hellya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
case by case. with thousands of photos, it will be slow. It will be taken down, once the images has already gone viral and shared everywhere online. watermark them.
Definitely don't upload your original works to reddit then, because they'll have unlimited license to use them however they want (and even sell them). Or you could always post low resolution and watermarked images.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically OP states that reddit won't host any NSFW images with this new feature, while OP of this comment thread might be implying they want keyboard shortcuts for browsing porn one-handed.
andytuba ยท 263 points ยท Posted at 16:23:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The RES userbase would appreciate an option to disable any keyboard shortcuts reddit might add, or reaching out to /r/Enhancement to figure out tidy integration.
(Keyboard navigation really is a great way to browse images faster.)
On the subject of RES integration, it may be my version's slightly out of date or some such but I can't manipulate the size of opened images that were uploaded to reddit. It's distracting as all hell 'cause I fiddle with practically every image I open due to having a midlow-res screen.
I can manipulate the size on the front page by grabbing and dragging it larger or smaller, but once in the post I can no longer do that due to the changes they made a month or so ago with auto loading images in the post.
They should be disabled by default. There is no reason to have keyboard shortcuts turned on unless you specifically want them, and I assume the majority of people do not want keyboard shortcuts. (maybe I'm assuming wrong)
Definitely, I think that's the main reason they should be disabled. If people start pressing hotkeys unknowingly, they might be upvoting stuff without even realizing it. It always might interfere with someone's custom browser hotkeys, or AutoHotkey, or like andytuba mentioned, RES.
egoldin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please yes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I get a red alien head by my name.
jb2386 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you convert AlienBlue to this system?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot to fix the typos.
alfis26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late to the party, but hope you still see this... Can you make an option to ctrl+v images directly to the reddit image hosting? That's the only thing I liked about imgur.
Coteup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. - Noam Chomsky
You're a moderator of /r/topmindsofreddit (one of the many troll subs you moderate) yet you always miss the juicy moderator corruption in /r/conspiracy, the sub you "monitor." Here's what you missed Mr. Hall "monitor" -
Which is incredibly stupid. The file should be accessible without those unnecessary parameters.
You're right.
w=712
&s=8d0abe1b9e5e65418f72c05012bbe50c
It's just a really funny but unnecessary request method.
I mean, I don't like it either.. but if people are loud enough change will come so I really hope this is cleaned up and the system changed.
Using something like Youtube's video ID or Imgur's.. what, 6 character length? should be plenty of room. And fuck all that other stuff the users don't need to deal with that.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's because everything after the "s=" in the URL is a signature. Other file hosting services have similar ways to grant time limited access to a file.
The way it works is that reddit.com generates a signature that says "I am reddit.com and I grant access to file XYZ until 30 minutes from now". Then i.redditmedia.com can check this signature and serve the file... Until the signature expires.
This prevents the link from being shared outside of Reddit because they aren't valid for very long before they break.
umbrae ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:12:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just FYI that signature isn't time bound, it's purely so that folks can't alter the other parameters and create a bunch of different sizes of images or something, which could cause excessive server load. That URL will stick around as long as the post isn't deleted. (Cc /u/daveime/u/Theblandyman)
daveime ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:25:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've come across this before, and it breaks the whole concept of sharing content. You share something, it appears to be shared, then come back the following day and the image link is now broken.
You are very much correct. The way S3 uploads work is that you make a request to S3 for a signature, the response contains a URL with a signature just like that, and then you do an HTTP POST call with the image binary to the URL that S3 responded with in the previous step. The signature is only good for a certain amount of time, which can be specified by the programmer.
The way that they are allowing access to these files works in a similar manner.
You can click it and then copy the link , it will be shortened. But its an annoying extra step we shouldnt need to do.
umbrae ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:15:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah we could do better here. Uploaded images also have a clean URL at i.redd.it which we need to do a better job of exposing. These big urls are mainly for previews or other places where we can save bandwidth by providing a smaller size image.
nakilon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:23:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since one post can have only one image, why not just reuse the post id? And leave those silly &s= only for thumbnails, etc., that is not a subject of right-click-sharing.
No they don't. Neither do. You must have some kind of extension that's stripping it for you. Alternatively, you have Windows and Mozilla and Google decided to have strange inconsistencies in copying between OS X and Windows.
Ph0X ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:23:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This needs to be higher. They are completely killing image sharing, they are trying to force people to link to the reddit thread and bring people to the site rather than direct linking images. I'll stick to imgur until they change their mind.
EDIT: Maybe I'm confused, but there seems to be two kinds of uploads?
Try getting me a direct link for this image for example. It seems to be a different kind of format than the one in OP.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:54:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right-click image and select "Copy Link Address." No deaths here.
Edit: Why would you say it forces people to the Reddit thread? When I click on the long link or the small one, it takes me to the image itself, not the thread.
Ph0X ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:59:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, something is strange here. Some files are on i.redd.it, and others are on i.reddituploads.com
With the former, it works as you say, but not with the latter? Try getting me a direct link to the image in this thread
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems you are correct. When the link is on reddituploads.com it is much longer than i.redd.it. Hopefully they just stick with the latter; it's short enough and works just fine.
zxcsd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ph0X ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:13:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, so you're back to what the top comment was complaining about. This is an extremely long and ugly URL (compared to the other one which looks like https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png)
I'm gonna stick with my short imgur links for now...
Honestly, even the other one could be much shorter if they used base64 identifiers. That would've allowed for identifiers that are at least 4 characters shorter, maybe more.
zxcsd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i thought you didn't know how to get a direct link, not that it was long...so i showed you how.
btw, the redditmedia vs .redd.it issue is mobile vs. desktop uploads i think.
Right-clicking and copying the image's link when expanded
Chrome: reddituploads
Firefox: redditmedia
Safari: reddituploads
I hadn't clicked a post's image itself so far, I figured you guys meant the thumbnails. Firefox seems to be off one, showing the link as reddituploads while copying redditmedia, which is buggy behavior (in other words, Reddit's beta-testing something wrong or beta-testing something the wrong way).
NINJA: I just copied the expanded image in Chrome 3 times. 1 out of 3 times it copied redditmedia! So this is a buggy bug or it is intended to lighten reddituploads' server pressure (I read it went down when the admin posted the original image).
Edit 2: Okay maybe it's just really buggy. I copied it another 15 times and they were all reddituploads. Fuck this shit.
Edit 3: Firefox also switches, but it gets redditmedia most of the time. I think this is a dumb solution to lighten Reddit server load. There's no need to use a different domain name.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:55:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like it depends on the link; with the image posted here, I always get i.redd.it, but with /u/Ph0X's link, I always get reddituploads. I think that might have to do more with early implementation than with server load, but until reddit lets us know, we can only speculate.
Yeah, it seems so. redd.it was of course already in use as shortlink generator, so I couldn't guess how its image service would differ from the existing two.
Ph0X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's definitely something very wonky going on. Earlier I was having the issue on this post's image, but not anymore now... I kinda assumed that they monkeypatched it, but maybe you're right and there's randomness/bug involved?
It seems to switch continuously (see my edits). I think this is a feature, but the domain switching seems like a dumb decision that we perceive(d) as a bug.
pchc_lx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of chat programs are started to allow full image copy paste, FYI. I do it all the time on hangouts and WhatsApp. So much better than pasting a URL.
Edit: pushbullet supports it for sms as well
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Right click copy image address, go to http://sli.mg, paste it and upload it. I do this all the time with 4chan images since my friends are scared of anything posted on there.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A right-click and "Copy Link Address" does the job.
The gif shows you copying a long link that someone already posted - of course that'll be a long link. Try doing the same with the link submission for this post, which is a much shorter https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png.
Not all my friends use Reddit, and don't care about the comments/etc. If I want to share an image with my parents, they'd likely as not get confused if I send them to a forum, wondering if I want them to read everything, when all I want to do is show them a cool/funny picture. Plenty of reasons not to send someone a reddit post, but want to send them just the picture.
So...instead of just simply sharing the picture, which would be the obvious and simple solution, you expect me to basically take a screenshot of the picture, and share that? That's like the people who take a picture of their computer screen with their phone to show me an image they found. It's absurdly stupid.
Right, and this guy knows that works, but hes bitching that the link it privides when doing that is too long
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's just ignorant, but I dislike that people are so hostile about it all.
jpkx72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's making a good point. Why is the link absurdly long? An imgur or gfycat link is much shorter and for sharing purposes (ie. A text or twitter) where there is a character limit this is much more convenient.
Either. RES only allows you to scale using the plugin's expando feature. It's a totally different object than a Reddit-native expando. Either Reddit can support the drag-to-resize feature or RES can jump in there and (I'm guessing) apply a new CSS class to the Reddit-native image.
Yes please. It is very annoying when pictures are too small or too large and RES will not allow me to resize them on the page. I have been actively skipping links that have the image hosted on reddit.
Would you happen to know why every time RES updates, all of the RES settings (night mode, Inline Image Viewer>conserve Memory to name a couple) reset to the default. I am always using the latest Firefox version. Cheers!
I didn't know that was what was causing me not to be able to scale images. I use the Imagus plug-in in Chrome and specifically the scaling feature quite a lot on Reddit.
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are i.redd.it links not working with the Imagus plug-in? I just tried it and seems to be working fine.
I aksed already. One keeps the image extension, the other doesn't. Since the last version of RES didn't know about those domains, it only detects the image by looking at the extension.
Well, if I were you and ordered from a Dominos Deutschland in Berlin, then yes. ๐ Dominos or NYP Amsterdam don't deliver over there. I can order and eat instead of you, though!
I'm providing feedback that it's an annoying as fuck way to bug people to sign up.
crimzind ยท 284 points ยท Posted at 17:33:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ugh, I hate that kind of registration request. Pintrest does the same thing, and it's infuriating. Because, hey, I'm already registered, I just am not / didn't want to log in.
Maybe I'm in a public place and just want to browse the site without logging in to my account. Maybe I have NSFW content visible on my Account. Maybe I'm just lazy.
And I've got ODD, so, of course, then it's no, I WON'T log in, you can't make me, and then I spend 10m or 90% of the time I'm on the website using ublock or whatever to manually add the stupid content-hiding crap... because you're not the boss of me, Pintrest.
...and now after typing all that, I can see Reddit at least has a dismiss button, so... uh... carry on.
I understand your frustration, but uBlock can create a new rule in about 30 seconds. If you click the uBlock icon on your bar then click the little eye dropper icon you go into Select Element mode. Then you click the offending bit on your screen, click the "Create Rule" option that pops up next to it, and you're done.
The eyedropper was what I was referring to. But it doesn't always get everything. There's the content blocking panel, text boxes, various content "containers", buttons, images, invisible overlays that mess things up. It's takes a few minutes to get everything and sometimes you click things you actually need, so you have to go in and delete the new rule, etc etc.
It's a pain. Which would be easily solved by logging in to my already existing account... but I won't let Pintrest beat me!
I'm not sure that we're talking about the same thing.
If you accidentally click the wrong element when in Select Element mode it doesn't automatically create a rule that you would need to delete. It just selects something, you can then click something else, or click Cancel, Create, etc from the context menu.
I haven't "accidentally" created a rule I didn't intend to ever. You would have to click 3-5 times to do so, how could you do that by accident?
Either way though, uBlock makes solving that issue a matter of seconds if you use the tools it provides you with the base no-frills experience.
Like I said, in my experience, there are often multiple containers loaded, and creating a rule, in my experience, usually involves blocking a couple of pieces. Sometimes, I've blocked a part of something that I thought was part of one thing, but turned out to be something I needed.
For example, Pintrest's sliding register/login thing. It slides up as you scroll down. I was trying to block the sliding section. I did that, but upon opening another page or refreshing, I found I wound up somehow disabling the ability to scroll down the page at all. So I had to undo it.
I noticed this the other day when I was using a computer that I did not want to log in through. Damn thing keeps popping up on every single page. Makes Reddit unusable.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:29:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But why would you browse Reddit without being logged in?
barbarr ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:39:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As of 6 years ago, 80% of Redditors were lurkers. Even now, lurkers are a huge part of what makes Reddit Reddit. Because lurkers are such a large demographic, adding a potentially intrusive login screen is unacceptable.
I understand that Reddit needs to grow as a private company, but we need to stand against this if Reddit ever chooses to make the pop-ups undismissable like Pinterest. Many lurkers are also regular reddit users who are not logged in, so pop-ups interfere with the experience of some regular users as well. And even on a matter of principle - people just don't like things like it. See how visceral the reaction is to Imgur's cat paw popup, for instance.
In summary, as long as there's a dismiss button (which there is for the A/B tests), I will not raise a huge fuss about it past what I wrote in this comment. However, if that dismiss button ever disappears, you can bet I'll be the first one to campaign against it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:10:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew there were lurkers, but I never thought there would be that many.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true for most websites that don't hide content behind logins.
I don't log in regularly because there's not a lot of reason to. If they implemented this "feature" I would probably end up doing something else, just out of laziness
IfIcouldfindsomethingelsetodo
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:31:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That cat paw scares the shit out of my every time.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:45:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't seen it in a while.
Because for some reason they keep loading the desktop site.
I've been on the internet long enough to know not to go to any URL with pomf in the title without, like 7 proxies
Darbon ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you've been on the internet long enough you would've known pomf.se was an extremely popular content host, especially for high res WebMs with audio, before it got shut down which lead to pomf.cat being created
Or singling out image hosting sites just because they're used by an "enemy subreddit". sli.mg is pretty good, and the guy who created it is pretty chill, but because /r/The_Donald uses it...
sbd01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't sli.mg the same thing as Slimgur, the FPH image host from a while back?
Just use something like Imagus for Chrome (or maybe even RES can do it) and view images with hovering over image links, videos or even albums. I don't know the last time I visited imgur.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:59:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you not a fan of a cat paw popping up and shaking your screen?
Holy shit that was annoying. Seems to happen randomly when loading imgur links, like.. I fucking KNOW it exists because I'm always accidentally doing it trying to swipe out of the window ffs
bsmith0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That scared me so much the first time that happened!
dtech12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That scared the shit out of me tbe first time it happened...
Norci ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That cat paw shit is fucking retarded, and the most scary thing is whoever designed that atrocity still likely works at imgur. Fuck, wouldn't surprise me if they all were giggling like kids designing it with no regards to the fact that it breaks user experience. That paw lagged up countless albums for me.
Reddit isn't really one to talk, but for a modern site imgur sure has an awful ux designed by monkeys.
Yes it works for Pinterest too, I've created one for them as well. It's a bit difficult to explain in text, but here's a video that explains what it is in uBlock as well as how it works.
Not the best video but that's what I could find on short notice.
Also worth mentioning that I don't have an account on Pinterest, so this function may interfere with site functionality so be careful. Another user mentioned that they have had issues specifically with Pinterest.
Oh damn pinterest does that and because of that I will never, never use it. I like that all of the content on reddit is there regardless of if you have an account or not.
[deleted] ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 16:16:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine my disappointment when I did finally give the app a spin, and there is/was no notification or messaging interface. Really, guys? Back to the app harassment that actually lets me use the whole site.
Seriously, and stop pushing me from i.reddit.com to m.reddit.com when I'm already in i.reddit.com. I really don't like the m.reddit.com or the app interface. :(
Holy shit thank you. I make this same complaint and people act like I'm crazy. Maybe I am, but how fucking hard is it to at least offer the option for such a feature?
Nope I'm here too. I can't find alienblue in my App Store history and I even had the premium features [ :( ]. Where the fuck did it go. The new reddit app is infuruating without being able to swipe in and out of posts etc. Always missing the 'hide comment chain' border with the users name in it so you end up going to their user page instead of just hiding the fucking comment oh my god help.
Oh... and the new feature that allows in-feed auto-play of gifs as you're scrolling, Much better than having to load imgur's shitheap.. but here's the catch for me, I have 4 or full 5 bars of 4G on my phone when I'm out so it INSTANTLY drains my internet quota before I can even try to stop it. And if I'm at home? it brings everyone's internet access to a grinding halt. I had to turn the feature off to protect myself. These problems are only if it's a GIF and not a video format (imgur's gifv or html5 embedded video do not cause this issue. They're more efficient and load quicker.)
I burnt through 2.2gigs last night because I passed out and had some log cutting thing play for hours.... First off, why aren't gifs cached? Second.... That's my work line, we ran over our data a day before it resets. It's more of a TIFU but what the hell? Gifs please.
I can't imagine voting so often that you need the option readily available for every comment. That being said, it should be an optional setting as it can't be that hard to implement compared to what other people likely wish for in Reddit apps.
I like how you can't see how much karma your comment has and when you click to see your comment in a thread you have to scroll all the way through the comments to find yours.
This is the #1 reason the reddit app is useless to me. Maybe I'm an outlier but I've been registered 8+ years and I've submitted like 10-20 posts (if that), sent/received 10 personal messages (if that), and probably posted 100,000 or more comments.
The app just shits on comments and highlights messages and posts.
Definitely a step in the right direction. But curious, why the decision to make the search function require a clunky in between step? Both Alien Blue and the Desktop version have the search and filter function right on the same page. This should be the same idea for the app, but instead we have a less optimal version.
The fact it does not have every setting option Alien Blue does is ridiculous. They bought it out and then stripped all the options away? No way people are going to stop using AB for such a bare bones app. They removed AB from the App Store too, so if you delete it you have to download from your purchase history. So clearly their intention is this new one replaces AB.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 16:32:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I just use the desktop site on my phone. Far better than any of reddit's mobile layouts.
alb1234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not me. On mobile, I want the interface to be quite minimal, but still present content to me in an easy to read quickly fashion. Only essential stuff for me, please. Reddit Is Fun does this best for me.
I loathe m.reddit. No matter how many times I click the x, it comes back and sometimes tricks me by suddenly throwing me on that m.reddit b.s. If I wanted to be on mobile reddit, I would have already been there on purpose. I prefer desktop on my phone when it comes to reddit.
Honestly I am so sick of IMGUR asking me to download their app in a giant pop over window at the top, every time I open an image. If I closed that window once, this means I am not interested. Why does it have to pop up every time I open an image on Reddit? It's the worst.
barbarr ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 17:00:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, since you're a top comment, would you mind editing your comment to let people know that Reddit is starting to do the same thing for some not-logged-in users?
Seriously. I like using imgur and all that, but that shit gets so annoying no matter how much you like using a website. Imgur has been progressively getting more annoying with it over time, I just want to make a post and be done with it.
Shit, I always made hidden galleries on imgur when I wanted to send people a few pictures with descriptions (like pictures of a vacation or something). I've never seen any of the annoying crap that everyone is talking about, so I had no idea that I was sending people links to a site full of cancer if they don't have ad/javascript blocking.
Welp, back to not having a way to do that. Yay.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, they will just replaced with reddit's ads to sign up instead.
I have a saved screenshot of that shit site (which is actually a great site that turned to shit) having 3 ads to download their app. One on top, one on bottom, and one on the side... on my standard screen sized smartphone.
cbih ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Add as long as it's not used as a tool for censorship and I'm with you.
whats8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
le kind stranger lol XD XD XD
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:35:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still like imgur because I can free up my memory. It's pretty good way to organize pictures as well. I think youtube could take some points from them
Tcbf88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:03:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to hijack but hoping this will be seen!
The hover function on AlienBlue works great with imgur and gifycat links but never loads with Reddit hosted images.
Will this fix come from you guys or the AlienBlue devs?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:24:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every good site reaches a peak and then crashes. Something will eventually replace Reddit. I don't know how long from now, but inevitably it will reach a peak, crash, and then be replaced by the next big thing. It's happened to other sites before and it'll happen again.
I know it's hard to believe because we're still living in the time where it seems like Reddit will last forever and it's doing very well.
msx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:47:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
since about 1996, with a dial up connection. Been on Digg before reddit, and on reddit since before subreddits existed and it was all a single reddit
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:58:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to get meta and upset people but for example, reddit comments have largely devolved from posts to tweets. Just one liners, no discussion. Specialized subreddits aren't so much affected for whatever reason, but good luck trying to "talk" to anyone or convey anything actually meaningful on a frontpage sub these days.
nmgoh2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually a couple of months after the venture capital runs out and the investors are looking for some returns.
Whats the problem with imgur? for just uploading pics it seems all fine
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:33:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mobile site redirects people to app stores for stupid games, they have a pop-up link that redirects to the app store, they have an online community now so everything you post shows up there and looks like content posted by members there, they have begun filtering images they don't agree with. It has become the very thing it was designed to replace.
It makes sense for reddit to want to have their own image hosting service opposed to using one run by one of their competitors.
Apparently ads are increasing a lot lately, especially on mobile.
As a desktop user with ฮผblock I haven't noticed any differences though hah.
memtiger ยท 258 points ยท Posted at 16:37:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason why there weren't any direct-to-image hosting sites before imgur came along was not because no one had thought of it before. It's because it's nearly impossible to make money if that's your service.
They've either got to make imgur account oriented with fees for server space, or they have to show ads to recoop the costs. Those are pretty much the only two ways to survive. Either option means they're going to lose customers. And that is going to happen with any venture like that.
We're living in a tech bubble where there are 100s of companies surviving off of venture capital funding with no real way to make solid money work over the long term. Eventually we're going to have another crash and burn in the tech industry like what happened in 2000. A lot of really good websites we enjoy are going to go tits up because they have an awesome service with a shitty business model that doesn't make money.
[deleted] ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 16:51:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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memtiger ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 17:00:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, even Reddit is going to have to figure out a better way to monetize, than selling fake gold that doesn't amount to much benefit for a user.
Things i could see when the crows come home to roost at Reddit:
More ads between threads and even between comments.
3rd party app support will require a Gold account, otherwise you're limited to the Reddit app where they could show more ads.
More promoted content.
As of right now, Reddit is still growing, and looks like a *potential* cash cow. Eventually, all the venture capitalists are going to want a return on that investment. Maybe that's in a year maybe it's in ten. Eventually though, Reddit will reach peak growth and plateau, and that's when things will begin to start changing.
* thanks for the gold! still not sure what it gets me at this point though other than helping Reddit out. It reminded me I needed to buy some as well.
And then everyone leaves. That's what happened to Digg, they turned up the advertising dial and everyone left. If they start inlining sponsored posts I'm out. It's bad enough that companies are operating shill accounts to promote their garbage, we don't need any more blatent advertising here.
The flip side of the Internet is that there's always something else or someone else to take your place. Screw up too much and your users will leave.
It's bad enough that companies are operating shill accounts to promote their garbage, we don't need any more blatent advertising here.
Then how do you suggest that reddit makes money then? Frankly, the fact that Reddit exists at all at the size that it is and the so few amount of ads you're forced to see while remaining a free service is amazing enough. Hell, none of the ads are even forced on you, they're at the top section, a portion of the screen you can easily ignore.
It doesn't really matter to me of Reddit is profitable. There will always be sites with minimal ads. When reddit starts to become unbearable, we'll all move on. Those of us that don't will watch it crumble around us.
I personally refuse to view ads. If services begin forcing them on me, I just stop using that service.
I mean, I'm not going to suddenly stop riding the wave of upstart sites giving everything away for free during their early years in an effort to grow their userbase for future monetization. It seems like the circle of internet life in that some upstart undercuts the established name with a superior product (usually because they aren't trying to make a profit), grows significantly, becomes established, starts monetizing, and then loses a significant portion of their users to a new superior product that isn't yet thinking about turning a profit.
The good news for reddit is that their usurper hasn't come out of the woodwork yet. Without a known and accepted alternative, they have some leeway in ramping up revenue streams without scaring off users. But there's always going to be a tipping point where people start fleeing to different options.
For example, Snapchat has really ramped up their ads recently putting the sponsored content more prominently in My Stories and adding advertisement between your friends' snaps. But I'm not leaving it right now because there isn't an obvious alternative yet. If one does arise, though, you can bet your sweet buns I'm trying it out.
I doubt the pattern will change as long as there are investors willing to front the cash for apps and companies that have no short term plans for profitability but plan to eventually monetize a giant userbase that they gained by being free. If reddit collapses as an unprofitable mess, I'd consider it a failure of their original business plan than a shortcoming of the users who may have choosen to use this site because it was relatively ad-free and unmonetized
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel entitled to not be psychologically manipulated be marketing departments. I also feel entitled to not leave my browser wide open for potentially malicious content to be executed on my browser.
Then get off Reddit. They owe you nothing and you're stealing from any site that you adblock from. I'm not saying I wouldn't use adblock, I'm just not an entitled asshole who acts like I'm owed any of this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just not an entitled asshole who acts like I'm owed any of this.
You mean they disagree with my statement - if I'm against adblock then clearly I can't be an entitled asshole because I don't believe I'm deserved any of this content for free.
It's bad enough that companies are operating shill accounts to promote their garbage, we don't need any more blatent advertising here.
The flip side of the Internet is that there's always something else or someone else to take your place. Screw up too much and your users will leave.
If what reddit is doing is WRONG (minimal amounts of advertising and a few easily identifiable company account shills) and is a problem, what's your solution?
I really don't have one. If I could trust advertisers to be honest, trust add networks to remove mallicious content, and trust content creators not to shill for companies that pay them, I wouldn't really have a problem with it.
Ad networks should be working to remove bad advertisers and increase the value of ads. When your network is interested with garbage, and everybody knows not to click ads ever, it really makes your whole service look cheap and shady. The solution is to improve consumer trust in advertising by treating him with respect. As consumers, we should be holding websites accountable for the content of their ads and let the sites work it out with their ad providers. Hopefully the accountability can trickle up into the ad networks and marketing departments of these companies.
So when we as consumers of content decide to block ads on a site, we're taking the first step in the process of fixing the problem. We're holding website owners responsible for the content of their ads.
Sounds like your problem is with ad networks then, not so much reddit.
The guy I was replying to said that reddit is somehow in the wrong for permitting companies to advertise on reddit, either through accounts or through the commercial posts on top that you can easily ignore.
Your problem seems to be with deceitful ad networks, not so much the fact that ads are on reddit. Fair enough, that's my issue as well. And I can understand having ad block on some sites. For example, Youtube does a shitty job of providing ads that are relevant to me, and since many of the ads are unavoidable and intrusive, I can understand wanting ad block.
What I don't understand is having ad block on reddit.
I count exactly one advert on this page. It's a Dolby Atmos ad, perfectly relevant to the average r/headphones user. It's sitting in a fairly small box on the right of the screen, and if I wasn't looking for it, I prolly wouldn't have noticed it. Adblock would have taken care of that ad easily, but what it wouldn't have taken care of is the MUCH bigger issue.
The post that I just linked you is sitting on the front page, but it's a joke that's been done several times before and become extremely old on that sub. There's actually a decent chance that the post is some sort of shill by a company opposing Bose that wants to discredit their quality. There's been a lot of those on r/headphones even tho many of the comments actually argue in defense of Bose, saying that they're not the best, but certainly not shit. Hell, they're the world leader in noise cancelling technology. And change the comment ordering from best to top, then look at the top 3 comments on that page, all praising bose in some way.
Now tell me, would your ad block have removed that? It certainly would remove the harmless and unintrusive ad on the side bar of the screen, but it wouldn't have removed that potential shill of a post, as well as the many others that has been plaguing subs up and down this site.
I think that official company accounts and sounded content is fine as long as it's clearly marked. Companies being able to respond to bad reviews and criticism is important.
In fact, Reddit is a great platform for companies to host their news and forums.
I think that official company accounts and sounded content is fine as long as it's clearly marked. Companies being able to respond to bad reviews and criticism is important.
In fact, Reddit is a great platform for companies to host their news and forums.
Why do you refuse to view ads? That's how a service makes money.
ImJLu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As it stands, any change would piss off this user base. May as well just start selling data.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like Reddit benefits from the sheer amount of social trends and data they could expose. Also "sneaking" ads in under the guise of content wouldn't be impossible either
Ads between threads are a natural choice. It gives you the opportunity to scroll right past it. Also I think more promoted content would be a good choice. Everybody is using accounts to manipulate the conversation already, might as well make some money off of it.
The app thing won't happen I think. To shut down the API would kill all bots and apps.
Sounds like the Fark/TotalFark model. I left Fark to come here years ago. Sometimes I wonder if I'd be better off with 50 links a day or whatever it was they had.
Yes Twitter! They're in some serious shit imo. I would not be surprised if they are eventually the company that pulls the rug out from underneath all these tech darlings.
Twitter has been losing on average of $500M+ per year. Half a fucking billion a YEAR with no turnaround in sight. I do not see how they are going to add that many ads to counteract the millions of people that would leave the service if they did.
And they don't just need to break even, they need to make money to pay back those billions of dollars that they're blowing through.
danopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused why Imgur stopped taking money then. They had a premium no-ad plan and I was subscribed, then they just removed payment and enabled premium features by default.
Why not move to a crowdfunding model? It works for all the podcasts I listen to and a good chunk of the games I play. Why not websites we all use? Wikipedia seems to have it figured out.
That's essentially what Reddit Gold is. I can't see that as a long term model of surviving. That can definitely help initially with the die hard faithful and original core of Reddit.
But 5-10 years down the road, long lasting crowdfunding doesn't work. A fractional percentage buys Reddit Gold. And as Reddit has grown to be "the homepage of the internet", they are bringing in users that have less allegiance to Reddit and just use it as a free tool, which further dilutes the die hard core that pays for it.
When pointed to a direct link, instead of redirecting to the mobile site that has a shitty buggy interface, a shit loading gif icon, other images, a nagging notification to download their crappy app and advertisement, they could have just made a direct link and an adsense/doubleclick advertisement underneath it. That would have been fine by me and many redditors. But they didn't. Fuck imgur. I loved the old imgur. Now, I just wish that it becomes like one of many million image hosting sites like photobucket which no one uses.
Except for what they did, growing a community so they hang out on the site and then putting ads in that interface.
Akiba89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:57:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People's ever growing aversion to ads is going to bubble over eventually. I too am a user of adblock. I turned it off once because I do want Reddit/imgur/YouTube to stick around (especially YouTube, that ad money goes to the content creator) But there are some sites out there that are chock full of ads that it's obnoxious and curating what site I do and don't use ad block for is a hassle
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 16:37:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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dreams- ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:53:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
arcrad ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're all over the place with crazy annoying bullshit. They set out to just host images, simply and well. Now they're being overtaken with bullshit.
Kyoj1n ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:30:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure on details exactly but from what I understand they started to do things like make the default link the album link so unless you went out of your way to get the direct link you post would take people to the actual imgur website and not the image.
Its made browsing on mobile and such a lot more frustrating.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Try it on mobile. It'll redirect i.imgur.com to m.imgur.com no matter what extension you use.
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 16:28:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their admins delete images on topics that they don't like. That is why some subreddits use slimgur. They also don't want to be seen as an image hosting service for Reddit like it was created to be.
Was it actually just fat people hate though? I know what you're talking about but I recall the main problem being that r/fph was posting stuff involving the staff of imgur or something.
Yeah, they reposted an image of imgur staff that was posted by imgur staff themselves. So basically Imgur said "It's okay for us to make this information publicly available but if you use that publicly available information in a way we don't like then fuck you".
Which is their right as a private company, though it does call into question their commitment to free speech and fairness of applied rules.
I mean, that's fair enough IMO, and I'm no defender of "fat rights" or whatever. Reddit and imgur have both long been against bullying or whatever you want to call it, and that seems like a decent example of it.
Well, the issue started differently. FPH was noticing that a lot of their posts were being deleted off imgur even though they didn't specifically violate the rules of imgur. Their big complaint against imgur was that it allowed the hosting of all sorts of content that mocked people and insulted people, the most prevalent examples being white people and "neckbeards", but that they were selectively deleting content which made fun of fat people. The argument from FPH was that it's ridiculous to allow the mockery of people for things they cannot change, like having Downs Syndrome, or being White, or Gay, but not to allow mockery of people for things entirely within their control, like their weight. Imgur responded by auto-deleting every image posted to FPH, regardless of whether it was bullying or not. FPH began brigading other subreddits with images of the Imgur staff showing that the staff was itself made of fat people and that they were being extremely hypocritical in their selective enforcement of harassment rules.
So it wasn't that FPH was any worse than even /r/funny or /r/blackpeopletwitter where people routinely post images hosted by Imgur that mock individuals in a way that could be construed as harassment. They were unfairly targeted by the admins of Imgur because the admins of Imgur had a personal issue with mockery of fat people, and FPH responded in the only way they legally could: by shitposting all over reddit to ensure every single person knew that Imgur was run by fat people who could dish it out to minorities and the disabled but couldn't take it themselves.
And, for the record, I am a fat person. I'm not a landwhale by any means, but I'm not wearing a speedo any time soon either. Even though I'm fat I still completely understand the FPH users issue with Imgur and I support it, because fat people like myself CAN be mocked for our lack of self control when it comes to eating, and our lack of discipline when it comes to exercising. If we can't be mocked then who the fuck can?
No problem. I'm not support FPH's tactics after the debacle began, I found it pretty childish, but I really really don't support the way Imgur went after them but not other equally offensive topics.
A good majority of posters on /r/blackpeopletwitter are white and the way they write could be considered offensive, but that's not the point of my post so just skip past that part and read the rest and if you still have an argument then go ahead and make it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They don't want free speech, they want you to recycle the same pop topics, memes and viral sensations to keep you plugged in to keep the servers running and a profit coming in.
Which is why I support the idea of a state-funded social network and news site which operates like reddit but has a legal imperative to remain free from censorship of topics people find offensive, and which would have open-source records to ensure nobody is engaging in malicious censorship.
No, that's honestly a fact. Their moderation is ignorant, biased and inconsistent, we don't even need to bring FPH up but simple distasteful SFW jokes, here's your proof. But I am sure /u/mrgrim can make up some excuse on why Imgur's moderators and staff consider a crude joke as "sexualization of minors". Or hey, how about their mods using mod tools for personal threads?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow the arrogance
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice jokes, m8. They removed posts about Radical Islam from the_Donald.
The original point of imgur was to be a simplified no frills image host that would make it easy to post direct, quick-loading image links to reddit and similar places. Recently they've been increasingly trying to push imgur as a destination for viewing content rather than just the middle man. That means annoying pop ups and a fancier mobile interface that makes it slower to load. It's becoming more and more like the sites it was supposed to replace.
Everything if you care about more stuff than hosting. Shitty and biased moderation without any consistency. Community that home to sit thanks to the childish "we like memes lol" marketing that brought a lot of simpletons to the site. Website riddled with shitty UX, etc etc.
Oh, what's that, you only care about hosting? Yeah good luck, that is taking a hike because of the push for the "community" aspect (good luck with that and 140 comment char limit) the housing is so far behind that they've removed their "the simple image sharer" or w/e tagline. Their shitty mobile site that is hard to use because of their push for their unusable app which still lacks basic hosting functionalities. Viewing direct link to image? Haha forget it, we will re-direct you to our bloated shit of a mobile page promoting the equally shitty app and waste time making memes.
They don't even give a shit about your privacy. They were deaf to criticism when it was discovered they've suddenly started showing uploader's name on single images (imagine how many gone wild posters that would screw over?). It took Reddit shitstorm to have Alan suddenly show up and change his opinion now that his golden goose was making a fuzz.
Because Reddit made imgur what it is today, and they know it. But the simple fact is, they no longer really need it, Reddit was pumped and dumped, now that imgur is popular they are cutting all the ties to Reddit. The (source) linking to the actual post on Reddit that made image popular? Forget it, it's removed, Imgur owns your images and will instead add them to their public gallery under your Imgur name, doxing you hardcore. Despite you never agreeing to publicly share it there.
Reddit was used by them to gain popularity and now they no longer give a shit about their powerusers, instead focusing on creating a new 9gag.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
focusing on creating a new 9gag.
...Look, I don't like 'em as much as the next guy but let's keep things in perspective here
You know, I kinda am. Currently, imgur is honestly not much better than 9gag other than company behind it being more open and people-friendly. Same inane shit that makes front-page on both sites, same annoying push of their apps, same freeloading off Reddit, same stupidity in comments.
As one of the like, 5 people in the world who use Firefox on Android, it simply doesn't work. Images and videos only show on Tuesdays after a full moon after three refreshes, but the "download our app" button always shows up.
For some users it's become pretty slow (not my case) but also it has changed it's mobile experience, it's such a pain to upload images and manage galleries on the app, instead the app tries to force you to participate in their community and browse their memes and reposts, rather than what imgur used to be, an image host
Well, external hosting did take away load from Reddit servers and this will add load. And if there's anything Reddit servers are good at doing it's handling increased load.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty happy about this. The people on Imgur get real uppity about a site created for uploading images for Reddit being used to upload images for Reddit.
That said, I hope Imgur doesn't die off. It's still the best site for uploading images.
I'm just glad they didn't buy Imgur and then neglect it for a year or so before launching their own product but not supporting all form factors. --posting from Alien Blue iPad
Until now, Reddit only supported posts that were links to other sites or text messages. That means that if you wanted to share an image on Reddit, you'd have to upload it to some other site that let you upload images and then share a link to that site as your Reddit post.
Now Reddit allows users to post images directly, so users can upload images directly to Reddit without having to involve some other website.
This is probably good news for Reddit users, but it's very bad news for the websites whose business was mostly letting users upload images to share on Reddit, notably a site started by a Redditor called "imgur."
I expect that the parent post, an Imgur mirror of this message, is something of a joke because of this.
Imgur was initially created by a user to be an image-hoster for reddit. It has since gained a life of it's own as a social network and is seen a direct competitor to reddit. I imagine the higher-ups weren't happy with the fact that reddit was giving away page views to their biggest competitor and this is the best way to keep that from happening.
But the jersey is confusing. It looks like the jersey from the World Cup in 2014 but it doesn't have the three stars. Also white eagle on black ground reminds me of the old Eintracht Frankfurt logo.
So, you are saying Schweini goes to Frankfurt? Is this the hidden message?
I don't appreciate it. Spain is going to win and I will personally curse you out in Spanish as a way of making me feel better about you offending me.
And with that said.... Bye! :)
Just as a request, I browse and submit to a lot of game related subreddits, one of the biggest ones currently being /r/overwatch for example. Gyfcat is an excellent service for allowing me to submit in MP4, but the issue is the 15 second limit is sometimes a little too harsh, and every MP4 uploading service similar seems to keep the same limit. I'm not saying make them limitless, but if Reddit did dip into the realms of MP4 hosting, I would quite like to see an increased time limit, such as 25 seconds.
E06SP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My app didn't indicate that you're an admin. When do you plan on fixing this?
madlee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:51:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably because I didn't distinguish that particular comment. Or this one. (or did I?)
You should log out or look at these posts from another account. It's pretty clear that you haven't distinguished them as admin posts.
That is your prerogative of course. The way Reddit currently works, users have to click on a redditor's username and check their overview page to see if they're an admin for sure. I think this is alright, for instance if an admin wants to be a "normal redditor" on some subs. Go for it. The other option, having a separate non-admin account, smells faintly of Unidan-ism. Personally I really don't care if you have a separate account for non-work-related use. The only ones who might complain are other Reddit employees, 'cause having an admin Reddit account that ONLY posts about work related topics makes one look rather like a mouthpiece. Choice is better.
PS: thanks whoever is downvoting. If you disagree with me that's cool, but downvoting me makes /u/madlee look poorly and honestly, I like them. They've been nothing but cool today. Remember, the downvote button is not an "i disagree" button. If you have a problem with concerned citizens sticking up for privacy, well, quite frankly you can eat a bag of dicks. I'm not here to bash Reddit. On the contrary, I'm looking out for reddit's reputation in a world that's full of far too many ignorant sheep and crooked spooks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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E06SP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know for a fact that Reddit Is Fun distinguishes admins from normal users though.
DrCubed ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:27:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So go from 16.78 million possible colours, a framerate of 60, and 1080p which is smaller than a gif, with 256 possible colours* (* Technically you can change palette for each frame but it's not the same.), a framerate of 10-20, and and a resolution below 480p.
That will then be converted back the the modern format, but having went through an extra layer of compression... No thanks.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:53:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
mp4
You made Richard Stallman cry.
daveime ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:30:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd question the logic of allowing someone to upload a 100MB GIF, just to convert it on your end to a 2-3MB GIFV (MP4). Why put all that unnecessary load on your incoming bandwidth?
GIF really needs to die, it forces low quality animations with a limited pallette and all the associated compromises that brings - so you'll have people converting MP4 to lower-quality GIF at their end so they can upload to Reddit, just to have you guys convert it back to GIFV which is essentially MP4 anyway?
ununium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GIFs won't die that easily.
This is something that could be addressed by running the GIF2MP4 conversion from the client's machine, and then uploading it as mp4.
I don't know how this could be accomplished today, but back when I was into web development, java was king for this kind of tasks.
SynthD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:37:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you keep the gif around?
madlee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you guys using a separate EC2 instance to do these compressions and conversions? This won't be a task performed on the regular Reddit.com servers will it?
this is why this decision should belong to the user, and the file-format should not be converted.
Lachiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, it's not entirely difficult to determine if an image is better suited as a png/jpg even if a conversion is performed and compared.
This would be far less intrusive than what has happened with gif being automatically converted to mp4 as plenty of devices suffered by pausing any music you had playing just to preview the converted gif.
this is why this decision should belong to the user
If the user made the right choices sure, you're not paying for a service to store your images how you want, they can/should store it any way they like, especially if it saves them and users in terms of storage/bandwidth/quota.
As much as a pain the gif to mp4 was it was a significant improvement.
As much as a pain the gif to mp4 was it was a significant improvement.
I am not at all talking about gif/mp4-conversion! I absolutely see why to convert video to a desired/more popular/better supported format.
But for images? Seriously, both JPG's and PNG's support on modern devices is more or less perfect! But both for very distinct use cases. No reason to convert one to another.
Lachiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not at all talking about gif/mp4-conversion!
I'm not saying you are, but I am.
The hamfisted approach of converting all gif's large and small to mp4's was quite annoying especially when I was on my old phone that would cancel any music being played just so this soundless video could play, personally I'm a fan of gif and would prefer the h264 codec used in a container that is specifically designed to be inlined on the page without any sound, an exact replica of gif with controls and a better codec would have been fantastic.
Luckily the new phone seems to handle it better.
But for images? Seriously, both JPG's and PNG's support on modern devices is more or less perfect!
Support isn't the topic either, size is.
No reason to convert one to another.
Whilst reddit users haven't been too bad about using png's inappropriately from what i've seen, the reason is for when a png is used when a jpeg should have been used, i'm not advocating converting all png's to jpegs, but only those that would benefit from it if the resources are available.
I really loathe this in facebook image-hosting.
Facebook converts everything to jpg? that's annoying.
and I guess there won't be "automatic determination which format fits best" in the near future on reddit image hosting
Yeah that's the real kicker it's a nice idea if they do it properly but they most likely won't.
Yes, gifs are converted to mp4s for playback in the expandos on listings/comment pages.
is there a way to easily modify a gif url so it links directly to the mp4? e.g. with an imgur link I can change the .gif to .gifv before IMing the link to a friend and that way they get a 2mb mp4 that loads instantly instead of a choppy 20mb gif.
Yes, gifs are converted to mp4s for playback in the expandos on listings/comment pages.
I never actually see this happening. It's 70 MB GIF after 85 MB GIF. What gives? It makes the browsing experience horrible. Thankfully I don't use reddit on my phone.
Yeah same, came here to check this, changing extension to .mp4 or any other popular format seems to be failing for me as well, did they silently scrap this feature?
Chances are you most likely had an elephant stomp on the quality by converting to a gif in the first place. Turning it back to MP4 will just fix the shitty bandwidth problem
Kensin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there are some /r/HighQualityGifs out there, but mostly my concern is that in the rare occasion I see something worth saving I want to make sure I can save it in the highest quality available, hopefully avoiding some several times compressed to save bandwidth copy of a copy of a copy.
What happened to this feature? I don't see it anywhere..
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:27 on December 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gifs are converted to mp4s for playback in the expandos. If you click the title to view the source, you will see the original gif, if you click the expando icon to open the preview, you will see the mp4 version.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how much profit that is actually generating though. You can opt-out in the reddit settings, already existing affiliate links are not overwritten and also amazon links are not affiliated.
therico ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur's bandwidth costs must be 100x reddit's, how do they stay afloat?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:13:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ddhboy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:56:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have ads as well, and sort of like Facebook the can be targeted since Reddit at least knows what communities you like. I don't really know what Reddit's costs are to maintain the site, but prior to this image hosting service they've added, they probably aren't terribly expensive to maintain. Architecturally, its similar to 4Chan, with the exception that it maintains an archive, and those database costs are pretty low in a world with AWS and Azure.
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Reddit is sitting on a gold mine if they decide to roll out ads without driving users away.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:30:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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zxcymn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure where it is now, but they used to have a daily gold goal counter and it consistently went past 100% every day.
Koiq ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:55:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still have it on the sidebar, currently sitting at 54%
Gold, whitelisted ads, and reddit tshirts etc. I would guess that there are probably usage stats which are valuable to people who want to rule the world etc.
You don't need an email, but it certainly helps by allowing you to post faster even before you have karma. I am willing to bet that most reddit accounts have an email associated with them.
I am also willing to bet that your upvoting and downvoting habbits tell a lot about you. It might be hard to tell which kind of cancer you have, but it should be relatively easy to distuingish for a lot of users how they might vote or whether they prefer cable, netflix or hulu.
shamoni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am willing to bet that most reddit accounts have an email associated with them.
And I'm willing to bet that 90% accounts don't link to email. Been here since 09, never felt the need to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Individual entities can pay to have their content pushed to the top. You can already see this with the sponsored content at the top of the page. Astroturfing is about to become even more ubiquitous.
therico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit gold subscriptions, reddit ads (although they're not popular), affiliate links (recently added), mining your comments for personal data and selling it to advertisers.
omegian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur content is largely static. It's a transparent http proxy's ideal use case.
therico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically bandwidth is much cheaper than CPU/RAM?
As far as I know, reddit is also very static, most of their users are unauthenticated and those pages are pre-cached and CDNed. Even for authenticated users, all of the subreddit front pages, most hot, most voted etc. are regularly regenerated and cached. But I guess there's no avoiding a fair amount of database load, especially in the comments.
wkoorts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're anticipating the feature will pay for itself. There's just no way any business would lay out that kind of cash without expecting a return on investment.
With any online app like Reddit, the number one goal is to drive traffic up. Very simply, that leads to more ad revenue. That means when a new feature is introduced it should in some way cause that to happen. If we look at image hosting, that could happen in a few ways:
At face value, making it easier to use Reddit by introducing image uploads means people will be more likely to submit content. More content means more reasons to keep coming back to Reddit.
A more subtle effect could be that they feel they've lost too many users to imgur. With imgur having its own app nowadays with commenting, voting etc. I'd be willing to bet Reddit feels concerned that people are going directly there and bypassing Reddit entirely. Anecdotally, I have a friend who has done exactly this since a few months ago.
With big increases to expenses, what's Reddit's plan to increase revenue correspondingly?
Bigger issue is that imgur is basically a competitor to reddit at this point, and they want to stop driving traffic to a competitor.
mrbooze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
S3 is a lot cheaper than you might think, especially if they consider this low-importance enough to only pay for a reduced-redundancy bucket (or whatever the current AWS equivalent is).
I'm sure it will still be a decent chunk of money at reddit scale, but probably a very tiny fraction of their overall hosting costs.
freeall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure there's cost involved, but as long as you don't do video it won't be an extreme cost.
Tananar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:52:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Storing files on AWS is cheap. The first terabyte of storage is $30 per month, and it just gets cheaper from there. It looks like they use CloudFlare for CDN, so that would make the bandwidth cost pretty cheap too.
ddhboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Video hosting's an ugly game. Either you pay an arm and a leg for a service to transcode the videos for you (lots of people use Brightcove, which sucks), or you have to make your own transcoder, which if you don't want to get sued, you have to pay for encoder licenses.
Also with the amount of reposts reddit has, I wouldn't be surprised if they only store an individual picture once, and then just have multiple links to the same image.
dace55 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:56:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this what's it like to be in upper management?
[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 16:45:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That sounds like something we'll have to wait for the RES devs to address.
hce692 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been so infuriated the last few days with photos acting like videos and not turning purple. Drove me absolutely insane. Now I know why it was happening & glad I'm not the only one
Niyeaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does Reddit have the bandwidth capability for this when it barely has it for the normal text demand from its users? I don't want to see the Reddit unable to connect message more than the usual 3 or 4 times a day.
unkz ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 16:20:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would imagine that static image data would be much easier to serve across a CDN than dynamic content. Bandwidth isn't the issue.
I'd love an ELI5 please. (The why, not the what of what you've said.)
unkz ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 17:52:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are two key elements here, the work required to do the task and the parallelism of the task.
First, the work involved in doing it once. Basically, a static image is simple to take from storage to network -- you can basically just copy the bytes to the network with no processing.
Contrast that with the work involved in displaying a threaded message page like reddit. You have to figure out what subreddit we are looking at, what is ranking of the comments at each level of the comment tree, whether the user who is viewing the page has voted on each comment, current vote counts, the text from each comment, etc.
The other aspect is caching. Every time you load a text page on reddit, every user's view of the same page is different and every refresh of the page may be different because people may have changed their vote counts, advertising rotation, there might be new messages in your inbox, etc.
An image or video on the other hand is the same no matter who is viewing it or how many times it has been viewed. This means it can be farmed out to a content distribution network (CDN), and any computer in that network can serve that content without having to go back to the central reddit database.
lyspr ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:24:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad that it's gotten this point of "I want a massive website that millions of people use to only crash a couple times per day."
Where is all this money going and why is it even possible to see that message still?
lyspr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has that ever even happened? And they're running an operation astronomically more demanding than Reddit, so it really makes no sense that I get "can't connect to Reddit right now" half a dozen times every day.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:08:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's happened and it was absolutely catastrophic on the entire infrastructure of the rest of the internet.
I was working in tech support for T-Mobile USA at the time, basically when customers had a problem with their service they could call the technical support number and be connected to me. It was a pretty average day in the morning, but around 2pm we got hit with the biggest network outage in the history of the company. Data services were down in pretty much the entire country, and our phone lines were completed jammed. We had hundreds and thousands of people in the queue waiting to complain about their internet being down. Eventually we had to shut down our incoming phone lines with an automated message that the network was down nationwide because there was no way we could handle the thousands of customers in the queue.
We found out later that there had been a Google outage (I can't remember if it was all of their services, but I remember for sure that gmail and search were hit) for about 15 minutes. During that time no one was able to access Google, and when Google's services did finally come back up, all the people hitting our network all at once was enough to knock out data services across nearly the entire country.
It goes to show how vital Google is to the rest of the internet at large, and how well-oiled a machine they usually are.
Back in the day AOL ran what was the biggest web cache on the entire Internet. The 35 million users of AOL users would get all of their content through this cache (by force).
Because of this, websites were not seeing how much traffic they were actually receiving. One day there was a failure that caused AOL to disable it's caching, no big deal though right? just a hit on their bandwidth. Turns out this caused dozens of websites to fall down because they became inundated with traffic they had no idea was never reaching them, and it wasn't until the AOL web cache was back on-line before the sites could recover.
u38cg2 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:20:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once or twice a year it goes down for like fifteen minutes. You never hear about it because the matrix gets adjusted once they fix it.
Google hires world class engineers. reddit doesn't pay well enough or have the reputation to attract them. Also, reddit doesn't allow salary negotiations, which certainly isn't going to bring in any top talent in the valley.
The message can be seen because it is likely a static page served from the entry point into Reddit's network. It never makes it to another server for the request to time out.
I believe a lot of the high load issues we see from "normal text" are due to insanely large threads with heavily nested comments that get refreshed thousands of times per second. This typically happens during major sporting events, etc. Could be totally wrong, but I recall reading something like that a few months back in one of these announcement posts.
I can take a stab at this and hopefully provide a more true answer than the other comments.
Basically, none of these images are actually being hosted or access on the Reddit servers that you are thinking of. Instead, Reddit is using Amazon's Web Services (AWS) which provides them a virtual server with cloud storage, called S3. S3 is really really neat because it automatically grows as more and more data is added to the service, and automatically switches to faster servers with more available bandwidth if demand becomes high. Even though these images and the platform is hosted on AWS, Reddit makes it look like they are hosting them by masking the S3 url behind a reddit.com url.
This is just about the best way for that they could have implemented a service like this. I am a huge proponent for AWS and use it every single day at work, as well as on my personal projects. The fact that they are using AWS for this could even signal plans to eventually host the entire site on AWS, which would be amazing.
Those things are entirely different at a technical level; if you wanted to look at car analogies, it'd be like asking "why did you put a bigger stereo system in? The engine already stalls every now and then."
Bandwidth is not a problem for reddit. Generating very computationally expensive pages is, but those images are already generated.
By the way, I never permitted that rehost when submitting a flickr image to /r/pics. I'm not annoyed that it was rehosted, I'd just like there to be a heads up when that happens. And I'd prefer for the color fidelity to be at least somewhat more similar.
Beyond that, thanks for the image hosting service. It's neat to see that the hosting will be done at reddit instead of the typical imgur. Their pushing the imgur app to mobile users has been quite annoying.
MiamiZ ยท 471 points ยท Posted at 18:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the feedback! I just pushed a change to keep the color profile so that the colors remain beautiful.
porthos3 ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 20:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not enough acknowledgment of how seriously impressive that turnaround time was. Figuring out a bug, fixing it, testing it, and pushing a change live to production for a customer in two hours is seriously impressive.
I really appreciate you guys doing such a great job listening and responding to the community. A huge improvement over previous years.
hbk1966 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:04:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems someone knew exactly what the problem was.
Zalack ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:27:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For stuff like this sometimes it just comes down to someone pointing it out. This wasn't a bug so much as feature request. Meaning they knew exactly what to change once the request was made, probably swapping out what library was being used for the color profiles.
Bugs take so long because oftentimes you have to figure out where you even need to start
MiamiZ ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:12:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup that's right. u/XplodingForce's comment made it really easy to figure out what needed to be changed (don't strip color profile) and it was just a quick fix with PIL after I looked it up.
Even if they knew exactly what was wrong, developing and deploying a fix for it so quickly is still very impressive.
Some of the companies I have worked with, it would take at least a full day to be able to get such a feature out into production even if it were a priority.
MiamiZ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:27:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe that's true indeed :)
u/thegr81isback, you can check out https://github.com/reddit/rollingpin which is the tool we use to deploy the code. Is there anything in particular you had questions about? I'm not sure if there's anything terribly interesting for me to say about it
Damn impressive turnaround time. I may be cynical about the motivations, but uh, I can be convinced it's worth it for the added integration, speed and responsiveness. Cheers!
umbrae ยท 448 points ยท Posted at 16:36:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I haven't seen that sort of reduction in quality before. This is an image preview though, not an upload, so it is a different system. I'd be curious if you see this loss in quality if you made a direct upload to reddit. It may be something to do with a high quality jpeg not being expected on resize and losing some jpeg-specific data.
We'll definitely take a look at that though, thanks for letting us know.
As a pointer: this probably has nothing to do with compression. The original image has an Adobe RGB color space, which the reddit image host strips. By stripping the profile, the browser will interpret the image as sRGB, which causes it to look undersaturated, since the same value in Adobe RGB corresponds to a much more saturated color.
There are two solutions to this problem:
Don't strip the color profile. Stripping other exif data is a good idea, but color profiles should not be stripped. As far as I know it is not possible to have sensitive data in a color profile.
Convert the image to sRGB. This means that all color values are recalculated to match the sRGB space. Colors that are more saturated than sRGB will be clipped, and will lose some saturation. However, this will only be noticeable to people with wide gamut monitors, which can show more saturated colors than sRGB. This is obviously the lesser option of the two, however it is still better than stripping the profile without converting properly. For everyone with an sRGB monitor, the result will look exactly the same as 1.
graaahh ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 17:33:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what all this is about, but I just want to say that one of my favorite things about reddit is and always has been that there's people like you all over the place on this site offering expert advice to the most random things like this. Like, it's just really cool to me that someone can have a weird little problem like this and somewhere out there is a person who immediately knows what the computers behind the scenes did wrong and how to fix it.
It has to do with how the colors stored in the picture (as numbers) are displayed by your monitor. There is no absolute comparison standard for what exactly a specific color should be. OP's image contained a hint telling the renderer to display it in a certain way. That hint was stripped by reddit together with other metadata, because that metadata may contain personally identifiable information and coordinates. But reddit did not actually convert the image when removing the hint, so all of a sudden the values stored in the image are mismatched with the "intended" coloration.
Ops image hint hint wink winked to reddit but reddit put its fingers in its ears and said "tralalala, I'm not listening to what you're saying for fear of compromising personal data such as gps location of & time when the photo was taken"
There is no absolute comparison standard for what exactly a specific color should be.
The International Color Consortium have produced ISO standards that do exactly this. It may seem arbitrary, but you can definite colours to a particular wavelength and then measure error and correct your system to reproduce this.
zxcsd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
regarding 2.
if i understood you correctly, this is a separate issue and this issue existed since reddit started hosting their own thumbnails, and not using imgur thumbnails, correct?
i don't know when that was, i'm guessing in the last year?
No, 1 and 2 are both different solutions to the same problem. If you have an image with a different color space than your monitor, modern browsers will do the conversion for you. 1 retains the color profile to let your browser handle the conversion, while solution 2 is to just convert the image to sRGB, which is the color space most displays use.
I don't know for how long reddit has hosted their own thumbnails, but I guess the issue has existed since they started doing that for the thumbnails. Whether the issue currently only exists for the thumbnail version of reddit or all images that are uploaded using the service I don't know, I did not test it myself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think all major browsers on desktop support color profiles out-of-the box nowadays. On mobile it still does not work correctly, but I guess it'll get there in a few years, just like desktops did. You are absolutely right that if you want to be sure you're photo looks the same everywhere, sRGB is the way to go. However, whether an image upload service should convert for you is a different question. I think if you upload a photo with another color profile, the service should just retain that, however it's a complicated question.
elsjpq ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's no longer true. All modern browsers are aware of color profiles.
By the way, I never permitted that rehost when submitting a flickr image to /r/pics.
Why no response to this? Flickr maintains copyrights of the photo owner. I don't think reddit can legal rehost it without breaking copyright laws. Especially if EXIF data is stripped as you say.
If I understand right, this is the hosting for the thumbnail image, right? I think that might be covered by Fair Use in the same vein that image search engines are protected, see Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.:
The court held that Google's framing and hyperlinking as part of an image search engine constituted a fair use of Perfect 10's images because the use was highly transformative, overturning most of the district court's decision.
That "thumbnail" is pretty big though, so... maybe not:
The Ninth Circuit did, however, overturn the district court's decision that Google's thumbnails were infringing. Google's argument, which was upheld by the court, was a fair use defense. The appellate court ruled that Google's use of thumbnails was fair use, mainly because they were "highly transformative."** The court did not define what size a thumbnail is but the examples the court cited was only 3% of the original. Most other major sites use a size not longer than 150 pixels on the long size**. Specifically, the court ruled that Google transformed the images from a use of entertainment and artistic expression to one of retrieving information, citing the similar case, Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation. The court reached this conclusion despite the fact that Perfect 10 was attempting to market thumbnail images for cell phones, with the court quipping that the "potential harm to Perfect 10's market remains hypothetical.
Seems to be vague on that count, so like I said, only might be covered. But point is that rehosting in of itself wouldn't automatically be breaking the law.
Thumbnails have always been hosted by reddit, that's why fappening links had to be removed.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flickr maintains copyrights of the photo owner.
Flickr lets you set your own Creative Commons license. Who knows, maybe OP set his to share.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's irrelevant. I am positive that reddit's preview generation is agnostic towards license on Flickr. Plus, it's not like preview generation is going to abide by any specific CC terms like BY, SA, NC, ND, etc.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:01:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Which doesn't in the least address if someone that doesn't own the photo, posts a link to it on reddit, and reddit takes and rehosts the photo regardless of what copyright was applied to the photo on the source site (i.e. flickr).
That's actually covered directly underneath the license grant:
You agree that you have the right to submit anything you post, and that your user content does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary right of any other party.
If you ever see IP you own on reddit that you did not grant license for, you can file a DMCA with us.
If the poster is concerned about the IP implication of submitting his content to reddit, he should read the
doesn't address my statement. Other users, other than the copyright holder, can submit content to reddit (possibly, I'm not a lawyer). Reddit assumes the submitter is providing reddit with the right to rehost, except your user agreement doesn't state that.
you can file a DMCA with us.
How? imgur makes it extremely easy. I submit a simple form to them and within a few minutes, my copyrighted material is removed. I tried to sort out how to do this right reddit and couldn't find it.
How? imgur makes it extremely easy. I submit a simple form to them and within a few minutes, my copyrighted material is removed. I tried to sort out how to do this right reddit and couldn't find it.
Took me about 10 seconds to figure out and half of time was spent scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
Scroll to bottom of page.
Click "contact us".
Click "message the admins".
"Need to file a DMCA takedown request? Please email dmca@reddit.com with a link to the content on reddit and all pertinent information."
I didn't see him asking for legal advice so much as an explanation why reddit thinks they have the right to rehost an image from flickr without notice just because you submit the link to reddit.
Not everyone has as a first reflex to call their lawyer before giving the other side a chance to explain themselves or change their behavior.
In that case, he should make sure to read the User Agreement before participating. It's pretty accessibly-written, and not too long. I actually really encourage all users to give it a once-over. In this case, the specific part is titlte "your content":
By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.
Basically, it's a clause that allows us to actually serve the content (comments you make, images you post, etc) to other users without having to reach out to the submitter to get a license for each user.
So are you saying I can't link to another person's image on Flickr, that is, an image I don't hold the copyright for, without breaking the User Agreement because Reddit somehow thinks that a link is content?
Because this is not what what's written about links in the User Agreement implies unless I'm reading something wrong.
Thank you for assuming I did not read your link while ignoring the paragraph in it I mentioned in my post, that is the one about links:
links and reddit
reddit is a place with many third-party hyperlinks posted by users like you. We are not responsible for the content or actions of any third party websites or services associated with posted links. You agree to take sole legal responsibility for any links you post, and neither this agreement nor our privacy policy applies to any content on other websites related to those links. You should consult the terms and privacy policies of those other websites to understand your rights.
My point here is that uploading the URL to an image is NOT the same thing as uploading the bits of the image itself. I can legally link to an image I do not hold the rights to, and even legally hotlink it (even though this is a dick move). But that does not give me the right to make copies of it. That is a different thing.
Exactly this. I'm sure reddit isn't trying to be nefarious, but pretending that they protected from copyright laws because of their user agreement is silly.
Yep, to be fair since the reddit mods/admins are not the ones making that argument, so I would give them a bit to respond and or change their ways before bringing out the pitchforks.
As /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov pointed out in a response to you above: Thumbnails could be seen as protected under fair use, though those reddit hosted images do seem very big for thumbnails if you ask me...
If you provide a link to a site, reddit is not responsible for anything on that site. If you upload an image to reddit, reddit is still not responsible for any potential copyright infringement - you are.
If I provide a link to site I have not committed any copyright infringements. If Reddit then follows that link, downloads an image there and re-hosts it on reddit's servers, reddit has (likely) committed a copyright infringements.
This has been tested in courts many times over the world: Giving out an URL should not be copyright infringement since you are in fact not copying any protected data by posting a link. Wiki link to the legality of linking.
Imagine if sharing a link with illegal stuff was made illegal from a copyright aspect. If you posted a link to my server, I could change what the response to that URL was from the server to an image I hold the copyright for and then try to go after you.
If Reddit then follows that link, downloads an image there and re-hosts it on reddit's servers, reddit has (likely) committed a copyright infringements.
Yes it does, which is the entire point of this conversation. In order to generate thumbnails, Reddit automatically downloads user-linked images and rehosts them.
Does it? Or does it simply download the images, generate thumbnails, delete the original images then host the thumbnails? Why on earth would it waste a load of storage space storing the original images?
Hosting thumbnails is not the same thing as hosting the original images and as other people have pointed out, thumbnails are not considered copyright infringement and are fair use.
At the top of this thread, in the post that spawned this whole discussion, /u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT linked the full-size compressed copy of their image, which had been automatically re-hosted on Reddit servers for thumbnail-serving purposes. The existence of that image is what prompted their question in the first place.
So yes, it does.
Why? I have no idea.
Hakul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point is that reddit is re-hosting the content of links.
Except that it's reddit that is causing the copyright violation. If I submit a link to a photo, I don't assume that content will be taken off the source (say flickr) and rehosted on reddit.
In fact, the user agreement that you keep linking to doesn't address that situation at all. Everyone has a right to share a url (DCMA protects this). reddit DOES NOT have the right to assume that content can be taken off the source site and rehosted.
Show me where in your user agreement that it says that by submitting a url, I agree that I own the copyright and provide reddit the appropriate rights to rehost the content located at that url.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You agree that you have the right to submit anything you post, and that your user content does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary right of any other party.
The right to submit a url is protected under DCMA. Your user agreement does not allow reddit to rehost content located at submitted urls.
Your user agreement requires me to send you a freaking snail mail letter. 1996 called, they want their processes back.
Look at /u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT's thread. The image displayed by reddit is the i.redditmedia.com image. It's not significantly smaller than the original and it's designed not to be a thumbnail, but the actual content of the the thread.
Reddit didn't take the flickr url and create a thumbnail for users browsing lists of threads. Reddit took the flickr source, rehosted it, in an attempt to keep users on reddit.
I would still consider that a fair use thumbail since it is a .4 megapixel image that appears on the comments page and when I click on it it loads the original URL.
The thing is, though, that you didn't actually answer the user's question. You answered the wrong question, and you answered it like a condescending prick, and then you kept insisting that you were right through multiple rounds of people trying to tell you that you didn't even understand the question.
And then when someone finally got you to understand what the question actually was, you essentially replied "don't ask me!"
Regarding the second part of my feedback... It'd be great if there was some sort of warning there would be a compressed rehost for the preview too, just to let photographers know, regarding their rights to the image and that preview. Technically, Flickr doesn't allow that to be done, especially when someone posts an image that isn't theirs but is hosted at Flickr.
Looks like the embedded ICC profiles are gone in the thumbnail.
Probably caused by the image rescaling library that Reddit uses.
I had a similar problem once when I used a Java lib to rescale pictures of company logos.
EDIT: yep, the AdobeRGB color profile is removed in the thumbnail
The Flickr image contains an embedded color profile (Adobe RGB 1998) which is being removed by ImageMagick's -strip option without either adding the color profile back in or correctly converting the image into the default sRGB colorspace.
the color change is not a loss in quality, the converter ignores the embedded color profile and this results in the dramatic color changes.
you can easily test this by opening the flickr image in photoshop. choose "discard embedded profile" when opening and you get an image very similar to the one from redditmedia.com (minus the compression artifacts of course)
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just breezed right past the part about
I never permitted that rehost when submitting a flickr image to /r/pics.
Woofcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just breezed right past the part about
I never permitted that rehost when submitting a flickr image to /r/pics.
By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so.
So he did allow them to rehost his image.
Edit: Also Thumbnailing is fair use in America.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:40:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it's removing the images color profile. Your Flickr image has Adobe RGB but the Reddit Media image does not.
worm929 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:30:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh wow, that's a HUGE downgrade in image size and quality.
The Flickr image contains an embedded color profile which is being removed by Reddit's metadata stripping function. They should change their thumbnail creation function to correctly preserve the color profile.
If you want consistent colors on the web I would recommend setting photoshop's (or the tool of your choice) color space to sRGB before exporting the image as a JPEG.
Denroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a badass pic. Even on my craptastic work monitor (4:3 master aspect ratio!) I can clearly see the difference.
I see, maybe applying the profile correction in lightroom does mess up the exifs too?
Nice glass BTW, was thinking about it, I think this shot is really close of convincing me since if I am not mistaken it can be used in FF and the K-1 is really eying me from across the room, though my wallet is judging me ...
I see, maybe applying the profile correction in lightroom does mess up the exifs too?
Curiously enough, Photoshop Camera RAW reads the image EXIF from the RAW file as f/1.7 too. Probably related to the camera registering the wrong aperture?
Nice glass BTW, was thinking about it, I think this shot is really close of convincing me since if I am not mistaken it can be used in FF and the K-1 is really eying me from across the room, though my wallet is judging me ...
I definitely think it's a great lens, especially for its price (almost half of the similar Sigma Art 35mm f/1.4 DG) and for the full frame compatibility. Lots of great pics in the Flickr group for it too. Personally I'll probably be getting a Sigma Art 18-35 f/1.8 soon, but I see it's not a full frame lens! Would love a K-1 too but I'm happy with my K-5 IIs.
patssle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking exactly the question I was going to ask. Compression on imgur was terrible, it forced me to use Flickr for everything if I wanted any semblance of detail left when I uploaded it.
dylmye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if this helps you but I'm pretty sure they use imgix for processing
I hope RES is updated soon, so that the link turns purple when I expand the image. Resizing too, but purple links are more important to me, personally. Nothing like viewing the same images three and four times a day.
;-)
tojoso ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:59:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I hate that I can't re-size with RES. Especially on any image that has small text which is unreadable at normal size.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:00:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mgr86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:13:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same! this is terrible news. I also hate these embedded imgur galleries too.
cl191 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:52:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to expand on that question, I am a regular OC uploader to the SFW porn network subs (/r/earthporn ...etc). What are the "fine prints"? Like am I giving up my rights in any form?
That's an interesting question ( that I'm not sure they've thought of yet).
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing the answer is "no", but the link from the original post would also be broken.
Thadoor ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean "we may", that's incredible broad and provides no certainty if it will indeed be reviewed or not?
Unless you mean the may in relation to the removal of an image/post and not the review of said image/post as this is always done upon an email request?
I think they mean it in the sense of allowing them to do it.
ben7amin ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 16:12:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will NSFW be expanded into?...
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 16:17:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Reddit decides "Yeah, we've got enough money and a big enough legal team and plenty of extra manpower to police this."
umbrae ยท 197 points ยท Posted at 16:23:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW support is coming soon, we're just rolling out slowly for capacity/bandwidth management purposes and the SFW/NSFW split was a good way to segment our traffic.
P-01S ยท 161 points ยท Posted at 16:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we expect some amusing statistics and charts about nsfw vs sfw image traffic?
umbrae ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 16:29:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's such a strawman argument.
They are establishing themselves as their own separate "silly" and "open" community nowadays. A SFW one which will attract a number of advertisers and already has. Nothing about tits being a moral corruption on society.
That said, nobody needs to see tits every other image. It's very annoying (not to mention the comments are as sad as a porn comment section's). And nobody uses the damn tags correctly either, which makes filters useless.
Ha be prepared for some serious moderation needs. It's gotta be a little different when you're actually hosting the content in terms of liability and shizz.
You guys WILL be the site that hosts subs about dead children and watching people die.
In before they block all self-hosted NSFW content for Germany/German IPs similar to how they block watchpeopledie. In theory, all hardcore pornographic content is considered harmful to young persons per se just like that sub I mentioned which the BPjM indexed...
bsmith0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are the images hosted on a different set of servers vs Reddit.com?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:30:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are your thoughts on this killing imgur?
samprog ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:20:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I expand into NSFW every evening
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:25:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
brian21 ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 16:17:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! Imgur has become the same bloated hosting site that /u/MrGrim was trying to replace.
essidus ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 16:29:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw. I remember when photobucket and imageshack were basically the only choices. Painfully slow load times, terrible uptime, hideous GUI. Imgur, for all of its current flaws, is still markedly better as a service than anything at the time. That said, imgur has also outgrown reddit, and has its own userbase that often don't overlap with reddit users in the venn diagram. They made the right business choice to split off from their roots, but they also have to accept that they'll lose reddit traffic because of that.
I'm not entirely thrilled with reddit self-hosting considering the ongoing uptime issues it has, but I'd rather it stay in-house than have to start using that stupid redpill alt service slimgur.
Imgur has content creators and dedicated posters like reddit. I'm sure some accounts will seize the opportunity topost reddit-hosted photos to imgur for whatever their equivalent of karma is.
But I've seen way too many green upvote gifs on reddit to believe that Imgur can't live on its own.
It was like this: photobucket -> imageshack -> tinypic -> imgur
Seem like image hosts have a life cycle and you can tell it is going to shit when you click a direct link and it re-directs you to view the image in their website, then comes the bloating ... Imgur is in its last stages.
Oh you sweet summer child, you must be too young to remember the days of imageshack and photobucket... you would click on a link, only to be redirected to a website with a veritable vomitorium of other links, and ads, and after a minute or two, your gif would slowly load in some stray corner amidst all the noise and fury of their bloated web pages. Have you ever seen a browser that takes up half the screen with useless toolbars, as is likely to be found on an elderly relative's computer? Imagine having to go to a webpage that looked like that, just to see an image.
Into that toxicity waded /u/McGrim, who (basically overnight) revolutionized the system, and forever changed Reddit from being more a site to link articles and discussions thereof into the dank meme factory that it exists as today.
Of course, as that McGrim did not die a hero, but instead saw massive success in his endeavor (which was originally not intended with an eye toward profit at all, curiously enough), he has ironically become the villain. No good partnership lasts forever. People change and so to do companies. Imgur and Reddit are going through an amicable divorce.
But never forget what Imgur did for us, in that far gone yesteryear. We owe them our thanks, even as we show them the door.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:03:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about imgur, not imageshack. How is opening an image file linked on reddit to imgur different than opening an image linked on reddit from reddit server?
There are no ads on the .PNG etc.
And if you compare reddit to imgur - you need to take into account that reddit is also a website that has ads on it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Aenir ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's not talking about Ye Olden Days, he's talking about imgur today. How is it bloated? I haven't had any problems with imgur, and all these comments talking about imgur being shit are completely baffling to me. I have literally no idea as to what anyone is talking about.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:29:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ever browse reddit on your phone? If not, whenever you go to the imgur page for an image (because someone didn't directly link to the image) you are harassed to download their app, the page is slow as fuck due to ads + the app harassment, and every once in a while they decide to make an animated cat paw show up on your screen and show you that you can swipe left/right to view other images.
The imgur page for webms will sometimes refuse to just show the fucking thing right there and try to get you to click on it to open up a new page and show it there instead.
Even worse, if someone DOES post a direct link to the image on reddit you will get redirected to the imgur page for the image about ~25% of the time for regular pictures and ~75+% of the time for gifs/webms.
Obnoxious does not even begin to describe it.
Aenir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, so everyone is talking about the mobile version.
I don't have a smartphone so I only use desktop.
Znuff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:38:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shouldn't be. The real make or breaks will probably be how they perform for mobile users, how they interact with RES, and how they behave with photo galleries.
People browsing on smart phones (many with higher resolution screens than the majority of PC users) get redirected away from the direct image to a lower quality image on the imgur page.
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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celerym ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:55:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh
dylmye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MrGrim made Imgur to replace bloated websites like Photobucket
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and now he is super wealthy and gives 0 reddits
Aenir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused, how is imgur bloated?
brian21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When it started, it was to be a simple hosting site that did nothing but give you a link for your pictures. Now it has all these other things going on and has grown to be almost reddit-like with different categories, comments, etc. and seems to be more focused on getting people to stay on their site and get more pageviews than be an easy-to-use image hosting site.
enalios ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:13:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans to allow image uploads more generally? For example to post an image as a comment?
In case no one else has done this already, I just created a sub that can be used as an image host in the meantime. Post there then use the direct image link in comments
If there's already a sub dedicated to this, let me know, I don't really like the name imgit.
enalios ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:33:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey dude(tte)! I like that idea! Haven't seen another! I think imgit is the most logical name since reddit hosted images is meant to replace imgur (sort of).
I thought for a second on what else it could be and the only thing I could think of was sawit but that sounded dumb too. But reddit = "read it". Anyway then I thought maybe seeit could worm? So I made /r/seeit, though it's not any better that imgit. If you'd like to be a mod you can!
I say the actual name doesn't matter as much as that they exist. I humbly suggest that everyone use imgit though!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm having this same problemโcan you tell me what changed once you closed Chrome? I still don't see an option to disable media previews, just the same options that you stated :(
jplr98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
true
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you figure out a fix for this? It's happening to me too!
jimstr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no it doesn't work all the time and i don't understand why still :/
jmxd ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:44:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, as they are allowed to. I basically have nothing against it. It's about time they offer an alternative to external hosting companies. I like the step.
ExeusV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:32:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It annoys me more since it was the first then everyone said about it when they dropped it in various subs, and apparently that feedback was ignored....and now we see it all again. Why release something as a small test and then ignore feedback?
imgur did this too. The idea is that there is no value for Reddit/imgur allowing you to see just the image by itself, so they don't want any clicks to result in that behavior.
Except it doesn't prevent hotlinking, which will work just fine. This image is hotlinked . I'm already on reddit when I click the link to the image. So what's the gain?
Maybe the move is to make a dummy submission with the image attached, and then hotlink the attachment to a new post so that when people click on it they go straight to the image.
kfresh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:53:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The idea is that there is no value for Reddit/imgur allowing you to see just the image by itself
Except for that simplicity being the reason I come to Reddit in the first place. If they start changing the behaviour of the site in a manner that annoys me, I might start using it less. There's no way I'll keep browsing quick-view image subs if I have to click twice to open an image, and the back button twice to return to the list.
If you're on Chrome, get imagus. You can just hover over the link and see the picture. I can never understand how someone could put up with clicking on each and every picture to see it.
"On mobile" is a very generic term. Does "on mobile" mean using an app? On iOS? Android? Does it mean using the mobile website?
I can tell you that from the front page, if you click the link for this story on desktop browser, you get (as announced) not the picture, but the comments.
Multiple devices using app and web. But, Ah, thank you for clarifying. I thought people were saying that somehow the URL of an image somehow takes you back to the comments (which didn't make much sense to me). You just meant the links for the post like front page and whatnot. That makes more sense. Thanks!
Yeah, this issue seems to be prevalent in all but the official Reddit viewers. My personal conspiracy theory is that Reddit is actually phasing in this new content host system in an attempt to force users to use the official Reddit applications.
It would be awesome if Alien Blue got an update to support long press thumbnail viewing for reddit uploads. Considering AB is no longer under development, how could we make this happen?
this is all i care about. alien blue WONT be updated as reddit bought them and then deleted it from the app sotre in place of its own app. i havent even tried the reddit app yet. AB has been more than kind to me.
:( Except Alien Blue supports iPad, reddit appp does not.
sholnay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it will never happen. Alien Blue has been abandoned - it's no longer available to download in the store. I still haven't given up on using it but its days are numbered because of moves like this from reddit. The reddit app still sucks for this main reason, no preview. So frustrating.
Any chance of uploading a gif and then posting it later? I usually upload all my new gifs over the weekend and post them throughout the week. Without that feature, I'm not sure this works for me (or most gif-makers).
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:01:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd assume not, since in another comment an admin said the uploads are tied directly to a post--if the original post is deleted, the upload is deleted.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doubt it since there are no accounts. It's purely an image host without any frills.
Posting them to a private subreddit would be an option. Can still easily sort by new to get recently uploaded gifs, and if a base post elsewhere gets deleted, your image will stay.
Hi, I'm not super technical so I don't know the details of what's actually happening here but... I've used Hoversee for ages, and can't imagine browsing reddit without it now. The only thing is, it doesn't work with the reddit uploads, only imgur, and it does struggle with gfycat, too. Is this something that could be looked at this end, or entirely Hoversee's problem? Thanks!
qtx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:53:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imagus instead. It's a lot better and what you want works.
Thanks to everyone! I'm on Safari, and the Hoversee, formerly Hoverzoom, is actually a different thing that just happened to be given the same name. The Chrome extension was the dodgy one. The Safari one isn't actually malware. I've changed to Imagus now, though, and it works nicely.
yukisho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use HoverZoom+. Works for everything. Even youtube videos.
Great feature! One small concern: Why can't I resize it by clicking and dragging in the browser window? I can do that on almost all images, but you guys are displaying them in some way that the browser doesn't allow us to dynamically resize them.
Chrome, just click and drag. It only works on standalone images though, not images in the background of a webpage or integrated with the html. Those drag and drop (download)
This seems like a good place to ask this. Why do I get "URI signature match failed" or "Unauthorized" when trying to view these links in my phone's third party app or the browser? Strangely doesn't happen with the image linked here explaining the changes.
That will happen if the app alters the url; in particular, if you change the s parameter, which is a cryptographic signature, the url will fail to validate.
Verdomde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:54 on September 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, any idea of a workaround for this? Im sure im missing cat pictures that would change my world!
It is the only answer. The image system will not work if you strip out the signatures. There is no way to get around that. Therefore, you need to stop stripping out the signatures. The developer of your app is the only person who can change that behavior, so you either have to convince them to change it or stop using that app.
gpia7r ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:30:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me drag to scale the image, like Imgur allows.
Let me right-click, copy image link, and embed it on forums elsewhere... like Imgur allows.
Yes, and I'd also suggest formatting the URLs so that you can use Google image search on them.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:42:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only complaints I have at the moment are that the images aren't scalable and the links don't turn purple or "seen" after you view them in RES. Fix these two things and there you go.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a bug on reddits end, it's something RES needs to fix.
SFW? Oh, boy. There is going to be a big debate about what is NSFW because of this. Just host all content that isn't illegal and make it easy on yourself Reddit.
Not entirely. Reddit has been abusing the "NSFW" designation and doing things like forcing the guns sale subreddits to be NSFW (even though there's nothing remotely unsafe for work about buying and selling guns).
I have no idea whether companies in some countries mention "arms deals websites" specifically in their policies. For most countries that would be a weirdly specific thing to mention explicitly, since very few people would be likely to visit such sites anyway. Like, you can see why company policies would single out porn websites as verboten, and not - say - sites facilitating the trafficking of rare animals or something similarly unlikely to come up much in practice. Instead, I imagine there might be a blanket phrase about illegal content and content that violates the ethics and good name of the company blah blah.. which arms deals websites are likely to fall under in a bunch of places outside the US (depending on country, company, etc). But to be honest, I don't really know.
Instead, I think that this tangent seems like a bit of a red herring. The way I always understood the NSFW tag, as random regular user, is that it's not just meant to flag content that would explicitly violate company policy. I thought it was meant for any content that you wouldn't want to pop up (all too visibly) when your boss or colleague pops their head in. Like more of a general "you might want to be careful opening threads (and especially images) in this sub if you're not in a private space" kind of thing. And having a page full of pictures of guns open in your browsers might definitely get you some awkward looks and conversations from bosses etc in a bunch of non-US countries.
I might be wrong though. I started doing some work for an online forum not long ago and they explained the other day that the only/main reason they applied NSFW tags to threads actually had to do with Google and ads. Basically, the tag just tells Google not to place ads next to those threads. That's worth doing because Google gets upset if the ads appear in contexts that advertisers wouldn't be happy with. Come to think of it, though, putting NSFW tags on threads about buying and selling guns would definitely make sense in that context too. I would guess that many non-US advertizers (maybe even some American ones too) wouldn't want to see their ads juxtaposed with those.
And having a page full of pictures of guns open in your browsers might definitely get you some awkward looks and conversations from bosses etc in a bunch of non-US countries.
I don't think it's any worse than having a page full of Reddit links ;)
SFW? Oh, boy. There is going to be a big debate about what is NSFW because of this.
You misunderstood - NSFW images can still be hosted using the reddit hosting, it's just that generally SFW subreddits, like /r/Pics (which is generally SFW) or /r/EarthPorn have had the feature enabled. Even /r/WTF has it enabled.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the content that imgur users want to see is submitted through imgur - the community usually actually gets mad when images that are made popular through Reddit show up on the imgur front pages
xereeto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd imagine it's probably for traffic reasons - there are probably a million times more NSFW picture/gif subreddits than SFW ones, and I don't think reddit is ready to deal with all thatusage yet. It's probably nothing ti do with reddit being prudish.
The only problem with this that I have is that the images so far can't be opened with Hover Free (the free hoverzoom extention thing), will this be updated?
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The extension developer would need to add support for it.
yukisho ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:45:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Clicking on a Reddit-hosted image will take you directly to the conversation about that image.
Can we have an account option to not do this and instead take us to the actual image? Not everyone wants to read the comments, some of us just want to look at pictures.
The only reason I'm not happy for this is because I can usually hit the save image button on alien blue of I see a picture I want to keep, but with the new reddit hosting it won't save it so I can't save any pictures
[An image of Snoo with various items, including hair, a soccer ball, and wearing a shirt. Snoo is saying:]
Hi everyone!
A few weeks ago we began testing image uploading on Reddit. Given high demand, we're expanding the feature to all SFW communities that allow images.
Starting today, when you create a link post in a participating community, you'll be able to upload an image on desktop:
Upload images (up to 20MB) and gifs (100MB) directly to Reddit when posting.
Clicking on a Reddit-hosted image will take you directly to the conversation about that image.
View Reddit hosted gifs inline within Reddit's native iOS and Android apps.
Please give it a try and post any feedback you have. We would love to hear how we can make Reddit even better for all of you.
PLEASE make your hosted images work correctly with RES. As of right now images show up as videos and they can not be resized. It's very annoying and is detracting from the user experience.
With RES and imgur hosting you can expand the image from your home page and click and drag to resize. Do you plan on ever copying this feature for i.redd.it links?
it straight up sucks balls on baconreader. click a post that's hosted by reddit. cool. you see the image. click to go view comments of said image. big old NOPE. If you have hide links I've viewed enabled, which I do, then if it's a reddit hosted image, it's either view image or view comments. if you view image, the comments are forever hidden, which kinda sucks.
ps0ps ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an image hosting service but one of my back-end storage systems works like this. It takes the MD5 hash and the file size (to prevent hash collisions) and makes that the name.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Just out of curiosity, how exactly do you incorprate the file size into it?
It's literally <md5sum>-<filesize-in-bytes>.bin on disk.
Surely it's still possible to create collisions? Finding MD5 collisions can be done in seconds, and finding two with the same file size doesn't seem to make it that much harder.
The idea isn't to protect against anything malicious but rather prevent two different files that happen to have the same md5 hash from colliding, on the assumption that the chances of them having the same hash and the same size are immensely small.
By the way to my knowledge we have not yet run into any files with the same hash (that weren't actually identical), so it's really just a precaution. (In the mean time I'm re-checking this so check back later.)
Edit: nope, no files with identical MD5sums but different sizes in my data set.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well if two files ever do match both in MD5sum and file size, the first would override the second. I.e., the person uploading the second file would be returned the first one upon viewing it. For what we're storing we considered that an acceptable risk.
Take a look at IPFS. It's basically like bittorrent + git using content addressing instead of location addressing (i.e. you link things based on a hash of their content which enables the request to be handled by any node with the content rather than whatever server the link is referencing). It's very cool technology.
qwerzt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:01:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Out of interest, how much might this affect reddit's server costs? It seems like reddit had a pretty sweet deal by only having to serve the revenue-giving html pages, and having imgur.com handle the expenses of image traffic. (Especially since most images are opened inline).
Also, most importantly, are you compressing .pngs into .jpgs or recompressing .jpgs at all?
Imgur has grown into a direct competitor for Reddit. They advertise the fuck out of that traffic. Reddit obviously feels they now have the capability to build it in and make money on it.
Why is r/shitredditsays even allowed to exist? They use non np links, are widely known by all users to brigade, witch hunt and doxx.
Not to mention they removed the giving gold ability which was confirmed by u/krispycrackers as a violation of reddits own terms.
All of which are reasons other sub reddit's have been banned or warned in the past.
EDIT: LMAO, I just got banned from r/shitredditsays for asking this question. That's hilarious, ive never even posted or wanted to post in there sub.. But still that's hilarious I get banned for asking an administrator a question.
Also, mods are suspiciously quiet on this question.
what about their mods doxxing people? Witch hunting?
citation needed? also witch hunts and doxxing are a problem with the users carrying it out, not a subreddit they're affiliated with
as for the gold thing, i've never seen a part of the TOS that says that. you can probably still gift gold with the subreddit css turned off, so the feature hasn't actually been disabled. just hidden
So you're going to ban me and mute me from your precious sub for asking a question?
Even though I've never visited or even posted in your sub?
Jesus Christ you cunts are as toxic as everyone says you are... I just wanted to ask a question, I didn't actually think you took reddit this seriously lol
Aerik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:27 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i wasnt even aware of your banning. but if thats just asking a question... sad.
if you only have reddit usernames it is not doxxing. so rreally all u have is jive.
And then calling them out for doxxing for linking to posts while also arguing that there should be a level playing field between bigoted subs and a sub that calls out bigots because reasons.
I think you'd be surprised but a lot of us that feel SRS spends too much time getting offended at everything still think they're fine considering Reddit spends so much time sucking off the free speech crowd that they can't get around to banning the massive swarms of bigots.
I called them out for doxxing for harassing people outside of reddit and contacting them and treating to release their identities lest they leave reddit and deactivate their accounts.
The linking without np links isn't doxxing, its brigading.
Also removing the ability to gild is against reddit ToS.
I don't know what bigoted subs you are talking about, I just asked why it gets to break major rules whilst a sub like say, for example, r/pcmasterrace which isn't bigoted, gets severely punished for brigading once.. Which to the admins credit, they did roll back on, but now that sub does not link to anything at all. You can't even mention other subs as there's a bot that removes your post due to fear of admin retribution.
It's just very interesting to me how one sub gets to Witch hunt, doxx, threaten people and it's cool with the reddit admins. Other subs don't do nearly as serious stuff, but yet get severely punished.
That's not my point, I think you misunderstand me.
I'm just asking for an explanation why certain hate groups like SRS are allowed to operate freely, doxx people, witch hunt, brigade whilst other subs do not even break as serious rules and get punished by the admins, again, r/pcmasterrace is a perfect example.
If reddit supports the right for a hate group like SRS to operate and harass other people and other sub reddit's, that's up to reddit. I was just asking an administrator, u/Madlee , why this was, if as you say, it is reddit's official stance that they support this kind of bullying behaviour then, as I say, that's reddit's prerogative.. It would just be nice to have a clarification on the issue, because as it stands it's very confusing to have a strict policy that is not enforced on one sub reddit.
You're saying a group that rails against other people for having an opinion that differs from their world view, harasses, directly links to comments, doxxes, witch hunts and generally uses Internet bullying against anyone who doesn't agree with them, isn't a hate sub?
The admins disagree. I trust them more than people upset at being called out for posting bigoted dogshit. Not to mention every single bit of "proof" I've seen operates on the assumption that any and all downvotes come from SRS brigading as opposed to the huge number of posters like me who don't read SRS but downvote dumb hateful shit.
And do you use a ladder to get down from that high horse, or just try and roll when you jump off? Because I find it really strange that you're calling general sexism and homophobia a worldview that deserves respect and that calling it out is "bullying" is fucking ironic.
I like rocks and clothes. Learn anything useful? Turns out some of us non-essjaydoubleyou sub posters actually don't really have a problem with bigoted fucks being called out for being bigoted fucks and think the freedom of speech arguments are pretty hollow and masturbatory. Of course all downvotes are SRS brigading.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 17:40:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SRS is actually an internet cult and they meet most of the criteria needed for being a cult. The way in which they effectively serve as an internet cult is that it is possible for anyone to easily join the cult so long as they have an internet connection and a reddit account and are willing to do exactly what they are told by the SRS moderator hierarchy and the people who control and run the subreddit. The worst thing about Shitredditsays, however, isn't that they have their own shitty subreddit that makes zero sense to the outside world and to those who are sane and don't believe in the views of social justice warriors and radical feminists. The worst thing about SRS is that they and their friends from other like-minded subreddits on reddit - with the cooperation and unspoken support of a few reddit administrators - have managed to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 where a clique of users who are chummy and friendly with each other have managed to take over a very large portion of this website. The users who have turned reddit into Digg 2.0 and who threaten to ruin the site are what I and some others who understand the situation have come to know as and refer to as "metareddit cancer." I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and create the subreddit /r/metaredditcancer to act as a watchdog that chronicles everything that this cabal of reddit users are doing to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 and - in particular - to turn the site into a place run by social justice warrior and feminist moderators who tolerate no deviation from their beliefs in the numerous subreddits that they have come to control as moderators.
My hope is that after reading this comment of mine that you will subscribe to /r/metaredditcancer so that you can stay well-informed about a very serious situation that has arisen - largely unknown to most users - on this website so that we can all gain a greater understanding of what a powerful cabal of agenda-driven users are doing to and have done to this site that we all love. I am a long-time user on reddit who has intimate and in-depth knowledge of this cabal and who has modded multiple subreddits both large and small, who has been intimately involved in discussion with this cabal of users regarding their control of reddit, who knows what their agenda is and what they want to do with their power and control, who has sat in their private discussions in internet chat rooms, who has seen leaks from their private subreddits, and who has absolutely had enough of what they have done to reddit and of what they will continue to do to this site unless the rest of this site is exposed to who and what they are and what their endgame is. What happened to Digg and what has happened to 4chan very recently is undeniably and positively what is happening to reddit now and what has been happening here since 2012.
The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metareddit cancer" hail from the subreddits Shitredditsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubredditDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subreddits and these users also control many other subreddits with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subreddits like /r/news, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/Subredditdrama, /r/creepyPMs, /r/offmychest, /r/TIFU, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/changemyview, /r/LGBT, and numerous other subreddits where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subreddits. They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subreddits like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subreddits every week. This is absolutely the case with offmychest, creepyPMs, and Subredditdrama. Maybe the worst example of their way of worming into moderator positions and destroying subreddits is that of /r/LGBT and how 2 transsexual radfem SRS trolls - one of which has become infamous on reddit and other chan websites - managed to take control of the subreddit in 2012 and then acted like dictators and abused their power so badly that reddit's administrators had to be called into the drama. The admins refused to remove the two SRS moderators, the LGBT subreddit went into meltdown because of them, and this led to the subreddit being ruined and people having to flock to the newly created /r/ainbow subreddit because one of the biggest forums for discussing LGBT issues on the internet was taken over by members of Shitredditsays. This is the first notable time that SRS and other metareddit cancer have taken control of subreddits and they've gone on to manipulate reddit's subreddit request system to bring even more subreddits under their control. They organize subreddit request attempts in private subreddits where they plan out their agenda and they do the same in their internet relay chat rooms as well. I can say with total confidence that there is no other reddit clique and group operating on this website that looks to take over and control as many subreddits as they can in a clear and indisputable attempt to control the flow of conversation so that conversations in any given subreddit always lean and kowtow to radical feminism and a perverted form of social justice. NO OTHER GROUP EXISTS that is looking to take over as much of this site as possible.
One of the more troubling things that I have come to understand having been an intimately involved user of reddit for years, is that some of reddit's current and past administrators support and belong to this cabal of metareddit cancer. An administrator who was fired from reddit two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitredditsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitredditsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out SRS's agenda. He routinely ostracized and terminated the accounts of (shadowbanned) people who posted in subreddits that SRS want destroyed and now he sits as a moderator of SRS. This is one of the biggest yet unknown bits of corruption in reddit's history yet you wouldn't know it because the subreddit created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/Subredditdrama - was taken over by SRS and reddit metacancer in 2013 and they censor discussion about themselves so that people aren't aware of what is going on. The takeover of SubredditDrama is one of the worst things that has ever happened on this website because of its 150K subscriber size and because the very people who are the problem that I am discussing happen to be in control of SubredditDrama. This is clearly a monumental conflict of interest given that anything nefarious that this group of users do cannot be openly discussed in SubredditDrama without their consent.
What caused this cabal to come to be and what is it that unites them in their desire to control the site through moderator power and through cliques?
A need for friendship that's lacking in real life. A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts, or just want to have some internet friends because they spend a lot of time on this site. This last reason differs a bit from the other reasons and is different in that some users - a smaller number - belonging to this cabal get drawn into it without knowing what the agenda is and they simply just want some internet friends. However, they always cave to the agenda when it is brought up (perverted feminism and social justice and tightly-controlled, censorship-happy moderation in the cabal's subreddits) and so it doesn't matter that their intentions for joining the cabal were innocent. In the end, they always come around and you can already see how this is cult-like behavior. Anyone who doesn't toe-the-line and go along with the agenda is shunned or cast out. I've spent time talking to one of them who was cast out of one of the cabal's private subreddits after realizing that the nature of the cabal and "group of friends" wasn't innocent and that everything revolved around feminism, social justice, and the ego-driven desire to control as many subs as possible. The scary thing about my interaction with this cast-out former member is that the cabal looks to get your name and personal information. They do this through their everyday IRC chats and in Facebook groups where some choose to take friend requests with their real names. Others use new Facebook profiles with their reddit names. This cast-out user used his real account and he knows now that a reason why they send friend invites is so that you think twice about going against them because then they have your personal info and can come after you with threats at home, work, and anywhere else.
What the users in the cabal do to gain entrance is act smug and superior (social justice, feminism, morality policing) to redditors. The cabal acts as their cool kids club that they weren't good enough for in real life. THAT IS HOW AND WHY THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WHAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACT THIS WAY.
A cabal on Digg is what led to the deterioration of the site and is what led to the migration that saw users flood to reddit. I'll be damned if I watch the same type of behavior from a group of a few dozen users continue to move reddit towards becoming Digg 2.0. 4chan has been thrown into a serious mess like this after Moot gave mod positions to authoritarian mods in the last year who now control the site given his recent abdication as site admin. Let's not let this develop further on reddit because there's a point of no return.
TL;DR: The SRS cabal controls too much of and is ruining reddit
forknox ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:10:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is but it was written by someone in all seriousness way back. /r/Askreddit actually gave it thousands of upvotes and thousands of people joined metareddit cancer before it devolved to the members calling each other cancer.
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as SRS, is in fact, SRDBroke, or as I've recently taken to calling it, SRS plus SRDBroke. SRS is not a cancerous blight on reddit unto itself, but rather another SJW component of a fully functioning SRDBroke conspiracy made useful by the SRDBroke moderator cabal, admin assistance, and excellently coded reddit bots, comprising a full conspiracy as defined by the Top-Minds of reddit. Many reddit users are layed low by a version of the SRDBroke conspiracy every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, oppression by SRDBroke, which is widely felt today, is often called SRS, and many of its victims are not aware that it is basically the SRDBroke conspiracy, developed by the SRDBroke mods. There really is an SRS, and these people are being hurt by it, but it is just a part of the system that oppresses them. SRS is the bogeyman: the piece of the conspiracy that directs the butthurt away from the other subs that SRDBroke controls. The bogeyman is an essential part of a cabal, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete conspiracy. SRS is used in combination with the SRDBroke moderator cabal: the whole system is basically SRDBroke with SRS added, or SRDBroke/SRS. All the so-called SRS conspiracy is really a SRDBroke conspiracy!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice meme
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:24:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
morning, champ
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:28:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.
That said.
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.
An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.
My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.
I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.
I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.
I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.
I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.
The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.
I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.
That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).
I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).
And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.
All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude you need to quit fucking snap chatting mckenna. Stop. She doesn't respond with anything meaningful for a reason and she's not interested in you. Who am I? The man whom she is in love with. She already told me not to worry, she's not interested in you. Sorry I bothered you kid. I've dated her since 2 summers ago. If you aren't trying to get at my woman or being inappropriate I don't care if you snap her occasionally. Just don't try anything man. You'll embarrass yourself and anger me. We are in love and we're making love tomorrow. So if you have any ill intentions with my woman you can forget it right now. I'm the biggest and best she's ever had, only man she's ever loved and the only man who could truly satisfy her physically. You will never have her. And she loves me. I don't have any problems with you if you are over my woman and realize you will never be with or touch her again. I apologize for coming off as a dick, just me and kenna are really deep in love and we've been through a lot and I just moved back home and it makes me a little jealous and angry to see a man she used to date before me is snap chatting her.... We don't need any extra bullshit or drama right now, so don't bring us any please is all I ask friend. If you try to talk to her any way but as a brother, or you try to see her at all, if she tells me you do anything inappropriate or anything outside of what a strict brother like friend would do,we are going to have a huge problem. I will leave you alone now dude if you're not trying to get at the woman who I love and whom is in love with me. That entire summer she was with me. She left kyle for me. She's been with me ever since, she even loved me and made love to me before she EVER let anything happen with you. You didn't please her. She didn't have strong feelings for you at all. And she immediately ended shit with you for me once she knew I loved her too. So get any ideas of the past out of your head. None of this truth should bug you if you're over her but I'm just making sure. I hate when my baby's friends have ill intentions and she thinks they are just friends and have no alternative motive. But idk if I trust you at all. If I can trust you to not stress me and my baby or fuck with our love tell me. I will leave you alone and apologize. But if you aren't over her and you're tryna "get some" or you're tryna get back in her life, it's NOT HAPPENING. She said you were nothing to her, and the sex was bad anyway haha. You're small and weak and she said it all felt wrong after being with me. She's been with me ever since. We're in love. And tomorrow me and her will be together in my room making love alll day how we always have together. If you have a problem speak up like a man or tell me our love doesn't bug you and I'll apologize, it's simple. So??? What is it? You are after my woman then huh?! Tell me the fucking truth man. Don't you dare be disrespectful and gross enough to bring it up, but if if you ask her about anything she shared with me about your weak ass, she may be nice and lie to you, or she may not care and tell you the truth. Either way. I'm her soullmate and her boyfriend of the past two years almost. And she tells me everything and NEVER lies to me. I don't care haha. Just stay away from my kenna. I sincerely apologize if you have no ill intentions and aren't trying to make moves with my woman. And i respect you as a guy in the service. I'm sure you're an ok dude. But just as a friend. You're nothing to my kenna but a brother like friend. I just wanna be sure you know it and don't forget it. Find a nice classy woman where you are stationed, marry her.... But back off of mine. You will never even compare to me in her eyes. Not even close haha.I just don't need you interfering with me and kenna's love. It's our lives man. It's really not cool.... Goodbye man, good luck. Respect to you being in the service. Sorry to bring your day down with my crazy bullshit but. Me and kenna are head over heels.... I can't help but be crazy about her. I love her with all of my heart and I will protect her from her untrustworthy fake friends. Not saying you are one. But you're dodging telling me what's going on in your head so I'm questioning a lot right now. Just know I'm never gonna hurt her, I'm always going to have her back, I'd give my life for her without hesitation, and I will protect her from anything, everything, and anyone. She is the love of my life. I fully intend to marry and give kenna my children. And we've talked a lot about it. Just don't make shit harder than it already is. I just moved back and me and her miss eachother so badly and we are FINALLY go to see eachother tomorrow and make love for the first time since halloween.... I hope you don't hate me man. I'm a good dude. Just protective of the woman who holds my heart. And who's heart I hold and must protect. I hope you can understand. She promised me there's nothing at all to worry about with you and that she's not interested:"/ I wish I knew before I embarrassingly went off on you. I'm so sorry man. I'm sorry. Please don't mention this to my baby:/ I'm really embarrassed and while she will understand, I just feel like an ass for attacking you when you have nothing with my kenna and no intention to. Good bye brother. I hope you find your one true love someday. It'll make you crazy, trust me, but you'll find her one day. I found mine when I was really young. And it's my kenna :)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:32:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
Well, I hope you baby boomer assholes are happy. You ignored the intelligence, logic, and unbiased ideals of us millenials. You idiots have been brainwashed for years like a bunch of sheep. You obviously don't have the necessary brainpower to make these difficult decisions.
Instead of voting for the noble and just candidate who could have saved this country, you supported the face of true evil. Well... this country will completely go to shit and it's all your fault! You should have listened to us. We are not going to bail you corrupt assholes out when the economy collapses or famine strikes.
Keep laughing it up. Troll us Bernie folks some more... we will have the last laugh, watching the country completely collapse... it won't be our fault!
You have all betrayed Bernie. You have betrayed my generation. We won't forget this!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gamergate failed because they chose to make their mascot the watamote girl but with red hair and piccolo fucking vegeta in the ass colors and drew a bunch of pictures of her where her feet are the focal point as opposed to the objectively superior in every way choice of making their mascot be a badass looking cartoon alligator and referring to themselves collectively as โgamergatorsโ, they would have won if they did that i would be an anti-sjw right now if they had gone with the gamergator but they had to go with the sexy grumpy little girl with stinky feet instead
To all the Hillary gloaters, I'll tell you one thing: r/politics is, and always will be, Bernie territory. OUR territory. The mods of r/politics have formally endorsed Senator Sanders for president. We will continue to control the front page with positive Bernie news. So before you start talking shit and bragging about your bitch's win, I'll have you know that we're well versed in downvote brigades. Say RIP to your karma if you try anything cute. Assholes.
/r/ShitRedditSays not only is considered extremely offensive by the average redditor, but it also makes us feel unsafe, and they constantly harass people, doxx, and brigade.
They link to our posts, then they vote brigade them, insult us and follow us around the site. If that does not prevent people from having authentic conversation in this site then I don't know what does.
/u/spez should enforce the rules fairly and equally to everybody.
Could you explain this ? You began to implement this the same time you let out the official apps and strangely a lot of apps can't or have trouble loading things with redditupload (alien blue, baconit, readit...). Are you trying to force people to use your official app with this kind of move ?
Every single image uploaded on redditupload with readit, it was the same on baconit when before i switch to readit and my brother has random issue with alien blue.
Reddit purchased Alien Blue a ways back and when they released their official app they announced no further support for Alien Blue (they also pulled it from the App Store). That included, unfortunately, not adding redditupload as a supported inline image provider. I would say that it could likely be a desire to build the brand as users of Alien Blue know its reddit but if you said Alien Blue to the average man on the street they wouldn't have a clue.
This generally happens because the app developer made a bad assumption that no longer holds true, and so you have to wait for them to fix their shit. There's no reason for it not to work in third party apps.
Skjalg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I click on an image link that has redditupload in the url I immediately press back on my phone now because i know it just wont show me anything. I use baconit for windows phone.
I've found your problem. Sorry, mostly kidding. Continue using what works for you but unfortunately Windows phone will never have great developer support and things will break.
Skjalg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hah yeah, but its an image service. Showing an image. Hardly rocket science :) Should work on all platforms... But this problem is not windows phone specific either, as it also happens on android.
I'm not a developer however I'm assuming as this gets more popular the developers of the apps will have to make a couple changes.
I follow Sync for Reddit pretty closely and implementing image handling is not a cut-and-dry process. There are tons of nuances with making images appear seamlessly on mobile.
Edit: typo
Skjalg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not saying theres not tons of nuances in how to view the image. Like pinch to zoom, then zoom out and snap to full screen etc. Hell, even viewing images (that is not hosted on redditupload) in baconit is sometimes a bit wonky as they appear fully zoomed in when I just flip through posts, but then if I pinch and zoom its suddenly all zoomed out.
But getting the actual png/jpg to appear is pretty cut-and-dry. That has been pretty cut and dry for the last 20 years. Also, seeing as this is a problem that is only when you're hosting an image on redditupload and not on the literally millions of other places makes me pretty sure its a problem on reddits end and not the developer of baconit.
You might be right. I have no issues on Sync for Reddit, so I just assumed it was more so on the Dev of the app and not so much on reddit. This is all very new though, I'm sure things will iron out as it gets more popular.
Forty7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If reddit hosting takes off, people will just repost those images to imgur the same way that when an Imgur-only post gets popular, someone will post it to reddit
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still, all this is going to do is make it so that the top imgur users literally now just steal content from reddit's front page.
That's a two-way street, for a start. Much of reddit's content comes from elsewhere, not just imgur; much of most communities' content comes from elsewhere. That's a fact of life.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:35:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't actually have to make your uploaded pictures public. One of the worst things about /r/ignorantimgur is that they hate when imgur commenters complain about unnecessary gallery uploads when it's actually the uploader's fault for sharing it in the first place.
Yeah, but my settings were to make it all public automatically. So I was very surprised by it. I didn't click that green button. It was just added to their imgur albums.
As a member and participant in both communities, it's my humble opinion that viewing popular posts on imgur is about the same as defaults on reddit. I view usersubโrising, and although there's a few anti-feminist posts that attract some pretty nasty comments sometimes, for the most part it's fun and friendly โ like most of reddit.
I mostly have good experiences and interactions in both communities; although there's plenty of bad apples in both as well.
sparcos ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:16:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as someone who's workplace has imgur blocked... nice
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:02:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you realize this just gives them a reason to block reddit under the same policy. lol
I noticed the image in OP is https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png, but sometimes the only URL I see is the example I gave above and it's very cumbersome.
Most websites don't optimize their image uploads for sharing off-site. You should consider this a tool for sharing images on reddit, rather than a general-purpose image host that happens to be run by reddit, and it will make a lot more sense.
akcaye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:58:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That still makes it a shitty service.
spgb- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the issue is more that I come across a funny picture or a very interesting image on reddit and I want to share it with a buddy on IRC or a family member on some text or IM program, but the URL is too long and cumbersome. It's not that I want to upload an image to share, it's that there's already an existing image with a fucked URL.
This is why I hope that people will continue to use imgur instead unless reddit fixes their shitty urls. And actually, it's been my experience that most sites will provide a short url exactly for these reasons.
It appears you're using 12 random lower-case characters + numbers in the file name, but do you really need 36 ^ 12 (~4.7 * 10 18 ) possibilities? You could add upper-case letters, decrease this to 7 random characters and still maintain 62 ^ 7 or 3.5 trillion possible combinations.
That way the URLs would be shorter, and easier to remember and copy/paste.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:30:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody will ever need more than 3.5 trillion images.
Typrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not unlikely that more than a trillion images get posted on the internet in a year or two.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:59:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be ridiculously easy to check the generated value against a DB to see if it already exists, then regenerate a value if it does.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:04:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then check that one, retry etc. In complexity theory you end up with O(unbounded) for random and O(n) with the size of the space which starts to matter once it starts getting crowded. Better to use an O(1) algorithm and use a few more characters.
I wrote a link shortener proof-of-concept once where it would keep track of the number of times it tried creating a unique 5-character code. If it couldn't generate a unique code in 10 tries, it would change a setting to make all new codes 6 characters from then on, effectively removing unassigned 5-character codes from being created. A less DB-intensive way could be to always generate 10 5-character codes, see if any of those codes exist in the DB already, then remove the duplicates and take the first remaining code off the top.
It's never a good idea to have case-sensitive URLs. Never.
Also, it's not just about having "enough" possible combinations, when designing a URL shortener (or any other type of link namer, like this). You need to have enough that even collisions become improbable. And because of the birthday problem, that requires an enomous search space.
In other words, reddit has chosen wisely.
Poshul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To make a long story short: Because domains are case insensitive and because URLs are often transferred (or converted, or proxied) through means that may or may not retain the letter case (such as post-it notes).
Poshul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Users, yes. Because you have to make that assumption. So, as a user, you should treat URLs that way.
That is not the same as hosts. Hosts, or servers, if you will, need to be more stringent in their thinking and account for many more things than users.
As usual with interoperability, be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. (The Robustness Principle)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is what we're talking about. URLs are only case sensitive if the server treats them that way.
Lots of things may mess with the case. I mentioned some already. That causes problems for users if the URLs are case sensitive. In other words, for maximum interoperability, stick to lower case URLs on your site, and convert incoming requests.
These would all be different images instead of linking to the same image. It would be like going to Reddit.com and getting a different site than reddit.com.
Case-sensitive random URLs suuuck. They're harder to remember. They're harder to read out. They're only good for the sake of machines, and modern machines aren't bothered by an extra couple ASCII characters.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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barbarr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, I posted in the original change log thread about A/B testing. I'm just preemptive because I don't like where it can potentially go. Here's one of the complaints in that thread.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the "continue" button wasn't dismissing the dialog for you (and instead taking you to a login page anyway), /u/Drunken_Economist confirmed that it was a bug here - I think it may have been fixed since then.
However, I use reddit a lot, and have (under another username) published works of writing to reddit. I chose to do this without expectation of recompense by reddit.
Those works were then plagiarised by other sites. I didn't give my works to these shady fuckers โ and they're profiting off my work.
My attorney outlined to me that I would have to go after these scumbags myself โ I could not, in fact, leverage the collective bargaining power of the reddit juggernaut to get paid, that I would have to go it alone.
So I did. And let me tell you: the enormity of the settlements I got out of two of the five shitbags that stole my writing was enough to fund a vacation to McDonald's PlayPlace for my son โฆ because they don't expect you to buy anything but a $1 hamburger, to use the playground. I threw the burger away. Chik-Fil-A is not an option, either, because I'm not funding political genocide.
-- Why am I telling you this?
Simple.
Reddit has a mission: become profitable. In any way possible. It must happen.
One of the things content creators (sorry, I know some of you hate that phrase) have asked for, repeatedly, is a way for them to protect the works they publish to Reddit from being plagiarised, and to share in the monetisation of those works.
Reddit fundamentally cannot pursue those options in any way, shape, or form whatsoever, if the works are actually hosted on a third-party service.
So this is (as my very educated guess) a step towards Reddit being able to show you a Preferences box that says "Allow Reddit to act on my behalf to protect my legal rights to works I license to Reddit for use." And "Participate in the Reddit Profit Sharing Programme as an independent contractor". โ or however it winds up, in the final form.
As the user agreement for reddit currently stands, they can't do anything about someone right-click-saving, and then using the picture as wallpaper.
And they shouldn't.
That's personal use, which is explicitly allowed by (for example) the imgur.com Terms of Service, and the Reddit.com User Agreement.
It's not commercial. It doesn't subvert copyright. It exists as an explicitly allowed and explicitly licensed function of the contract entered into by Agreeing With The User Agreement.
The "problem" โ and the opportunity for profitable legal judgements โ comes when someone has a slightly different agreement with reddit than the one that stands today as boilerplate.
If I enter into a contract with reddit for First Publishing Rights to one or more of my works, and for Reddit to manage the rights of those works for me, and they publish those works for the personal, non-commercial use of any arbitrary person,
And it hits the front page,
Boom, I have exposure, I have fans, I have maybe even subscribers and maybe even get paid a part of the Reddit Gold applied to my work. Or adspace exposures sold alongside my work.
Now, let's say a site, call it DJARNGACK.com, rips off my work and publishes it on their website and slaps their fucking watermark on it and sells ad impressions on it and makes fifty bucks profit.
Or Facebook. Or โ whoever.
Reddit then has their attorney walk into a clerk's office, file standardised documents, wait until the shitbags that stole the work offer to settle out of court or don't show up to defend themselves and get a default judgement and sell that to a collection agency.
There's even insurance companies that underwrite this kind of lawsuit, because it's freakin' open-and-shut theft.
So the risk is low, the potential for profit is high, reddit is a champion of user's rights, people build careers out of publishing to reddit, and they get bought out by Alphabet corporation and spun off.
You could always get a real job and make content in your spare time so you don't care if your work gets spread around for more to read since you aren't doing it for $$.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats what most non-super-popular content creators do (just see youtube)
That sounds like a doomsday scenario for reddit in my opinion. Why would they ever want to do the work that you, the content creator, rightfully should be doing? And then pay you for it? Insane.
Why would content creators want to hand over their rights to reddit? Also insane.
You don't currently hand over "your rights" to your work. You still wouldn't hand over your rights to your work.
If you're a YouTuber, and are working with a professional network that exists to manage the rights to your work, then that professional network will have an agreement that you, the content creator, are letting them hold W, X, Y, and Z rights, only in the function they need to manage those rights on your behalf, for a defined and limited time period, after which the agreement must be explicitly re-upped by both parties, or is terminated.
Why would they want to do the work?
As a manager, as someone holding an interest in a portfolio of rights โ
Let's say DJARNGACK.com rips off reddit's front page habitually.
Reddit now has standing to sue them. Into bankruptcy. And seize their assets. And bury their brand. Forever.
And when that happens, they own the watermark. That means every picture with the watermark is something they can issue a DMCA takedown notice against. They bury the brand. Forever.
Kill the competitors.
Reddit is a platform, the way YouTube is a platform. Reddit can manage rights the way (professional, not sleazeball) YouTube networks manage rights.
Video hits the front page and Jimmy Kimmel wants to use it? Everyone gets paid.
Video hits the front page and neoNazis want to use it? They are refused by the content creator, and if the neoNazis use it anyway, everyone gets a piece of them.
Reddit can manage rights the way (professional, not sleazeball) YouTube networks manage rights.
Doomsday. There's massive abuse of YouTube's system, as there would be for reddit. You want to take an open platform that is working fine and turn it into a commercial, for-profit-only, lawyer-filled mess in which only big or nefarious players can succeed. The DMCA is heavily rigged in the favor of large companies and can be easily gamed by those who actually want to profit off of stolen content.
If Jimmy wants to use a meme that hits reddit's front page, it is their duty to contact the user who uploaded it. Reddit should have absolutely zero say in the entire process, as well as zero financial gain.
Demonstrably false. Reddit is overrun with abusive assholes who take delight in abusing and manipulating the system for the sake of exercising power, and abusing and manipulating others for the sake of exercising power. In addition, it is not now and never has been profitable as a business โ it continues to make a loss.
commercial
As an option
for-profit-only
Nope. Didn't say that. Explicitly stated that commercialisation and profit exploitation would be an option.
in which only big or nefarious players can succeed
Statement not evidenced in fact.
The DMCA
I'm not saying that this would involve the DMCA. YouTube doesn't use the DMCA. The DMCA is one option
can easily be gamed by
So I shouldn't even try to profit off my work? Reddit shouldn't try to be a successful business, because one tactic doesn't currently work particularly well? Hint: the answer is "No".
Reddit should
The role that reddit should or should not have in that process is up to the agreement between reddit and that user, not you, because you are an "uninterested third party" in the eyes of the law in our hypothetical content management scenario.
But... wouldn't Reddit be able to do that anyway with written works? Any self post that isn't linked to a third party site has already achieved the "sharing" policy that you've outlined. It doesn't seem like Reddit would pursue something that requires legal action on their behalf (which could end up costing way more than it is worth) to protect images posted on their site. Many of which are reposts or rehosts from other sites. Now I totally understand that there are photographers and artists, as well as comic strip writers who would prefer to have their work protected. It just doesn't seem like this is the right path to go down for Reddit -or- the Reddit user, a mutual sharing of property where people profit... somehow. From what I see, it's generally regarded that things posted on the internet are out of your control unless you host them personally. Reddit adding a new venue for gifs and images doesn't really lead to any content protection that I can clearly see, but I could definitely be wrong.
If there were an existing agreement that allows them to manage what's published on reddit.
There isn't. As it stands right now, there's only a license to exploit it, in a limited fashion, subject to the laws of the jurisdictions and courts that cover San Francisco, and which makes clear that they have no obligation to consideration.
it's generally regarded that things posted on the Internet are out of your control
That's how it tends to work right now. That's not because of the law not covering it (it does), but because it's hard and expensive for individuals to use the law and technology to exert that control.
These may not result in adding content protection, but they certainly open the possibility โ whereas if your content is actually hosted offsite, with a third party, there is nothing reddit can begin to offer.
Reddit wants to everything in house. They want us exclusively using Resditor products. Problem is so far their new Reddit products suck. I'm staying with Imgur and Alien Blue.
Lunaa7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty cool! I have some questions about privacy:
Are the images hosted directly on reddit, or you can have acess from outside? I've seen some people on imgur accidentally uploading public pictures of personal things (like NSFW things) and getting bashed on imgur for that. Also, I don't know if you could delete your pictures without an account - Are uploaded images now directly attached to your username? (so to delete a photo, you would delete the post) What about reposts?
zzubnik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a shame I can't click-zoom them with RES like I can with Imgur.
I'm surprised the issue extends to Chrome as well. If using a different app like reddit is fun or the in browser version doesn't fix it then maybe a firewall is blocking things.
When I tried this with a gif two weeks ago, I noticed that
My gif was absurdly low quality for a while after posting. I mean gigantic clouds of discoloration, 1 frame per second maybe, gigantic blocks of distorted pixels, etc. The quality got better after a while, but I'd rather have it sit through a processing page first and post at top quality than have it posted immediately but look like crap for a while.
Lots of people talking about various little problem / missing feature. All I can say is that we should expect reddit to expends / fix these stuff slowly. Don't expect too much.
Having said that. This is totally a right step. I can't understand why Reddit relying so heavily on 3rd party sites for so long. Overtime, all 3rd party will fall to greed. Not saying Reddit won't, but at least reddit can control its features.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not sure why you asked me in particular but if it is already online. Why reupload it? You can just point to that image or the page that uses that image.
Dev__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of people talking about various little problem / missing feature.
I wouldn't consider this a little missing feature. It's literally forcing me to continue to use imgur unless I take this redundant step afaic.
Also hotlinking is generally frowned upon - thats often why I use image hosting services.
It's literally forcing me to continue to use imgur unless I take this redundant step afaic.
This wording is quite funny. reddit didn't restrict anything. All they did was adding a new feature, but some how introducing this feature is "forcing you"? Could you not, um, simply continues what you been doing all these time?
Also hotlinking is generally frowned upo
Hotlinking is not frown upon. Hotlinking when you can directly link to their page that display everything including the image you posted, is. Rehosting is significantly more frown upon than not using original page. If their server can't handle it, it is not your fault. It is like the best problem a webpage can have, being too popular. Pretty much any website owner wants that over someone rehosting their images. Especially if you don't plan on citing credit.
Dev__ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:09:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you not, um, simply continues what you been doing all these time?
Use Imgur - sure. I'm going to continue to do so.
Hotlinking is not frown upon.
Forget it mate. If you're not au fait with why hotlinking is frowned upon a discussion concerning image hosting won't be a fruitful one.
Great, I look forward to reddit finding new and innovative ways to allow users to provide information that will be immediately censored by the mods.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too look forward to people finding new and innovative ways to complain about unrelated things in an announcement about a feature being rolled out to everyone.
Would it be possible to add (fake) image extensions to the URLs? Without an image extension, image-acting extensions like HoverZoom don't act on uploaded image links.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imagus instead, it's a lot better and it works with everything (including this new host).
I'm not sure if it's because of something I have/haven't done, but images hosted on i.redd.it don't enlarge with hover-zoom - do you know if there's a fix for this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the Reddit client on my phone (Flow Beta, I've tried the official one but I'm so used to this one it didn't stick), the Reddit hosted images come up as "Unauthorized". When I go to open the link in a browser, the same error occurs. Is there any fix for this, or am I just going to have to miss out on any Reddit-hosted content?
Probably the developer of Flow Beta needs to add support. Try another mobile app in the mean time. On Android I recommend "Slide", "Sync" and "reddit is fun".
It says Flow isn't handling certain characters the way that browsers expect Ave is pushing a flawed URL to Chrome. The original dev is the only one who can fix it and they haven't been active on their subreddit for months.
Try another app. This thread had recommendations for similar apps under active support and development.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't like the fact, that you cannot instantly resize the picture, or make it bigger like you can with imgur posts.
thybag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are using RES, changing your "Media Previews" settings in https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ to "Don't auto-expand" should fix the issue by letting RES take care of it again.
Preview by holding on the image in alien blue does not work with reddituploads. Given that the official reddit app still needs a lot of work to be usable, it would be nice if you to fix this.
It seems like with this build, the "Suggest A Title" for linked stories - not images - has disappeared. Is this intended? There are some subs that demand you use the same title as the story, word-for-word. I always liked the "suggest a title" function as a shortcut. Why is it gone?
zck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...the "Suggest A Title" for linked stories - not images - has disappeared.
It seems that the "suggest a title" only happens after the browser makes a request to find out what the suggested title is. And that only happens when something is put into the text box. If a user comes in from the "already been submitted. Try again?" page, it doesn't suggest a title.
Ah, and I was coming in from the browser extension to see if a story has already been submitted. Still not sure why it would disappear in that instance though, but I guess if its not a global problem it's not too bad.
zck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I'm seeing, the "suggest a title" link only is added to the page by javascript; it isn't there by default.
It's added when something is put into the text box. And if you're coming from the "resubmit this page" link, or apparently the link you came from, the box is created with the text in it. That is, text is never put into the box, so it never triggers the "add the link" action.
goldism ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am unable to click-hold an image and resize it on the fly like we can with imgur and the chrome RES addin. Will that feature be added?
thybag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Changing your "Media Previews" settings in https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ to "Don't auto-expand" will fix the issue (RES will then expando it as normal)
goldism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:50 on July 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
while this worked for a period of time, it is not working again. "Don't auto-expand" is currently checked within my preferences.
Can you check why reddituploads.com does not work on German mobile networks? Every link just returns a white page with:
"unauthorized"
or
"URI something something failed"
MSG17 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For images hosted on the i.redd.it domain, HoverZoom+ doesn't work on it, which is strange since it should work for direct links to images, and has for other domains. Does a similar program work with them? If so, which one? If not, is there a problem with the host itself. Maybe the extensions is only for some domains (Imgur, Tumblr, DeviantArt).
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a problem of HoverZoom+. Maybe the dev will update it but for now you can use Imagus, it works like a charm.
MSG17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I guess Imagus updated recently for this.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:29:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There goes imugrs traffic
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:00:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use Reddit frequently and have been linking images and gifs via imgur. I want to quit imgur but I like posting interactive albums with titles and descriptions. Will this feature be available at some point rather than just a single image?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ongoing saga. Here goes. Take my post from yesterday as an example, I published an album to Reddit with 20 actors on it. Reddit users, being the amazing people they are, suggested more names and error corrections and I updated the album as it climbed to the front page. It reached over 60 actors.
As soon as it hits the front page of Reddit then imgur has an auto-publish feature on their own website so that my previously hidden post gets automatically published on theirs. That locks the album and I can't change it anymore. There is one error on the album that's driving me nuts.
I have actually requested to be banned from imgur so this doesn't happen. I volunteered to be banned. But it didn't make any difference. It publishes it anyway.
My view is that this is moving very far away indeed from what imgur was supposed to be when it started.
I'd like a simple image host that has the ability to create galleries with titles and descriptions.
Even when the servers are too busy, they still manage to serve me up a cute picture of a cat playing with a network cable. It calms me down and shows that their image hosting is still running. I think we are good.
Won't this degrade Reddit's performance even more? I'm already getting 503s every day. But in the past even when the comments section 503'ed I could still open the link or linked image, because it was hosted somewhere outside Reddit.
Image hosting and CDN is pretty easy to put on separate servers in addition to being a separate domain. So no it shouldn't experience performance issues at the same time the comments do.
Will you directly host .webm up to 100mb (e.g. reddit.com/hosting/user/myfilename.webm) and allow sound files and player controls? Or will put everything in a proprietary webm container and prevent us from using the features of the standard? (e.g. reddit.com/hosting/user/myfilename.gifv) Or will you actually be hosting time synced gif frames up to 100mb and making sure no one ever uses it at all? (in other words will it be good? will it be bad? or will it be useless?)
But not like the full-size ones you get in subs like /r/meirl. I guess that's what I meant.
The question still applies, though--I hope they aren't going to try to squeeze out third party apps.
inbl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:23:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Alien Blue I can hold down the thumbnail of some images to expand the image without leaving the current subreddit and opening the link. Is there a way to make this possible on Alien Blue for Reddit uploads (currently does not work for me), or are we out of luck since the app isn't supported anymore?
DeithWX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:36:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:44:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to hear it. I'm behind the great firewall of China and Imgur links work less than 50% of the time and often need to be reloaded several times...hopefully this will make a difference.
Swapping the title/URL order is a coin-flip decision. There's no right answer... but screwing with muscle memory is the wrong answer. Don't re-flip coins.
And please stop interfering with shift-tab behavior when the subreddit selection is focused. That's what the arrow keys are for.
When sports reddits post a gif its often removed by the rights holder (broadcast company i guess). Will reddit by working with content rights holders to take down gifs/images?
So it appears that the new image hosting doesn't have any support for RES. Can't minimize or maximize content, or click drag to resize them either. Are these features you can implement on your side? Or does the dev of RES need to update their code?
Also, any timeframe on when we can see image hosting on self posts and comments? The vast majority of images that I view on Reddit are either in comments or in the body of self posts.
I realize that this is just rolling out now, but it really feels like the absolute bare minimum in an effort to keep people on Reddit rather than going out to Imgur for traffic. It seems like if features of RES were built into reddit by default it would solve way more issues than hosting images yourself.
How convenient, I like how the Reddit hosted photos dont allow drag-scaling with RES! Awesome functionality, and something I look forward to seeing more of
Wrong, do it again! If you don't click through, you can't have enlarged images, how can you have enlarged images if you don't view our ads! You! Yes, you! behind the bikesheds, stand still, laddie!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who owns the images once they are uploaded
Can/will reddit use the images in promotional/money raising ventures?
You. Unless you can find something that says otherwise in reddit's ToS/User agreement.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well Reddit has already used user content in their publications - so it looks like they've given themselves free license to exploit user generated content (while denying anyone else besides the content creator from doing the same)
Also,
"By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so."
IANAL but don't most of the T&Cs allow reddit to do what you want it to and so reddit can run, at all?
I remember seeing a post or something that described these with examples, so here's my take on them:
worldwide license - seeing some of the things below, it doesn't make sense to block it in some parts of the world, seeing as reddit's servers could be anywhere in the world and accessed from anywhere
reproduce - such as putting it on cache servers, backups
prepare derivative works - maybe adding a reddit logo or something, like when embedding something
distribute copies - allowing everyone else to see what you've submitted,
perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose - such as on the site itself, or reddit promoting itself?
including commercial purposes - so reddit can run ads along site your content
and to authorize others to do so - see r/photoshopbattles, reposting, allowing others to copy/paste what you've put in another comment
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These seem like pretexts, frankly. Reddit admins have already said they are looking to monetize data better, and it stands to reason that they are doing the same for content. They've done it before and this looks like a way to ramp things up. So users retain ownership of their own content, but reddit reserves the right to have unlimited license to it (and not compensate the original creator, or even necessarilz credit them)
I could be wrong and this million-dollar venture could be solely for the benefit of users.
I think for most RES users, I'm not the only one that constantly resizes the image. This isn't possible with an image uploaded directly, so idk if I'm liking it yet.
Why? They didn't want to lose the advertising $$$ obvy.
Every time someone leaves Reddit that's potential revenue lost. I'm surprised they are just now figuring this out
UN_M ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should also allow NSFW image hosting... you have appropriate mechanisms in place already for tagging & preventing embarrassing content being shown... I hope this isn't the beginning of the Great Sanitising before you hock the site to facebook or something... :/
What do you think imgur does? They don't only censor content to protect their image, or whatever reason most companies do it for, they censor stuff just because they don't like it. Even if it's not published.
Octan3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if reddit gets overloaded as it is and I sometimes are unable to browse reddit, How will adding big pictures to the site help that issue? lol. I mean its really awesome the large file sizes and faster load times for sure but will it cause an increase in being unable to browse?
Hopefully this won't get buried but why did you kill alien blue. I'm using your official app now, which I guess is your goal, but I miss a lot of things from alien blue and I'm fucking sad you killed it. When are we getting full functionality back? And what's the point of releasing an official app that sucks compared to the unofficial ones?
Why is this feature limited to new link posts? Why can't this be seamlessly incorporated into the regular new post/comment editors somehow??? You do realize that we often need to use multiple images, right?
Please think about different use cases when you implement new features. When you say you support image hosting, support it properly, so that we do not have to still use third party sites for 90% of image hosting anyway.
Just give us a button or something, dialog should upload the image and paste the url at the editor cursor. If you're that concerned about abuse of S3 space, have a deduplication engine that checks hashes at upload time and gives you the existing url.
Reposts should retain the image even if the original post is deleted. Is it really that hard to implement a refcounter for the image link so that you can delete it only when no posts/comments point to it?
The biggest (read: only) problem I've had with reddit uploads vs. imgur or other, is that you can't resize the pictures by clicking and dragging. Not sure if this is RES specific (Because I've never used Reddit without) or not, but it's just a little annoying when the images are a bit small.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liability thing for sure, I imagine.
I also wonder if there's any government regulation "stuff" that would change if Reddit officially hosted NSFW image content rather than links to it or embedded videos or whatever.
Your pictures don't resize the way normal pictures do with RES. Instead of these hacked together features, why not just buy RES to make vanilla reddit bearable?
If they wanted to integrate RES features into reddit, it wouldn't be with a browser addon so that wouldn't make much sense. It's already there, at no cost to them, to users who want it.
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:07:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey guys we're running in red why don't we try and expand with something that's almost guaranteed to be unprofitable and demand tons of bandwidth on our already overtaxed servers."
Then again with all the censoring and people leaving, I guess bandwidth won't be a problem for much longer.
Thanks for doing this! Imgur has become pretty much the same type of thing that /u/MrGrim disliked when he created it, it is basically being another version of photobucket/imageshack, but at least it has a community. Shoutout to /u/badmonkey0001 for a job at reddit when imgur eventually goes under. Cheers.
People start out with great ideas and things to to build trust and userbase. Once that is established, they slowly degrade it and the momentum keeps going what people would never have wanted in the first place. You can watch this cycle happen with most companies.
neiled ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:40:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search for 'resize'. Upvote all the posts that mention you can't dynamically resize reddit hosted images.
losian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we're expanding the features to all SFW communities that allow images.
Don't give a fuck then. All this hands-off-the-porn nonsense is pathetic. We're adults. Business are run by adults. The communities are properly over-18-warned and such, just host the shit or don't, instead of putting up all these little "we only host SAFE content" bullshit. It's just like Paypal, credit cards, etc. all being so pissy about adult stuff. It's ridiculous.
doryx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:24:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given the amount of reposts, are you guys doing anything to make sure you save the image once? Will that impact an image being deleted when a post is deleted?
Hobotto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I don't know things - right? I'm kind of a dummy about stuff.
But one question I would ask is why would I use this when an alternative that meets my needs already exists?
Syraxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What will we do without the cat swiping from imgur
turikk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you click on images hosted by reddit on the front page, the link actually goes to the comments section.
This is actually a pretty cool feature since it allows expando to work, helps with automod rules and other automated actions, and still lets mobile apps/API driven feeds show the image appropriately.
Any plans to allow this functionality to work for other types of posts? Perhaps let moderators apply it via flair templates?
ajrc0re ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't preview them by holding down the thumbnail in alien blue. 100% useless.
Does this mean we won't see inline gif support for imgur links on the native reddit app. This is the only thing keeping me from switching from Alien Blue (though I do like the peek feature). If you don't get people using your image hosting, or if even some non-trivial percentage of gifs on reddit remain imgur links it would make the reddit app still unusable.
Jesus Christ you must have doubled your server space to be able to do this. I assume keeping everything on the one site will up ad revenue and that's how it's supposed to pay off maybe? Pretty cool, though.
I recently read somewhere about this announcement. It said why should reddit generate so much free traffic for imgur. Hence they came up with their own image hosting service.
Two problems I have with reddit hosting images. First, videos and images have the same icon, unlike RES. Second, and this one is a bigger problem, opening reddit-hosted images will not turn a link purple. This has been true of videos forever, but now it's like I have no idea what I've looked at on reddit.
Will this change Reddit to be something I can't view at work because it will be deemed a image-sharing site?
Imgur/google drive/any file sharing site is banned from where I work. Currently I can browse the news-y feeds and save the image links I want to see later.
The image hosting is done through a separate domain name so they should just be able to block that specific domain and leave the rest of reddit alone. All dependent on your jobs IT admin obviously.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is not blocked in China, Imgur is. One of two things will happen: Reddit will get blocked, or images will be visible. Any idea which?
Anyone who complacently allows some third party to allow/block information from reaching them has no right to complain when the third party blocks something they like.
(If you still donโt see it go ahead and join the idiots who stick around in China and content themselves with workarounds to the blocking, just try not to act too surprised when you realize you were an idiot for staying under their thumb if and when they kick down your door)
One issue I've had: for all the problems that imgur has, one thing that it supports is horizontal view of an image. This is particularly important since a vertical view of a wider image can make reading text hard. Since the native app (and thus any pictures viewed through it) doesn't support horizontal mode, it's not possible to see some of these images in their ideal format. Any plans to add horizontal support? Even if just for images?
thoeni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww pleaso no, redditupload doesnt work on flow.
ajw827 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does someone have an example of a gif? Just curious, because imgur gifs don't auto play when I link them to Facebook and I was wondering if reddit gifs will auto play.
Wouldn't open automatically on sync for Reddit. Didn't read
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until I can click and drag and enlarge like I do with imgur links on RES I will avoid clicking on these links. Also, when I click view all images it does not work either.
Sounds like there's an issue with the code for one of the lifecycle methods. Personally, I use Reddit is Fun on android. The official reddit app definitely looks much, much better, but the functionality is not as great.
Is it possible to have a separate action to view a NSFW image? For example maybe clicking on the image itself (when you click on it originally it is covered and you must click it again to see it). Would help a lot of "missclicks" :)
Is the original image size kept? I want to be able to download the original image from subs like /r/earthporn for wallpaper, even if the image is 12k wide.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stick to what you guys do best... don't get into image hosting/serving. Just so not worth the added cost.
When will you allow me to post an image, but still be able to type text and not a paragraph of a title (sometimes I have to explain the image in greater detail)
Yes this is very nice and all but can we please fix the issue where reddituploads won't open w long presses in Alien Blue. Since Alien Blue is no longer in development, this seems like an issue that we'll encounter a lot more now that you guys are making this official.
Why does clicking on a Reddit-hosted image take you to the comments instead of the actual image? This is unexpected behavior, and given the "comments" link right below the image link, it's also unnecessary.
jylehr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be too late to ask, but I'm curious. How will this effect imgur? Like will they go out of business since they're largest provider of Web traffic no longer needs them?
zaaaaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to get the /r/pizza subreddit in on this. It's a default (I believe) but removes anything non-Imgur right now. Just tested and it killed my upload.
Also: awesome job. I've been waiting for this! So much faster and easier.
Would it be possible to have the app report the size of a pic or GIF along with the thumbnail if it exceeds a certain size? That 20/100 MB limit is making my data plan whimper.
Took me so long to figure out that there wasn't some underlying humour I was missing in this post.
sidneyl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The main feature that I use constantly with Imgur/RES, is the dynamic re-sizing of the image/gif.
That clic-and-drag is not only very satisfying when browsing content here, it's also very useful, because image sizes vary a lot depending on the subreddit.
I've found myself being fustrated when I can't resize an image hosted by Reddit uploads.
Will this be added to the Reddit Media system? Please?
One huge problem with reddit hosted images is that I am unable to resize them on the front page like I can with all other images. Click and drag on them does nothing. I think this might be a RES feature, I don't remember, but anyway either it's a problem on reddit end or a problem with the RES image resizing feature, I don't know.
vivvav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I clicked on the link to get the comments on this announcement, this is what I got.
My issues with this rollout should be self-explanatory.
addama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you revised the Privacy Policy to account for this? Or at least some kind of legal wording outlining the retention policy, privacy settings/expectations, etc. Imgur owns every image you upload to them, for example, and images can't be deleted unless you get ahold of them and ask specifically for an image to be removed. Is Reddit's hosting the same? Do you have rights to our images? Do they decay over time to preserve space? Are there privacy settings, such as "Viewable only on Reddit", "Viewable only by sharing the link" (as in Youtube private videos) or even just "Only I can see it"? Can images be reported as offensive? Are our images aggregated in any way (as in Imgur's front page, random images, etc), and can we opt out of that? Are the images queryable by external sources, or in any other way shared with third party companies?
Without this stuff laid out, I'm sure you know, you'll run into some legal trouble pretty quickly. Privacy and content management is serious business. What I'm hoping is that it's already there, and I am just speaking too quickly.
Do you have a source for that? I believe that Imgur's terms would be written like Facebook's where you keep all the rights, but by uploading you give the host some rights to be able to do what you want them to do.
addama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content.
Meaning that, no, they don't technically "own" the image. My bad. But you give them permanent and perpetual right to use it, replicate it, repurpose it, maybe even change it (depending on how you interpret "derivative works"), etc, without your knowledge or consent beyond the implicit consent you didn't know you were giving because no one reads the Terms:
Using our app to do anything other than access the links to this "Terms" page or accessing any page of our website other than our home page and this "Terms" page constitutes your consent to these terms of use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, do not use our website.
We'd like to interpret the above as "we have image modification services to manipulate your images, and you give us the right to make those modifications at your request", but the wording is much much broader than that. They can do those things whether you want them to or not.
There'd be a good market for a monetized /r/gonewild app, and you've agreed that they can to do that. There'd be a good market in partnering with an advertising agency to use your images in advertising, and you've agreed that they can do that.
You can ask for your images to be deleted, but even for that you have to give a "detailed" reason why, along with an itemized list of every image you want deleted. There is no Terms or Privacy text concerning image deletion, except that you must ask for your images to be deleted. There is nothing saying that they have to honor or even respond to your request, either.
For the record, I don't consider Imgur an evil company, and this is all normal T&C stuff to protect the company in as many cases as possible. That's fine. But let's be honest, this stuff isn't written for your benefit, and it's not written with your everyday use-case in mind.
Meaning that, no, they don't technically "own" the image. My bad. But you give them permanent and perpetual right to use it, replicate it, repurpose it, maybe even change it (depending on how you interpret "derivative works"), etc, without your knowledge or consent beyond the implicit consent you didn't know you were giving because no one reads the Terms:
but the wording is much much broader than that. They can do those things whether you want them to or not.
But doesn't that include things like rescaling, stripping the exif data, turning gifs into gifv's and so on.
I think the image deletion form would be to just weed out nonsense requests and so trolls can't flood the queue and expect a reply.
I agree, it is often oddly worded and not well understood. Trying to find that article or post that explained it.
addama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but isn't there law(s) that say that websites with user content need these in order to do what you want the site to do?
But doesn't that include things like rescaling, stripping the exif data, turning gifs into gifv's and so on.
That's what I'm saying, though. We can assume "It's just to do those things," but if legal action were to occur, do you think a lawyer would look at the wording in that TOS and say "Yep, it says they have free range to do what they want, but we know it really only means these specific but somehow unmentioned things"? Legalese thrives on exactness. If it's not mentioned, not restricted, it doesn't exist.
I would be interested to hear if there was a ruling or governing body whose job it is to overrule Terms and Privacy agreements. I believe that you've seen something somewhere, but I highly doubt there's anything nearly as friendly as you want there to be. The company made an agreement that isn't outside of reason, and you agreed. The law abides.
I think the image deletion form would be to just weed out nonsense requests and so trolls can't flood the queue and expect a reply.
True. I think more likely that was a function of their database architecture that they never upgraded as they grew. It smells of old code that was never updated because it's "too complicated." It would be very inefficient to have to review thousands of delete requests with your human eyes, no? Especially when you can easily have different paths for "I want to delete my images" and "I want someone else's images deleted." Since the majority are probably going to be the former, you check the logged in user, make sure they are the uploader, and delete the images (and do any cascading things, yada yada). Or, you know, let the user delete their own images without having to beg to do it.
Anyway, what I don't want is A) Reddit not updating their Terms/Privacy to cover this new functionality at all, and B) Reddit adopting a legally ambiguous and overreaching TOS like Imgur's that will invite hella legal trouble bad press and ruin a good thing.
Clear, precise language that doesn't evaluate to "we can do whatever whenever, and you can't sue us about it." That's all I want.
manr0e ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:22:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
GodleyX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the only thing I don't like about it, is it doesn't work with RES, unless I need to update it or something. Clicking view images doesn't make them load, and when I load them manually, I can't click and drag to resize. other than that, no complaints.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES will be updated soon to fix any problems.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:27:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like it, i now have to click twice to get to the image, i prefer imgur or direct image address
petcson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I advise people to still use imgur as well as reddits platform in the interest of both beneficial competitiveness as well as concerning the issues regarding Reddit and censorship, specially in the wake of the Orlando Islamic Terrorist incident with /r/news et. al.
sjdr92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am subscribed to /r/civbattleroyale, where the main point is to read albums of narrated pictures from an AI (artificial intelligence) only game. Currently Imgur is used, due to it having very good album options. Will this ever expand to cover albums, with captions/text, and different viewing formats?
Morawka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you guys are so strapped for cash why would you make a needless feature that will cost you money when plenty of good alternatives already exist.
Native hosting means Reddit gets revenue that would otherwise go to imgur. It's a ballsy move to be sure, but I can see how it will pay off.
Of course, the super skeptical viewpoint is that Reddit-controlled images can be censored/monkeyed with more easily than images on a 3rd party host. Why look bad to business partners because all your dirty laundry is on sli.mg or imgur when you can host that shit in-house and yank it when things go wrong? I wonder if archive.is will start picking up larger images now?
As a moderator of /r/Videos, is it possible to disable it?
Not that I don't like it, but /r/Videos is for....videos...not pictures or gifs. The same applies for other video only subreddits like /r/UnknownVideos.
I'm not sure where this originates from (Be it imgur, RES or Reddit) but whenever an image is hosted on the Reddit server, I can't click and drag to resize, which is a feature that's often really handy. It solves scrolling to see all of an image and it lets you resize an image way too big instantly.
Is there any way/intention of implementing this feature onto the Reddit image hosting service?
I swear to god if any of you motherfuckers try and upload a 100MB gif.
ThatFag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In RES when I see a post from subreddit x that has used reddit to host its image, I click on the expand thing to view the image. However, I can't click and drag the image to resize it like I can for images that are hosted elsewhere. Is this something you can fix or is this an issue I have to take up with the guys at RES?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
KevMar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:29:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you guys deduping the images? I imagine you could set the name of the file to its own sha1 hash. Then every repost of that exact image would only take up the space once. It would cache well too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:33 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually a generally excellent idea for web image hosts in general
sil0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:31:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super late to this but, I use the RSS feed on imgur for different image subs. For example I can use /r/earthporn as a slide show on my computer. Is that a feature that you might be able address?
Is this the redditupload something bullshit? Fuck that, everytime I see a post using it I do not click on it. Does not work properly on my ipad and Android phone.
Imgur is doing that itself. Their mobile browsing decisions are garbage. I can't view a direct link properly as it forces me to their landing page, and all the while I get their app thrown in my face each time I do. Compound that with the fact that their Android app is awful and doesn't have the same abilities as their mobile site.
How are the images you don't agree with, political in nature, gonna be handled? Imgur's method of deleted or removing stuff that doesn't fall into their view?
Not trying to be standoffish, I just know sli.mg is more hands off, post what you want.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:19:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gonna be the same as reddit content right now is being handled, i think. would be the only reasonable decision.
Great changes! Only suggestion would be that "use suggested title" option needs to be redone. Image for reference.
I'm guessing the overlap is due to RES, but I think that the link itself is too small. It's one of my favorite features, please keep it prominently featured! Thanks.
Should make censoring posts that contradict you political agenda even easier, so that's nice. Now when you delete a post, you take any incriminating images with it. Good thinking fascist Internet overlords.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:51:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, sli.mg has nothing to do with /r/news, it's older than the /r/news thing. It's a website for making fun of fat people. Did you really never wonder about the name?
I know why it was brought about and I know what forced the name and url change.
Bardfinn ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 16:36:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, I'm downvoting your comment, not because you are wrong, or because I disagree with you, but because your comment is offtopic, and does not belong in this discussion.
If you find yourself believing the downvotes on this comment are because you're being censored, you should seek professional psychological treatment.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:13:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't give a single fuck about my internet points. I'm not here for validation, I'm here to participate in the social aspect and the whole "free speech" thing that Reddit used to stand for. Fortunately, there are still places within Reddit that I can experience that freedom - for now. If it's offtopic and that constitutes being downvoted, so be it.
Bardfinn ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 16:51:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, censortard. Seek professional psychological treatment.
I have downvoted you, because your comment is offtopic and does not belong in this discussion. Lets get back to talking about imagehosting. Now our friend mattkrueg was pointing out that images uploaded to reddit's image hosting will most certainly be censored to remove things that the admins disagree with.
Why don't you think that is an appropriate topic for discussion when announcing the service? What is your problem?
block user? what happened here was someone presented evidence contrary to what your simple world view allows for. instead of changing your viewpoint you just doubled down on retard. good job.
block user? what happened here was someone presented evidence contrary to what your simple world view allows for. instead of changing your viewpoint you just doubled down on retard.
Welcome to the left
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We all remember that Pao was a scapegoat to implement the shitty policies that were rolled back and then re-implemented by /u/spez, but it was okay because he did it.
Reddit is going to go the way of Digg, just watch.
316nuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when will this be rolled over into mobile functionality via uploading/hosting through the official reddit app?
The official apps have had uploading to native reddit hosting since launch!
316nuts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:20:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i know you're not the app dev, but any chance of having the reddit app being one of the "share" options when i click that little magic android share icon?
I'm sorry but from a business perspective why would you do this? Hosting content is a needless expense you weren't paying for because your users were already fine with using imgur/giphy/gyfcat/etc.
It seems like if you wanted to make a more seamless experience, you could have just integrated a plug-in or an add-on that will use reddit's front end to upload to imgur or whatever.
But now you have to deal with storage costs, availability, and the legalities of hosting content.
exg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are tons of things Reddit could be doing to improve the experience before wading into image hosting for sure. Interesting move.
Came to say the same. Also, RES is using the video icon for Reddit images, instead of the photo icon, so I usually ignore them when I just quickly scroll through the first few pages.
Im not really sure where to ask this but ill give it a shot.
I used to be able to remove the (m) extension on the m.reddit url on my phone in order to use the browser interface. This no longer works and simply redirects me to m.reddit.
Is there a fix for this it is a very negative use experience for me.
Saying this from memory, but if you hit the preferences bar in the top right, you should see a 'desktop site' button. I also prefer the desktop site on mobile, and have been frustrated with the attempts to force the mobile site.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW content just strikes me as a way for reddit to censor more content. Sure, you can still link to imgur (which does this kind of thing correctly), but this hosting will be integrated and in theory should be more user friendly. I see many problems down the road with reddit removing content and then arguing it was nsfw.
In my last comment I was being a dick. But now I'll be more serious:
Reddit the Corporation may have to comply with laws regarding sexual images that it is hosting which is different from just providing links and wiping their hands clean.
Also, Reddit the Corporation may have business interests for not becoming a predominantly porn image hosting site.
Similar logic could seem to apply to other NSFW material.
Is there a setting where I can set it to send me to the image first instead of the comments?
fiah84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will we be able to link to the images from other sites?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there an api for this? sorry if it was already answered. I was playing around with making an app using the Imgur api for pulling images for reddit posts. Seems like this is the future of reddit.
Could you make an API (or release it) so other mobile apps can use it? Currently reddit is fun uses imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still like imgur because I can free up my memory. It's pretty good way to organise pictures as well. I think youtube could take some points from them
Dojoson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any idea if / when RES will implement auto-expand for reddit images? I know it's not the best place to ask, but I thought I'd give it a shot in this thread before going to /r/Enhancement.
Will there be a static link to just the image for people who want to repost the image on non-reddit sites and not send someone to the full reddit thread?
sub-t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to go without porn. Bold move.
tojoso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good way to cheapskate out of 90% of the content on Reddit, not to mention censor the content by giving preferential treatment to approved images.
Does this also mean that since Reddit has built an infrastructure to better support images, we can soon upload more/bigger images to our stylesheet pages?
DJScozz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi,
I'm not really used to involving myself with this stuff...but I noticed that RES does not allow for click+pull image expansion with Reddit hosted images. Sorry for not being technical enough to figure this out myself, but is this a RES issue?
One suggestion that I have is that you extend image uploading to making comments in the official Reddit app too. My mom just joined /r/photocritique and they have a contest sticky that you have to post your photos in the comments for. She can't figure out how to upload to imgur first from her phone for this...it's too complicating.
EGOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It mentions that official apps will support this. Does that mean unofficial apps will not be able to load or post these images? Or will it be made part of the API so unofficial apps can implement this feature as well?
Just how bad is this anticipated to kill Imgur's normal web traffic? My guess is a lot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope that this will work out well. I like browsing Reddit on mobile but imgur sucks on mobile while reddituploads have always worked flawlessly for me.
I like this change as Imgur never works for me usually or is too bogged down. i.reddit.it always works and it is nice not having to switch over to a new website when it can just be displayed at the top of the thread.
umbassa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be really cool if it worked with hoover zoom
vit05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, Imgur has really fucked up their site.
MyroIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 99% sure it wasn't. I think it might have done it when submitting an image but not when submitting links or self posts. I mostly post from my pc and it's not been an issue since I started to use the theme until today. I'll look into changing the theme or ask other on /r/naut. Have the best day ever. Be safe ๐
Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox all have the issue. Worked fine last night from what I remember. Also I have no extensions. Tried on a newly formatted PC as well.
A huge problem I have with Imgur lately is, aside from the ads, they seem to downgrade image quality for mobile users. If someone posts a screenshot of a Reddit thread (or anything with small text really) it becomes impossible to read. Will the Reddit image hosting do this too?
You mentioned that you are expanding it to all SFW reddits, will you eventually allow NSFW reddits to us it? Or is that a line that you can't cross due to advertisement and other external factors?
edit: N/M I saw in another thread that you are planning to roll it out eventually.
zdrav0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Can you make the links smaller like imgur does? I can't share images on reddit in Minecraft anymore because the links are too long so I end up just right clicking the image and rehosting it to imgur using a browser plugin.
There are many places where the long links are just too long to be shared and are an annoyance. Especially in a chat environment like IRC where the huge link takes up a ton of space in the chat.
Funny thing is, imgur was made by a redditor for Reddit because everybody was using shitty photobucket like websites for hosting their content which usually ran out of bandwidth after three views.
Imgur was born on Reddit, and grown into it's own subculture, when people will start using Reddit's own hosting, imgur will probably decrease its bandwidth by half or more.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you add the ability to add an image to replies in the future? Or purely submissions?
JJDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is this why the IOS reddit app takes two clicks to open an image from Imgur? To discourage people from using it? Imgur is for NSFW stuff in the future?
mlhuhta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could some sort of subreddit album function be made in the feature? So you can browse uploaded images with a nice UI. Maybe with categories and other sorting functions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So can we directly upload webm or mp4s? Can we by chance have an option to not have it reencode images and videos if they're are under a file size limit (EXIF data should always be stripped).
Can we talk about how now when you go to middle-click on a thumbnail it's sometimes a legit link to the content and other times it's an empty thing that just says "java;"
I can't view these images with third party readers like baconit. Whereas I can view images on Imgur. Is reddit intentionally blocking third party readers?
Which apps or mobile browsers besides baconit have you tested? At least one other app (Flow) is known to have issues with the age the developer of Bacon it probably just needs to add support for these links.
I haven't tried other apps. I just assumed reddit was blocking 3rd party viewers. For example if I "shell out" to the browser I get the message "unauthorized" for the link.
so far your image hosting doesn't work well with RES. also it seems to try and be a direct competition with imgur which was created specifically for reddit
Uploading images I presume? Viewing the reddit hosted images works in Side but it probably won't get the ability to upload till it's put in the generally available API.
Yup, that's what I mean. Slide is my primary means of viewing Reddit, so that'll be nice to have that integration in there, I know it already supports Imgur, but it's nice to have access to first-party services.
anlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Image Hosting on Reddit
I bet that most of the time it will be showing all-of-our-servers-are-busy-right-now.png
This may have already been answered elsewhere, but is there a plan as to how Reddit Enhancement Suite runs these types of images? Currently, I'm not able to toggle the size of the image within the the page. Perhaps this is something RES will have to fix themselves...
Allow them to be resized with RES or imma have to stop using the site, they always appear too small and I need to drag-resize images each time with RES, impossible with reddit images.
SeeonX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was interested to see this and went to use it in one of the pilot communities and realized it only works for link posts, not just as a general image host if you want to link an image in a comment. So it's not exactly an imgur replacement. Any plans to expand to hosting images for use in comments? I'm guessing you don't want to be a general image host for the internet, but maybe it could be restricted to only working via reddit.
As long as you don't make it mandatory and give people an option to use it. Looking at you Livememe. Reddit Mobile. Windows 10... wait, that's not you guys.
good fucki imgur or whatever. there are the steps I have to go through just to look at img on Reddit on my iPhone. click on the post, click on top corner, go to browser, go to "expand full website", click on the tiny download link, and wait for it to load to fucking see the gif. wtf
clarret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please design a policy where if reddit was to close it's doors, public data would be contributed to the internet archive.
pewv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone know why reddit hosted images refuse to work for me? I'm using bacon reader for android. I've been avoiding a good chunk of content on reddit just because it never works :(
East902 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They work on Sync.
pewv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relay pro user here, will it open in the app? If I have to go to a different screen we need to have words
Ranzera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You also got rid of your mobile opt out option after you promised not to like a week ago. Just so you know, you doubled your bandwidth used on me because I manually request desktop page, every single page. I hope you like overhead costs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love it that you dressed up Snoo with the German football team uniform.
Why are you facilitating the ongoing existence of the abomination that is GIF?
Why are you encouraging people to convert entire videos to GIF and to bog down the Internet with 100 MB GIFs instead of a tiny WEBM?
I always get an "unauthorized access" screen any time there's a reddit upload link. Must be because I'm on my phone using Bacon Reader. Hopefully that can be fixed.
bluesox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone know who the Snoo on the picture is supposed to represent? It kind of looks like a polish football player, since the color scheme and the eagle!
Does this mean we're going to get a wave of people going through old link submissions with IMGUR content, downloading them, rehosting them through Reddit and then resubmitting a new link (but actually old/used content)? If so is there any way to limit this?
irocgts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you fix your moble site? Almost every page has to be refreshed to see content.
I thought this was new! I've been using it on the iOS mobile app and am really loving it - I'm sure communities like /r/popping and /r/whatbugisthis will really appreciate it, since they're almost completely picture based.
I thought this was new! I've been using it on the iOS mobile app and am really loving it - I'm sure communities like /r/popping and /r/whatbugisthis will really appreciate it, since they're almost completely picture based.
Might be a dumb question, but why is the file size limit different for gifs? Gif is just an image type that supports multiple frames right? So I could just translate a large jpg into a single frame gif and then I'd be able to upload it.
What advantage does this give over alternate image upload sites like imgur or sli.mg?
jaynus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit makes the money instead of imgur.
MauPow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that keeps me using Alien blue is the hold-to-view feature on images and gigs. Until this is implemented into the Reddit app I won't be using it, as it takes like 3 more clicks and 5-10 more seconds to view my dank memes.
bobpaul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Clicking on a Reddit-hosted image will take you directly to the conversation about that image"
Wut? So I have some reddit hosted image. that I open in my browser. It's just an image. Clicking it does nothing. What are you trying to say here?
I cannot resize images in the same way I can drag-resize imgur previews :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
inline
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, completely off topic but since there are admins around:
Has the Reddit's "front page algorithm" changed? Because the posts on my front page change every time I refresh the page. It doesn't matter how long I wait, even 1 second is enough.
omgsus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you eventually support each image to have it's own comment section later so the hosted image system that was made for reddit can spawn it's own community and forget that it was originally made for reddit and and owes everything it is today to reddit?
Now, reddituploads has been having issues where it can't be previewed by holding down the thumbnail on an ex app some may remember as Alien Blue :^) Any reason for this?
I've been browsing reddit via TOR for a long time and only very recently I've noticed that most gifv animated gifs don't load for me. For example, these two don't play: http://i.imgur.com/el8MGDb.gifvhttp://i.imgur.com/pNyZu0g.gifv. Could this have something to do with these changes you're announcing?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this reddit's way of trying to separate itself from imgur?
120z8t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a reason why I can not click and drag the photos to resize then using RES?
enesbbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish images uploaded directly to reddit could be expanded in RES. It was possible with imgur. Hope you can do something about this!
But.. I don't really want to empower reddit. I like the current practice of using imgur, especially since it means less control over content via reddit itself. I get why Reddit wants to do this (eliminating a service that has grown more into a competitor than a sort-of-subsidiary) but since competition is always good for the consumer... I'll stick with imgur for the time being.
After Imgur made it so that their pictures couldn't be linked to bbcode forums, ruining a lot of threads, I'm glad there are now options like sli.mg and others.
This doesn't work with the ".compact" version of the mobile site, I know that isn't exactly high on the list of priorities, but since nothing better exists, not having that functionality is a little dissapointing. I really hate reddit's normal mobile site, and the app is even worse, I really don't want to have to constantly be forced into a visual style that isn't really appealing and I didn't ask for every time I open an image.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enjoyed viewing imgur links directly but if I wanted to know the source for it I could just remove the extension and it took me to the actual page with comments/source. With reddit images I feel as though if you get the direct link there is no way to go back to the post if you come from an external source.
Ji_2001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Will you consider changing the behavior that strips all EXIF data from images? This is a particular nuisance to photographers, or anybody using EXIF or other headers to record copyright, location, and other information.
nah13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome! By the way are we ever gonna get polls integrated into Reddit?
Can you guys fix the inbox notifications on mobile? they won't go away properly even after viewing them. I have to close, open and re close them multiple times to even get 1 to go away. Not to mention dozens at a time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this feature a lot, does this work for videos or is it just for pictures? Also what sub-reddits are going to use this feature, is it going to be universal or just certain sub-reddits?
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L73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
queenx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that you want to showcase the feature in the announcement using an image, but please, give us also a text version if possible (or alt text). It would be very helpful for a lot of people with some kind of visual disability.
Also, it would be nice if you could provide a way to add alt text to images. Thanks.
Tashre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If an original gets removed, will the entire thread of a repost get deleted as well?
If reposts of the same url are all tied back to the original, is it possible to have karma gains on said reposts get tied back to the original poster as well?
hoseja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THis is shit, Reddit is Fun won't work with those.
fddfgs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to reduce the filesize limit for .gif? Maybe around 30MB, with a note that pops up for higher filesizes suggesting that people just link to the youtube video instead?
Living in a country with bandwidth caps and mediocre speeds means that those giant gifs freeze up my browser and even when they dont they wind up taking half an hour to download.
dnsfdz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably already been mentioned, but how do you anticipate being able to serve up images when we frequently get the "busy" page for serving up text?
Edit: this isn't a dig. I'm genuinely interested. Have you upped your servers?
Also: any plans to support galleries. I like reading DIY posts with lots of photos and a nice inline swipeyness would be nice.
3agl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great! Because work seems to block imgur during different times of the day (when we should be working!) but reddit never gets blocked! Stoked for this :D
I hope RES makes sure that clicking those links make them purple. I hate the i.reddit links because they stay blue after I click on them, which makes me reclick them multiple times if I don't actually open them up... and I installed RES to avoid that shit.
There is no easy way to upload an image for use as a comment on the site other than creating a post somewhere and then copying the link to the image. That's where this subreddit comes in! /r/uploader ONLY allows uploads from the desktop and mobile site and will automatically message you with the link to the image after you've uploaded it.
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please enable the use of image previews with extensions like Imagus? Most image hosting sites enable Imagus to just grab the image and preview the full thing by just mousing over the thumbnail. i.redd.it links are the worst for me because instead of previewing the actual image, it just pops up the thumbnail. So for whatever reason, Imagus IS grabbing an image from the page properly, but it's only the thumbnail.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works fine with Imagus. Maybe you haven't updated the extension in a while?
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shows that I have the latest version, and my settings are fine as far as I can tell. If I'm here on the page looking at the comment context, I can mouseover and see the full image just fine, but if I'm on the main subscription feed, mousing over the thumbnail just pops up a slightly bigger thumbnail. It looks like mousing over the title actually opens the image properly.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but if I'm on the main subscription feed, mousing over the thumbnail just pops up a slightly bigger thumbnail.
Hmm, have you updated Imagus? When I hover over a thumbnail I get the full sized image, and not just a slightly bigger thumbnail.
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on the latest version, I'm pretty sure. There's no update button on the extension's store page and it looks like the version number is up to date. I think Chrome auto-updates extensions anyway, unless you specify otherwise.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works on thumbnails on the main page, except on i.redd.it images. On the submission page like you linked, mousing over the thumbnail also works. I can mouseover the title bar and get the preview on the main page, too. It's just on main page thumbnails where it's loading wrong.
Not sure if I missed (or misunderstood) something, but is it possible to upload an image outside of a post? 9 times out of 10, when I'm uploading an image to imgur, my intention is to link to that image from within a comment (rather than a post). Can I use reddit's image host for this scenario?
btw: Thank you for taking actions that will save us from imgur!
qtx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could, just make your own private subreddit and use that as your 'private stash'.
When I click on an image link, I want to go to the image, not the comments page about the image. There's a reddit setting for this. I disabled it. Please stop treating your image host different.
Can you guys PLEASE employ something from this generation for viewing them?
I'm talking video.. like the uploading of video files or the conversion on your side of them for people with very.. very limited bandwidth [imgur's gif / gifv option] ?
Feels like this should've existed since the birth of reddit. I'm sure every new user coming to this site goes through the stage where they ask themselves why in the hell everything is just a link to imgur.
Does this open the door to limiting content being reposted?
Is there a vision to combine threads in some fashion to see the different discussions that can revolve around a single image? (think a photo of a Trump/Clinton/Sanders protestor and the different viewpoints you would get from r/politics, r/news, r/protectandserve, r/funny, etc.)
Someone else in this thread suggested using the hash of each image for its filename. I agree that it's gonna be interesting when political or drama-licious images get posted to subs with radically different agendas. It will be a good test to see what Reddit decides to delete and what stays up. A bot that re-hosts on some other site might not be a bad idea, just to make sure everybody is on the up and up.
If you don't want this bot on your subreddit or to reply to you, please send me a PM to my main account so I can add you to the blacklist!
Maoman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may be too late for this but I have a question/request. All imgur gifs, even ones uploaded before this functionality existed, now support automatic conversion to .webm or .mp4 files simply by changing the .gif extension in the link into .gifv. This is superior to normal animated gifs for a variety of reasons, but primarily because gifv links are like one tenth the bandwidth of normal gifs.
Will similar functionality be coming to reddit's image hosting, or must it be uploaded as a webm or mp4 file from the start? If it's the latter, I want to formally request this functionality be added, as I will continue using imgur as my primary source for image hosting if it is not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you want to know how to make reddit better? Perhaps don't ban and censor people for not sharing the popular opinion.
That's a third party app and they haven't opened it up to devs yet. Try it in redditmobile.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't want to see gifs on mobile version. It was better before. If I want to see it I tap. If not I don't. Frantically moving cats are very distracting when scrolling and kinda disorienting :( maybe give the option in settings?
The only thing I dislike about the images uploaded to Reddit is when using RES I cannot click and drag on an open image in order to zoom in. If the image were uploaded on imgur I would be able to zoom in by clicking and dragging. Unless there's a fix that I don't know of.
Does this or will this support ability to self-host on Reddit inline images within self-posts?
I moderate a few subs which are 1) self-post only 2) somewhat bloggy and 3) make use of inline images. These don't currently display except when using RES (and individually or globally expanding images). But I find the capability useful.
The inability to have images and text all-in-one incorporated on Reddit, and display those images inline, has been frustrating. Ello or blogging engines are possible alternatives, though they also have some downsides.
cptsir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I expand reddit uploads, the link remains blue. When I expand links to a site such as imgur, the links turn purple. Is this a fault of RES, or is it working as intended?
jinniu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For someone in China who often has problems loading images because of external sites being blocked this will make browsing Reddit far more enjoyable. Excellent addition to the site!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any possibility that we could get embedded images in text posts?
Just seeing these kind of numbers freak me out and make me feel old. I remember when Newgrounds.com challenged animators to make full movies 100kb or less.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to see this feature go public to everyone! :)
Upload images (up to 20MB) and gifs (100MB) directly to Reddit
TIL that gifs are not images.
Actually though... what? We can only upload 20MB jpegs but get 100MB for gifs? So I should just throw my original into a gif and probably get better quality?
anduin1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i spend so much time on this website but im totally out of the loop of anything that actually goes on it when i stick to certain subs
tmyusuf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends saying to me, Reddit aren't publishing video.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who gave the admin gold for this? he probably gets gold for free anyway
How will this work for cross posting content? If I upload an image to one subreddit and someone copies the image link and cross posts it to another and then I delete my original post will the image be deleted and break their link also?
Otadiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please stop, you are messing up RES.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so kuul, all that remains now for me is to share something useful
Idk if this has been said, but I think the ability to grab the direct link to the pic or gif or the ability to copy and paste it would be a nice feature to have instead of sending the link to the Reddit post.
Edit: This is in regards to the iOS app, I'm not sure if it applies to other platforms.
I am on the reddit app Flow, and whenever I try to view an image from i.reddituploads I get sent to a page that says unauthorized. It's that intended? Will I need to switch apps?
So, why does drag to resize images simply no longer work when they are hosted from Reddit? Seems to work in a comment, but not in the main post or on the main page where it needs to work.
aph1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really dislike the fact that the images cannot be easily size adjusted the way that RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) normally allows.
Honestly unless you fix that there is really no point in me using your image hosting service and it makes reddit harder to navigate and enjoy as a whole.
So links posted this way don't turn purple when I "expand" them in RES. I have to actually open them in a new tab to get the link to turn purple. Any chance this will be fixed? It's only a minor annoyance, but man does it get to me when I go to the next page and end up expanding a pic I've already seen just because the link was blue.
EDIT: Also, I can't click and drag to make these photos larger.
OmegaER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:15 on July 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually had some troubles with uploading images, but I don't remember if these problems were present also after this post. I'll give it a try when I can, anyway!
Reddit Enhancement Suite breaks with Reddit image uploads.
Attempting to 'expand' the image in chat breaks and doesn't load, and 'expanding' the image at the top of the page (if a pic post, for example) you are unable to click + drag to scale up or down
lirannl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:55 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sfw only
Then it will only have 50% adoption rates at the very most :P
ajmer98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:16 on July 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow thanks reddit!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:26 on July 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit stuck in limbo. I could tell Reddit was trying to change the file name or file url to somewhere at amazon aws but the submission would not complete. Multiple retries had the same results. Possible problem regarding already hosted content?
this image hosting is bullshit... I try and post images using the reddit image hosting and when submitting all I get is a submitting..... and the link will not post... pointless using reddit image hosting if it wont allow you to post your images
It is doing something strange when being loaded for me. I see black and white version of image at first and then color fills in line by line from top to bottom and slowly enough to be noticed. Here is a screeny while it was loading
Welp, this is going to be another nail in the coffin for Alien Blue. As more and more people start using i.reddituploads.com and move away from imgur.com, those "tap-and-hold" previews will no longer work.
I might be dumb and it isn't caused by the image being hosted on reddit. But I can't click and drag the photo to enlarge or shrink it like I normally do with RES
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever reddit posts any update, new feature, or basically anything, the community really comes down unreasonably hard.
Not having to be directed to a third party site with images is a great new feature. I'm glad it is finally being implemented. Can we all for once say, good job reddit!
JonasBM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an Imgurian I have waited a long time for this. Now tons of shitty Redidt posts wont hit Imgur frontpage.. Just kidding love you :D
Guys, for the love of god, make it sp when I hold my finger over a thumbnail on iOS apps that it opens the image automatically as it would do for Imgur links. I'm so lazy and can't be arsed clicking it.
How can we trust you to share our images when in the same week you openly alter algorithms to censor content you don't agree with? Give me a break ๐
The recent changes to reddit have resulted in a fresher /r/all (although posts do still stick around for 20+ hours, which is nonsense), but it also means that posts from unpopular or less active subs get a lot of prevalence...and this includes NSFW subreddits.
As a gay man who clicksto expand images with RES before reading titles, let me tell you, this is fucking awful.
As someone with a job, it's also not very good.
I don't want to turn off NSFW content. Just specific NSFW content. If all the various millions of super specific naked women subreddits could be categorized "Female NSFW" and I could say "Don't show me Female NSFW, Sports, or MOBA related content", I would be soooo happy
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate reddituploads. Doesn't even load on windows phone. Ruins reddit on mobile for me. Fuck you reddit. Hosting an image is easy as fuck. How you can fuck up displaying it is beyond me.
It's not that I don't completely trust reddit to host images, but how exactly does this benefit reddit from a business perspective?
Keeping our images on imgur or sl.img reduces the risk of something fucky happening when the Powers That Be decide they don't like a particular image, plus reddit doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth.
Empigee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given the trends at Reddit, I have (edit:) three questions:
1) Are you going to buy Imgur and then abruptly shut it down?
2) Are you eventually going to mandate Reddit hosting for pretty much all non-NSFW content?
3) Are you going to make it so that the hosted images don't work well with AlienBlue?
dclaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way to fuck imgur..... that's shady to screw over a user-created project....
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No offense but imgur aint broke I dont see why this needs fixing. All I keep hearing is "imgur dared to want profit" but I buy reddit gold in the hopes of offsetting reddit's costs so I still don't see the crime. To me, it looks like a lot of changes for nothing.
I'm still not abandoning Alien Blue. Don't care what you do until the new app looks and does what AB does.... fix the new app dammit. and support AB, we like it. staying here. I'll continue to use Imgur or not upload at all.
I'll still use imgur, and hope others do aswell. RES allows me to drag and englarge / decrease the size of the picture for imgur, i.redd.it does not. Also this only allows for 1 picture to be uploaded and not albums, and the cap is at 20mb and 100mb. So guess I'll be using imgur for a while.
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Great Idea ! While I don't mind Imgur or anything like that i'm hoping this will increase upload speeds but it will block out ads that are unnecessary from sketchy places, i'm excited!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome because Imgur was blocked at work many months ago and I'm sick of their mobile page(s). Much better.
Looks like reddit is trying to kill of imgur and keep all of their traffic. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:25:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense that you're putting in the "SFW" rule - what system do you think will be used to enforce it? I imagine people might try uploaded NSFW stuff a fair amount due to ignorance or deliberate attempts to break the rule - and I'd imagine it might be a lot of work to monitor (at least it seems like it is for other sites that host images or videos like YouTube)
Not affiliated with Reddit, but it's pretty simple - they only enabled it on "SFW" subreddits. Yes, it's possible that people will upload NSFW content to a "SFW" sub, but that happens already, and is handled with the standard moderation.
Same as with using a third-party image host.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds simple enough and yeah makes sense that in SFW subreddits it'll fall on the mods like it does already with external links etc.
oedno ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:28:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you chose to exclude NSFW subs from this feature?
edrini ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this for posts only, or will comments be able to include uploading images? If not, do you have any plans to add this option in the future?
Trying to keep imgur "community" from hijacking posts by proxy. It's like a parasite... Ironic considering it's a "host."
eqleriq ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:39:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wonder how many shitposting karma spammers will fall off now because their affiliation / profit via imgur go bye-bye. If this prevents one decontextualized, decrediting repost it's a success!
I've heard people are upset we don't have profile pictures, when will I be able to have a dank pepe as my profile picture?
HentMas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:59:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now the site begins charging for space in their hard drive to subreddits, and then they stop support and ban people from using imgur, and then everyone needs to buy their product, and then reddit dies
welcome to the final years of reddit!
slver6 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:00:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah
Wraeyth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please update to allow dragging resizing that imgur has. It's a great feature and makes the hosting a pain for items that need to be zoomed in on.
Nice strategy only pushing it out to SFW subs. Siphoning the public-friendly images away from imgur while leaving them with all the headaches of hosting NSFW content.
How's your relationship with Imgur? Do the companies communicate?
AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming there will be a scandal in the near future that will involve reddit deleting a bunch of images since it was hosted on them when it would be harder to get imgur to delete them.
I love this. Specifically because if people use it, I can see images again! IT at my job has recently blocked Imgur and i want to die!
Umutuku ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:09:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I can't resize them easily like RES then what's the point?
When surfing reddit I usually just click on the image and expand or contract it as needed to fit or fill the screen so I can see things in better detail or more appropriate resolution on large images or blow up small images. With RES this works with most things. With these links though it's just sort of stuck there.
Now when I see i.reddit.uploads.com on a link I'm more likely than not to just skip it.
aryeh95 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:09:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like seeing the stats/analytics on imgur for my OC front page posts. Is there any way to do that with reddit hosted images?
Not wild about companies using their platform position to force competitors out of the marketplace. You should work with your partners (who frankly already do what you're trying to do better than you do) rather than stealing than market share.
arthrax ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:21:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a plan for dealing with, what I'm assuming to be, issues with RES? The reddit images frequently won't load for me, and when they do, I'm unable to drag to resize.
The reddit mobile apps works really well actually. They've made a lot strides to add in requested features and it's really close to being feature "enough" complete.
If the description can't fit in the title, it shouldn't really be a link post then. I imagine they'll roll out the image upload feature to text posts and comments eventually.
Why would you think that reddit as a whole would ban third parties? They've specifically said third parties are still fine. But that's not to say individual subs won't ban imgur.
iEATu23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said subreddits will. You're saying the same thing.
Beautiful, been waiting for this for a long time. The jackasses at Imgur have been increasingly getting to a point of needing their attitudes checked. I hope the sharp decline in traffic to their site teaches them to shut up.
Making a fresh top level post because this hasn't been answered.
/u/madlee, you said that "we" don't store any EXIF data. Do any third parties store EXIF data? Can you please add a canary specifically for 3rd party EXIF archival, assuming you're not already under an NSL specifically for this?
If reddit doesn't answer this, it's safe to assume they're already under an NSL.
RemindMe! 1 week.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXIF data isn't really NSL worthy.
Anyone worth a damn will have gps exif data turned off on their phone/camera, and everything else that's stored in exif data isn't anything worthwhile.
Sure it is. The surveillance state inhales all the metadata it can and then some.
If I were the NSA I'd certainly be interested in scraping EXIF data from a site as huge as reddit.
Edit: are you downvoting me? A default mod, downvoting because they disagree with someone? Really?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, unless the NSA desperately wants to know what shutter speed, aperture and at what focal length I took the photo then by all means, they can have it.
Timestamps and GPS data wouldn't interest you? How about the unique ID of the phone or camera used?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, any sensible person disables GPS EXIF on their phone/camera the moment they get a new one, which removes most personal info regarding phone ID and location.
Do you have even an ounce of compassion for regular folks who are at risk of getting thrown in jail, made un-persons, tortured or killed in drone strikes because of reddit's collusion with unconstitutional surveillance programs?
Before you attempt to derail the discussion any further, I'm curious, what is YOUR reply? As a mega-moderator you've clearly got a lot invested in Reddit. Since the /r/news debacle, people like you are on thin ice. Don't slip.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So yes, I am concerned about this, but you seem to ask for impossible things just to pretend to be a privacy advocate.
You still haven't answered my question if you have asked this of all image hosts, cause we have and image hosts that don't reply with answers we like we disallow.
What impossible things? If we're dealing with National Security Letters, the only way to be certain is to keep digging until the only reply is the sound of crickets. Even /u/madlee's reply "we don't send data to any 3rd parties" is weasely, because any colocated NSA hardware is going to sniff traffic before it reaches reddit's own servers.
What does my asking imgur have to do with reddit, exactly? Whats the purpose of this misdirection? First you threw out red herrings about F-stops and exposure settings when the real risk is metadata, like GPS coordinates and unique device ID's. Clearly you're not ignorant, but you do clearly appear to be trying your darndest to derail the conversation.
Is this fun for you? Are you a fed in real life, or do you just pretend to lick boots on the Internet?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even /u/madlee [+2]'s reply "we don't send data to any 3rd parties" is weasely, because any colocated NSA hardware is going to sniff traffic before it reaches reddit's own servers.
Cause it's obvious you won't be satisfied with any answer anyone will ever give you. You will keep pushing and pushing even when there is nothing going on at all. You need to have a bad guy somewhere.
The ol' shotgun approach never hurts when you're getting the silent treatment.
However in this case, you HAVE answered well. Thank you for that.
The only outstanding concern I have is whether you have a non-https loopback for incoming traffic. This is the cleanest way to share data with government surveillance entities. I honestly don't expect a reply, but on the off chance that the NSL(s) you've already received don't cover this, feel free to clarify who sniffs your encrypted traffic after it's been unencrypted.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this so you can more effectively censor imagery that doesn't conform to the populist Reddit narrative? Like when you culled the right leaning hate and brigading subs but not the left leaning ones?
Because that's how you end up with Voat and slimgur.
FUCKING BITCH ASS REDDIT.. ALLOW IT FOR ALL COMMUNITIES.. NOT JUST SFW.. NSFW IS WHAT MAKES REDDIT LEGIT AND COOL.. FUCK YALL NIGGAS... white guy takes over Ahem, exucse me. But, I do believe that it should be applied to all communities, regardless of ability to be safe for work viewing or not. I do understand that it may overload reddit with obscene, indecent and morally objective content. In that respect, I believe its that same content that makes reddit what it is, unique, mysterious and edgy. We're not 4chan, we're not children, but, I think a certain sense of dark mystery is always appreciated and sometimes needed to maintain legitimacy on the internet. :)
u/amg137 just a reminder: most workplaces don't tolerate full-blown racism or other forms of bigotry. it would be nice if reddit would actually try to clean up its act for once without prompting. you know, without requiring CNN to be like "wtf"
They say that it should be faster and more streamline when using reddit. Also, a lot of people are having issues with imgur on mobile making popups about using their app.
Seriously, though, I do not understand the point of this.
xJRWR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To keep users on site. A ton of people just browse imgur now, I know a ton more people that use Imgur then reddit. It turned into its own social media platform, and its taking taffice (Ad views) away from reddit
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๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Here is what it looks like in action
Edit: change in link to mp4
Edit 2: For those of you with RES use this link
Kortiah ยท 1154 points ยท Posted at 16:46:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, looks great !
Leo-D ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 16:48:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same, RES might need an update.
Kortiah ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:53:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably is on their end yes. Works wonders with imgur and gfycat still
ArmanDoesStuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works fine on my RES as well, strange.
Saikimo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I use the development version of RES at the moment (cloned from github and build on my system), because I was impatient and annoyed by not having RES' expando for reddituploads.
And the dev version works great with OP's gif. So I was wondering why everyone was complaining in here.
I don't know why we didn't get a hotfix for that already...
Goctionni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:32:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES dev team is not as large or active as you might think, and I don't think they feature branch for little things like this.
Saikimo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I know that the dev team isn't very large. And I don't know enough of the inner working and release policies of RES I was just wondering why they don't release a quick fix when it's already working (but could also be that it just works fine for me and that there are still issues to work on that I'm not aware of), so that people stop complaining.
Goctionni ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:59:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I meant with them not feature branching is that, new versions usually include a bunch of changes rather than just one specific thing. So there's likely a few things in that build that aren't quite ready (or tested) for a release.
Alternatively there might simply be one more thing they want to finish before the release.
DisNewAcount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:41 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thing your definition of 'little things' is a bitt off.
Goctionni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:10:07 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I make browser extensions for reddit myself, have talked to the RES devs quite a lot and have looked over their source code. I think I even have a tiny little pull request in a previous build somewhere.
The actual RES devs are of course welcome to point out that I am wrong, but otherwise I rather doubt this involved a major code change.
andrewps87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Little things like the fact Reddit has a whole new image-hosting service which kinda cuts ties with their previous main image host?
Sure, let's wait for something bigger than a huge change to happen...
Goctionni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In terms of code changes to RES this is most likely quite minor when compared to.... Well mostly anything.
andrewps87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:20:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I'm sure a whole image hosting service was written and integrated into Reddit using is only a few characters/lines of code.
vltz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:24:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was talking about code changes that have to be made to RES.
andrewps87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:19:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So it's a small change that needs to be made to RES, to facilitate a massive change across Reddit?
So why hasn't RES integrated it yet, if it's such a small change on their part? If they only have a few devs, that should be easy, no?
I was under the assumption the argument was "They should only make changes to RES when Reddit itself changes a lot. They shouldn't waste their time making changes to RES when it's only a minor change to Reddit itself, because they only have a few devs.":
The quote in question: "I don't think they feature branch for little things like this" (the "thing" being talked about being that Reddit now uses its own self-hosting service - i.e. the devs shouldn't concentrate on 'little things' like the fact Reddit now hosts images)
coopdude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably does, I got the same behavior on the embed click.
gnartung ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely need RES to release an update.
CaptainDogeSparrow ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 16:52:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That url gave me ebola.
CaptainDogeSparrow ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:53:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More like "That url gave me ebol6d6e89f192f516c8298627f0d32889c7c59e7f1595d73e878a85539df8e6c0c6cf6c84268decc00fff388aad722d433bfd110a24cc820f86cbc41801cd94416f failed"
Coolduesman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:05:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You missed an 8!
CaptainDogeSparrow ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:41:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/unexpectedfactorial
rain-is-wet ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:12:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks amazing in blue too.
PopeCumstainIIX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagus still works great though
Edrondol ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Con confirm. If you have the Chrome extension Imagus you can preview images from the links. And in the settings you can decide whether those previews trigger a browser history entry or not. Love Imagus.
pseudopseudonym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES :D
BCMM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I think it would work fine in RES (and probably quite a few apps) if the URL had ".mp4" instead of ".gif" in it.
The actual data returned is
video/mp4, but, if I correctly remember how RES works, the ".gif" in the URL tricks RES in to trying to load it in an<img>tag instead of a<video>tag.tehnico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh good, that's what I see too. Was worried for a second.
PISS_IN_MY_SHIT_HOLE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't even load in Reddit is Fun
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. I love it!
imares ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
great reddit fucked up again
deukhoofd ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:20:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES just didn't account for it yet, nothing to do with reddit.
The_Director ยท 1364 points ยท Posted at 16:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Why heavy gifs?
Everyone is trying to remove them!
Embrace html5 video!
This link is only 800kb vs your 9mb gif!
Edit: he updated his link. Reddit does support html5 video, he pasted the wrong link.
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 16:43:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good catch I will update the link
IranianGenius ยท 112 points ยท Posted at 16:48:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But we still can't upload gifvs directly. I just tried it and it said that file type isn't allowed.
UberActivist ยท 106 points ยท Posted at 16:57:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gifv isn't a real format though. It's just what imgur did to represent converting a gif to mp4. The admin though added &fm=mp4 to the image. It's pretty neat that it can do that.
IranianGenius ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:57:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good to know.
ForceBlade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:30:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
To be fair, they're mp4's typically with h264/5. So when uploading they [reddit, here today] could make the uploading interface or backend figure out what the file is by the header or the content of the file and figure it out itself.
File extension is a Windows thing, and doesn't actually change the file. I can change the file extention of a movie.mp4 to .docx (Microsoft Word document) and open it with VLC and still play the movie!
Blazingcrono ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:57:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is because .gifv is for imgur only. The file type is actually .mp4, which /u/Amg137 already switched over for faster access.
hansolo669 ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 17:00:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
to be fair a gifv isn't a "real" file, it's just Imgurs marketing speak for webm/mp4 + gif/flash fallback.
FierceDeity_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has a flash fallback?
Cthulhu__ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup; right-click on an imgur image, select Inspect Element, check out the html stuffs.
FierceDeity_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no flash fallback, where is it?
I even checked out their js...
Stoppels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:52:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You probably checked a gif, not a gifv.
Screenshot
FierceDeity_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:17:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The video tag DOES contain the object tag, as a fallback I presume. Now I see it.
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, it's also there if Flash is set to ask permission (block unless allowed). Which browser are you using?
Ninja: also no difference if it's using https (just more code to ignore when searching for the Flash relevant bits).
FierceDeity_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You answered too fast :P. This time I was on a gifv that actually didn't have an mp4 first. So I was confused.
I checked again and it was there, but weirdly, if you just view source, the video tag doesn't exist on one that is just a gif, but the object tag does exist*
So if you go to a gifv
If it has an mp4, it returns a page with a video with an object inside. If it has no gif, it still has a video tag but with no sources, but has a div "video-elements" that has two source tags with webm and mp4 (which just redirect to the gifv) and an object tag, but they all get removed by the javascript
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My bad. :P It's not there with images posing as gifv for me either.
FierceDeity_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man, check the source of
https://i.imgur.com/zZle0Sw.gifv (gif not having an mp4) and the inspect element, then compare.
Then check the source of a gifv actually containing an mp4 and compare with inspect.
Imgur is total bananas :D
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's bonkers.
It's definitely a bug maybe in their retroactively mp4ing of every gif?It just shows a gif, so I get there's no need for a Flash fallback. Still strange that they had a 5MB gif limit and now only gifv every gif that's 10MB or larger.SobeyHarker ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:58:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that it's interesting to see that Reddit can't handle the load on a popular link (the one posted by /u/Amg137) and RES hates it too.
I look forward though to seeing it grow as things move forward though.
Nesman64 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:17:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES should support it when the next version releases.
greenphlem ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:22:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So next year?
searchcandy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I tried to upload a unicorn.
Dragon029 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Change the extension to .mp4 and it might work.
Turence ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Am I really the only one that has issues with gifv? They do not play at all in my mobile chrome browser in forced desktop mode. I either have to erase the V and enjoy my .gif, or turn off desktop mode.
TacoOrgy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:03:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel ya, I hate the new forced mobile look and gifv never work on my phone
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TacoOrgy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Hero! Many thanks!
Python4fun ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could use an app other than a browser. RedditIsFun, BaconReader, or the Reddit app.
RoyalBingBong ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:10:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.gifv are just plain HTML files.
NomisGn0s ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read your comment and decided I should tell you that gifv isn't a real file format. It's something imgur had created. Then I read the replies and over half the replies already corrected you...so...what harm is it to have one more "know-it-all" to tell you that gifv isn't a file format.
Gifv isn't a file format.
_Eggs_ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The #1 reason I use Imgur is so I can PASTE pictures there. Will you guys add that feature as well?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:36:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mp4 isn't looping for me like a true "HTML5 gifv" type gif should. I'm on Windows 7 with Firefox.
NomisGn0s ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:38:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Is your plan to convert uploaded gifs into HTML5 videos (mp4 video)? You want to make sure you have maximum exposure to your audience (for usability) and with the growth of mobile devices gifs it takes too long for an end-user to download a gif.
Throtex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that was the point ... 100 MB gifs?!
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm so happy someone thought of this and all you had to do was 'update the link' to correct the issue! That means someone on the team knows gifs are shit for video!
But.. if someone could upload video... directly? That would ice the cake
Killjoy4eva ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wait, is there support for gifv?
Edit: Looks like there is support for MP4. Not sure the compression comparison between the two
Edit: thanks I get it.
intoxxx ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:50:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gifv is just mp4 video under a different file extension
RoyalBingBong ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true! .gifv is just a plain a HTML file that has links for the actual mp4/webm.
tobiasvl ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:50:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GIFV uses either MP4 or WebM, so technically it is GIFV. I'm not sure about the compression differences between MP4 and WebM though.
BobFloss ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:57:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MP4 and WebM are container formats, so the actual codecs vary.
MP4:
WebM:
tobiasvl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point.
gschizas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:38:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no such thing as a gifv. This is just what imgur calls HTML5 video, which is actually MP4 or more rarely webm.
Dosage_Of_Reality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gif should not be supported at all
Ambarsariya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you considered hiring /u/The_Director ? You should consider that.
delta401 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:31:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good one you fucking retard
Killjoy4eva ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 16:38:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously, I don't want to be loading a 100MB gif on my phone. That's ridiculous. Give me gifv please.
networking_noob ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:47:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gifv is just an arbitrary extension used by imgur urls - it isn't an actual filetype or even "real" - it's just an mp4 video, which is the same format reddit is using now
tobiasvl ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:50:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or WebM.
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:21:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as gift. Just an extension. Still a h264 encoded video file
Turence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for explaining this.. there is nothing special about gifv. Not to mentiom they simply do not load on my android with chrome. The extension must be editted to .gif, or take the page out of desktop mode.
jayrandez ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gifv is MP4 !!
IranianGenius ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:41:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gifv, html5, webm, gfy, just not gif please.
Le_9k_Redditor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gfy?
KyfeHeartsword ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://gfycat.com
Le_9k_Redditor ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought that site used webm?
Edit: checked, yeah it does
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:41:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i4gsf
Thedutchjelle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:40:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
o_o how many new messages you got? I'm excited whenever I get one, that novelty must've worn of for you
Denroll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:46:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope this reply gets you excited, but not so excited that the total lack of content in the message becomes a total let-down which in turn causes you to crash from the temporary high you just experienced. I'm shooting for "just good enough" here.
Have an excellent day!
Thedutchjelle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:55:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha!
Thanks :) Usually I get one or two messages every few days, depending on how much I commented on things. On such a large website as Reddit, it always seems nice if someone noticed your comment amidst the crowd.
Have a nice day to you to. It counts double, because today is the Longest Day (Or shortest.. if you're a Southern-Half of Earth kinda guy).
Denroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now I'm wondering what would happen if I gilded /u/Thedutchjelle? That would probably be a lot of excitement.
Maybe we can cause an excitement overdose with multiple gildings? Anyone else up for an experiment? Let the goldkakke party begin!
Thedutchjelle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly don't know what to say. Thanks for the gold /u/denroll :) !
Sorry for ruining your experiment Denroll, but I don't need further gold people, please save your money for something more useful (like perhaps an upcoming Steam Sale..)
The_Director ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quite a lot. My account is almost 6 years old.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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The_Director ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He pasted the wrong link, there is video support.
artformarket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
...And your link works with Hover Zoom+, where the original one doesn't!
The_Director ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on the host I guess. My link is on gfycat.
Onionsteak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol and all he have to do is to copy your url but his link doesn't even work GJ.
chipthamac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I doesn't even load for me, I guess they didn't anticipate the demand of a reddit death hug? (your link works, just not theirs above your comment.)
mspk7305 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when the apprentice has become the master
MannoSlimmins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, did you expect this site to run efficiently?
marlamin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GIFs are converted to mp4 on upload
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you so much for pushing this. I really support this change not just here but on the internet, everywhere. It's quicker for the end user to load and from the servers to you, much.. MUCH less data. Really wasteful on my phone to browse reddit without it. Why use 9mb+ per gif when I can use 900kb. Fuck. like why! Why aren't there websites that check your browser compatibility, and send it by default, or have an option etc to enable this mode.
I really wish more people embraced this. It really makes a networking difference. Gifs are such an outdated format. And people still convert and upload as massive gifs these days. I see it
no_turn_unstoned ยท -38 points ยท Posted at 16:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
โ๐๐๐OH MY GOD๐โTHIS!!!๐๐๐I LITERALLY๐๐CAME๐ฆHERE๐ฐ๐จ๐TO POST๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐ฒTHIS๐ป๐โEXACT๐๐๐COMMENT๐๐ฌ๐จ
does_he_need_to_lift ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:51:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
i hate you so much. i want to hurt you very bad,
DONT FUCKING UPVOTE ME
no_turn_unstoned ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
harder daddy
does_he_need_to_lift ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:55:40 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats what i though, faggot
does_he_need_to_lift ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
time and place. im gonna beat you up
cucumbercat57 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/emojipasta
accountnumberseven ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:41:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would love to upload looping webms, even with a size limit they're far better than gifs.
Drunken_Economist ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:47:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It actually automatically does convert to html5-wrapped mp4 when expanded on listing/comments page.
donutsalad ยท 165 points ยท Posted at 17:02:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how RES allows me to resize imgur images with a click and drag. Any plans to work with RES to make that work with these reddit hosted images? Or add the feature to reddit?
based_arceus ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 17:24:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. I currently don't like when the reddit uploaded pictures show up on my front page, because RES won't allow me to resize them.
I didn't realize how much I actually used that feature before I could no longer do it.
adeadhead ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:19:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
yo7nyy899nu9un98n ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:00:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
:O It works! Thank you so much!
Edit: works on https://i.redd.it/, doesn't on https://i.redditmedia.com/. Not sure what's up with that.
falor42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:31:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do it pretty much everywhere on the internet, and get sad when it doesn't work...
mludd ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 17:22:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've already come to dislike Reddit hosted images because I can't scale them without opening them in a separate browser tab.
tehnico ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 17:31:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing pisses me off more. I've been hating i.redd.it for months.
adeadhead ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:19:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
mludd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat, thanks.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:06:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed, that occasional shout of "oh for fuck's sake" you hear is me trying to drag a reddit hosted image.
Not sure who I should be upset with though, reddit or RES.
K3NN3Y ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
lotsosmiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems to only be an issue with RES on Chrome, RES on Firefox seems to be totally fine.
thetacriterion ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:37:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not for me it ain't. I have this exact problem, and I browse on Firefox.
lotsosmiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Completely fine on two computers for me. Version thing maybe? FF 47.0 and RES 4.6.1 here.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
ahawks ยท 179 points ยท Posted at 17:04:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is what that looks like with RES.
dragonfangxl ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 17:38:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you click on it directly it works
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 17:52:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the point
dragonfangxl ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:55:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok
canipaybycheck ยท -46 points ยท Posted at 17:36:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Telling the admins of reddit that your separate browser extension (that's not owned by reddit) doesn't work? Wow.
tryndisskilled ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 17:39:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's not like this extension is used by most of the redditors.
canipaybycheck ยท -31 points ยท Posted at 17:40:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well it's not... 2.5 mil downloads, 231 million monthly reddit uniques. How is that "most of the redditors"?
And reddit doesn't own it.
tryndisskilled ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:44:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point is why would you be offended by someone telling the admins that a known enhancement feature of their website is failing?
Them knowing about this is a good thing.
canipaybycheck ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 17:55:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's not theirs to fix or deal with. It's a separate, not-owned-by-reddit PERSONAL browser add-on. RES is not reddit's responsibility.
tryndisskilled ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:58:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who said that reddit employees needed to fix this problem. He just stated that it didn't work, why the hate...
canipaybycheck ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 18:01:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's like getting a new TV and complaining to the new TV's manufacturer that your old custom (nearly home-made) remote doesn't work properly.
tryndisskilled ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:04:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's different. Hardware and software compatibilities are not the same thing at all...
You can imagine the latter is way easier to do.
canipaybycheck ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:08:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who was arguing about whether it's easy or not?
I'm saying it's not their responsibility because it's not their app. It's a private personal browser add-on. The entitlement you all have towards reddit the company is appalling in regards to this
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:55:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL ~2.5m RES installs is not a lot.
canipaybycheck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who said that 2.5m wasn't "a lot"? The guy above literally said "most of the redditors"
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:58:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you replying to this comment again? We already talked about this.
canipaybycheck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because you said "TIL ~2.5m RES installs is not a lot." which implies that I said it's not a lot
I never said that...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have the shortest memory ever?
And I replied with:
I'm not going to argue with you about this again. You're literally grasping at straws from hours ago to try to sustain your bullshit attitude and argue more. I'm not doing it again.
canipaybycheck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:08:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Again, nobody said it wasn't a lot! Show me where I said it wasn't a lot. I said most don't use it, which is true!
canipaybycheck ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL 2.5 mil out of 231 mil uniques is "most"
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:08:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never said most. I said 2.5 million is a lot, which is a correct observation. Get off your fucking high horse.
canipaybycheck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:10:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't change the fact that it's a personal browser add on that's not affiliated with reddit in any way...
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:12:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And? Did his comment really touch you so deeply that you decided to argue with him? Who the fuck cares? It's not harming anyone, he's just saying images are broken when using RES. Not as big a deal you're making it out to be.
canipaybycheck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:17:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it did.
It's the wrong place to ask because it's not their responsibility; it puts the site into a negative light when there's a "problem with the site" even though the problem is with RES; and it takes up room from a potential valid response to the admins. If you think I should've just ignored it why not use that same logic on yourself in regards to my comment? Did it bother you that much?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please show me where the original comment asked for the problem to be fixed. Let me give you a hint, no one has asked Reddit admins to fix the issue with RES.
Oh good God, it's their fucking job to interact with the community and answer questions we might have. Worst that happens is they have to scroll over the original comment. Are you going to complain an admin might have to use their finger to scroll a little bit further now? Too much effort for them or something?
Yes, it did. Which is why I'm replying. Shocker
canipaybycheck ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:03:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...about reddit. That guy posted a picture of his extension's functionality, not a reddit function.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:07:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ you're fucking thick.
RES is a large part of Reddit. The admins are allowed to comment on non-Reddit products, it's called fucking freedom of speech. Is that seriously your argument now? You know everything you're saying is such bullshit, just stop trying.
canipaybycheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you talking about what the admins are "allowed" to do? That's not relevant at all
I'm saying it's stupid to ask the admins to fix a browser extension that they're not affiliated with and that they don't run.
And really freedom of speech? Privately-owned websites don't care about free speech, the first amendment only protects you from government censorship, and reddit's not the government.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:18:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one fucking asked the admins to fix the extension you cockface, how do you not understand that? Your argument is literally built on your delusions. The original comment said NOTHING about fixing RES.
God fucking damn.
canipaybycheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a picture of his RES function failing. What's the point of that comment if not to point out that it doesn't work? *"it" being his inline viewing feature that's part of his personal extension
Your name calling just shows your age
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's showing it doesn't work. He never asked the admins to have it fixed. Your entire argument is built on the fact that you think he wants the admins to fix RES. You literally said it right here:
I am not disputing the fact that he is showing the feature is broken. I am disputing the fact that you think he said he wants the admins to fix RES.
Do you agree with me when I say that the original comment never said anything about fixing RES? Yes? Then your entire argument is pointless.
I'm 19, is the world going to end now?
canipaybycheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's implied that he wants a solution to the issue, otherwise he wouldn't have posted that there was an issue. The context is a reply to an admin, if you want to ignore that context then go ahead.
Of course you're a teenager. Haha.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good god. How are you allowed to be a mod of /r/AskReddit? You're not fit to mod anything if you imply that based off that simple original comment. Whatever, you've been downvoted like crazy which should show you that you're just wrong. So if you don't get it at this point then there's nothing else I can really say. Good luck in life, it's clear you need it.
canipaybycheck ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Back to the insults, I would've guessed you were 16 not 19.
Please tell me what you think the implication is in pointing out a functionality issue in this feature thread?
You think online votes are THE measure of right and wrong, and that says everything about you.
coredumperror ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 17:15:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, well... that's a disappointing first impression. RES treats that link as an expando, but when you click it to view the video inline, all you get is a "broken image" icon. Clicking the link directly shows the video just fine, though.
PM_ME_UR_APOLOGY ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 16:45:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't load with RES.
Not sure if RES's fault or new service's.
Staynes ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:49:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ye as you said doesnt open in RES and these weird i.reddit.upload img things arent turning purple either once you visited them with RES.
greany_beeny ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:03:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't drag to resize some of them either. Seems to be the "i.reddituploads" ones.
"i.redd.it" is resizeable.
okaythisisit ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:53:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my only complaint - that and that they're massively oversized against the browser when you do open them with RES. All of this is mostly that RES needs to build an update to incorporate this new service.
Roflkopt3r ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On my mobile it requires me to download it rather than letting me view it in the browser.
Negatively_Positive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Image viewing addons like Imagus (not sure about other) work, Good alternative if you like using mouse.
akatherder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It did work with RES when it was a gif. People complained that gifs are obsolete and he switched it to mp4 (which broke the link for RES). Now he added the .gif link.
So you can either have HTML5 video --OR-- RES installed.
justin_tino ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, please fix with RES. Images can't be resized or previewed in AlienBlue.
TunaLobster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It won't let me resize the image. RES ignored it for me.
Capn_Cook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I'm going to hope RES is updated to work with this.
artformarket ยท 185 points ยท Posted at 16:49:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It doesn't work with Hover Zoom+ (or similar plugin)... which makes this essentially break Reddit for me and the countless other's I've gotten into Reddit. I tell them they MUST install hoverzoom for the perfect experience- Just cruising down the homepage, rolling over images after reading the title and having them pop up like a punchline!
[deleted] ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 17:02:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MurkLurker ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 17:26:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree, I keep finding myself trying to drag images on non-Reddit sites and screwing it up.
deecewan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...does it not just move the image?
ekfslam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:36:11 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try this. It's like hoverzoom but when you right click it zooms in. Then you just scroll to zoom in or out.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/404-mouseover-popup-image-viewer
MurkLurker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:09:08 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting script, thanks!
Combustable-Lemons ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:22:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the click and drag option
MurkLurker ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:27:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you see an image, but it's too small to see something in it, you click the image and drag it down or to the right to zoom it, or up or left to shrink it back. It's awesome.
kingdead42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been using RES for how long and never knew about thisโฝ
MurkLurker ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol, now you know. Did you also know about the View Images option on the top middle part of the page? Makes all images visible as you browse. (I wouldn't click this if you have kids around)
No go dragging!!!
lllllllllilllllllll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or press shift-x :)
kingdead42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Admittedly, I just view most images using Imgus to hover-view them, but I'm sure this will be very useful for many things. Amazingly, I never noticed the "View Images" tab either...
Combustable-Lemons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh that, yeah it's great.
adeadhead ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:20:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
komali_2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken in RES for me as well.
lotsosmiley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems to only be an issue with RES on Chrome, RES on Firefox seems to be totally fine.
UnknownKings ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Imagus, if you hold right click on a link you're viewing, you can use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Not sure about hoverzoom.
[deleted] ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 17:17:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PM_ME_CHIMICHANGAS ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:29:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good tip. Imagus is available on Firefox as well as Chrome.
NoveltyAccount5928 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:41:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit, thanks. I've been using Thumbnail Zoom Plus, but this is way better.
hazeleyedwolff ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:53:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Same. This breaks my experience and makes me have to click on links like a savage. Please work with Hoverzoom/Thumbnail Zoom to make this work.
Edit: /u/Squallid pointed out below that the latest Thumbnail Zoom Plus update fixes this. I tested, and it does. Thanks Squallid, TZP and Reddit team!
idrink211 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:09:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a Savage
Mutoid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What metaphor was the broom for?
Squallid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thumbnail Zoom Plus for Firefox works as of the latest Update from 16th June :)
hazeleyedwolff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does! Thanks!
testbug0 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:16:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wasn't HoverZoom the extension that was supposedly malware? https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/19oxxc/hoverzoom_has_gone_evil_say_hello_to_hoverfree/
I switched to Imagus, works fine.
artformarket ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Totally. I switched when that story broke to Hover Zoom+ - I just edited my comments to say HoverZoom+
vegito431 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:26:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
AHH, was wondering why it wasn't working for me,
I also use hoverzoom, It is a MUST for reddit i can just mouse over a Thumbnail and wach the gif/movie or picture instantly without having to click the link and what not.
mobuco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm using hover zoom+ and it works. The problem is that where it says "655 comments" or whatever below also makes it zoom, which makes it difficult to click sometimes. Not sure why it zooms on that.
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works fine with HoverSee (formerly HoverZoom). I think you might mean to refer to Hover Zoom (with a space), which is the Chrome extension.
MyFifthRedditName ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use imagus on firefox, and it works.
Azumikkel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should contact Hoverzoom about that tho
KhabaLox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES didn't open the link correctly either, though that may be a firewall issue (I'm at work). But I can click on the link and open it, so maybe it's not firewall related.
N6TJA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just use imagus instead.
badgarok725 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:31:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works fine with RES, try that out
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:29:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't really "break" Reddit. You'll have to click on a post to see the picture. Doesn't seem like the end of the world.
highly_unlikely1 ยท 129 points ยท Posted at 16:49:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/MsFVl7y.png Oh okay...
lesser_panjandrum ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:15:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks fine to me.
What browser are you using?
DEEP_ANUS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happens here as well. Latest Chrome with latest RES.
WutUtalkingBoutWill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't drag out the images to resize them when hosted by reddit, so annoying.
lady__of__machinery ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same. Seems to be an issue with RES.
[deleted] ยท 68 points ยท Posted at 16:45:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kungmagnus ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:56:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
.gifv never works on my android tab. I have to actually download them to the drive in order for them to work. So compatibility might be an issue.
Turence ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:58:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never works for me either, you're not alone.
monkeypowah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I click on the imgur logo at the bottom of the gif.
Kungmagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll try that out next time.
HubbaMaBubba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How old is it?
Kungmagnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lenovo yoga 2 1050L. Appearantly it was released in 2014.
ekfslam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works for me on my lenovo a3000 and i'm sure it's the most low end tablet they sold back then. It works for both firefox, chrome, and redditisfun. Is your software up to date? I also have the flash player on mine. Maybe it's that.
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur started with it in 2014 (mimicking Gfycat and such, but with their own extension), but gif is like 29 years old.
evilili ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same on galaxy s6
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Mocha_Bean ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:15:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gifv isn't an actual format. It's an extension imgur uses to serve up WEBMs.
dukbcaaj ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:55:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I second this
jdpatric ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:36:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is how you get me to use something; show the dummy how to do it and that it actually works.
ds2600 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, what did you have for breakfast this morning?
dank_imagemacro ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:57:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm seeing the broken image icon. Running google chrome stable on OpenSUSE leap 64bit with RES.
ubsr1024 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:07:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to be using Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Rollingprobablecause ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shudder
dank_imagemacro ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it work with Mosaic?
dank_imagemacro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then this needs to be fixed. Chrome is a fairly major browser and not being supported is not acceptable. Reddit worked yesterday for me, any change that makes it not work for me today is not a good thing in my book.
ubsr1024 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not familiar with Chrome, is that like the Sega Dreamcast browser?
dank_imagemacro ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mostly it is the easiest way to use netflix in linux.
ImportantPotato ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 16:52:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't load with RES...
FogOfInformation ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All according to plan...mmwwhwhwhhhwhahahhaahahha"
azatoth ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:51:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seems it won't work with RES :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The admins used to give RES devs a heads up before new stuff like this dropped so they didn't get blindsided
I'm guessing ever since (?|?) they either stopped or the RES guys stopped giving a shit since they get flak whenever the admins break something anyways lol
akatherder ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gif link works with RES, just not the optimized html5 link.
geoman2k ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:38:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans to do a Chrome Extension? There is one for Imgur that allows you to right-click an image and select "Rehost on Imgur" which then uploads it there and takes you to it.
Also, having a landing page of some sort where I could paste an image from my clipboard and have it upload would be very useful. Those are the two features I use on Imgur the most because they are quick and easy.
devperez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently, they only allow you to upload an image with a post.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur-extension-by-metron/ehoopddfhgaehhmphfcooacjdpmbjlao/reviews
MidwestDrummer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The the exact Ingur Chrome extension that /u/geoman2k is acknowledging already exists. He asking if reddit plans to create their own Chrome extension for image uploading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yes I was just linking it for anyone curious
Hawtre ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:51:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that's what he's looking for
SolidLikeIraq ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:41:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I didn't take that job at Imgur!
brad3378 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:37:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unfortunately it looks like Imgur would have an easier time adding Reddit functionality than Reddit would have adding image hosting.
AmericanFromAsia ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:37:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's wrong with your inbox?
rdegen88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm on mobile and can't see very well but it looks like it says something along the lines of (7,5)
I don't know how modmail works but maybe it's showing a split of modmail messages and regular messages
edit: nvm
AmericanFromAsia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Modmail is that orange Snoo face to the right of the mailbox
thescribbler_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's using the new European mode where decimal points are replaced with commas. He actually has 7.5 messages.
rdegen88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This somehow makes more sense
accountnumberseven ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It almost looks like a broken RES reference.
searchcandy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That URL is nasty... http://searchengineland.com/seo-friendly-url-syntax-practices-134218
garythecoconut ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:45:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My current complaint with the new upload system is that when I open it in RES, it doesn't turn the link purple. I have to open it into a new tab or click on the link. I have not tried it without RES and maybe it is still an issue.
Annoying.
Zedrona ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's probably an issue woth how RES is opening it, rather than anything else. Have you submitted a bug report?
KEN_JAMES_bitch ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:46:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your link is dead. lol
Smellzlikefish ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:47:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have unanswered messages.
Lupan88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sooooooo many
JoshWithaQ ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:08:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
doesn't load in RES. that makes it pretty low value to me.
domdiggity ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:33:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
seems easy enough.
professor_max_hammer ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It looks like you have some items in your inbox
Elementium ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:35:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Read your messages! Jeez!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a broken image with a lot of text.
http://imgur.com/djIdYAH
[deleted] ยท 2945 points ยท Posted at 16:18:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past when it came to controversial/illegal content, you've stood on the premise of "we aren't hosting the content, just pointing to it." Does this meaningfully change your content strategies and/or policies?
oldschoolred ยท 1033 points ยท Posted at 16:33:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We may make changes but for now the existing rules cover them.
shaunc ยท 622 points ยท Posted at 16:58:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know this is drifting off-topic and probably isn't quite in your wheelhouse, but do you know if there are plans to revisit /r/chillingeffects? Information about DMCA takedowns used to be posted there on a regular basis, but it's been months since anything showed up there.
TheFrigginArchitect ยท 370 points ยท Posted at 17:18:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my point of view, you are drifting on topic
[deleted] ยท 134 points ยท Posted at 17:56:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Bromskloss ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:04:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been taught that if you are lost, you should loudly and confidently declare "I LIVE HERE", and you'll not be lost any more.
Then again, I've also been taught that "when in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout".
Tuniar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 10:50:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't win imgur. Reddit has the high ground.
whoshereforthemoney ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:29:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Jedi are evil!
NoxiousNick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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WantAndAble ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well....from MY point of view of course
[deleted] ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 17:38:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:51:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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smampson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah there Stan.
TheFrigginArchitect ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:39:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well then you are lost!
shaunc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:06 on June 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I'm a bit disappointed that there wasn't an official reply.
shishdem ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 17:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would like to know this as well.
flounder19 ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 17:20:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Short of renewing the subreddit, I'd appreciate if they just addressed the fact that they stopped posting there altogether without telling the community.
ThellraAK ยท 54 points ยท Posted at 17:58:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the warrant canary died around the same time, so I doubt we'll hear much
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 21:06:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any reason to think the warrant canary didn't do its exact job?
flounder19 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 23:15:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. It's just on us as a community to repeatedly bring it up so people know that it's gone
You_and_I_in_Unison ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:01:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I was more asking because I'm not as knowledgeable on this sort of thing as I'd like. Agreed entirely on making it well known.
ImKangarooJackBxtch ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 17:29:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This could lead to Reddit being blocked in China.
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:53:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redd.it
Not
Reddit.com
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 22:38:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm they have the same letters, what an odd coincidence
Vitztlampaehecatl ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:41:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Different domains. Sure, they're hosted by the same people, but they aren't the same website.
rectic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as they aren't on the same servers
mleonardo ยท -43 points ยท Posted at 16:40:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all know how well those are enforced. What's stopping the next Coontown from using Reddit as free hosting for all their racist memes?
ChefBoyAreWeFucked ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 16:49:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Racist != Illegal in the US
Though NSFW probably covers it.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:59:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Stoppels ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:40:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Harassing, bullying and encouraging are so subjective they can ban and censor everything.
mleonardo ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 17:21:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When your only argument for hosting shitty content is 'it's not illegal', take a good look in the mirror.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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krispygrem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:34:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because we all know right-wing fascists like Hitler never censored anything.
mleonardo ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 18:33:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol you silly cuck you're so far off
maynardftw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:39:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Egh, why.
mleonardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:50:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using their own words against them, duh!
maynardftw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:51:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't, though. Otherwise it's hard to tell which side you're on.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:39:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I guess we'll just run everything by you to see if you approve or not?
mleonardo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:41:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sure as hell wouldn't run things by you
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You think content that offends you should be banned from reddit?
maynardftw ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:46:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I mean, they stopped Coontown.
ImEnhanced ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:56:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is true.
mleonardo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only after what, a year? I've been on this site for long enough to know that the admins absolutely drag their feet about this stuff.
maynardftw ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:23:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, took 'em a while, but if you're gonna fearmonger about a potential crisis at least make sure it's not the exact same crisis that already got solved by this same group.
Churba ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the issue is not the time it took, but the reason - coontown was around for some time(iirc a few years), but it would have gone on in perpetuity...if they hadn't managed to get a bunch of media attention.
The reason they were removed wasn't due to the content, Reddit doesn't give a fuck about that. It's because they made Reddit look bad when people found out they existed. It wasn't a good look to be hosting the largest gathering of hardcore racists outside of the storm front forums, so when the public found out, that's the end of that.
If you look back at the announcement thread for quarantining subreddits, spez is quite clear - it's not about keeping people away from bad subreddits or keeping them contained, it's about keeping them out of the public eye as much as possible so people won't criticize Reddit for them.
maynardftw ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:48:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's a valid indictment on Reddit's moral character, but the fact is, they took care of it.
And in the end Coontown existed without the reddit hosting service, so why is it relevant now that they have one?
Churba ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 19:21:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've missed the point entirely. They did handle it - but what have they done about the replacements that have sprung up since, but have been smart enough not to stick their head above the parapets? Sweet fuck all.
They handled it in the end, sure - because it made them look bad not to. Essentially, their hand was forced by public pressure. Absent that public pressure, it would likely still be going today. There's more factors to this that are important besides just the end result.
maynardftw ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:54:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... Right. And as I said, that's a valid indictment on Reddit's moral character.
Churba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And followed it up with "But the fact is, they took care of it."
The fact remains, the end result is not the only important factor.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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maynardftw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it not?
mleonardo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, so maybe a better example would be the_donald.
But if you think the crisis of Reddit's massive far-right community trying to game the site has been solved, you've got another thing coming.
Isord ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:41:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think the_donald is a bit more difficult. I personally agree that they are essentially a harassment subreddit, but it is also ostensibly the primary subreddit of one of the two leading candidates for President. I wouldn't be heartbroken if it got banned but I can understand the mixed feelings about doing so.
mleonardo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:43:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For a campaign subreddit, they don't seem to do much campaigning besides spamming /r/all with shitty memes.
Isord ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:44:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds exactly like Trump's actual campaign. :P
flounder19 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:19:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's not the shitty memes that bother me, IT'S THE CAPSLOCK POST TITLES.
jamiegc1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...and the constant flooding of r/all.
Having a Trump sub here doesn't bother me even though I don't like Trump. It's the obnoxiousness of the people in it.
flounder19 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:09:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The righteous indignation about people coming in from /r/all to downvote their posts after they upvoted a bunch of posts specifically addressed to /r/all.
Then again, it took about one day of being popular before /r/enoughtrumpspam started complaining about brigades themselves so clearly we all are just terrible and selfish people.
theAlpacaLives ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:41:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that if 'people I really don't like use this website for free image hosting, the same as I and people I like can and do,' counts as a crisis, we may need to reevaluate our standards. I'm not approving all the content from many of those subs, but that's the point: I don't have to approve of it. If their being allowed to use the site is a disaster, you might not understand free speech. (Yes, I know, Reddit isn't the government, so they're allowed to censor how they please, but that doesn't mean that them not doing so is necessarily terrible.)
nixonrichard ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:38:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the_donald isn't even remotely far-right
In fact, many conservative subs hate them because of how liberal they are on abortion/same-sex marriage/transgender rights.
mleonardo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
far-right alt-right same shit different bowl
nixonrichard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:45:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fine, but there's no "crisis" of alt-right. It's not like the alt-right is calling for the extermination of all blacks or anything.
mleonardo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:48:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't calling for a race war doing just that?
PM_ME_UR_TRUMP_MEMES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:56:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's... Not true at all.
That's like saying every liberal is a marxist, regressive SJW
GhostOfJebsCampaign ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:22:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You really think you can censor everything you disagree with, don't you?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mleonardo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are but a nodule of the tumor that is growing on Reddit.
originalSpacePirate ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're joking right? You realise the majority of reddits subs and ALL DEFAULT FRONTPAGE SUBS are incredibly left leaning and liberal. You're threatened by small sites that you need to seek out to even be aware of them because they don't agree with your political opinion or your censorship? Are your liberal values really so fragile you need these subs banned? Clearly.
[deleted] ยท -36 points ยท Posted at 16:57:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should read up on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
fuckchi ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:59:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha how does that have anything to do with reddit deciding what is acceptable content for their website?
maynardftw ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 17:00:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step right up, folks, step right up here!
May I present to you a perfect, in-tact, mint-condition example of someone who doesn't understand that the first amendment protects civilians from the government, not from other civilians nor private corporations!
Marvel at the ignorance! The idiocy! Don't get too close, he'll swat at you in his confusion!
cosmicblob ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:03:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude don't forget to say "M'lady", people will think you aren't wearing a fedora.
ProfessorWC ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:06:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, he's not wrong though.
forsubbingonly ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:10:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dont forget to call anyone making an exactly on point comment a neckbeard because people who are smarter than you scare you.
[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 17:16:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The person that made the comment wasn't smart, He was an ass.
forsubbingonly ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:34:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He was completely on point, it's inexcusable to still not understand what your rights are on a privately owned website.
maynardftw ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:07:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Carnival barkers wear fedoras where you're from?
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 17:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fedora tipping intensifies
mleonardo ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:23:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol k.
I don't know what's funnier: the Irishman trying to teach me about the Constitution, or the fact that you think it has any relevance here.
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 16:58:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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kyew ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:02:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if it was, a private company can still block any communication they like. The first amendment only says what the government can't do.
uwhuskytskeet ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:03:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hate speech is a pretty broad term. You can't use it to insight a fight, but you can put it on a picket and protest with it. Pretty sure posting hate speech on a message board would be covered (though Reddit is obviously free to do whatever they want as it is a private entity).
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only time the first amendment is thrown out the window is when people endanger the government or other people with their words. I.e. yelling "I have a bomb in my brief case; everyone get down!" at an airport or the White House.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:01:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Deadmeat553 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:02:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hate speech requires the incitation of violence.
pinklips_highheels3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually yes it is. You can say whatever you want. You just cannot do, or incite someone else to do, anything toward someone based on their class.
But you can spout hateful vitriolic in your own blog all day.
NiceFormBro ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:45:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean I gotta click and read?
Nevermind. I trust you.
TimoBRL ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 16:33:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very good point. Will this mean there's going to be changes in the user policy?
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:22:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most definitely. Just wait.
Adolf-____-Hitler ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:12:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then we must fire Pao again so things stay the same! Oh wait..
theesotericrutabaga ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:35:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For the most part controversial/illegal posts get deleted anyway
easygenius ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:16:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not true.
[deleted] ยท -30 points ยท Posted at 16:51:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ahmed was a good boi. He was attending the terrorist centre and turning his life around. He didn't do nothing
Truthandjusticerise ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 17:00:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This made me laugh harder than it should
[deleted] ยท -42 points ยท Posted at 16:51:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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bryxy ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 16:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahaha.. first time was OK, second time: bring on the brigade
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:13:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท -7 points ยท Posted at 17:17:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I witness you, brother. You will ride to Valhalla, shiny and chrome.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:28:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:30:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It always seemed dubious to me. Implementing this change is proof that they knew the rationale was bunk.
Brian2one0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what torrent sites say "we aren't hosting the content, just linking to it". Doesn't really seem to work.
Miggle-B ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:06:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome question man.
12bnu_now ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well yeah, NSFW stuff thus why it's only on sfw subreddits.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:53:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not just NSFW though. I was thinking more along the lines of DCMA.
TotalCuntofaHuman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:55:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
District of Columbia Magic Association?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit.
dittbub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats a good question!
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:13:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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iBeReese ยท 1974 points ยท Posted at 16:13:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a planned retention policy? Or is it an "as long as reddit has the money to maintain the servers the images will stay forever" kind of deal?
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 2313 points ยท Posted at 16:20:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We will keep the images as long as they are associated to a post. However if you delete a post we will also delete the image
speedofdark8 ยท 1509 points ยท Posted at 16:27:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How are reposts handled? If i upload something into /r/aww, get the link for that post's image, submit that link to /r/cats, then delete the /r/aww post, will the link in /r/cats still work?
[deleted] ยท 1874 points ยท Posted at 16:35:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Wampawacka ยท 180 points ยท Posted at 17:36:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's too busy posting, deleting, and reposting to be in here asking questions.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:28:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That and being a huge piece of shit.
jakeryan91 ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 19:16:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I once was on the hate bandwagon, and then I realized that I cared way too much.
Something to think about
whoshereforthemoney ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 19:30:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention he's not a scummy reposter. I haven't seen him take credit for a single thing he's posted.
giulianosse ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:28:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except those times he submit & later delete the same image or link half a dozen times until it sticks and start getting upvotes.
whoshereforthemoney ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:35:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, not scummy. That's called working reddit. Scummy would be like "Look at my cat" with a reposted cat picture from another user.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:29:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Writing a comment isn't caring much in my opinion.
Gaywallet ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 19:44:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someone saw /u/gallowboob 's hot bod and got jealous
SanctusLetum ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:19:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I must say I was both surprised and impressed when I found out that /u/gallowboob doesn't look like this.
Dude looks pretty good and clearly takes very good care of his body.
N-no. . . No homo.
Gaywallet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:24:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
SanctusLetum ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:27:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, what's in your wallet? ( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Revoker ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 06:53:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is /u/DoublemintDave79 the Gallowboob killer
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3qwhhq/gallowboob_has_been_shadow_banned/cwixe1h
Risley ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:43:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Explain to me why, fucking EXPLAIN IT
GruxKing ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:54:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who gives a shit?
ShibaHook ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They do.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:39:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure? I think it's SlimJones
IranianGenius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's superman!
excessivetoker ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:45:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no it's gallowboobs alt
BeastMcBeastly ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Karmanaut?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, so superman. Just think about it, who else could post that much if not for superman?
oldschoolred ยท 1169 points ยท Posted at 16:42:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it wont... once the uploader removes the original post the link to that image will break
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 1800 points ยท Posted at 16:42:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Gallowboob is crying into his keyboard now.
PussyWhistle ยท 581 points ยท Posted at 16:44:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really, this is why we just rehost links on imgur.
Dances_With_Boobies ยท 391 points ยท Posted at 16:46:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Good point.
deathwaveisajewshill ยท 356 points ยท Posted at 16:51:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOOD point
coldknuckles ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 17:02:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are ALL good point on this blessed day!
OktoberStorm ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 17:18:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ShaiHuludsSockDrawer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:44:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You DOLT
Dr_Bombinator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idiot
coldknuckles ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:20:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would definitely put in like ten dollars.
CommunistDouglas ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:05:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
dollers*
Urtehnoes ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:56:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
back in my day you could buy hopscotch for ps2 for 10 dollers. not anymore though. isn't funny how POLITICIANS don't play ps2? it makes you think...
justreadthecomment ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
todays young people dont have time for video games
DrivenCyclist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7irr0N30gM
youtubefactsbot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bot info
Vitefish ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:20:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now if only we could put stock into those knuckleheads in Congress ;)
SchofieldSilver ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:37:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOOD point.
SwiggleMTG ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:44:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My blessed son already has, he makes 6k figures.
OktoberStorm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where does he live with a salary like that?
NiceGuyJoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:53:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pff. Ken M is 2015.
caryllll ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:27:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself.
Nloveladyallen ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:35:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am ALL good point on this blessed day!
CakeSide ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:37:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself..
inshane_in_the_brain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself.
KimJongIlSunglasses ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spock for Yosef.
andsoitgoes42 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 16:57:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, I make points. I make great points. I have lots of great points.
tobiasvl ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:03:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You make the BEST points.
DRW315 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He really does make great points. Everyone agrees he has the best points. Great point advisors, the best, really.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:09:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We're going to make image hosting great again
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And some, I assume, are good images.
Booblicle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you could even say a natural poindexter
scooter_reddit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:24:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got BINDERS of good points
massofmolecules ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:00:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, everyone always says that you make great points...
mAndroid9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let's make Reddit great again.
ctrealestateatty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:19:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... but... what about good ones?
TheSholvaJaffa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:29:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/andsoitgoes42 for president!
SchofieldSilver ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:38:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/KenM
[deleted] ยท 117 points ยท Posted at 16:53:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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dromtrund ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:20:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry to tell you this, but my chart says your comment has terminal cancer. There's nothing we can do.
Sethos88 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:39:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
o0i81u8120o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:51:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arkcraft.
flipkitty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:42:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/ThatsAGoodWayOfSayingThatThankYou
looksLikeImOnTop ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:08:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOOD point from my wife
inshane_in_the_brain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your wifes dumber than you are.
Nightslash360 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:56:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/kenm is leaking
deathwaveisajewshill ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:59:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Speak for yourself.
420dankmemes1337 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm is leaking now.
melten006 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:53:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GREAT point.
afireintheforest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very good point
BRUTALLEEHONEST ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can already see the jpeg
cloud9ineteen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:26:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I expected that to be the announcement image of this post
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:35:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could rehost on reddit. If you reupload on the repost then the original uploader can no longer break the repost.
I mean, it's not like the imgur upload owner can't delete the image, right?
PussyWhistle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I took the exact imgur link that someone else uploaded, then yes they could break the link. I meant rehosting it on imgur yourself.
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alright. Makes sense.
Currently it seems to be socially acceptable (on reddit) to rehost everything on imgur. There is no reason why imgur should get such preferential treatment. I mean, when reddit's image hosting is working equally well. There is no ethical difference.
PewPewLaserPewPew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've been on reddit 5 year minimum. Don't you remember the old days (this isn't my first username)? There is absolutely a reason, all the previous image hosting site blew ass before imgur was created. It was such an issue that imgur was started by a redditor to solve the issue.
code- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Too bad it's becoming complete garbage.
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember the old days, I've always been aware imgur was pretty good. But currently they seem to be trying to add a parallel social network on top of it, and it's not quite as good as it once was.
But I'm still recommending it to everyone who sends me images hosted in services that only display them along with a ton of crap, take forever to load and block hotlinking. Provided (from now on) they're not on reddit!
PewPewLaserPewPew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah imgur is getting bad now trying to build up their own network. Imgur was still the best option though 90% of the time.
ACoderGirl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, reddit doesn't technically let you repost. If the URL has been posted before, it stops you. You need to change the URL to repost. Most people do that by adding fake anchors or GET variables to it, but for images, rehosting checks that box.
josh6499 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? No, this is why you download the image it re-up it on reddit if you want to repost. (Not that I condone that kind of thing.)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or just rehost on reddit itself. Don't necessarily have to use imgur, all that matters is that you save the image and upload it fresh, and not just use the existing link.
Nebfisherman1987 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:00:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd rather use Slimg. They don't censor for the sake of being turds like imgur can be.
three18ti ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just use http://sli.mg
Imgur will censor your post just because.
throwawaysarebetter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:49:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, one super user throwing another under the bus like that. The battle of the karma whores is certainly fierce.
najodleglejszy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
everyone knows comment karma is superior.
BrtneySpearsFuckedMe ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:58:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He rehosts reposts, and has some original content never posted on imgur. How do you not know that?
fromthepharcyde ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:57:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good thing direct image hosting won't stop you from commenting on every post in existence, isn't it /u/thatsmyhoverboard
Taswelltoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain why
Kongo204 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He cross-posts stuff to other relevant subreddits.
Taswelltoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but what is he deleting that would be a problem with this new system?
Kongo204 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the images are posted by one guy, and he uses the same link, then the first guy deletes their post, the image that was cross posted gets deleted too, leaving a post linking to nothing.
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, it will be easy to clean.
Bloommagical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He can screenshot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never heard of this user...someone please give me the lowdown on this...what looks like to me...a karma obsessed neckbeard....
_Simon_Wiesenthal_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's not. He just realized he's still going to use imgur.
Vikingbearlord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The guy good at photoshop at least.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:29:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
[deleted] ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 16:50:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe do reference counting?
hesapmakinesi ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:28:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, reference counting should be the way to go. However if there is one-to-one relationship (like clicking the image takes you to the thread) as we have now, reference counting can get messy.
sigma914 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeh, you'd need the image to take you to the "other discussions" tab. You could then have a simple mark and sweep collector run over the db periodically
aim2free ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could get a list of all places where the picture is referenced.
That is, one doesn't need to go to tineye to find out.
leSpectre ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:41:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get some shared_ptr action in here
shardikprime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:54:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fork that shit
glitchn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:48:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think its best to be able to delete images instead of not being able to remove your image because someone else linked to it. Lots of subs would hate not being able to remove them from reddit like /r/gonewild for example.
I know it's just as easy for the same people to rehost on imgur but there needs to at least be an illusion of privacy and control. Plus if the url has to change for the new poster then at least anyone who had the old link wouldn't be able to access it any longer.
Dykam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be smarter if they detected an existing reddituploads image, and offered to rehost it under a new url.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:45:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or maybe a [Repost] button that does the whole thing for you
Dykam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
That's an addition, but not enough to intercept the accidental ones where people don't realize an image might just poof.
Actually_is_Jesus ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 16:53:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only part I don't like.
Krillo90 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 20:22:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Although imagine the schadenfreude if you see some shitty reposter getting all the karma from your own content and you can just go and delete your original post.
Or if you can edit your image after posting, you now have the power to replace some front-page post by someone else with goatse.
nermid ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 20:30:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, I just became drunk with power merely by imagining that.
I should not hold public office.
SuperC142 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could just upload the image again to the other sub, though. Then you'd have independent control over each instance.
[deleted] ยท 159 points ยท Posted at 16:44:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a bug, not a feature.
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 17:18:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what they did. If you upload something and no longer want it up, this could be a good feature. It prevents people from re-linking your image and keeping it up forever (e.g. you post a screenshot of something from your email and forget to censor one of the addresses in the conversation. If someone else links that picture, it's there forever). On the other hand, a legit cross-post could end up being broken when the original is deleted for whatever reason (e.g. I upload a nice tea set picture to /r/tattoos, realize my mistake and just link to the same URL in another sub and delete the original post).
There are drawbacks to both approaches. I believe the OP should have a "allow re-linking" option as long as their post is active
FinalMantasyX ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 18:39:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't prevent you from downloading the image and reposting it yourself as a separate image, how in the hell are people arguing this is useful? If you decide you don't want content available, tough tits, someone already downloaded it and will gladly re-share it without your permission. Deleting the original doesn't delete the saved version.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:02:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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greginnj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if the default setting for the option is "no relinking" - which is basically what we have now. See my reply to Doctor_Insano_MD upthread a few levels in response to this.
greginnj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This doesn't really solve the problem. Whatever the option is, it's going to have a default setting ... and 99% of images posted will be posted with the default setting, so we're back where we started.
To take your example, if the option defaults to "allow" - then OP would have to manually change it, with the active thought "maybe I made some sort of mistake" - if they have that thought, they might as well recheck the image ...
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:24:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It all depends how it's implemented. You're right, though. Whatever the default is, most people will have it selected.
fredwilsonn ยท 66 points ยท Posted at 17:08:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A feature you don't like isn't a bug.
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theqmann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't the reposter just save the image to their computer and re-upload it to reddit attached to the new post?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:10:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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LawL4Ever ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 12:43:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's their own fault though. It's great that people can delete their images along with their posts if they want them gone. And if you link to something that you have no control over, you always risk it being deleted.
fredwilsonn ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:05:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno man. What you just described sounds like a feature to me.
Furthermore, a bug is behavior in software that isn't intended. A better word to use would be "issue": a term that includes bugs but also unintentional consequences of intentional features.
Sniperchild ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:56:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this identical to if my YouTube video gets linked and I go take it down?
danc4498 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:10:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Spoken like a true developer!
[deleted] ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:45:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:50:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice buzzword list, not that any of them apply to this at all...
heysully ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:10:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sounds less like a bug and more like it was just an oversight. I imagine they'll change it in the future if it becomes a problem. Then again, I'm sure this costs a TON and any space they can save is probably useful to them, so who knows.
darksiderising ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's exactly how any images hosted anywhere work right now. If someone posts an image from imgur.com that someone else uploaded and then deletes, obviously the same broken link occurs.
sephlington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it's not. If it was due to unplanned effects that weren't expected, then it would be a bug. It's not a feature or a bug, just an outcome of the hosting system.
Omnifox ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:53:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CANT STEAL MY PICS THEN!
Though, I get where it is coming from. The idea is that if YOU delete your OC, it should delete any related links. You still "own" it.
I mean, depending on the TOS.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:09:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This and the SFW restriction dramatically reduce the utility vs. Imgur. Are these decisions firm?
FreeRunningEngineer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it be possible to reassociate the image with the repost if the original is deleted? That wayvcross postings could still remain linked. Only delete the image if all reddit posts referencing it are deleted
websnarf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you guys know what reference counting is?
dwmfives ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it's like imgur, only worse?
Return_Of_The_Jedi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:10:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is your username a reference to Pokรฉmon?
oldschoolred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:15:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In fact it is!
_illogical_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if a mod from the original subreddit removes the post?
Nematrec ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:56:23 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Specifically the uploader? Or does this happen when a mod removes it?
oldschoolred ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:37:02 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's right, specifically the uploader. Mods can't technically delete a comment they can only remove it
speedofdark8 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Interesting, thanks. Reddit has the "other discussions" feature that identifies a unique URL across other posts, why not have that same algorithm be checked before deleting an image?
roionsteroids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you save the image when it's used in another link submission?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh snap, look out reposters. What if they re-upload?
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's kind of a weird way of doing it. I think images should only be removed once no link posts are pointing to it. I mean let's say someone uploads an image to a small subreddit which gets reposted by others to huge subs then if the original uploader deletes the post (or it gets deleted by mods) then all major subs will have a missing image which means the same image will be reposted all over again - if I'm understanding it correctly.
ztsmart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is going to have a negative impact on my ability to be a re-posting Karma whore.
somegetit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a serious bug. What if I upload an image to 2 subs (let's say /r/EarthPorn and /r/wallpapers) then the mods of /r/EarthPorn delete the post because it doesn't follow their strict guideline? the link in /r/wallpapers will break without me even knowing about it. Forget about mods, what if I want to delete the post from /r/EarthPorn because I found out someone else posted that image just yesterday. Now I need to re-submit to /r/wallpapers. Doesn't make sense.
JewInDaHat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good.
mlvisby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right click image, save. Then post said image.
13steinj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So we'd have to download, then reupload to ensure our post stays?
microfortnight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok, that's gonna be a problem.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats stupid
ProgramTheWorld ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that's why we still have to use imgur.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know most people rehost images because they don't know if they'll be available in the future. Looks like they'll still need to.
Camwood7 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can that be changed?
dontwasteink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you guys going to hash the image files? So you don't store duplicate files?
Bloommagical ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excellent
i_am_erip ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:55:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Serves them right.
test6554 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if two posts upload identical images with the same md5. Do you save space by only hosting one of those?
Drigr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what you're saying is you're essentially fighting reposters?! Out of curiosity, what happens if the original is mod removed?
jherazob ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken links everywhere
DarkSideofOZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about old archived posts?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe hash the image and if there's a hash collision and verified dupe, just link to what has effectively become a "stock" image. It would also nuke all the re-posts simultaneously if it turned out to be copyright violation or something.
dkitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if the original post is removed by a moderator?
toastyghost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:14:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So in other words, people will continue to use imgur?
Brimshae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:59:39 on June 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that going to have the potential to break a lot of posts in the future?
Example: Someone uploads a tipsheet to a tech support type subreddit (/r/buildapc). This tipsheet gets posted elsewhere to another subreddit.
The OP of the tipsheet deletes his post to make a new/updated one, but now has to upload a new copy of the tipsheet, instead of using the previously-existing uploaded copy.
The post in the other subreddit is now broken, as the original tip sheet dies with the first post.
bakonydraco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:26 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A little late to the party, but I moderate a few subreddits that beta tested this feature and have appreciated it. Is there anyway we can reference internally hosted images in our stylesheets? The current size limitation for subreddit images is 512 kb, and we can have a maximum of 50 images. Bumping that to 20 Mb would be a huge help! I know it's a different load on servers to load images once than to load them with every pageview, but thought I'd ask :)
square965 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens if mods delete the original post and not the uploader? Given the /r/news debacle, I wouldn't want to put even more power into the hands of mods.
aryst0krat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As it should be, given this is the way the picture actually gets deleted. If the OP deleted the image on imgur the same thing would happen.
edbLings- ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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MAADcitykid ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:43:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's fucking retarded
I_can_breathe ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:28:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for your useless reply
ididnotdoitever ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:51:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe, years ago a rival sports board was found to be hotlinking a ton of images off of our board, so of course we went in late at night, changed all the filenames, and linked porn to the old filename. Not sure you could do that here, but it brought a laugh when I was reminded of that.
stephen340 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pics or didn't happen
[deleted] ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:35:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And can I repost to /r/aww 100 times?
awwthority ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO.
The_Wasp_Queen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People will just rehost to imgur, just like they rehost 9gag content to imgur to post on reddit.
sticky-bit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No silly, you need to find a cute post on /r/aww, then download; crop, resize, or adjust the color balance to fool karma decay; then upload again as Original Content!
atom138 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:37:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like if the pic was uploaded with the r/aww post it would be associated with that post specifically. Therefore if you delete the r/aww post the pic would be deleted too and the image link would no longer work. They should add an option to upload via link instead of only from local storage. That way it would be just as easy as linking the image originally but would prevent the link from dying should the original post be deleted.
jacer1099 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to think there is a dedupe back end process, but that won't do much if the image is cropped and recompressed
toomuchtodotoday ยท 819 points ยท Posted at 19:22:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
When the image is removed from S3, you might want to replace it (via a PUT right over the existing object) with a zero byte object (which would have an immutable cache header, ensuring the your CDN only needs to request that object once from the S3 origin after being removed via this scheme) that redirects to a fancy Reddit 404 page (which should also be in S3) so folks don't receive the ugly "access denied" S3 response.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-redirect.html
EDIT: Cloudflare, currently in front of your S3 bucket, should handle this just fine.
umbrae ยท 566 points ยท Posted at 23:15:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a great solution. Thank you!
P.S. We're hiring: https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit
JoeSicbo ยท 180 points ยท Posted at 23:49:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's really busy.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 163 points ยท Posted at 00:01:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Not too busy to apply at Reddit!
EDIT: Nvm, requires living in SF. I work remote for a startup already, but I appreciate that /u/umbrae dropped a link to apply :)
Hanhula ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 00:47:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got encouraged to apply by an admin - apply anyway! Who knows, maybe you could stay remote.
Couchtiger23 ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 00:51:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't they fire some dude with cancer because he was too sick to move? Or maybe they made him move and then fired him...something like that. Reddit doesn't sound like a good place to work.
Ajreil ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 01:01:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone have a link to that?
sickmate ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 02:31:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150704000624/https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3c0idl/i_am_dacvak_former_reddit_employee_and_leukemia
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:42:22 on August 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know I'm super late, but thanks for posting about this. Tempted to quit Reddit.
feralkitsune ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 01:43:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like anyone who links to something like that would get banned quickly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:40:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well /u/sickmate seems ok
feralkitsune ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:53:31 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, no need to ban us when they already banned and deleted the posts of the guy who made that thread.
I_Do_Not_Abbreviate ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 01:46:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do some research into the major posts from the Ellen Pao debacle last year; I seem to recall reading something to that effect.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:17:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 05:13:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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gerrywastaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:51:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sauce?
KingOfOldfags ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:34:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With all the firings Reddit went through, I doubt applying to work at Reddit is a good idea.
ArminVanBuuren ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 03:31:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I live right be the offices. I can go sit in the chair for you and wear an earpiece. just tell me what to do and say
toomuchtodotoday ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 04:17:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm down. Put your typing gloves on Armin, here we go.
lordriffington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Someday I'd love to have a job that paid enough that I could afford to pay someone else just to be at work for me.
RepostThatShit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:54:43 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that the plot of Gattaca?
notheresnolight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:14:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
browse cats in /r/aww
tsolosmi ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 00:38:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate when companies require where I live.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 00:54:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if serious....
sparkymonroe ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 04:20:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think he/she may be. Remote working is becoming more popular.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:32:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can't come soon enough!
sparkymonroe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:17:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My company has 6 full time folks; 3 of them work remotely and don't even live in the city we're based in. (We're obviously a very small company)
tsolosmi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:47:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100% serious! I just recently embraced the 100% remote model and it is great.
Surprised a company like Reddit requires you to be onsite.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:11:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case, rock on. I myself would never go back to an in-person job ever again, and I hope more people can work remotely in the future.
Nikotiiniko ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 04:24:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For programming etc jobs working in the same office is not at all needed. Everything can be done at home in your boxers.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 04:25:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agree! I frequently am in boxers during video conferences with a stickie note on my monitor that says, "Don't stand up".
toomuchtodotoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agree! I frequently am in boxers during video conferences with a stickie note on my monitor that says, "Don't stand up".
Squishumz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:30:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at Mr. Overachiever here.
jij ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha... I had that exact excitement and crushing realization like 3 years ago :p.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That policy didn't take effect until at least last year or the year before. Pao closed the remote locations.
jij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All their job postings before that were still all "move to SF", I don't know the circumstances of them hiring remote before that but I suspect it was a special case by case basis. /shrug
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:47:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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toomuchtodotoday ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:18:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Worry not friend, I'd rather live on my sailboat in Central/South America than SF :)
homefree122 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:20:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you all compensate employees in bitcoins?
If so, I'm in.
AndRo-Meo ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 23:29:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you didn't even do anything.
biznatch11 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:44:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to get paid in karma please.
BlindManSight ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:30:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they give a shit about bitcoin lol
velocity92c ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:48:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the OP was joking, but why wouldn't people care about bitcoins? At their release, bitcoins were worth 1 cent apiece and were mined freely and fairly easily. If you had spent 1,000 dollars and bought bitcoins in their infancy when they were first for sale, those same coins would be worth $30,000,000 today. Many believe that bitcoins even now at their current value of $667/coin are only a fraction of what they'll be worth in the near future. Many people are investing their extra money into bitcoin. I'm one of those people. I haven't sold yet but just the small amount I've invested this year (around $1,000) has already more than tripled. Bitcoins could be a great investment opportunity.
hakkzpets ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:15:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Everything "could be" a great investment. Hindsight is a terrible reason to invest.
Bitcoins are as high risk as you can get. If you like high risk investing, Bitcoins may be your thing. But otherwise I would stay the hell away from them.
FF3LockeZ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:55:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That ain't got shit to do with reddit. If you want to invest your paycheck in bitcoins or fine wine or gold bricks or beanie babies you can do it yourself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:34:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've considered this, but one thing thats always concerned me is how do you transfer cryptocurrency into real money? Say you bought 100 coins back when they were cheap. Now theyre worth 66,700. Do you just sell it and transfer that to your account? Or is it locked up in the internet as a cryptocurrency?
homefree122 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:47:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That was the joke.
BlindManSight ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 00:30:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
delete this
GEORGE_RR_MARTlN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:06:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to your data science open positions? Have they all been filled?
chloeeeeeeeee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
immutableis only supported in Firefox 49 and no signals from other browsers.immutableonly changes the F5,- and refresh-button behavior.[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:47:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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LearnsSomethingNew ยท 168 points ยท Posted at 20:17:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a website. Getting tech support from its own customers. What a time to live.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 94 points ยท Posted at 20:21:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't cost me anything to suggest an improvement to the product, and it provides a better experience for everyone at almost zero cost. I'd be crazy not to suggest it!
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:22:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
toomuchtodotoday ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 20:24:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm already pretty well off. Sharing my knowledge for free provides me a greater marginal return.
Phaedrus0230 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 21:46:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus it's pretty hard to get Reddit to pay you for the "great idea" you won't tell them about.
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you still managing a team of 3?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:30:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Good eye ;) Doing devops for a startup without management responsibilities currently in return for getting to work 100% remote. What's next after this? Who knows! That's the exciting part :)
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:31:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck, I can't handle that sort of job insecurity.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:36:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It grows on you. Embrace the chaos.
Seriously though, I have a large emergency fund thanks to /r/personalfinance, have made drastic lifestyle changes to reach early financial independence (retiring at ~40; and by retiring I mean tinkering on my own projects/startups for funsies each day), and have been extremely lucky/fortunate to have a skillset in heavy demand (~2-3 recruiter calls a week with job offers).
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:38:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good on you! Best of luck! I wish to be in your shoes someday.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 20:39:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
PM me if you're in the tech sector and need help or a mentor. My life has shifted long ago from leveling myself up to being the shoulders others stand on.
LearnsSomethingNew ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I'm not in tech but it's great to know that there are folks out there willing to help out others!
B_adl_y ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you sir. Reading your post in this thread are a ray of sunshine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:53:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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toomuchtodotoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're too kind; life's been good, I'm just paying it forward.
PutchDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:04:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stumbled onto your comment because of the tech DevOps stuff you wrote - is it ok if I pm you a question about a DevOps product my company makes? Just trying to get a feel of how well known it is in the market. Thanks
toomuchtodotoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go for it! More than happy to provide feedback.
PutchDes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:27:33 on June 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the availability - I PM'd you the link to the product.
Thanks!
toomuchtodotoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:41 on June 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got the PM, just haven't had time to get to it yet. Promise I will!
EL337 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is incredible demand for experienced devops engineers right now. I get 2-3 recruiters contacting me per day asking if I want to go to a new company. .
Johnappleseed4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a developer, it's much easier to deal with since you know there's a ton of places wanting your skills.
Once you're at a certain level, there's an almost endless list of jobs from where you're at now down to $70k/yr - so there's very little risk of going to zero.
wittyrandomusername ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:19:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't you already have too much to do today?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:25:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm competing against myself ;) Get more done faster.
bonzaiferroni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can confirm. Am crazy, and didn't suggest it.
MapleBaconCoffee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:06:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technically it's getting tech support from its product. You don't pay for Reddit, you aren't a customer. Their customers are the ones buying data on our habits.
This is much like Google. You aren't a customer, you are a data clearinghouse product for marketers.
CookieTheSlayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:14:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit has ads. People buy gold.
kaiise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're providing the content and reason for me to even be here
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"customers"
bantab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a website. Getting tech support from its own
customersproduct. What a time to live.DB6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:06:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you need a job?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:07:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm always looking. Feel free to PM me to get in touch!
DB6 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:17:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. I'll pm you and we talk
nascentt ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 22:26:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I have a job? I don't know anything about what he just said but I like cats.
DB6 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:37:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, can you start tmr? Sometime between 8am and 8pm would be ok.
nascentt ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:40:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great. Can I bring my cat?
Albert_Borland ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like cats and dogs so obviously I'm more qualified than you.
MargretTatchersParty ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:49:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Never would have thought of that. I would have just let the request fall through to S3 to escalate back. What lead you to find this out?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugly S3 errors messages are bad UX, I worked backwards from that.
ShiitakeTheMushroom ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:47:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Does Reddit use a language that uses PUTs?
Edit: Downvotes for asking an honest question?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:48:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
PUT is one of REST API verbs you'd use with S3: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPUT.html
ShiitakeTheMushroom ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I suppose my real question here is: does Reddit use S3?
toomuchtodotoday ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:00:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
ShiitakeTheMushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did not know this! Thanks!
robotzor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:22:30 on December 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super freaking late response but honestly they could also use some help with their auto scale groups lately.
Theblandyman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:31:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
An HTTP Put method is the way to update a file or database or whatever using a RESTful api.
There's also Get, Post, Delete, and Patch. They all do different things but it's how any programming language will be communicating with a server. In this case, S3 is Amazon's AWS storage solution and the data is only accessible through their RESTful api.
pwhiller ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:07:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you may be thinking of something like the ruby language where "puts" logs or prints to standard output like console.log in js or printf in c. PUT in this case is the HTTP method, and is usually for replacement of a resource
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:06:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ShiitakeTheMushroom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a constructive answer to my question. :P
I_Makes_tuff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:50:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand many of those words.
shitwhore ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just put a delete marker and delete older versions if using versioning.
MadScienceDreams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:29:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Me personally, I can't wait until they do the analysis on their photos and discover that it is just a terabyte of dickbutt photos.
14489553421138532110 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:32:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One day I hope to earn a job just by making a reddit comment.
flipkitty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:41:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For history: what it currently looks like if you try to go to the image url after deleting the post: http://i.imgur.com/MoDmzGR.png
harsh183 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I good advice, I came here to comment just that. :D
imperalix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:15:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You will need to ensure you are using the website endpoint for this to work.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:29:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming Reddit is using the website endpoint if they're serving objects to a CDN from the bucket.
imperalix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:51:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From my experience, it depends on your requirements. If you need https between your cdn ABS s3, you can't use the website endpoint.
Your assumption makes sense, but just wanted to make sure it was called out.
Gargan_Roo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:39:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What should I study to learn more about what you know? I've been a web manager for 8 years and know a thing or two about nearly everything but want to improve the depth of my knowledge in how the web works for more enterprise level solutions.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1rv90v/is_it_possible_to_earn_six_figures_as_a_sysadmin/cdraktz
http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/
https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin
http://web.archive.org/web/20150524213528/http://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/05/15/obtaining-thorough-cs-background-online/
salma86q ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 20:04:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking forward to seeing everyone
TRL5 ยท 198 points ยท Posted at 16:24:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So, if we link to a reddit hosted image in comments it can disappear?
Edit: Just want to be clear that this isn't accusatory, the same is true about linking to a imgur hosted image. I just wanted to be sure I understood the system.
madlee ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:31:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
adeadhead ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:26:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Correct.
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:41:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anything a reddit submission links to has a non-zero chance of disappearing, with the exception of example.com, example.net, example.org and reddit.com .
anchpop ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:07:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So reddit has zero chance of disappearing in the time it takes for me to read a thread?
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:09:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the moment reddit disappears, the submission disappears, so the submission is no longer linking to reddit. As long as the submission was linking to reddit, reddit hadn't disappeared!
jcarlson08 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:29:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ohhhhhh. It's inside the computer.
CarTarget ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:55:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is eternal. Reddit is. Reddit.
Neospector ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:04:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hail the gold star. Hail the orange arrow.
May the non-believers be shrouded in periwinkle and hidden from view.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 21:40:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grow the fuck up.
Neospector ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:49:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hm...
No, I'd still prefer not.
OmnipotentEntity ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 16:24:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was under the impression (possibly mistaken) that it's not possible to delete an archived post.
If so, how would one remove an image associated with an archived post?
Pokechu22 ยท 63 points ยท Posted at 16:30:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can delete archived posts.
Example: I just deleted this old /r/spam post; this was it before deletion.
forgetsaccount ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:58:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Part of me wants to believe that you created this post knowing one day you might need it for this very reason.
Pokechu22 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:19:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh, I just searched for my posts from about 1 year ago (June 1st 2015 to June 16th 2015), and basically all of them were /r/spam posts which generally are safe to delete, so I used the first one I found.
arvr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
by posting the image on another server and not reddit
kianworld ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 16:25:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will removing a post with mod powers delete the image, too? just in case mods reinstate the post.
Arve ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 17:08:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A moderator removing a post doesn't actually delete it. It just removes it from view in the subreddit in which the moderator removed it.
xeromage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so links to an image that was removed by a mod could still work?
DrewsephA ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:13:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't actually delete posts as a mod, you just remove them from being shown on the subreddit. That's why you can still visit them from a user page or PM.
jsmooth7 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:56:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope mod removals don't delete the image so they can be restored. (I mod a couple subs that had this as a beta feature.)
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confirming that mods cannot screw with image links. There is still the possibility that Reddit admins may alter links, maybe even doing it on the fly per-user. I don't see any garuantee that a Reddit-hosted image will actually be the image the original poster intended.
At least with 3rd party hosting there is a lower likelihood that anyone will try to monkey with the image links.
bajneeds ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 21:13:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
are the v2 ultrahigh backpacks more molle equipped? (whereas v1 are not aside from on the shoulder straps?)
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:23:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh?
I just checked this user's post history. /u/bajneeds is a bot. It's posting random stuff all over reddit to increase its post count.
WhatTheFox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's actually taking his reply to a topic and posting it instead in a second, different topic. Then composing a reply to that second topic and continuing the chain on into a third topic.
As in, he posted this as his next post on reddit, in a thread about the steam summer sale:
Kind of fun to go back and read his posts and make sense of it all!
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly correct. Since the account is 3 years old, it's probably been taken over.
xvvhiteboy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:54:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
arcrad ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 16:30:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Don't worry, delete never means the images are actually deleted. They are marked "deleted" and can be reinstated at any time. (This is an assumption, but I'd bet it is accurate )
Whoa, why the downvotes? Anyone care to oppose my opinion or do yall just down vote when you don't wanna hear the truth?
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:47:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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arcrad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Previsely. Typically, to ensure data integrity, things are never deleted but simply marked as deleted. Some boolean value in the database marks if things are deleted. This ensures that the database won't ever get into an inconsistent state. Deleting things is dangerous and should be avoided if possible.
nermid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's actually interesting that we reached that point. For a while, things would come into being on the Internet, be fun, and then somebody would quit paying for the domain, server space, or would graduate from the college hosting their stuff, and it would just be gone forever. Transience was the law of the land: enjoy what you see on the Internet, because it may not exist tomorrow.
Now, the law is permanence: no matter what happens on the Internet, there's a record. If it's not the NSA or the Archive, it's some guy who packaged it into a Torrent and seeds it for all three of the people who care.
I wonder if future historians will consider the early Web to be the last time at which information just went away.
porpoiseoflife ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seeing as how there is a 641 GB archive of the old Geocities, a site from the mid-90s allowing anyone to make a website for anything, there really is a seed for just about anything. Even for marginal companies that were bought out by Yahoo in a strange attempt to stay relevant when Google was kicking their asses, there is an archive out there somewhere for a lot more than people even bother to look for.
nermid ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, that's an archive of Geocities as it was in 2009, not a full archive of the life of the service. Certainly, many Geocities pages had shut down prior to that (many users deleted their pages over watermarks years earlier), and even then, archives were only made after Yahoo! announced the site's closure. Had they not told anybody beforehand, large chunks of that 600 gigs of Internet history would have been lost even in '09.
BeaSk8r117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet people are viewing you like a conspiracy theorist, but this is just how computers and the internet works. (Ever heard of archive.org?)
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:39:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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daten-shi ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No need to be a dick to him.
aitiafo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:46:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is true
[deleted] ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 16:36:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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ilovedonuts ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 18:06:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meanwhile at your job: ."guys he's doing it again! He has like 6 pictures of owls in hats pulled up on his desktop. He is cuckoo about who who!"
urmomsafridge ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:08:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Owl pictures are strictly prohibited.
theravensrequiem ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:25:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Don't trust the owls." "The owls are not what they seem."
ilovedonuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about corvids?
westernmail ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:50:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the thing...
oniony ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:48:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're on a corporate/university network it could be a caching proxy server.
AquaWolfGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:26:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very rare for HTTPS. CloudFlare's proxy servers seem likely though. Maybe even Amazon's.
oronas ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm getting
toomuchtodotoday ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:45:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Amazon S3 (the storage backend Reddit is using) is eventually consistent. There will be a lag from when the post is deleted, to when the command to S3 is issued to remove the content, to when the content is actually purged from S3.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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argh523 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:43:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No that's the same thing, just different browsers reacting differently.
erikdesjardins ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not for me. Try clearing your cache.
M3n747 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:46:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From where I'm sitting, nine minutes or less.
Toothp1ck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not anymore
dumasymptote ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
its down 5 minutes later
E3LS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
uhh. no its not.
tecnofauno ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
deleted :)
GooseTheGeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You probably had it in your browser's Cache, try again but clear the cache after you delete the image.
tnethacker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Getting xml reply for access denied here now. Seems like they have cron going on.
ZWQncyBkaWNr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could also just be an uploaded screenshot of an error. O.o
na85 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it doesn't give me a 404 (not found) but an access denied error.
They're definitely keeping the images.
conradsymes ยท 87 points ยท Posted at 16:28:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please design a policy where if reddit was to close it's doors, public data would be contributed to the internet archive.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 16:46:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ArchiveTeam cell here. This is taken care of already.
EDIT: Its going into cold storage.
workaccountoftoday ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:12:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The modern archaeologist at work.
I hope people pay you for this
toomuchtodotoday ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Its in my blood :) When not doing devops/infrastructure engineering, I try to save all the bits for the future. Right now I'm trying to coordinate laser scanning and imaging of a village in Tibet China is about to raze.
Sidenote: If you're anywhere near this area in Tibet, or are going there with a recent version of a smartphone, get in touch ASAP via PM.
I wish! Maybe one day; Until then, its just a hobby.
aerandir1066 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:40:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's in my code!
Seriously, though, people like you make the world a good place to live.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:35 on June 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks :) I appreciate that.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:06:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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toomuchtodotoday ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:16:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not until after I've collected all of the necessary data to preserve; I don't want anyone to be alerted before then preventing the saving of that piece of culture.
tpintsch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:52:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm studying Data Science, and the thought of exploring this data gave me a little thrill.
toomuchtodotoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:01:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My goal is that you'd be able to use photogrammetry to reproduce the physical environment in its entirety in something like Oculus, but I could see how it would be also be useful for DS work.
Dr_Insomnia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a wild experiment, isn't it?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:23:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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conradsymes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Already did, google indexes this whole website.
[deleted] ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 16:34:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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conradsymes ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:36:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
more like the recipe
Dr_Insomnia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It'd be more akin to being given to a foodshelf to be handed out to the public.
sarcasmandsocialism ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:34:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How would one request deletion of an image that may be illegal or a copyright violation? Do mods make that decision? Is there an appeals process?
IsaacEiland-Hall ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:54:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Always report those to reddit admins by messaging (with a link) to /r/reddit.com mods (which are the reddit admins). I'd also let the subreddit mods know as they might be able to act faster; but I'd let both know.
Mods are volunteers (I know, I used to be a default mod); admins are definitely obligated to act on illegal images.
chuckychub ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:38:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you delete your account, will all the images from that account be gone too?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:14:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deleting your account doesn't delete the posts you make.
deeluna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially archived ones.
RazsterOxzine ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:37:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're on the list now.
m0nk_3y_gw ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 15:38:31 on October 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How long should that take? A /r/gonewild poster deleted their post ~20+ hours ago and their image is still up and they are very concerned.
Misogynist-ist ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:06:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question: Will metadata be automatically scrubbed or should I always run images through a scrubber first before uploading?
iBeReese ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:22:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, that's a pretty great idea. Thanks.
CarrollQuigley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is any metadata retained after an image is deleted?
Dre_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
By metadata, do you mean the EXIF tags and whatnot on an image, or do you mean stuff like post title and time uploaded? Because the latter is probably kept so it can be displayed on the post page itself.
CarrollQuigley ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really all of the above. I'm curious as to what data, if any, is retained after the deletion.
Dre_PhD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would assume no EXIF data gets stored, as it would be deleted with the image. I would assume all metadata related to the post (time uploaded, what user uploaded it, vote count) is probably retained so that it can be displayed/used, but I don't know.
foresculpt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if a user deletes their account do all uploads go with it?
RadicalLarry_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit will remember this
arvr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and how can that be independently audited?
Fresno-bob5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a lot of dickbutt
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who is "you" in that? I think you should use the passive voice here (if a post is deleted...) as I imagine (but maybe I'm wrong) that admins want to be able to delete?
Ihaveanusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:15:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
girls on r/gonewild will appreciate that.
MrPoletski ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:43:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hold on... how many orangereds have you got up there?
notLOL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if op was perma banned or deletes account. Does the image go away?
TheSecretMe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur it is then. I don't want my online images directly linked to reddit posts.
JosephND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is honestly a terrible policy, and it'll only encourage use of Reddit removal scrapers
Yorn2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:44:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And if admins or moderators delete a post? (obligatory /r/undelete link)
rydan ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:56:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK, and what if a crazy mod deletes my post? What if I delete my account but not the post?
WaffleSandwhiches ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 16:24:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this a guarenteed promise that you guys will never change?
JeremyG ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's no guarantee that it won't be changed at some point.
adeadhead ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:26:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nothing is.
StarMagnus ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:33:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A few years ago sites like gmail actually found it was cheaper to just buy new storage space rather than trying to go through and delete data for room because bigger drives become available for less money. So it's become pretty standard to assume once it's there it's there permanently for better or worse.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The retention policy will be: if it's not against our narrative, it can stay.
Animal31 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:41:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So they'll last 3 days
snufflepussy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't kid yourself...it's a "how can we maximize advertising dollars" algoirthm, plain and simple
iBeReese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dude, my breakfast was fine until you dumped all this salt on it
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
snufflepussy ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's shitty because reddit was basically built 99% on the back of imgur, but rather than recognizing that and partnering with them or something similar they're just going to cut them out of the equation. I call that shitty, you can call it what you will
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:50:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I call that business and Imgur going to shit anyway.
Regardless, a different image hoster would have stepped up to the plate if it meant being able to show ads to literally millions of people a day. If Imgur hadn't, someone else would have. That's hardly a shitty situation.
Mindelan ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:50:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly that is just business, and actually imgur came after reddit. Also imgur has been trying to cut reddit out of the equation for a while now.
snufflepussy ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well reddit did technically come first but it used to be a tiny user-base for many years, now it's basically Facebook so that's not really relevant
Mindelan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:56:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was around before imgur was a thing, and yeah it did make a lot of things simpler and probably helped with some small amount of reddit's success, but reddit was by no means small or struggling before imgur.
snufflepussy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're completely missing the point. Imgur allowed reddit to scale up incredibly quickly when their user base began to explode, there's no way in hell they could have done it alone. The front page is 95% imgur links on any given day. But whatever, if you don't see it for what it is, continue to jerk off the reddit powers that be if that makes you feel whole.
Mindelan ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:07:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha naw man I think reddit at large is a cesspool, honestly. I just know the facts of the situation. You seem oddly personally invested in this. It's okay man, none of this is targeted at you. Chill.
startup_question_yo ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:30:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will delete the images if they don't serve a specific political purpose.
dirty_rebel_scum ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:56:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey there you don't know me but I just wanted to tell you that the show Orange is the New Black is amazing
OmnipotentEntity ยท 1044 points ยท Posted at 16:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is EXIF data stripped?
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 1217 points ยท Posted at 16:14:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes EXIF data is removed
sync-centre ยท 622 points ยท Posted at 16:16:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the EXIF data kept in a separate database? or is it actually removed and totally forgotten?
madlee ยท 1012 points ยท Posted at 16:18:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, we don't store it in any way.
Rooonaldooo99 ยท 795 points ยท Posted at 16:19:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm...What do I do with this pitchfork, then?
duckvimes_ ยท 316 points ยท Posted at 16:21:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What indeed
freundTech ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:52:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Context
shishdem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks :)
tjuicet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:15:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, getting to the top of that thread was an adventure.
MiddleClassShibe ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 16:23:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only one.
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 16:26:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He never wanted this
ThatRudeCanadian ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:33:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well thanks a lot, now I've got Taylor Swift stuck in my head.
thewolfsong ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:58:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew you were trouble when you walked iiiiin...
orlandodad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God damnit reddit...
ScottFromScotland ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:22:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor goat.
King_of_the_Eyesores ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:25:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe it means Greatest Of All Time fucker
SomeonesSecondary ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confused. Does he fuck the greatest of all time or is he the greatest fucker of all time?
hungryasabear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends, is there a trophy?
Changnesia_survivor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ScottFromScotland ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not from Aberdeen.
Fenring ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:06:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does everyone use fuchsia for those... special... tags?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/2UDQ9og.png?1
ElessarTelcontar1 ยท 41 points ยท Posted at 16:22:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Return it to the pitchfork emporium for later use.
WangoBango ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 16:32:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/pitchforkemporium, do you accept returns?
PitchforkEmporium ยท 173 points ยท Posted at 17:14:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope as my assistant said, all sales are final
Stoppels ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 18:08:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Grabbing unreturned pitchfork intensifies
PitchforkEmporium ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:55:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
INTENSIFIES
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:52:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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PitchforkEmporium ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:47:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THEN COME ON DOWN TO THE PITCHFORKEMPORIUM
nermid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:19:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Man, we need some sort of pitchfork trustbuster.
PitchforkEmporium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-----โ๐
cloud9ineteen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:30:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We need a pitchfork try protest your pitchfork return policy. But not buying from you because we don't like your return policy.
PitchforkEmporium ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:47:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
-----E
PitchforkAssistant ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 17:00:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not him but I can say that all sales are final.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:02:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PitchforkEmporium ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:15:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No exchanges after the Pao war
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:18:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PitchforkEmporium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8====D---E
You'll never need pitchfork Viagra with the dick fork
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PitchforkEmporium ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your choice
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:16:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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PitchforkEmporium ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:54:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does home depot sell gatorade?
Because ya'll buy it
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, I dont
workaccountoftoday ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But how can I know if it came from there? Its EXIF data is removed...
InvidiousSquid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This. Double-edged sword.
Not that EXIF is that reliable (given how easy it is to change everything), but this'll be potentially be stripping proper attribution from images.
Somehow this isn't worse than clueless idiots who aren't aware of EXIF posting the specs of their camera?
DoctorDank ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:21:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
... move hay?
caligari87 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Continue asking "BUT DO YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY NOT STORE IT!?!" like everyone else seems to do.
Eventually they'll slip up and admit they want to spy on your dank memes. /s
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:06:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is surprisingly tough to not store it, as your password may be being transmitted over a secure connection in raw text - so your password lives again on the server in its memory if the app implementer doesn't want to give the client your hash/salt implementation. This makes TLS (HTTPS) as a first defense a necessity, with all of its certification cruft and possibility of losing your private key(s) to private parties.
I asked about a pointer to the source code where this is done (fishing for a deeper description of the reddit implementation) - for my app one approach is to minimize the amount of time that raw string is in memory by zeroing those addresses immediately once the text is hashed/salted.
Here's where I left off in golang:
caligari87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:17:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was referring to the image EXIF data discussion, actually. In that circumstance I believe it should in theory be relatively simple to simply null-out the relevant fields, or not read them at all if the image is being re-encoded.
Thank you for the interesting details on password storage, though :)
NeedsMoreTests ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Save it for another day or rent it out?
DeedTheInky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a photo of it and upload it!
MiamiFootball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Forward it directly to the FBI along with the exif data
EpicLegendX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITT: Goat Fucker
You're now tagged as goat fucker
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold on to it. You'll need it later when you find out it is stored.
wittyrandomusername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Complain that they could make more money and make reddit better by keeping the exif data and selling it. We can find anything to complain about if we try hard enough.
nixonrichard ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:34:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Blink twice if the NSA stores it for you.
hbk1966 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:51:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Be careful, the NSA is watching you blink through your webcam.
nermid ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are they watching me blink at my totally hot girlfriend?
hbk1966 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, even when you do the naughty.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:40:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Indeed.
I wish they'd add a fresh canary specifically for 3rd-party EXIF archival.
MestR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any data that crosses 14 eyes territories is stored by the NSA.
Bardfinn ยท 33 points ยท Posted at 16:21:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the trifecta hat-trick third-time-is-the-charm:
Will that fact be added to the official User Agreement?
shakes Magic 8-Ball
Tetracyclic ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 18:46:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They couldn't put a particularly effective block on that in the user agreement, as the EXIF stripping takes place on their servers, requiring them to store it temporarily, even if it's just in RAM. So at the very most they could only say they won't keep the EXIF data for more than x minutes, but of course something could fail on the server causing an image to be present on the servers for longer than that with the EXIF data intact, so it's unlikely they'd realistically be able to put that in the agreement.
If you are that concerned about the EXIF data in images you upload being used nefariously by reddit, you shouldn't be relying on the user agreement to keep them honest and should be stripping the data out yourself.
spam99 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:42:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and that is exactly where we should have a red light go off and stop using the service, but they know we won't, so instead we will accept that their word is true fact, when really it is just perceived fact without any evidence. Oh and on top of that you know there is legal ways you can say what you said, because it is not you or who we implied would collect the exif data, but rather a third party moderating and spectating non profit. Which also has wording in their eula that they do not share their collected data for their non profit research purposes on the tax payer dollar, all while a loophole allows them to sell portals for others to backup the data without looking at it so they are not technically accessing the data.. and we'll add 5 more such company services and you get this guy saying "reddit does not collect any exif data or retain or sell it"
TLDR: through 5 company eula loopholes you can say you do not do something publicly that in corporate speak leaves out all the other ways they DO collect and sell your private data through external companies and vague and unprovable company practices.
Rocky87109 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:09:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strip your own data, problem solved. There are programs that do it.
spam99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:32:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why does reddit not tell us to strip the EXIF data and then upload pictures? Or have an option that we can click so that all exif data is removed prior to the file being uploaded to reddit but through the reddit image upload?
Why does reddit need to read the exif data at all if it will not store it for "some" purpose or other
Bardfinn ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:51:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you team up with an editor and make that response
A: not be a wall of text, and
B: readable?
Erra0 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:02:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
His main point is that they can say they won't collect the data but maybe they actually will because of EULA or something. I think that comment was upvoted by people who are looking for something to be mad about. It doesn't actually make much sense.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What part doesn't make sense? Do you think these statements made by the admins are legally binding?
spam99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:41:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
exactly, and like i said.. they can use lingo that delves into 3-4 different "services" and their eulas.. and how Company A does not come in contact with company D, but really A shares data with D through company B which does not share with D but shares with C, which then shares with WHO THE HECK CARES.. but basically you can say something does not happen when really it does.
Just because they do not share.. does not mean they do not let others "view" because those 2 terms can be infinitely different the more you pay a lawyer.
SpookySP ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:56:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can this be optional? As a photographer if I post something I'd like my copyright info / shooting info to show.
madlee ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:57:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We discussed this during the beta โ we can definitely see the benefit for some communities, but we decided to keep it consistent across the board for now.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:48:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When is API access coming?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:31:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:52:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In all likelihood, any parties interested in the EXIF data read it before reddit's own servers strip EXIF and archive the image.
Don't trust https browser connections. Reddit may be decrypting and looping this traffic back to a landing where 3rd parties can sniff it. And especially don't trust stand-alone mobile apps.
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. It just disappears, into the void.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do any third parties store EXIF data for you?
If no third parties currently archive the EXIF data, can you please add a canary to let us know if you receive a National Security Letter forcing you to archive EXIF with a 3rd party?
Blink twice if you're already operating under such an NSL...
ThisIsMyUserdean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:56:58 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I uploaded a png and it still has this stuff after upload:
XMP
XMP Toolkit Adobe XMP Core xxx xxxxx, 2xxxxx-xxxx Original Document ID xmp.did:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Document ID xmp.did:E7xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Instance ID xmp.iid:Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Creator Tool Adobe Photoshop xx (Windows)
Derived From Instance ID xmp.iid:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Derived From Document ID xmp.did:Axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
what's up with that?
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:44:41 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you point me at the image you are referring to? XMP and EXIF are not the same thing, but I don't think XMP data should be getting preserved either.
DemeGeek ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:34:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does someone else store it on your behalf?
madlee ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:49:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:52:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Youre suspiciously not red anymore, got anything to say for yourself?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think if the admins too often are noticeable while saying "nope" to this line of questioning it'd be a case of doth protest too much and would look bad for the company.
justcool393 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:32:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think all of the admins need to be spammed anytime anyone asks a question (admin distinguish pings all the admins in their chatroom)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is just the first time ive seen it change, these things must be learned
justcool393 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry if I came off hostile; I didn't mean for it to be that way. Here is some things about distinguish
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:49:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol not at all hostile :)
loves_being_that_guy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I store it for you?
CredibilityProblem ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:15:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does someone else store it
on your behalfon their own behalfat all?greenmask ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BURN THE WIT- oh, carry on then.
CitizenPremier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I have it?
say592 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you consider putting that statement into the privacy report that is periodically published. "Reddit.com does not retain EXIF data from uploaded images in any form."
Zchavago ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Riiiight.
danniemcq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if people claim other people's work?
If photographers upload something with no exif data what will happen if someone else rehosts or claims as their own?
duckington ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't trust anything since the canary.
Arg0naut ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does a 3rd party site it in anyway?
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming site == store, no.
Triapod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:46:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like something someone storing EXIF data in a separate database would say.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe this is a good place to ask - is there is a link to this function in the open source code? I'm developing a web app and have to handle a similar thing and want to be sure to get it right.
MapleBaconCoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mine EXIF data?
arhombus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:34:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure everyone believes you.
Is IP information stored?
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Consider stating that in ToS. Not sure how legally binding a comment is!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool, thanks
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok but you AT LEAST sell it right? How else would you compete with other tech companies
madlee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:56:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope. We don't do anything with it. Nothing. Nada. Squat. etc.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone uploading an image via https safely assume that third parties won't inspect EXIF data?
Is https traffic converted to http and loopbacked to a landing before hitting Reddit servers a second time?
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are paranoid about us (reddit) lying and secretly doing something with your EXIF data, I recommend stripping the EXIF data yourself before uploading it. There's probably nothing I can say to satisfy you.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't suspect you of lying.
It's just that saying "we" don't keep the data is somewhat duplicitous.
Can you yes-or-no confirm whether 3rd parties have access to securely uploaded EXIF data? It's a real simple question. I'm not trying to make you look bad or force you to put your foot in your mouth. Just answer. Yes or no. One word is all it will take to satisfy me.
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. My use of "we" wasn't intended to be sneaky. We don't keep exif data and we don't send it to 3rd parties.
There is only 1 thing we do with exif data directly: We check if there is an orientation exif tag โย if there is orientation info in the exif data, then removing the exif data will cause the image to display in the wrong orientation. We check for the existence of (and value of) this one tag, and transpose the image accordingly to fix this issue. The function that does this was preexisting in our codebase so you can already see that here. After that, we resave the image using PIL, which removes the exif data entirely.
TBH, before releasing image uploads to beta, nobody here even entertained the idea of keeping (or otherwise doing anything with) AFAIK. The only time we considered keeping it at all was after we got several comments from users who wanted us to keep itย โ in photography related subreddits keeping the EXIF data attached to the image is desirable, or at least some of it. We talked about having an opt-in to keep it, but it sounded like it'd be messy to implement so we punted on it.
Still, all that being said, if you are very concerned with privacy, there's nothing wrong with stripping EXIF data yourself before uploading to reddit.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:19:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you.
Can you speak about whether incoming https traffic is converted to http and sent thru a loopback? That would permit, uh, "certain parties" to sniff data that they otherwise couldn't.
For example, domestic voice traffic often takes trips offshore so that it can be examined as if it were foreign voice traffic subject to different privacy laws.
A person using the https interface to Reddit might presume that any EXIF data will be scrubbed. Bouncing that traffic out and back in again as http gives NSL partners an opportunity to inspect that traffic, yet an unencrypted loopback doesn't specifically imply that you're sharing anything in particular, just whatever Uncle Sam cares to sniff.
Good luck, if and when you do get that NSL for image metadata.
Pancake_Lizard ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should. That's just smart business.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can we trust you?
JtheNinja ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:26:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Strip EXIF before you upload if you're paranoid?
madlee ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:28:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As one of the devs that worked on it, I can tell you absolutely we don't store it. If that's not enough, we'll be opensourcing the code soon enough so you can see for yourself :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Done with Python pillow?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:11:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you open source your network architecture?
Specifically, is https traffic converted to http and loopbacked to a landing?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:34:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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madlee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're very concerned about it, I'd recommend stripping the exif data yourself before uploading.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what we did at my former employer (not Reddit). We released our source code, but without all the stuff that keeps law enforcement happy. It's quite sad the users of this site would downvote such questions. Regardless, screenshots and an archive of this are going into my "I told you so" folder for later karma.
octal9 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:41:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing here is that you either
a) take them at their word and use the service or
b) strip your EXIF data and use the service or
c) opt-out entirely.
You either trust them or don't. This is true of all free services.
Your call, man.
Bardfinn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go to a meetup and participate in the trust-fall exercises. Or alternately use a modern browser with appropriate CA's installed.
Contexual ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:44:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Expanding on this, do you strip EXIF data before it reaches your server?
I_like_cats_AND_dogs ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:25:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why this gets to me so much but the point that you had to ask / that you asked this question kind of gave me the creeps.
And I don't mean this as an attack on reddit or so, just privacy in general.
random_fucktuation ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:42:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guess if you're that worried you could always strip the EXIF metas yourself
scwizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're worried about a law enforcement subpoena or similar maybe just not post to reddit mate.
WhatredditorsLack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Word to the wise.
notquite20characters ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:18:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!remindme 6 hours
Jakull ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:20:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reminding you now
peteroh9 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:29:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They actually responded before you commented.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:41:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The answer was weasel-worded.
peteroh9 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:00:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What? They said "we do not store it in any way." That's not weasel-wording. What else do you want them to say?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Who is "we", kemosabe?
It's quite likely that images uploaded to reddit pass through a landing where "third parties" can inspect the traffic before Reddit themselves process and store the images. If Reddit is under an NSL they can't even admit this. That's why it's important to add a canary NOW, specifically for 3rd party EXIF sharing.
Either
(A) Yes, that could happen in the future, and that's why we're adding a canary, or
(B) Yes, actually, we might already share EXIF data with third parties (third parties meaning anyone other than "we"). The fact that we're already talking about it means we're not under a National Security Letter, but we could always add a canary in case we do get an NSL, or
(C) *crickets*... implying they're already under NSL.
peteroh9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are you saying that they should have a canary for every single thing that reddit could ever do and then slowly remove canaries one by one? Because they already removed their canary.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:28:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, for things they might receive an NSL for. It would help establish and maintain trust.
peteroh9 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty sure they'd get in trouble for having that many canaries. That's the same as just explicitly saying things.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then what's the point of having any canary?
Their blanket canary already died, so we can assume something went down behind the scenes. Here's an opportunity for Reddit to re-establish trust. Since native Reddit image hosting wasn't rolled out until after that canary died, it's kosher to add a new canary specifically for this case.
ErosExclusion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
99.9% of users don't care about privacy. The remaining 0.1% will never be completely content. Why should the admins spend time trying to satisfy the insatiable minority?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Why? Liability.
When a business takes measures to protect their customers from cybercrime, we generally call it a good thing. When they don't, well, it tends to make them look poorly.
If a business takes measures to protect their users from overwide, unconstitutional data collection by government security agencies, that also is a good thing. Big websites and telecom companies in particular have to tread a fine line when it comes to the US surveillance apparatus.
Do you even remember who Aaron Schwarz was? Reddit hasn't always been a place where "99.9%" of users have their heads up their asses. Shame on you for even implying that it's that way now.
Guess who said that quote above. Are you saying that 99.9% of redditors think they don't have a particular problem?
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TheGoldenHand ยท 395 points ยท Posted at 16:20:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On i.reddit.com, on iOS 8, if I click an i.redd.it image link, it takes me to m.reddit.com, then I have to click the link again to see the image.
m.reddit.com is much slower and less compact, and it doesn't really make sense why it's redirecting, when it should be taking me directly to the image, not back to the comments. Thought I would pass this on.
umbrae ยท 444 points ยท Posted at 16:57:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think this is a bug, thanks for flagging. We'll look into it.
Snatch_Pastry ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:42:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes, Reddit is Fun does the same thing.
umbrae ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:08:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it reliable on a single link? As in, if you try it multiple times does it always redirect? If so, I'd love to know what link triggers this behavior for you.
Snatch_Pastry ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:19:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only happened a few times, and it is reliable per link, but it has an additional weird aspect. It happens when I'm on the front page, and I click (touch with stylus on tablet screen) on the thumbnail, and it takes me to the mobile Reddit front page.
But if I open up the comments, and then click on that image, I actually open up the image.
Edit, it happened yesterday, if I find another I'll get back to you.
umbrae ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:21:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks very much.
buzziebee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:05:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happens quite often on my RiF. I usually avoid i.reddit.com links now when I can.
Snatch_Pastry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:13:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Imgur fuck you over, also? I honestly have many more problems with that piece of shit. Basically, if there's too many pixels in the album, it'll crash RiF.
buzziebee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:16:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's gone to shit too. I'm sick of having to view whole album pages when I don't want to and when I do gifs in albums just don't load anymore. I just see a big gray play arrow that I can't press.
SocraticMethHead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relay is a much better app IMO.
DrRazmataz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seconded.
DrRazmataz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:59:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same as another, this happens on occasion with Reddit is Fun.
BaconZombie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you have a bug bounty for this and your main site?
R3D1AL ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:26:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same with reddit.com/.compact
Then again they've been pushing the new mobile format pretty hard, so I kind of expect it.
asger888 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:50:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've been pushing it so hard it it appears on google instead of the normal format even on PC.
qaisjp ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because it's better SEOd, even so, m.* Subdomains are so old even Google has started to not-prefer mobile only subdomains
asger888 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but it's the same URL except for that is has .compact at the end, not m.*
qaisjp ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm retarded
asger888 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:32:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shh it's ok
qaisjp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:35:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ok:(
RedSquaree ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can't moderate from compact or the official app which is why they're unusable for me.
jeffsterlive ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Likely because it in lines ads and it's more difficult to ad block.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:59:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
m.reddit.com is a piece of junk that is way less usable than the desktop version. The biggest problem is readability, the text is too small and you can't change or zoom. That whole site needs to go away, and instead make the desktop version a bit more responsive or customizable.
kostaldavid8 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mobile site is very good
omegian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can they monetize your content if they allow deep linking? Redirecting to an HTML page with ads in chrome is the future of free hosting.
goofygrin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention that m. is such a SHITTY way to handle mobile vs. responsive.
I prefer the UX in the desktop site/responsive vs. the m.
domo9001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
m'url
krispygrem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What does that have to do with EXIF data?
garethashenden ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:51:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I ask why you're still on iOS 8? If you're out of space you can still update it by plugging the device into a computer and using iTunes.
TheGoldenHand ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta play my Pokemon... Which I can only get while jailbroken. Plus the other features that come with it.
OmnipotentEntity ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 16:15:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Thanks for this. It's super important for privacy reasons. I'm very happy to hear this.
Rooonaldooo99 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:16:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
ELI5 what this means, please?
e: Thanks for your explanations.
OmnipotentEntity ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 16:17:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXIF data is JPEG metadata. Most people don't realize it exists and it can have very personal information in it, such as the location the photo was taken.
The_King_of_Okay ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:42:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Imgur remove this data?
OmnipotentEntity ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:59:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does.
sportsziggy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:15:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To an extent, yes. But like the user asked, it is kept separate from users to be seen (only to be seen by imgur (unlike i.reddit)).
BluePhire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most image hosting sites do, to be honest, even if they don't care about your privacy. It helps save on space too.
Numbajuan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there any known places or image hosting sites that don't strip this info?
Nothos927 ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:20:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXIF data is basically information about the image embedded within the image itself. It has information like the colour definition and resolution and such like. This on its own isn't a problem.
However most, if not all, phones embed extra information. Such as the exact GPS co-ordinates of where the image was taken and possibly other personal identifying information (I've not looked at the exact data a phone adds so I can't confirm with 100% accuracy. The location is a definite though).
As you can imagine, if someone posts an image in their home and anyone on reddit can use that image to find where it is, that's a big privacy risk.
BluePhire ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:10:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who was trying to make an app that plotted a bunch of images using their geotagging, it was a pain to find geotagged images online. Even Facebook, who doesn't give a shit about your privacy has all the geotagging stripped.
banter_claus_69 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:18:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXIF data holds information about the image, like day and time when it was taken, what camera and settings you used, and sometimes a geotag with the location you took it at. This is pretty sensitive information, which you wouldn't want to unknowingly post on the internet.
RinzeWind ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:18:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some image files have metadata (author, creation date, software used to generate them...) that can be used for id purposes. That info is removed. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format
belisaurius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:18:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is meta-data included in most image formats that reveal things about the creator of the image. Notably you have GPS tags added by certain camera brands and other information regarding the owner of the photo management software used to process the image.
Batmans_Cumbox ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:17:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, imgur has been very slow for many users so I can see many subreddits using this over it. Great addition to reddit.
admiraljohn ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:29:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This hosting would be great in the /r/picturechallenge sub were it not for the EXIF stripping; we use that to verify when the pictures were taken and that they fall in the challenge window.
Is it possible you guys would consider making including the EXIF info an option? Maybe allow users to toggle it on and off?
EDIT: Yes, I know EXIF can be edited. We kinda work off the honor system and trust our users not to do it... the only thing that winning gets them is the chance to choose the next week's topic.
MilesOkeefe ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 18:33:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's really no point to that, people can edit EXIF today to say they took a picture whenever/wherever.
Mista_Wong ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:57:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I took this picture tomorrow
mrbooze ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:40:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"You son of a bitch, let me see that camera!"
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:09:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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lx45803 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A checkbox like 'remove embedded private information' that's checked by default would be good. Don't make it something that can be turned off by default, but do make it visible.
alexm42 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:49:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe even hide it behind an "advanced settings" menu that you have to click to access, to make it one step harder to do accidentally.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have no idea how much of a pain in the ass that is, though. How can you strip the name/author/creator/photographer/geo fields from EXIF data when it seems like every camera manufacturer has its own "standard" for these fields?
To keep it, it's not much work. To strip it, it's not much work. To go through it and remove what is "sensitive" is a lot of work, and that's not even getting into the fact that people can't even agree on what constitutes private meta data.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:10:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think sensitive embedded information would just be a more accessible euphemism for EXIF data.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But EXIF is almost entirely not "sensitive" in nature.
clearlight ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:53:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Unless it's GPS coordinates...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lx45803 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:34:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'd err on the side of safety. If things get too complicated, people stop reading, and that's gonna end badly. Most posters won't need the viewers to have the EXIF data, and those that do will likely know about the setting and its risks, and filter the data themselves before they upload.
lx45803 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, exactly what I meant. Keep it nice and simple for people who don't know what they're doing, but leave in the flexibility for people that want to include that info. Being able to include information like field of view and stops and such are great for people trying to work with the image further.
smiba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make it a checkbox that needs to be turned on.
Some bugs or glitches (in browsers) can turn checkboxes value to null or "0", causing it to get unchecked.
flounder19 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:49:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it was optional it should definitely strip by default.
WhatredditorsLack ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:36:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What. EXIF can be edited.
penny_eater ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:31:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No offence but your singular use case probably warrants a dedicated system (maybe even one designed to flag tampering since exif data is absolutely trivial to edit) instead of trying to break a security feature that every other sub wants, in an attempt to get it to fit your use case.
njsj3i392hshwwowowne ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:50:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is stupid as fuck. Exif data can be manipulated by a 5 year old with a tablet. No, it should not be an option.
lcq92 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:23:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remember, as /u/Amg137 said, this whole new reddit image hosting service while always be optional. So I think it'be more wise to always strip EXIFs, and subreddits needing EXIF should recommend the use of another third-party image upload site.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your sub could make use of some cryptography for the purpose of time stamping. The only issue is that if the image gets manipulated or compressed, it could break the signature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
The only issue is that it requires internet access to get to the trusted time stamping server, which might not always be available on a remote mountainside, for example.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:33:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, I'm not sure how to solve that one.
JellyWaffles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:24:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't even know this was a thing. Do you know of any kind of tutorial that talks about posting online that would include this as well as all the other important things I am currently blissfully unaware of?
dredmorbius ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:00:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Searching for "privacy online exif" raises some likely sources:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=privacy+online+exif&t=ftas&ia=web
EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and EFF both circulate similar sorts of information. The type of data you can leak inadvertently is pretty hotly discussed and has been for decades.
JellyWaffles ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:46:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:17:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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madlee ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:18:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope
Diverskii ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
McAfee can sleep easy
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Color me dubious.
JosephND ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FFS why
koreth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All EXIF data? Even stuff like orientation?
ElolvastamEzt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:25:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it correct to assume stripping Exif data also includes stripping IPTC Contact and Status (Copyright) data?
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People are better off using a watermark.
ElolvastamEzt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:47:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Watermarks are quite easy to remove if you've got decent photoshop skills. Plus having copyright info embedded helps protect your photos from becoming orphaned works, if people can't find the owner and want to declare it public domain.
geo38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That means all of the upside down iPhone pictures won't get displayed correctly, or is the image rotated if the EXIF record is present?
Fucking Apple for not rotating it in the damn phone immediately.
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They could read the EXIF data rotate the image then discard it.
ghotibulb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:34:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of it? That would mess up pictures with rotation info attached. Or do you rotate the image'saccording to the meta data before stripping?
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be the way to go about it. They should read the EXIF client side, strip it. Then send the image along with if it should be rotated.
BDMayhem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's disappointing for those artists and content creators who use metadata to help protect their copyrights.
hbk1966 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:55:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but if someone uploads a image from their phone it could have their GPS coordinates. Also, how would using the metadata help protect a copyright. It's not that hard to edit the EXIF data...
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use stego instead.
chmod_666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:28:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we be given the option to keep the EXIF, as a photographer it can contain useful information such as aperture size and focal length.
Lee_Ars ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:40:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All, or just location stuff? Sometimes it's handy in a photography post to be able to see the camera type, lens, and settings used to take a photo!
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All exif data is currently stripped.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:06:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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dgiangiulio228 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:13:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Basically it is meta data that can contain info such as when, where, and what camera the photo was taken on. It is a privacy concern.
soda_party_euw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:46:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great answer, thanks!
ScottGotRekt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:23:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you ELI5 what that means? And is it a good or bad thing that it isn't kept?
master5o1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:24:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's good that it is removed. For example, it reduces the risk of people exposing their location by the geotagged photos from their phone.
skztr ยท 698 points ยท Posted at 16:12:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What has changed which made you want to do this yourselves?
calsosta ยท 142 points ยท Posted at 16:17:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What I had heard (and experienced) was that imgur was causing issues. Forcing people to their app, overriding default mobile actions such as swipe, which caused a really bad experience for users.
Grillburg ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 16:19:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, my guess is because imgur is kinda garbage. Always down at high traffic times, too.
HoosierBeenJammin ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 16:31:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has also grown into a serious competitor.
r_fappygood ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:42:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet reddit invested in imgur still
YoshiYogurt ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:41:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's still reddits storage though, which it was originally designed to be,
/r/IgnorantImgur
Reddisaurusrekts ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 01:17:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha ha ha...
deadsoulinside ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:37:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is also blocked at my job, so it made viewing images trickier. Uploading was pretty much a no go, so I had to use a alt site that was not blocked. I like the fact I can view the images with inline image viewers from reddit hosted links, versus opening in a new browser.
yaarra ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:10:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck imgur's mobile user experience. Companies that produce that willingly deserve to die at our pitch forks.
Roboticide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:40:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, Reddit's currently isn't much better. m.reddit.com is wonky as shit.
Give me fucking mod tools, or just let me use .compact. Stop forcing m.reddit.com on me.
oldbean ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sometimes on Alien Blue I like to swipe on an imgur photo, to navigate to something completely irrelevant and off topic. JK lol.
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 913 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
We did it for 2 main reasons:
1) Seamless User Experience We want to make it as simple as possible for all of you to use Reddit. It was one of the most requested features by users.
2) Providing Choice We want to offer all of you a choice. You can still use third party image hosting services to upload, but we wanted to provide an option for a smoother experience.
JebBartlet ยท 5035 points ยท Posted at 16:35:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) That imgur cat swiping the screen on my phone was getting real fucking obnoxious
soguesswhat ยท 952 points ยท Posted at 16:38:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4) Imgur generally becoming over-monetized and slow.
Doctor_Island ยท 949 points ยท Posted at 16:44:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5) "Open in App"
[deleted] ยท 556 points ยท Posted at 16:58:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 18:02:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The whole website and all the ads will load before your image does. :/
chaobreaker ยท 169 points ยท Posted at 18:38:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Good job imgur. You became the reason people switched from photobucket and tinypic to you.
ChiXiStigma ยท 46 points ยท Posted at 19:36:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was bound to happen. The redditor who made it was thrilled that it got so popular. But as reddit grew into a massive site where the easiest way to get upvotes was to post a pic/gif, it was clear that he was going to eventually tap into the full revenue potential or sell it for a small fortune to someone who would. And I only say that "it was clear" because that's what almost everyone does in that situation. It's nice to think you'd just make sure that you'd only monetize enough to pay all of the bills, but almost all of us would eventually stop ignoring the piles of cash just sitting there waiting to be collected.
broadcasthenet ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:53:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention it is insanely expensive to run a hosting service be it pictures or especially video. Those pics and videos may be compressed but if your hosting platform is at all popular that is still a ton of bandwidth/storage you are paying for. Google for instance has Exabytes of storage space in their million+ servers. A huge portion of this is purely youtube. In case you didn't know an Exabyte is 1000 Petabytes and a single Petabyte is 1000000 Gigabytes. Also in another way of saying it 5 Exabytes could hold every single word ever spoken in all of history.
Areonis ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:31:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I'm a little skeptical of this claim. I doubt this would even be true with perfectly efficient encoding, but it's certainly not with the current standard of 1 letter equaling 1 bite. One study put the average number of words spoken per day per person at ~16000 words. If the average life expectancy for most of human history is ~40 years or so, that would be ~14000 days of speaking. If we lowball the average word length as three letters, that gives us (14000)(16000)(3) = ~700 megabytes per person. There have been ~100 billion people in human history, so that would be 100 billion * 700 megabytes = 70 exabytes.
Still insane that's its within a couple orders of magnitude, but it's not 5 exabytes.
Philmecrackin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except the founder of Imgur has said it's always been profitable.
broadcasthenet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:58:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't say it was impossible to be profitable I just said that it would be absurd to run that kind of platform without heavy monitization for long. The thing Imgur turned into was 100% inevitable as the site grew more and more used.
Google spends around 8 Billion USD a year on their insane amount of servers.
andybev01 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
5 exabytes might be enough to hold Reddit commentary...maybe.
ChiXiStigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:55:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're absolutely correct in that it has to be a massive amount money imgur needs to generate just to break even on the AWS. Even before the site's migration and popularity surge on AWS, the previous hosting costs were still huge.
It's not like he actually ran imgur out of kindness and just paid for everything with his own money. He asked for donations, but even with those I remember having and seeing other's conversations about him starting down the path of slowly becoming just like the sites he eventually crushed by being nothing like.
"The Circle of Life" literally started playing in my head while typing that. I need less sleep deprivation.
broadcasthenet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:19:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have already seen this process unfold twice in recent memory. First Mediafire went from amazing with no ads and decent-great speeds and no real limit on file sizes, then it got worse every single year. Another one was pomf.se which was amazing with no real file limits but then they shut down last year because it was too expensive and stressful. Some clones did pop up though like https://pomf.cat/, but they aren't as good as the original.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:26:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Roboticide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:43:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha, pretty much. Apt description.
Neesnu ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:17:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is kinda how caching works - the image you want is viewed much less than the ads, so the ads get cached at your local telco, where the image is still hosted all the way on imgur/reddit/hostofchoice servers and has to negotiate further back to your computer.
While I understand this feels like bad user experience, its just the way things work to try to get you everything faster =/
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:38:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:/
bluelink121 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:(
1PsOxoNY0Qyi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:07:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No because HTTPS and because the ads wouldn't be personalized if you were just getting the same as everyone else.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ThickDickVic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:08:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guy's fuckin' retarded.
MrRumfoord ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:32:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As opposed to most articles, where I scroll down and start reading and then the ads load and I'm auto-scrolled back to the top. Urge to kill rising
FullmentalFiction ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's obviously by design...
devolve ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Surely you mean /r/outside?
L_I_E_D ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7) open an album on an android reddit app
Crash
vohit4rohit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You must be me.
dankmernes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐ญ๐ปโ๏ธ
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have I just generally been lucky? I never have trouble with imgur other than the occasional slow gif...
Sorsappy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:31:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7) Witty comment and Dr. Who references
PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 18:05:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck what the fuck do they want with us with the 'Open in App' bullshit.
Like, am I supposed to constantly be shifting between Reddit is Fun to Imgur, app-to-app? Fuck that, I swear, sometimes I think app companies believe they are the only app company.
Reddittoomuch ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:14:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur should have made a reddit app... missed opportunity lol
PirateNinjaa ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:06:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just use safari in desktop mode for everything and life is better.
HorribleAtThis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:05:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I didn't realize you could do that with iOS safari (I was using Dolphin or Mercury for that). What's your method? I googled and found:
Why is it that mobile pages are pure cancer? They took away my zoom, fucked with the scrolling physics, and disabled many features of the webapp. Where is the incentive?
PirateNinjaa ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 22:37:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit actually stopped honoring that "request desktop site" feature, but whenever it links me to the mobile version I just click the menu button at the top and desktop site is an option there. I actually recently compared desktop mode safari to narwhal for someone, you might find some of the info interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4onyfs/ios_10_now_keeps_music_on_while_playing_gifs/d4fdzys
veggiter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:23:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Opening almost any gallery crashes reddit is fun for me now.
RumorsOFsurF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here. Galaxy Note 3 user, for the record.
veggiter ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:24:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense.
RumorsOFsurF ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:47:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it's too much to ask to be able to open a photo album, simply because I don't have the most up to date device.
wegzo ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:04:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The app is just a platform to easily display ads to users and generate more profit.
PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:46:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the no-ad version.
excessivetoker ยท 172 points ยท Posted at 16:47:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
6) That imgur cat swiping the screen on my phone was getting really fucking obnoxious
[deleted] ยท 358 points ยท Posted at 17:06:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 17:08:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They lived long enough...
winter_mutant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:15:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NICE BATMAN MEME
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:39:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey good job, you got his reference.
Nicoscope ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:06:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YEDAHOYLLETSYBTV
[deleted] ยท -26 points ยท Posted at 17:15:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^ This
junkit33 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:35:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except they planned to become the villain all along. Imgur completely played the Reddit userbase - they knew they could act friendly long enough to build up their userbase and valuation until ultimately having to start being the villain.
The entire reason why other image hosts sucked was because it's an extremely expensive business to run and it's absurdly difficult to monetize. Plastering ads is about the only way to do it. There's no way Imgur wasn't 100% aware of this when they started.
scotscott ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:49:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
plastering ads isn't great but its no excuse for making the rest of your site also shit. its no excuse for adding things that are deliberately inconvenient like having those stupid cat paws.
hesapmakinesi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:32:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe imgur's own community likes them. They seem a bit bigger meme-lover than reddit on average.
scotscott ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not possible
hesapmakinesi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:40:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here are the annoying things I saw with my occasional visits.
They've been doing these things for months without getting bored of them. Talk about keeping stupid memes alive.
scotscott ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:47:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah its a good job we don't
hesapmakinesi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good point. Maybe I just got desensitised.
Icil ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 18:02:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but there isn't a 'they'. Imgur started as one person's pet project for providing Reddit an image host; during Imgur's first launch & AMA, monetization was a far-off dream. He just wanted enough donations to break even on hosting costs (and that sweet sweet karma).
There were plenty competitors out there doing it better, but we collectively embraced Imgur as a FUBU-type of thing โ we thought it was cool (I personally still do) that one person, from Reddit, built this thing just for us.
zhaoz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:33:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you know what happened to that guy? Hopefully got bought out and on to the next thing?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:40:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's still running it with his sister Sarah. They're doing really well over there, though.
ChiXiStigma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so nice to see other people who have been around long enough to remember all of this. People from the long ago; the time before the Great Digg v4 Migration. The halcyon days of 2007-2010 when the competition for karma was determined by the content quality of your post/comment, and not image macros or one sentence "zingers".
Icil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing I learned about communities, way back on my first internet forum (as a 12y/o on GameFAQs), was that you gotta go out there and spend energy and time to find camaraderie โ it doesn't just come to you because you have the shared interests.
As community leaders push for growth, 'outsiders' with less shared interest and less-good intentions start joining. Maybe you stay and resent them, maybe you pull away and look for greener pastures. Either way, as communities grow the eldest members are quick to compare it.
These comparisons can sometimes build up negative thoughts, and those thoughts can isolate you if you don't feel willing to 'compromise' for new members joining the group (some would rather use more negative words like 'conform' or 'tolerate').
These days I just visit small subreddits and I treat r/all like it's an ongoing sitcom. I imagine I'll 'isolate' even further as time goes on.
ChiXiStigma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:29:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right, of course. I do hold quite a bit of negative sentiment. In the early days, reddit reminded me of the great BBS communities I had been a part of a long time ago. I know some still exist and are very active to this day, but it's not the same community in my opinion.
So when I found reddit, I felt like I had stumbled upon the rebirth of what made me love the internet so many years ago. Sure, I was older and college was already a pretty distant memory, so some of the humor and conversations weren't relevant to my interests, but for the most part things were great.
Then Digg v4 happened, the Digg users almost instantly broke reddit, both literally and figuratively. Things only got worse. I think it's evened out now to be a place that 14-22 year old white men find very engaging. Which is great and all, but try to look for a good active site similar to reddit which isn't young white men. I have absolutely nothing against young white men at all. However, the majority of the internet being focused on catering to that demographic is a somewhat alienating experience when you don't fit that demo.
For me, that all comes down to choosing the pain I'm used to. The alternative isn't worth all of the bother when it's only going to be a different URL to get to people from the same pool as the users on reddit. So I'll stick around until I get to old, or until there's not even a tiny private sub tucked away in the basement of the site that hasn't been changed into just another place to cater to whatever the mods don't feel like fighting against.
junkit33 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just the narrative that he spun. I remember clearly when it happened - he tiptoed around every comment about how this venture would be impossible without advertising, and that eventually Imgur would just turn into any other random image host. He knew what would happen.
He didn't do it from the goodness of his heart, he did it to build a giant successful business, all on the back of the Reddit community's gullibility.
briguy57 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:29:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah what a piece of shit. He tried to gain the communities trust by providing free light weight image hosting with minimal ads for 7 years and then tried to fuck us by making a cat paw animation and an ad for his own app.
Doesn't he know we're Reddit? He should have just worked a second job of he wanted to make "money". We demand he provide infrastructure to us for free on our terms with no monetization. If this mother fucker thinks he can make money off providing us a service he should just be put down because that's next level stupid.
I'm in complete agreement with you - no one should ever expect to monitize an intangible service. Only goods I can touch and feel have value.
CaesarTheFirst1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:45:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh is it so hard to accept that someone won't do something just for money? How is this on the back of reddit gullibility? Since reddit didn't provid the service someone needed to, and you can't host images for free, it's expensive.
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gadget593andahalf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We still need them for posting images in comments.
nmezib ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is /u/mrgrim still working at imgur?
Roboticide ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:47:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't feel so much that they became the villain, so much as "the student has become the master." Maybe not the best comparison, since they never started out as a direct reddit competitor, and all this happened more through "osmosis" than anything. I don't think they're bad, they've just grown into a rival.
Hugo2607 ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 17:04:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
7) Did I mention the imgur cat swiping the screen on my phone? Because it was getting really fucking obnoxious.
gargoylefreeman ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 17:26:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
8) That's nothing. I once opened imgur in safari. I saw a cat paw swiping my screen. It was obnoxious to say the least.
PirateNinjaa ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get an ad blocker, lol.
RegularGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This would be a non-issue for single images if people actually knew how to use Imgur and used the direct link (i.imgur.com). None of the shitty Imgur site is loaded, it's literally just the image/gif.
For albums though, it is definitely an issue.
topspeeder ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never had an issue with this... I just don't click on it.
Philligan123 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:31:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gosh they must be panicking over there
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't blame them though. That's a tough business strategy to make sustainable without being somewhat obnoxious.
frbap ยท 158 points ยท Posted at 17:42:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was getting so angry at that and the demands that I switch to their shitty app.
No, I use imgur because it's an image hosting service. Not for the fucking app. Fuck off.
LonelyNixon ยท 152 points ยท Posted at 18:17:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck apps in general. I don't fucking need to install a program to view what is essentially your fucking Web page.
AssistingJarl ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:16:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I keep telling this to aspiring developer friends of mine; if you're pulling all your content from the 'net, an app is worse than pointless. Terrible ROI.
[deleted] ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 21:27:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst is when they remove functionality from their mobile website in order to encourage you to use their app instead.
I don't want tonnes of apps on my phone, I want to get everything I need from the web browser.
edrudathec ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:42:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe reddit has done that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:09:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facebook does it constantly. Stopped using it after their threats to kill messenger over mobile web.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:58:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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gjoeyjoe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:31:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try Metal. Has messaging and is is more battery friendly
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Facebook was definitely the example I had in my mind.
NiceGuyJoe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:56:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially if you're like me and your sucky phone sucks and you're out of space for new apps. Not everybody is a rich San Francisco techie with your 5000 a month lofts and your disdain for the homeless
DJPalefaceSD ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Instagram is literally mobile app only. A lot of apps are mobile only, but when you start to think about how to develop things such as authentication, GPS, etc, then it starts to make more sense.
Having said that, as both a user and a developer, I tend to agree with you: we should be able to consume their content as we see fit, using whatever method we choose.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:53:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you ever seen the instagram app on ipad? It's literally just a scaled version of the phone app. It looks terrible.
I don't actually have much of an issue with something starting (or staying) exclusively as an app. It's when something moves from being website based to being app based that I get annoyed.
Willy-FR ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just get the 32 Meg phone, you cheap ass banjo.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:29:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
32 Meg is stuff all. That'd barely hold an operating system.
If you actually meant GB, I still want to limit the number of apps on my phone to make more room for things like music, photos, and videos.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The App is only worthwhile is your site looks like shit on mobile.
AssistingJarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:00:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So all that effort put into the app should just be put into the website. Then you don't have to futz around with porting it between iOS and Android and keeping both code bases up-to-date. Or even the other mobile OSes if your target market is mostly made up of serial killers and old people.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:08:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't mind apps, I mind the "oh I see you are installing our flash light program, we will need complete control of your phone and access to all hardware, kthxbai"
LonelyNixon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:16:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue with apps is most of the time the only reason for them is because the mobile site.
You can use the desktop version which runs worse or relies on flash or is clunky or has ads that break mobile sites and etc. And then the mobile site Suck.
Like reddit I don't use relay for reddit because I like to I use it because the desktop version isn't usable due to text resizing and the mobile version is just isn't as good so here I am. Otherwise though I don't need an app for most websites. Cause this is what the Internet needs a lot of individual device specific programs rather than good Web design.
Roboticide ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:50:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And yet here I am feeling like I'm one of all maybe five people using reddit.com/.compact instead of AlienBlue, RedditIsFun, BaconReader or any other plethora of reddit apps.
Arklelinuke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
coughifunnycough
veggiter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:27:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is fun is excellent, though. I actually paid for it to get rid of the ads. I might even like it better than visiting reddit on desktop.
LonelyNixon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The issue is really more that the mobile site kinda Sucks. The apps don't offer much over what a website could the websites just are a worse experience but that's not that apps are superior just an issue with mobile sites in general
zizard89 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this guy fucks.
andybev01 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 20:32:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love that show. .
Willy-FR ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:10:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a show where this guy fucks?
sempercrescis ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:49:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The worst thing is that sometimes imgur fully redirects you to a scam page telling you that your phone has a virus, and the primary response is that you should download the app because it has no compromised ads. Fucking scam.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used their app cause it loaded gifs much faster over a shitty wifi connection. only reason, otherwise idgaf.
Norci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:31:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is the app's hosting features are complete garbage, so is the mobile site now.
[deleted] ยท 82 points ยท Posted at 17:08:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who in the FUCK thought that was a good idea? And do they still work at imgur?
what_are_you_smoking ยท 120 points ยท Posted at 17:34:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoever has the authority to remove it still works at Imgur. That's all I need to know.
banfromallsubreddits ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:26:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck Imgur.
Edit: Specifically, fuck Imgur mobile.
Veskit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be they knew reddit image hosting was in the pipeline and tried to get some redditors to get their app while they still frequent imgur. Makes sense to me.
Youthsonic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:26:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you saw their Harlem shake thing then this shouldn't surprise yoi
i_spot_ads ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:02:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
who though it was a good idea?
TodayMeTomorrowU ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I can't believe that idea was brought up and more than one person thought, "Wow, that's a great idea!".
Kensin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:25:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur in general was getting real fucking obnoxious. It's become the kind of image host it was created to replace. Bloated, slow, and annoying.
bigsquirrel ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:53:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the cat. I want an animation like that when I change tabs in excel.
Karhunperse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:50:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen this cat everybody's talking about and I visit imgur on my phone daily
CustardBoy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That and the fact you can't just click a non-direct imgur link anymore without being loaded a dozen unrelated TOP VIRAL!!! images.
RegularGoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People don't use Imgur's actual direct links, which are literally just the image and nothing else. No webpage, no cat swiping etc, just an i.imgur.com link.
Half of these problems would be solved if people just learned how to use Imgur properly.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:23:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, an outlet to complain.
youngdrugs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:16:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I saw it for the first time when I was stoned. Terrifying
KFCConspiracy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I fucking love that.
Yourjokeisapproved ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๐
no-sound_somuch_fury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What was the purpose of that?
sorenant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To those unaware (I was too a few minutes ago before googling), it seems the Imgur app shows a cat paw swiping the screen (not sure how often though).
JebBartlet ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:58:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it's an ad for the imgur app. Either way whenever it showed up I immediately hit back on my phone because it's distracting and little bit creepy.
Jazzy_Josh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Does it actually do shit like that now when you don't go directly to the image?
JebBartlet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you're on mobile and don't have the imgur app installed and you click on an imgur album this creepy cat paw would come out of nowehere and shake the screen. I have no idea if they finally decided to get rid of it but it was a terrible idea on their part.
Jazzy_Josh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for saving me Reddit Sync
najodleglejszy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Iโve never in my life seen that. although itโs probably because I either open direct images via Slide for Reddit, or have them open in Opengur.
aerovistae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen this, what cat are you talking about? Can you describe it?
JebBartlet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pascalwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you use some reddit app?
JebBartlet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not afan of having separate apps for every website I visit. I've gotten so use to navigating on the desktop site with my phone that it doesn't really slow me down and saves me from learning another UX/UI to get to specific features. Also my phone is not my primary device for browsing reddit so the possible time I could save properly learning an app in and out just doesn't seem worth it if I don't spend a decent amount of time with it.
Pascalwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I also prefer websites, but for something like Reddit it's must have for me. It's faster and all link are open in app. Without need to open browser.
whiterungaurd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea fuck that shit. Having to wait like 3 seconds to see a picture I would have already been done looking at
Nathan2055 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you tried viewing an image in the new mobile app? If it's something with text, I first have to open the post, then open the image in the internal browser, and then push the image to the Imgur app just to get it to load a high-res version.
Imgur is really bad now, I'm sorry to say. They used to be a go-to site for images, but now...ugh.
Sickly_Diode ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's this referring to? I feel like I'm missing out now.
Celdron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is this in reference to? I use Reddit Sync for Android and RES on PC, both load imgur images directly.
SteveEsquire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah anything to get me to not use that app or get the "Open in App" pop up is well welcomed. I'm pretty sick of Imgur.
Gafloff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remove "that" and "cat swiping the screen on my phone" and it'll still work
banfromallsubreddits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes yes FUCKING YES. Imgur has become absolute trash in the past few years. So glad Reddit is finally adopting its own image-hosting service.
Sugreev2001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It took ages to load on my cell phone or ipad properly. Gifv images never worked...ever.
ikilledtupac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I embraced this uploading on reddit 100% because of that stupid ass cat. Its not funny. Its not clever.
Diroxas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And its partner in crime, gfycat, which didn't work for me on any reddit apps. :/
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:49:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Kelmi ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:52:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And it started with fat people hate (slim) and has been greatly adopted by hate groups, so I'd rather stay away from it.
r0bbiedigital ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:29:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and embraced by donald... imgur is evidently intended for "cucks"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Donald Trump has an official stance on image hosts?
karth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The subreddit the_donald does, for some weird fucking reason
r0bbiedigital ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:58:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i hear it has low energy, very sad......
inflew ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:13:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, what? Really?
Kelmi ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has some very strict rules on what they show on their own front page and you can choose to publish your own images there or just not to publish them but to keep them private. Basically everything posted to fatpeoplehate was removed from imgur front page so they got removed if you ticked the "publish" box.
People saw this as major censorship for some reason and someone made slimgur.
This anti-censorship agenda is very strong on alt-right forums and they are were the main forces using it. The_donald sub started to use it at one point and got a big boost to it's popularity as well.
I'd just rather use some other host, but it's still just an image host, no biggie in using it.
inflew ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I remember seeing something about that from the_donald on /r/all. I thought when they said imgur 'removed' their pics that they were actually removed (as in deleted), but they were just removed from imgur's gallery? I don't quite see why that would be upsetting for them.. I guess they just needed something to be offended by?
Still, thanks for informing me!
Kelmi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:03:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, the cries about imgur censorship have always been very silly.
They only delete the images if you decide to share it with the imgur community and it breaks one of the many rules. You can still use it as a host for all kinds of vile content and link it to Reddit, as long as it's not illegal(child porn etc.)
aryst0krat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:26:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes. When fathategate happened, imgur was apparently deleting images that were offensive or something, so the fathaters made their own service.
i_killed_hitler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't realize that. Thanks.
DroidLord ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur? Probably like 70% of its traffic comes from Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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DroidLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:50:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True that, but it's a good image hosting site and it would be sad to see it go.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:17:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And they killed fph. They are dead to me.
semperlol ยท 208 points ยท Posted at 17:08:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Mobile imgur got so shitty and bloated. This is a good change.
ozontm ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:21:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't have the app and everytime I got to a m.imgur.com link, the site automatically forwarded me to ads & malware.
xeonrage ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:43:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Desktop got fucked over too. It wasn't broken so they "fixed" it. It's bad that we need another option. Reddit is preying on that... but Reddit is not the option we need either.
DarkHund77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:40:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The app I use (Reddit is Fun) doesn't send you to the imgur app/site..
brad3378 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:33:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the other hand, imgur is the only image host that works on the (unofficial) Reddit Offline app.
Not even the official Reddit image hosting works on the Reddit Offline app.
Kruntch ยท 1285 points ยท Posted at 17:25:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years
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TiffanyValentine21 ยท 167 points ยท Posted at 17:55:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad I'm not the only who get's annoyed at their 'let's have a conversation about...' posts.
[deleted] ยท 157 points ยท Posted at 17:58:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But /u/spez needs to answer 3 softball questions and then disappear!
[deleted] ยท 95 points ยท Posted at 18:26:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 18:29:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That popcorn tastes good though
PCLOAD_LETTER ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:21:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OMG. You're right. Now I'll never see another admin post without thinking of this scene
tommytwotats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
our servers, our rules, citizen. (The dramatic "hey, lets just sit down and talk about the changes over a mug of some hot chocolate, maybe take a mountain bike ride to the Frisbee game after, cool?" in zoolanders voice)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:12:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How did we end up in this situation of having a small bunch of jerks make all the rules ?
This is like that annoying kid that took his ball and went home when we didn't follow his rules. That little shit !
LiterallyKesha ยท -10 points ยท Posted at 21:34:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, a lot of the outrage is from infants.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:40:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How dare us infants be upset Reddit admins don't care about the community or free speech.
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 21:35:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh don't forget when he was threatening us with weekly AMAs
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huffman_the_new_ceo_of_reddit_ama/cszw11n
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:41:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure that will be deleted soon lol
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huffman_the_new_ceo_of_reddit_ama/
he mentions it in that post too
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:25:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure what you're talking about. He has reestablished a relationship to the community. It's one where he ignores us and does what he wants. He's not wrong! What a relationship
fearachieved ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:37:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"let's have a conversation about /r/news censorship"
DownWithPastryarchy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:32:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Long live chairman spez
There will be no love except the love for daddy spez.
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 00:52:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He didn't say anything remotely close to that, though.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 01:16:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eh...he didnt use that kind of language, but the end result was the same. He claimed there was no censorship even though their obviously is. The sub is infamous for deleting anything that goes against the picture the mods want painted.
There is a reason that the white supremacist controlled /r/uncensorednews has 80k+ subs. And its not that they are all racist. They just got tired of the blatant censorship.
ThaBlobFish ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 18:10:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Without porn, reddit won't survive.
BDMayhem ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 17:56:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please forgive my ignorance, but can you describe an example of when that has happened?
nixonrichard ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 18:09:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Google's name "merging" games.
Gmail's "secure e-mail" (iOS 6 users know what I'm talking about)
Facebook "moments" and "messenger"
Reddit loves to throw in their "crisis" excuses for reversals of policy. They banned subs linking to J-Law nudes, according to them, because they got tired for responding to a "mountain" of erroneous DMCA takedown requests (which they themselves admitted were all erroneous).
They forced gun subreddits to remove images of Reddit-approved Reddit-branded AR-15s because of "confusion."
They'll find fake reasons to do whatever the fuck they want to do.
bonked_or_maybe_not ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:19:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except now they will be responsible to remove them since they are hosting them. Smart move for a company already struggling to turn profit.
nixonrichard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or they'll just ban the subreddits again.
bonked_or_maybe_not ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:36:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are missing my point. In the past Reddit could claim protection because they merely LINK to content not host it.
Now, they are the host.
justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ehh Messenger has become its own sorta platform now and it kinda makes sense especially considering you don't have to have Facebook to use Messenger.
Voice, payments, an API, etc
Sanctussaevio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:44:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quick question: does messenger still use my camera and microphone at the apps' discretion? I removed the facebook app because of this but would be willing to consider getting messenger if this is not the case.
justcool393 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:45:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Messenger uses the 'camera' permission to allow you to send photos from within the app (you can take pictures within the app and send them straight from there). The same thing goes for the 'microphone' permission that it requests.
If you don't want to use that, you can always use the Messenger website, although you may need to select 'Request Desktop Website'.
There are a few others and here are the reasoning for Messenger asking for the permissions:
Directly call phone numbers: You can call Messenger contacts by tapping on the phone number.
Receive SMS: Account verification.
Read contacts: Allows you to add your phone contacts into Messenger.
CookieTheSlayer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:12:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am pretty sure it doesn't use the camera at all unless you are taking a picture with it (if it did, my camera module would become super hot) and pretty sure it doesn't use mic either. Only problem with Messenger app would be if you dont like Facebook. I dont care, so for me, its practically the perfect messenger.
th3m4ri0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:20:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On modded android phones (Cyanogenmod and others), you can actually allow/deny the microphone, camera and contact access the first time the app tries to access it.
Contact access is asked at the first time you launch the app (right after you log in). Camera and microphone is not asked until you open the camera / voice message module in a conversation.
On Cyanogenmod you can also see a log of permissions last uses for every app, and it looks legit.
TL;DR: They use permissions only when necessary.
yarow12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's the problem: I do not have and do not want Messenger. Now I have a link to Facebook's full-site saved as a bookmark on my phone since it doesn't seem accessible through the mobile-site anymore. Bloody coincidence, 'ey?
justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:51:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the third icon from the left (the one left of the Earth symbol) on the mobile website.
Source: I just tested it.
bonked_or_maybe_not ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:21:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In the past week or so they have started A/B testing forcing you to the Play Store app page if you try to access it directly on the mobile site. So it's been hit or miss on Android recently.
justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:39:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess one could--if they didn't want to install the app--use the Messenger website although they might need to "Request Desktop Site".
I did notice that they heavily suggest USE MESSENGER and do also link to the Play Store but hitting back has worked for me.
The reasoning is almost certainly because they're mostly splitting Messenger from the main Facebook platform (allowing a much better user experience, like the payments, the voice and video calls, a chat bot API*, etc). I like it and haven't had any problems with it.
I get that many may not want to use it, but I feel like the benefits outweigh the negatives, at least in my experience.
bonked_or_maybe_not ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:12:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
30% better battery life out of the phone is a pretty big benefit of not using it.
TheRedGerund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Frankly at this point facebook's decision to split messenger off makes sense. That app does do a lot now. Voice and payments stand out.
worklederp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:02:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They've also gone and disabled messaging via the mobile web site now, despite it working perfectly fine. (after 2 weeks of opening the play store to their app when you view messages.). But they'll still notify you of messages within the web site. Bastards just want to spy more.
crazedguitarpicks ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:17:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I noticed that recently. I had logged out of messenger once and didn't get around to logging in when all of a sudden it was immediately directing from the mobile website to the app. That annoyed me. I can't even log out anymore (at least, I can't easily find it).
mathemagicat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:42:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh shit, they did? I swear I just used it a few days ago.
Edit: Nevermind, I have my user agent set to desktop.
realchriscasey ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 19:24:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I have no idea what those things are.
edit: (for my -12 points haters)
Google name merging -> something about merging android & chrome OS? no idea what's being referenced here.
Gmail secure email iOS 6 -> users complaining that iOS 6 doesn't support OAuth 2 and that's somehow google's fault?
Facebook Moments and Messenger -> I guess facebook discontinued their photo storage and threatened to delete a bunch of photos if users don't migrate to their new app. pretty harsh, and on-point for the topic. thanks for sharing, I guess. It still took a lot of digging to figure out what the hell you were referencing.
The other two notes (Reddit-specific) provide enough context for what happened that I was able to look up details.
alvisfmk ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 19:43:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google is a hell of a search engine.
ESS0S ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 22:25:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cuntish is a hell of an accurate synopsis of that response.
alvisfmk ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a towel!
realchriscasey ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 19:45:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If someone's going to take the time to cite examples, they should describe the examples, rather than dumping a bibliography.
alvisfmk ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 20:24:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is that their problem? If you are the one who wants to know, they gave you enough material for you to go do it yourself. This is the internet, not middle school.
realchriscasey ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:59:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constructive debate is not restricted to middle school.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:22:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want constructive debate, you're going to have to put some effort in yourself. Nobody here is paid to spoonfeed you the information you want. Calling it constructive debate doesn't obligate anyone to provide more information for you. He provided plenty for you to look for. Either you care enough to look, or you don't. The person here who needs to do the work now is you.
realchriscasey ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not going to "work" for baseless allegations with no context.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:22:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No one cares what you do or don't do. They're just responding for your demands here that they give you more information.
If you want to talk to someone who cares about what you want or care about, go talk to your mother. I don't care. If you decide its too much work, its even less work to not post at all.
DaughterEarth ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They removed subs like the fathate one, as well as some racist ones, and added a policy about hate subreddits.
People are still pissy about it I guess.
MoocowR ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 18:53:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not the same scenario at all lol.
That has literally nothing to do with the removal and quarantine of subs like FPH and coon town. The issue is exactly how he listed it.
People are cautious of "optional features" because more often then not those features no longer become optional down the road, so you're forced to use something you don't want. Since they gradually implement it, then people don't get as angry and they can sneak it in with minimal repercussions.
BDMayhem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd agree with you, except he referenced fappening stuff in his evidence. People are definitely still pissy about that. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4ia33n
Every business goes through changes. To expect the businesses you frequent to remain exactly the same is not just folly, but harmful to the business.
There's no evidence that Reddit is going to stop allowing links to Imgur or other photo hosts, which appears to be the insinuation.
But some people are very averse to change of any kind. I joke that if you give some of these people gold bars, they'll complain that they're too heavy.
MoocowR ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:01:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said FPH and "racists ones" which was Coontown and random no names, neither of those are the fappening lol.
meeu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Got an example?
Cronus6 ยท -9 points ยท Posted at 20:08:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet r/islam, r/shitredditsays, r/Anarchism get to stay.
People should really start putting "hate" in quotes when talking about subreddits.
[Bonus : here's a post in r/Anarchism celebrating the attempted assassination of Trump https://np.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/4p1frk/breaking_someone_tried_to_kill_trump/ that's not "hate" though...]
whatsuppunk ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 20:18:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how the fuck is /r/islam a hate subreddit? get your head out of your ass
Cronus6 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 20:44:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right...
1210saad ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:47:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cronus6 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:16:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever you experts say.
Clearly they are not the enemy....
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:19:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at the "safe spaces" initiative that Ellen Pao pushed through. Everyone went apeshit and hated her. They got rid of her and everyone was happy. You know what they didnt get rid of? The safe spaces bullshit.
1HopHead ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 17:58:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EVERYWHERE
Shanack ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thats pretty much whats happening to healthcare rn :(
nixonrichard ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 21:07:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep. That was the plan all along: get in between the doctor and the patient and control that interaction to reduce costs.
Both in terms of preventing patients from seeking care (limiting available doctors, or pushing patients away from care in general) and in terms of manipulating care a doctor provides when they do see a patient (limiting reimbursement, altering reimbursement schemes, creating strict schedules for care, etc.) the goal is to reduce options for patients and doctors and limit remaining available options to the cheapest ones.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:20:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
interesting. what resources can i use to learn more?
JoinHandsTrumpTrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:21:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ask anyone with a chronic illness or cancer in a country with socialized medicine like Canada.
It's awesome for routine things that people generally know things about, like delivering a baby, broken arm, etc. However, if it's a disease that people are known to die from then you'll be getting the best 3rd rate care money can buy if you survive the waiting list.
Our government just scares us with articles like 'It cost $200,000 to deliver a baby in the US' and not articles like 'It cost $50,000 for cancer treatment, and its gone'
Falark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:07:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I have a source on that? This Blog suggests otherwise, though this was the top of my quick search. I can't believe in any way that any kind of care is worse here for whatever reason - but I'm open to hear otherwise
amazing1ne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't you want more care to be given though, as that would result in higher revenue?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The insurance companies have always functioned in this manner. The proposed plan was to move towards a single payer health care plan, but that's "socialist" and therefore evil. Consequently the entire plan got kneecapped from the beginning. At best it is now government run insurance instead of private run insurance.
Insurance adds nothing to health care, while massively driving up costs. Government managed single payer health care has decades of evidence in multiple countries as being more cost-effective, and providing a higher quality of care.
No one should have to go bankrupt because of cancer so that some insurance companies can get rich.
SNRatio ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:58:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much sussed out last month:
http://www.randalolson.com/2016/05/25/why-is-reddit-replacing-imgur/
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:06:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, I think this is really the start of a long play to get slimgr.com off of Reddit, it's been being used for images posted on subs like /r/The_Donald because imgur is complicit with Reddit's censorship. Following this they will have full censorship control of the site, and no opinions they disagree with will be allowed.
wittyrandomusername ยท 31 points ยท Posted at 21:26:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur has grown into it's own community though. They are a direct competitor of reddit. If I owned a fast food restaurant that featured Adambombs french fries, then you went ahead and opened your own fast food place next door to mine, wouldn't it make sense to start making my own fries and stop endorsing yours?
ProllyJustWantsKarma ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 00:57:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, for real. And plus, even if whatever adambombs is saying holds a little truth (which it probably doesn't, but let's say the first part does), what makes it to the front page of Imgur, 99 times out of 100, is not politicial, whereas look at the front page of sli.mg and it's all alt-right memes and such.
An image site which that much of an agenda to push, be it left or right, would turn off some portion of users, so of course they wouldn't want that.
314stachio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pfft. You've got nothing on the AdamBomb gut-buster cheesy fries. You want those fries.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:28:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That is some serious mental gymnastics man
my_name_isnt_clever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:27:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, you belong in /r/conspiracy with that much of a stretch.
friendsKnowMyMain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:56:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, how long til they try and take my baconreader away and force me onto their shitty official app.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:15:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And these aren't even hard blocked. ED is only soft-banned (all posts that go there get queued, as ED often has posts that have doxx) and Gawker isn't blocked iirc.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:55:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:10:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was a reaction to the ViolentAcrez incident. Many subreddits elected to ban Gawker links, and this was temporary and not intentional.
No kidding, it'd be a nightmare, with 503s probably happening way more often than they do now.
three18ti ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:51:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 12 months
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is dying anyway, after they started censoring and pushing political agendas and manipulating their algorithm they doomed the site. Happens the same way for every platform that starts to censor its users and push an agenda.
endeavourl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:14:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nevermind that one or multiple porn/erotic link posts reach the front page every day.
I love you people, you'll always find room for concern even if there's nothing to be concerned about.
nixonrichard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:25:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Front page is all SFW by default. If you're seeing porn, that's because of your subscriptions.
endeavourl ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Maybe i opted in or something by not subscribed.
There's nothing in preferences too.
nixonrichard ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:29:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"I'm over 18 and willing to view adult content"
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:01:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, since they should have been hosting these images in the first place, I guess it doesn't really matter... and does it really matter?
nixonrichard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:20:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think Reddit has always been structured as a link aggregator, not a host.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yeah, the glory days of reddit where it was just News/events that mattered!
Now it's like, "Hey want to see my balls cause you're bored?"
PigNamedBenis ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 00:32:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, that does sound a little bit like microsoft's "embrace, extend, extinguish" methodology in it's beginning stages. With how reddit has gone in terms of monetizing and censoring/vote "algorithming" certain types of posts, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes full digg in the next few years.
10GuyIsDrunk ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 03:45:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's already going digg, this was the point where many of us left digg to go to reddit, the mass exodus followed quite a bit later and then went full blown when v4 came out.
xeothought ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:24:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, you're incredibly right. But maybe that bot won't be allowed to work in two years either.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:33:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it doesn't. I just tested it in another subreddit.
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a reminder waiting for me in the 22nd century, no limit afaik.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. The same "choice" that's slowly driving users toward dedicated mobile apps instead of using a web browser?
JonasBrosSuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
that's very optimistic of you..
e: checking in 2 years later and today is 2018-06-21!
metastasis_d ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:32:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years
terabitzz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Remindme! 2 years
gerrywastaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:37:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is that remindme bot? I want to click on the link!
RemindMe! 2 years
edenroz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:00:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years
frbap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years 1 month
Kruntch ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:46:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the drama might be over by then.
frbap ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More or less.
HylianWarrior ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 1 year
squish8294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 6 months
uglymutilatedpenis ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you submit a picture from a third-party, all you are doing is submitting a link. Do ypu honestly think Reddit will kill off /r/news, /r/videos, and any other community that relies on posting things other than images and self posts? And they would do this - killing off a large section of their content - just so they can spend a ton of money hosting images? What's the incentive there, and why is greater than the disincentive of killing off thousands of communities, with millions of users who look at ads and buy gold?
randomguitarlaguna ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:46:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They black listed quickmeme, gawker, and a few other websites from being posted on reddit. They can do it and have done it.
_L3b0wsk1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:24:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The incentive, like any other company, is that they own the data. They decide where that data is stored, and what to do with it. Not to mention it drives more traffic to their site if it's linked somewhere else on the internet.
The-SpaceGuy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:14:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won't remind you.
Remind Me!
DoodleFungus ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:32:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 6 months
totally_not_a_zombie ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:50:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 6 months
dman7456 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:15:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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anschelsc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:25:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since reddit treats imgur links as just links, the only way to block uploading to such sites would be to block posting links at all, which would kind of hurt their business model...
1PsOxoNY0Qyi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:05:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They already filter links from certain sites, just add imgur to the list. Sure it's whack-a-mole but they will win over time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The could actively filter imgur and any type of proxies or mirror sites linking to it, if they really wanted to get tough. It's quite easy. I don't think they will, but it is quite easy to do.
prillin101 ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 18:07:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Edgy cynicism doesn't mean you're right, it just means you're dumb
Kruntch ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:10:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That I am dumb does not mean that I am not right.
bigmac80 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:29:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoah.
neggasauce ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should have kept that in mind before posting.
[deleted] ยท 254 points ยท Posted at 17:29:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
treejanitor ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 22:44:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, reddit did fund imgur's last round of financing... so reddit indirectly profits from imgur doing ok.
neededanother ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:01:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur deserved a lot of it too. Hosting images used to have lots of problems
AssistingJarl ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 19:29:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still does. If you don't keep up with the community side of Imgur, one of their engineers talked tech in a blog post a couple months back, after a flury of complaints about long response times and connection failures.
neededanother ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 19:38:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That talk didn't seem very techie to me. He just rattled off a few different service names without much detail and provided a graphic. Yes it seems imgur is getting a bit slow on mobile lately, not really touching on that though, imgur blew everything else out of the water when it came out and still does pretty much. I'm interested to see what happens with this reddit thing, but sfw only are you kidding me.
LittleLarry ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:51:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did he mention the jerking algorithm? Tip to tip?
SchuminWeb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a feeling that NSFW will get there eventually. One step at a time, I suppose.
_riotingpacifist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:49:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't Reddit still on AWS, and AWS don't let you host adult content on it, obviously there are ways round it, but it would explain it not making v1
AssistingJarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"talked* techโ โก in a blog post" might have been more appropriate for me to say. Nothing too in depth, I think the aim was to remain approachable.
scootstah ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:55:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur doesn't get ad revenue from static image links.
Besides, that's a whole shit ton of bandwidth that reddit isn't paying for.
c_o_r_b_a ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:14:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but note that reddit also saved a lot of money by not hosting images themselves.
Considering they aren't yet directly monetizing these image uploads, this is definitely going to raise costs.
ooh8Hfdfj38283283 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) Imgur is becoming reddit's biggest competitor. The should not have to rely on their competitors. It's better for business
darien_gap ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No argument here, but OP should have been candid about this. To leave out the business rationale is disingenuous and a bit insulting. SOP for corporate America, but a glimpse into reddit's management's culture, and probably also a glimpse of where they're headed.
nermid ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:14:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How so? People come to Reddit, are served links (which take basically nothing to host) and sidebar ads, and then are sent to imgur to pick up images (which take comparatively huge amounts of overhead for the company store and deliver) and ads (if the link submitter didn't link directly to the image, anyway. In that case, no ad revenue for imgur). Reddit's the leech, here, not imgur. They put in the heavy lifting of storing and delivering images, while Reddit skates by collecting ad revenue from hyperlinks.
Taking on image hosting is going to be a massive investment of resources for Reddit for very little extra revenue (if any), and frankly I don't know how Reddit can think they're ready for it when even the text site still breaks down frequently for going over capacity.
_riotingpacifist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:53:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dealing with dynamic content, e.g user generated voting systems, etc, is the much harder than pushing static content. Sure there are problems with image hosting, and imgur solves them well, but in terms of complexity reddit is a much harder beast, hell even something as big as Stack Overflow is simpler than reddit because it's largely Read Only.
karmapopsicle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, Imgur was created by a redditor for the primary purpose of providing a simple, easy to use, and reliable image host for people to use for this site. Then things got expensive, so ads were needed to fund the upkeep. Now however Imgur has bloated into its own social platform (as childish as the community on it may be) that a fair number of people switched over to using as their primary content consumption platform.
fdij ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well considering reddit is responsible for the growth of imgur is it not fair to bring some of that back?
DrunkPixel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This.
[deleted] ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 17:18:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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clb92 ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 18:25:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two line breaks make a new paragraph. New line can be made with two spaces at the end of the line before pressing enter.
This is a paragraph.
This is a new paragraph.
And this is a new line.
WildVelociraptor ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 18:45:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you kidding me.
I've been using reddit for like 7 years and I had no idea you could do new lines that aren't new paragraphs.
This is neat.
ProgramTheWorld ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:59:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess it's time for you to learn the Markdown syntax.
winter_mutant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:33:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And try it out at /r/test.
RectumPiercing ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:32:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Test
test
Holy shit.
DarkHund77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:54:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
let's see
if this works
TomTheGeek ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:00:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheRealDobby ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dobby would like exactly 3.499999999915 drugs
CommanderpKeen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit you are a god. I've been here for years and never knew that.
clb92 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:46:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Come on, people... Has no one ever looked at the "formatting help" popup and thought to click the "check the commenting wiki page for more detailed help" link to see all markdown options?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The formatting still isn't that nice and easy to use. I shouldn't have to remember syntax that relates to line breaks. I still prefer BBcode because I only have to remember a set of commands (B, I, Link=, etc.) and the formatting is the same for all of them.
With Markdown, I have to remember that a certain number of * or ~ or whatever might be italics, or bold, or extra bold, and they don't stay in my memory as well.
clb92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:15:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I personally prefer Markdown. BBcode reminds me too much of HTML elements and attributes, but with completely wrong syntax, and as a web developer it just kind of annoys me to look at.
winter_mutant ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:35:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have those complaints, but I also find it really annoying how verbose it is. So much typing! It's also a lot less readable, at least for me.
Compare these two ways of making a link:
geo1088 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:46:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In this case he'd want the second line to be indented with 4 spaces in order for its indentation to match that of the rest of the list.
Item
Prefixed with spaces
vs.
No spaces
king_of_the_universe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using this opportunity - others should know
that you can write like this, too
just by adding TWO spaces at the end of the previous line.
While we're at it,
thisis effected by `this`.And that, in turn, I made possible by "escaping"
the key characters with a preceding \ which can
e.g. be used to do this: /r/atheism
or
4. ererrrwr
TheGeorge ยท 84 points ยท Posted at 18:53:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) imgur are slowly turning more and more evil with each passing second, with adverts in every possible place they can.
vicarwin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit owners will eventually do it too.
TheGeorge ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:26:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh true, that old phrase.
Die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
StuffReallySux ยท 589 points ยท Posted at 19:56:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1) We want to inflate our pageviews, because that's a metric that business people use to quantify website worth. Make no mistake, we're here to monetise this baby. Don't believe me? A few months back, imgur was serving 5 billion pageviews per month. Bringing those pageviews back to Reddit increases our perceived worth.
2) We want to introduce a licensing model to news & media organisations that already write articles about content our users create. We can charge more if we own the rights to the picture(s) the thread discusses or references.
berberine ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 00:46:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I work for the local newspaper as a reporter. About six months ago, we were told to stop tossing the photos we didn't use in a story. We typically had 2-4 photos per story. Now we have photo galleries with almost every story. The increase in pageviews has been phenomenal.
fuzzb0y ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:49:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People love pictures. Me included.
halfcookies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People like pictures. People love pictures of funbutting.
Taubin ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 01:26:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a quick way to make it to my personal website blocklist. Especially if it's bullshit like "Totally awesome cake recipe" with each step having it's own slideshow photo.
There are simply too many websites out there to get the same information without making me click through 30 fucking slides to get the information I need.
berberine ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 10:57:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I refuse to visit those as well. I personally rarely visit my paper's website and only point people to my stories if I really think it's interesting and/or important. I don't think I've ever pointed them to a photo gallery.
AKluthe ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 02:56:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the real answer right here.
Originally Reddit was designed so people could post all their content and content they find on one site, ie: content aggregation. Imgur was designed to be a simple host for that purpose; it loads fast, doesn't get tanked by heavy traffic and you don't have to scroll to get to the content once you click.
Over time Imgur has grown. A lot. It's now its own community. People don't just use it as a host for other sites now, they post to Imgur for the sake of sharing with the Imgur community. They hold discussions and socialize there. It's become what Reddit was designed to be...or one could say, a competitor.
Now one nice thing about Reddit being a content aggregator is it encouraged the whole community to post links to the best stuff from around the web. Or it did. Reddit has also changed. Users want direct links to Imgur so the content loads fast and they don't have to scroll. The less work, the better.
In addition, anti-spam and self-promotion rules mean most subreddits won't even let you regularly post your own (new) OC without offloading it on Imgur or a similar site to cut off any pageviews you'd get from it and circumvent those spam rules. That way users don't have to leave, you don't get an compensation, and Reddit gets more content viewers, more page views and the content.
Those business people you mention like pageviews because they're the lifeblood of web content. Hosting anything or creating anything for the web has to generate revenue. Either you're charging for entry or a subscription, you're charging by the ad (page views), or selling some sort of product. It all has to make money somewhere.
Not surprising, but all of those people creating content for the internet also like getting pageviews.
Except Reddit has trained its users to like content fast and free, via uploading to Imgur. Rather than just aggregate, Reddit has begun harvesting content, slapping it on a third party site and repeatedly serving it back to itself without credit or concern for the people that create it. I've seen 3 minute comedy videos converted into a gif (so no audio, no playback functions) posted here and people defend it because "gifs don't have sound and I might be at work!" or, more commonly "I don't click Youtube links/I get more clicks if I post a gif." (Kudos to CorridorDigital, Darth Santa was a funny video and deserved better than being frontpaged in gif form.)
Reddit has gone from content aggregating to straight up freebooting.
Supporting uploads without leaving the site and displaying them without leaving the site is just the next evolution of it.
You either die a Digg or live long enough to see yourself become a 9gag.
bonked_or_maybe_not ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 04:06:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it wouldn't help the bastards out, I'd buy you gold.
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The sentiment is appreciated, nonetheless. Thank you!
neuromonkey ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 04:34:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, shit.
The facts of the situation aside, will it always be necessary for us to burn down every fucking boat we build, usually while we're in it? (I'm not criticising your perspective--it's valuable, and worth discussing.)
Is it simply the nature of the relationship between individuals and corporations?
I'm neither accusing nor excusing, I just honestly wonder if... well... nothing gold can stay?
PM_ME_UR_SPOOKYDOOT ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 07:48:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If it costs money to get through the door on the first day of a site like reddit then they won't get the critical mass to run a community based site like this. if the site waits til it has that critical mass then starts charging for its content then the user base revolts.
people want a great service but they don't want to pay for it in any way. I'm not judging that attitude, but it's a fact.
I think the thing that rubs a lot of people the wrong way is that reddit relies on 100,000s of contributors (content creators, mods, etc) to give away a little bit of their time/effort for free and they want to monetise that for profit. At the same time, the users who are here for the content which reddit essentially gets for free, are the product which is onsold to advertisers. reddit is providing a platform but they're crowdsourcing all their content and hoping to get rich by selling out their captive audience to advertisers. I'm sure there are lots of users who resent being onsold but i doubt there are enough to noticeably change the site if they all walked away tomorrow.
AKluthe ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:00:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If Reddit survived the huff about Ellen Pao, they'll certainly survive this.
The bulk of the users here either don't understand or don't want to understand copyright issues, original content, or how they're being monetized. They just want to see cat gifs while they poop and get the most imaginary internet points for their caveman SpongeBob. Whatever makes that easiest will keep them on the site -- which is exactly what the people in charge of Reddit want.
goawaysab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:18:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be fair, you can blame reddit but mostly the users are to blame for the way content is distributed. We want to consume as much as possible in the shortest amount of time and this generation has a view that everything on the internet should be free with no sense for copyright, or even asking the creator whether they can distribute or not. I'm part of the problem, I often view article then go right to reddit comments without even reading them, I also skip videos but will always load gifs.
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think there's blame on both sides.
My complaint on Reddit's part is that they don't do anything to discourage content jacking and then profit off of it. The site has no global rules about not breaking copyright law, yet has global rules that say you can't link to the same piece of original content on more than one subreddit because you'd be promoting yourself.
Only 1/10th of your submissions are allowed to be your own content, even if 10/10 would be relevant OC. Now you and nine other people can submit those 10 pages and it would be fine. 100 different people can reupload and submit the same one 100 times over. You can even upload them to Imgur yourself, forfeit any traffic your regular site would gain and be within the rules.
Reddit doesn't have to forfeit any of the pageviews, mind you, but you the creator of the content do. Because it would be self promotion.
goawaysab ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:36:50 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait what? I had no idea about that rule only 1/10th can be your own content, that's just stupid, but also is it actually enforced? Like Shen in /r/comics posts his works, oh but does he use imgur, then put the link of his comic in the comments?
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:39 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, a twice I've been reported for "spam" (only once did anything come of it, the other I found out later when I asked about some specific rules and the offending mod got called out by his/her peers). So it's enforced, but it probably also depends on the moderator and the subreddit. /r/comics is very relaxed about it and even has rules specifically saying you can self submit.
Shen also posts Imgur links with his URL in the comments, so it's within Reddit's rules -- if you the creator don't get anything out of posting it, it's okay.
I believe /r/funny asks creators to post Imgur links with the source in the comments if they're going to self-submit. The thing is, there's a massive difference between the kind of traffic you get from submitting the source and the kind you get from submitting in the comments. We're talking 50,000 visitors versus less than 100 visitors. Plus there are a ton of variables that come with posting in the comments. If Reddit breaks out a combo of quotable responses, the top voted comments will all be jokes instead of links. I've seen cases where people have downvoted users linking to the source. The voting system is fickle and the same thing can end up hidden just as easily as it can end up at the top.
I get why the rule exists. Reddit doesn't want the same person linking to the same dumb thing every day to try to dig up some page views. They don't want Reddit to be one big commercial, especially while they're selling ad space.
But the way it's worded and can be used actually discourages people from submitting OC and encourages users to post the same tried-and-true material and Imgur links.
ThomasVeil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:25:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sad but very true. For what it's worth though, that is what the internet has become. Creators are the suckers of this scenario. Companies like google, facebook, pinterest and co just suck up all content from sites, and make billions by serving it (google even just hotlinking).
Can't blame reddit for doing the same. The users or the internet structure has to change to stop this.
Jourdy288 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:03:15 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to go too OT, but your comic's hilarious. Have you run into any trouble posting it here? You're at, like, 53%.
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:51 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, thank you! And to answer your OT question, yeah, early on I was casually flagged by a mod somewhere and subsequently shadow banned. After a lot of leg work I was able to contact an admin and get it appealed, in part because I'd also dug up dozens of submissions showing my comics being highly upvoted and also rehosted and submitted by other users without any credit. There was also the fact I was regularly posting on r/comics and r/webcomics (who have rules specifically saying you can post your own comics.) and I do way more commenting/discussion than I do submitting.
Which is part of why I realized the anti-spam/promotion rules are so strict they stifle OC while promoting the same old regurgitated submissions and stolen content.
All those guys who reposted my comics without credit? They did it and will continue to do so. No one flags you or shadowbans you for throwing someone else's video on Imgur. You can submit a hundred reuploaded comics with no link back to their respective writers or artists and nothing will happen.
You can post a hundred awkward seals with new text and it's not spam.
You post a handful of different funny comics or stories you created on your own site and you get banned and they don't even have the courtesy to tell you your posts are now invisible.
I'd actually like to post on /r/funny or /r/gaming from time to time, but their mods enforce the spam/self promotion policy, so they strongly recommend artists rehost the content on Imgur first. I never got around to working with them and setting up custom flair and, to be honest, am kinda nervous to set the example of rehosting my own content.
ex-apple ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 21:56:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And that's fine with me.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 22:16:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheSystem_IsDown ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 22:21:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fine with mutual benefit. Using a scapegoat temporary CEO to 'clean the site up' though didn't feel like mutual benefit.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 22:26:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheSystem_IsDown ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 22:39:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This announcement is part of a larger push on the part of the reddit admins, as the post this is a child of shows.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:10:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you want to make your point, stop calling them the Reddit admins - they're Reddit employees. It's all designed to turn a profit. At the same time, remember that without someone trying to make a buck, it wouldn't be here.
TheSystem_IsDown ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 00:15:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love them trying to make a buck, I think they should. I was pointing out the difference between a win-win (image hosting), and a win-lose (Ellen Pao). The parent commenter and I are reminding them (the admins) to do the former.
linkseyi ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 02:35:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
While we're on the subject of non-sequitous complaints, my car only has one cupholder and almost no cups fit in it.
TheSystem_IsDown ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:53:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/thisiswhyimfat
linkseyi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:01:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try fitting a small coffee in to this bitch.
_riotingpacifist ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 00:54:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm fine with it, I'm not fine with lying about why they are doing it.
beccaonice ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:20:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Booo no, I want this free website that I use daily (don't forget I have adblock installed!) to hemorrhage money until it is financially unsustainable to run and has to shut down! I also want it to always be improving, and run seamlessly. I will rage every time the site goes down (huge websites don't cost money to run, right? what are servers?), and rage at any attempt at revenue generation and label it an evil conspiracy theory.
twalker294 ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 01:38:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are either of these an issue that we are supposed to get all bent out of shape about? Reddit is a business and if they are doing this to increase revenue, good for them. Why is it that anytime someone tries to make a buck on the internet these days they are automatically branded a money grubbing asshole?
Fictionalpoet ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 03:20:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they're billing it as a "Omg look we totally listened to our users!" when they have repeatedly shown they do not listen until something gets tipped over and set on fire (I.E. /r/news) so its important to call out their bullshit for what it is lest people get the wrong idea.
zellyman ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...but that's exactly what they are doing here.
Fictionalpoet ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 06:14:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes and no. Users may have requested the feature, but they aren't adding it because of the users. There are many other issues that users complain about far more frequently that are completely ignored until they burst (again, /r/news). If Reddit was actually paying attention to and responding to users we would see more additions that are not solely driven by business-related reasons like OP mentioned.
Obviously businesses need to do what they need to do to make money, but the only reason they added this feature is because it's profitable, not because users wanted it.
zellyman ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 14:32:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry, this reeks of insane entitlement. They've added a TON of features that make no difference in their bottom line for the users over the last couple of years and yet that counts for nothing.
I guess this is just a situation where people just wanna be mad about something.
AKluthe ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 03:04:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably because it's also making a buck at the expense of others.
There's been a lot of growing complaints about Facebook and other sites becoming a notorious breeding ground for freebooting -- downloading content you didn't make, then uploading elsewhere for recognition and/or profit.
Creators have little recourse over this when the business (such as Facebook) doesn't prevent it in the first place. And assuming the creators/copyright owners do eventually find out it's usually too late to do much besides request the company pulls the video...in 24-48 hours. At which point the uploader has already profited. No one takes the money or views away from the uploader, and the creator gets nothing for their work (except thousands or millions of people who have watched/read it with no reason to do so again.)
Now Reddit wants its users to take all that content and conveniently reupload it to their own site, with their own ads and inflate their own pageviews.
That and they're spinning it as "It's all for you guys!" rather than being upfront that it's a business decision to serve themselves at the expense of content creators.
alive1 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 08:36:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be honest, imgur needs some incentive to stop trying me to download their app, or scare me with sudden cat paws over images I'm looking at. They've really been pissing their users off lately.
gregorthebigmac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:41 on September 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to dig up an old comment, but have you tried using a decent ad blocker? I've been running one for quite some time, and I kept hearing about it, but never saw it until I disabled the ad blocker just to see it for myself. uBlock Origin works on the desktop and mobile platforms.
alive1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:49 on September 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I use ublock origin as well. Just not on mobile.
goawaysab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:24:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well would they really tell the truth? It seems natural they would say it's for us, given it is useful and many people have requested, so I really can't blame them, they're a business, they want to look good. I thought that the feature was mainly for things on people's desktops, so they don't have to make an account with a third party like imgur in order to upload, but will people really download say images, then reupload to reddit? What's the point of that, is it so it's faster or something?
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The same reasons people find a funny video on Youtube, record it as a gif, upload it to Imgur and submit it here instead of just submitting the link.
Mobile apps support imgur inline so you can scroll through the images without leaving Reddit.
Imgur links are guaranteed to load quickly and take you right to the content.
More people like no clicking/easy clicking, therefore they upvote that content.
Now Reddit will be able to do all those things natively, with the addition of getting extra pageviews and ad money for it.
tuckedfexas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:18:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't that kind of similar to when movie studios complain about pirating and people justify it by saying they aren't delivering the content in a form or method that they want? The biggest difference is obviously that people are actually making ad money from freebooting. With how crazy the internet is I feel like you either have to exhaust every method of content delivery yourself or someone else is going to. Which is a ridiculous standard to have for smaller content creators, but that's kind of the nature of the beast that currently exists.
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:49:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's truth to convenience (or the right format) reducing piracy. When it becomes easier to buy or easier to acquire in a format you like, people will choose that option.
You'd think this stuff would be the baseline of convenience. There's no subscription to get on Youtube, the videos are right there. I give a comic away for free every single week, you can view the whole backlog of 'em -- almost 300 at this point -- on my site.
Reddit and Imgur have set the bar so low that people want the content without leaving the site they're already on. They say things like "Oh, I didn't want to crash your site, so I rehosted it." when they really mean "Oh, I don't want to risk clicking a link and not have a funny picture."
And maybe it is time to innovate web distribution!
But the rehosting model has done plenty to benefit Reddit, and now them directly rehosting only benefits them more. Without the content, this site would be nothing. It has to come from somewhere, it's not all just going to originate from this on-site file host.
goawaysab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:32:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't understand, risk clicking a link and not having a funny picture? Especially with small creators I think people should ask or find out their policy before re-uploading something, I think the not wanting to crash the site can be legit though. It's annoying when there's content you can't view because the site has crashed, but again, you have to ask the creator.
AKluthe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can be, but on small subs with low traffic it's not an issue. On larger sites it's not an issue. On sites like DeviantArt and Tumblr it's definitely not an issue. It's become the catch-all excuse for not even attempting to give credit.
Redditors are trained by other Redditors to say they didn't want to hug-o-death you so they decided to give you...no traffic and no credit. But they're not that concerned about you or your site, they're concerned about the link not working after they submit it. It's a way of spinning personal convenience into concern for the person they've grabbed the art/video/whatever from.
Most of the webcomic people who have been asked will even say they'd prefer a direct link, first and foremost. We don't care about a hug-of-death and would prefer posters link before they reupload. The downtime isn't usually significant and even a couple hours of downtime with a huge spike before and after means you get more out of it than the reupload alternative, ie: nothing.
goawaysab ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:32:25 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think if someone then posts a reupload but in the comments they post a direct link?
I think it's true that most people don't care about the content creator, they just want the link to work
AKluthe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:22 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mentioned this in another response just now, but I prefer a direct link. Mostly because the kind of follow through you get it very, very different. We're talking 50,000 visitors instead of less than 100.
Plus it's hard to control what exactly will happen in the comments. Reddit's upvote system is fickle; the same comment can just as easily end up buried as it can end up at the top. If someone decides they don't like your sourcing early on, down to the bottom it goes. If someone a chain of joke responses break out, Always Sunny quotes, or they start typing the lyrics to a song line by line, that source link can quickly get buried by comments with more upvotes.
KingKingsons ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:27:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly. If people are unhappy, why not just stop using it or go to Voat.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:43:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it's going to harm the user experience for reddit. Imgur worked great before. Reddit is Fun was able to integrate imgur photos into it's app just like the Reddit app does for only reddit hosted pictures. Instead, Reddit is going to now break that experience in order to try to make it more profitable for them. No one's saying we'll enjoy it more.
Globbi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:12:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't see that complaint as an issue with Reddit introducing new features, but rather with them outright lying about the reasons.
JayGatsby727 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:54:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There can be multiple reasons. Obviously making money will drive Reddit's decisions (as it does all businesses), and there are far worse ways that Reddit could do that. I'm glad that they would direct their monetization efforts towards something that improves the user experience rather than something that ruins it.
dirtieottie ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 03:13:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This has me curious, when users start uploading copyrighted media here, and Reddit is making money off of it, can Reddit be sued by the copyright owners?
V2Blast ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:25:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit probably can't be sued unless they received a legitimate DMCA request and then ignored it.
Obviously, I'm not a lawyer.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:46:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dont think they would for making money off of it. I think it would be more handled by DMCA stuff. It'd be similar to how YouTube handles copyrighted stuff.
dirtieottie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks.
Answer_the_Call ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 22:46:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm perfectly fine with it myself. I actually don't like having to go to another website just to look at photos. This makes it easier.
4d3d3d3engage ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:05:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Answer_the_Call ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:35:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You make a very good point.
trogdc ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:11:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why in god's name would they waste money on imgur???
4d3d3d3engage ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:27:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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trogdc ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 02:37:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not how business works lol. You don't buy a company out of the kindness of your heart. All imgur has that reddit wants is image hosting, and they can do that for a fraction of the cost imgur would want for the whole company.
Also, reddit wouldn't be the site it is without imgur? imgur wouldn't be a site at all, so how does reddit 'owe' them anything??
Bystronicman08 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't have to if you have RES. You can open imgur links without ever leaving reddit.
rem3sam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:51:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't care who hosts the photos I'm looking at, but my problem with this is that the icon for unloaded reddit uploads is the same as the icon for video content rather than the photo icon, and it also can't be resized on the reddit page by dragging like imgur links do.
Answer_the_Call ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 06:35:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never saw the point of RES since I don't really need all that. I'm just a casual user.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 00:48:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is any of that a bad thing? Reddit isn't a charity or even a non profit.
linkseyi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 02:39:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it's just a vehicle for cynical assholes to complain.
king_of_the_universe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:07:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it really that hard to get? The problem some see is not the blown up pageviews but the official reason given not containing at least the most important business reasons.
linkseyi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:38:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I refuse to be outraged about how they framed their explanation.
AlexHimself ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:08:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is directly being competed with by Imgur. Imgur was just an image hosting site, to now building their own Reddit. It's only logical that Reddit would build their own image hosting site.
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 01:32:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you telling me
that businesses
try
to make
money....?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!!
-SetsunaFSeiei- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:55:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So let them monetize it then. Who cares.
Let them charge more as well. I like reddit, I want them to have money.
winter_mutant ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:10:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they really own the rights to any image uploaded? If I hold a copyright claim on an image and upload it to reddit, am I forfeiting that claim?
wrong_assumption ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:18:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. This clarified a lot. Thank you for your transparency, reddit! it's refreshing in this day and age of business-speak.
amchaudhry ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:49:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes because monetizing your business while offering a smoother experience and providing options to users is bad.
NewYorkCityGent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you a writer for Adam Ruins Everything?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:39:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's the comment I was looking for. This is all just reddit trying to lateralize it's business by keeping all content under Reddit, Inc. Especially obvious when you throw in the new reddit app and how the other competitors' are breaking.
njsj3i392hshwwowowne ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:47:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is exactly why
IranianGenius ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:45:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes it way easier for mobile, and the mobile market is getting bigger and bigger. Cheers for improving the user experience.
troll_is_obvious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for this. Imgur is a giant PIA on mobile. Crashes browsers all the time on my Android. And I don't appreciate being coerced into using their POS app, just because they (intentionally ?) crash my mobile browser.
Nalmyth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's unintentional, check out the CPU usage on a computer. Runs at 60% of one of my cores, while doing nothing...
Soopsmojo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) Data collection
AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What on earth are you talking about?
Soopsmojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Analyzing images to target you better.
AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's stopping them from doing that before?
Soopsmojo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is not owned by Reddit.
AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And imgur over-reached?
2dollarb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years
betadevil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if you know this but to make a single "new line" instead of starting a new alinea you need to end the line of text with 2 spaces.
Like
This
I probably sound like a douchebag for mentioning it, but it's useful to know.
rouing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 8 months
drachenstern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any way to get back to iOS being able to auto-play gifs instead of having to click like 5 times to see the gif?
dot_executable ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) no more imgur salt
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My company has been blocking imgur (but not reddit) for the last 9 months or so. God bless you for this.
BeetsByHonor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if a user were to steal an image from a user, then photoshop that image into porn without the user's will you then remove it? Because as it stands, Reddit admins tend to side with the abusive people who do this all the time.
LeftoBadass ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:54 on June 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's Admins and the Imgur staff were victims of this all the time and never complained. Do the people you're crying to about abuse know that you are /u/honoryourbeetus from /r/FatPeopleHate?
BeetsByHonor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:23 on June 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh yeah? Actually several of them modded the sub? What's your point..?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) imgur is blocked at my workplace, fortunately, reddit is not.
broadcasthenet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does number two translate to you want more control of all the aspects of reddit?
verdammt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) Imgur is a competitor
salma86q ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Write EDIT.
FreyWill ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And lest we forget..
3) money
appleflaxen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 2 years
h-jay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that the users were simply clueless about how simple it is to upload anything to imgur...
daveboy2000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 700 days
sunjay140 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you guys please add a tab the user profile page that allows us to view all images that we've uploaded in the event that we ever want to delete them?
neugo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:03:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The real reason: We lost out on roughly $250,000,000.00 by allowing Imgur to take all of our customers, and we want that to stop.
imhiddy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Rofl, bullshit answer, and everyone knows it!
Just be honest with your users, thanks.
(I mean, I'm sure you also want to improve user experiences, but I just find it dishonest when you're implying these 2 reasons were the deciding factors that greenlighted the project to take over image hosting from a 3rd party - because this was a business decision.)
unlockedhed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:12:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Mechbiscuit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) Death to imgur!
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it considered to partner with a third-party Image hosting company (eg make a seamless experience but link to the third party? I get why you might not like that, so just curious.
forgtn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:45:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this ever happen for video?
utsavman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:10:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically bye bye imgur?
gladius_rex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:14:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha so selfless - definitely has nothing to do with Imgur, right....?
just_a_thought4U ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than to make more money somehow?
alex-addams ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:11:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
3) Control
SinisterPixel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:01:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of people in the comments right now are giving reddit shit that they're really doing this for revenue purposes...
Well like, no shit... Reddit is one of the most active boards on the internet and it's already struggling to turn a profit. That's why Gold is promoted as such a big feature.
If it helps a completely FREE and excellent service that I use on a daily basis stay alive, then fuck it, go for it. I think a lot of users take what reddit is for granted. In 2016, how many websites still run ads as nonintrusive as reddit? Reddit is one of the few sites that I allow through my adblock filters because of how well done the ads are.
In the last few years, especially, reddit has seen a far larger rate of growth, so not only is it unviable to continue relying on a third party source for image hosting, it's also completely unprofessional. It would be like the equivelent of Amazon using Wordpress to run it's website.
Regardless of whether direct image hosting is or is not mainly about page views to help with revenue flow anyway, it is still undeniably one of the most requested user features, at this point we essentially have a means of almost completely phasing out imgur, which has become it's own community anyway. While this DOES benefit Reddit, it also benefits the users greatly, and I for one am fine with that.
aim2free ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:23:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see an advantage in having pictures stored separate from messages. Otherwise it could in the end turn out to become something as "not web" as facebook... Google+ is better though. What google+ is missing is a way to show images in comments.
Megneous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We'll see how long that lasts.
RuneKatashima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still don't feel like you answered the question.
What has changed to make you want to do this?
It's a nice way of asking why you didn't do it sooner, which isn't covered by your answers.
EmmaBourbon ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:51:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they couldn't, or didn't. What kind of shitty question is that.
RuneKatashima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your comment literally has no substance... and you're talking to me about shitty questions...
"Why didn't they do it sooner?"
"Because they didn't, duh."
This is what you sound like.
BrundleflyUrinalCake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the likeliest explanation is that imgur has become a significant threat to their business.
RuneKatashima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hm, how so? We've been doing the Reddit+Imgur thing a long, long time now (in internet time). They're still fairly different websites and many people use both anyway.
BrundleflyUrinalCake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:23:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed, many people use both. This could be seen as a problem in Reddit's eyes -- they might feel that Imgur's traffic should (and could) be a part of their own. In other words, there's no reason why Reddit shouldn't be in Imgur's market, since it's a proven source of revenue and the business model is similar enough.
MIGsalund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty curious that the image from this post did not load on mobile. Real seamless experience. You also left out getting people to use your crappy mobile app.
espero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
!Remindme 2 years
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are not answering his question. /u/skztr asked what changed and you're just giving two reasons why it would have been smart to do it in the first place.
skztr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:01:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, that is indeed what I was getting at. eg: Has the cost of media hosting gone down? Are you more confident about the legal issues of hosting media due to some recent precedent? Have you decided that image hosting can be a revenue stream? Do you no-longer trust the ecosystem of external image hosts?
faraboot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
How hard is it? Am I missing something?
edit: wtf is with downvotes, have I said something wrong?
hfxRos ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:58:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently if you wanted to post an image to reddit you'd have to first upload it somewhere else, like Imgur. That first hurdle might by itself stop users who are not tech savvy at all, or are just lazy. Being able to upload the image directly when making a new post is useful.
It's not "hard", but that doesn't mean it can't be easier.
Also Imgur has been getting more shit on mobile as of late.
door_of_doom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It isn't about it being easy, it is about it being intuitive. New user experience and such. Every new user has to figure out that the only way to upload an image to Reddit is to go to some third party site, upload the image, and post a link to that image on Reddit. A bit wonky from a new user perspective.
hfxRos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The tone of your question makes you sound like a dick. Probably not intentionally, but that's how it comes off.
easy_being_green ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you put two spaces after a new line it'll format properly :)
tSchumacher255 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:03:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RemindMe! 1 year
Money says it isn't even two years.
freundTech ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:14:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They first introduced this to the mobile apps to make posting images easier.
It probably worked so well that they decided to expand it to the desktop.
EDIT: words
Bardfinn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:23:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So well. Worked so well.
Cacafuego2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FTFY =)
splelling ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:02:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1.reddit doesn't want us to leave reddit.
2.reddit doesn't want us to keep giving other hosting sites our traffic.
Ashkir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:59:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur bans direct links in their ToS now. They blocked Jcink, IF & ProBoards users which rival Reddit's size combined.
rschaosid ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:58:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew they were well on their way down the tubes, but...wow.
Norci ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:35:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Wait what. Can you quote? Last time I checked it was mostly to cover their assess so they aren't used as CDN.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:58:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kek. imgur adding features that compete with reddit. can't rely on an image host that tries to poach users.
lfshammu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:58:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has been competing with reddit for years. When they start bypassing mobile requests for direct image links with non direct links with mobile ads is when reddit thankfully steps in.
RazsterOxzine ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Steal all your images.
WarLorax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They started this when imgur started trying to be its own community and social network. In a nutshell - they don't want to drive traffic to the competition.
ColeSloth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the problems imgur has started having.
Adezar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur's constant pop-ups about "Use our App!" had to be at least a minor factor, it has gotten extremely annoying on mobile.
Ketchup901 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They want to reserve the right to all the pictures you upload. Imgur does this already, but there are sites that don't.
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Other than the positive and/or obvious reasons it's also granting reddit way more control over their users and they might even start to monetize it (unlikely).
Saiing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whatever the reasons they give, imgur has basically become its own community these days. There is a significant amount of traffic that just goes to imgur, gets discussed there and never sees the light of day on reddit. imgur has grown into much more than just a small project for predominantly hosting reddit-related images and is pulling users away from reddit. This site needs to address it as part of its business strategy if it's going to continue to survive.
ChaseSanborn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:06:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Arancaytar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has slowly been going evil, monetizing with aggressive ads, and punishing embedded use. They're not going to mention it explicitly, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a factor.
jc731 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:29:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has been successful in making money while reddit continues to struggle?
hennell ยท 426 points ยท Posted at 16:39:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Some random questions - apologies if these are asked & answered elsewhere (or are blindingly obvious if you use the feature on a desktop!)
What's the copyright deal when uploading to 'reddit images'? (Can they (offically) be republished by others? By Reddit?)
What's the copyright deal if you get complaints (I.e. a company says it's their picture? What if the uploader disagrees?)
Can images only be viewed via Reddit.com or are you planning a twitter cards style embedded situation etc?
You said images will be deleted if the post is deleted. Can you delete the image separately from the post?
Do you do any smart "this is the same image as that" duplicate managing - if so what happens if one post is deleted?
oldschoolred ยท 93 points ยท Posted at 18:38:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Our policy
[1] is the same as comments and posts. If there is a disagreement about removal, we'll handle those case by case.Image hosting is for images within Reddit today.
Not yet - on both accounts - but it's likely something we visit.
edit: typo
[1]
Reddit User Agreement
andhelostthem ยท 75 points ยท Posted at 19:48:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those of you wondering what the fine print entails...
joeyoungblood ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 20:55:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
/u/spez could you not update the TOS to specify that Reddit retains the right to display the images on their site or via third party apps but doesn't own them? Imgur TOS seems to be slightly better here: http://imgur.com/tos
[1]EDIT: clarification by "own" I mean have the right to resell for revenue without expressed written consent of content creator or maintain even beyond deletion.
[1]
Terms of Service
[deleted] ยท 76 points ยท Posted at 21:05:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit doesn't "own" your images.
Royalty-free: Reddit doesn't have to pay you to show the image you uploaded to others.
Perpetual: This license doesn't expire.
Irrevocable: You can't revoke the license you're granting upon uploading.
Non-exclusive: Granting this license doesn't affect your ability to grant anyone else a license.
Unrestricted: you can't specify any conditions for this license
Worldwide: self-explanatory
to reproduce: We can make copies.
prepare derivative works: We can add our watermark.
Distribute copies: self-explanatory
perform or publicly display: serve it from our servers
in any medium: we'll paint it for you and mail it if one day web servers serve content that way
for any purpose: even if someone didn't ask for it to be served and we served it, that's okay
including commercial purposes: we've got ads
authorize others to do so: we grant 3rd party partnerships sometimes
Disclaimer: IANAL
tl;dr: Reddit doesn't own your images. This is a standard ToS and there's nothing to get excited about here.
chazchaz101 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:12:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't reproducing for commercial purposes mean that they could, for example, sell prints of your image?
[deleted] ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 21:18:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're missing the point. A ToS is a liability waiver, not a secret backhanded attempt to start the world's shittiest art gallery.
The commercial clause isn't there because reddit wants to sell your photos. It's there because your photos are being served alongside ads.
Reddit is already making money off of your content. Probably more than it would trying to sell prints.
chazchaz101 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 21:23:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not asking about what they will do, I'm asking what they could do if they wanted. It's very possible someone could post am image that could become commercially valuable in the future.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 21:29:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's really no such thing as a ToS without these clauses. You can't know what a company's intent will be far in the future. If anyone is that worried, they shouldn't upload their photos anywhere.
joeyoungblood ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:43:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well we do know that UGC Services tend to change how they treat content creators over time: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/an-offer-creators-cant-refuse/
And we know that Reddit has taken their User Agreement to sell content (to be fair for a good cause): https://www.amazon.com/Anything-collection-Reddits-best-IAmA/dp/0692582266
And while no UGC site protects the rights of comments, the rights of creative works that are visual and auditory in nature appear to have a slightly higher level of protection such as YouTube's and SoundCloud's which attempt to define the service which the rights are being granted to. Reddit could and should update their TOS for images.
666Evo ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:31:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
World's shittiest art gallery?
Dude, have you seen some of the stuff people upload here? Sure, if you include the Rare Pepe's I might agree, but go to any of the "SFW Porn" subs and tell me there's not art in there. Not to mention r/Art...
joeyoungblood ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:24:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit has already sold user content.
A TOS on a UGC site should protect both users and the platform. As I mentioned earlier Imgur does fairly good here.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:27:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How exactly is Imgur's any better?
It's the same language.
Reddit's only business is selling user content.
joeyoungblood ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:30:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"slightly" better:
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:32:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if every image uploaded is automatically "designated for sublicense" with a database flag and copied... it's the exact same. It's irrevocable (like any other) with a clause that sort of pretends it's not.
It's not better, there are just more words.
joeyoungblood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:36:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I won't disagree. YouTube's just a little better:
joeyoungblood ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 21:22:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I clarified.
Technically their TOS can be interpreted to do anything they want like publish a book of submitted images, similar to the AMA book, without the permission of the originating authors. I'm positive and hopeful that it is not their intent to do anything heinous like this, but would rater have the TOS protect users before a problem arises.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is being able to do all that functionally different from owning the image?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:15:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because the owner retains ownership and can do absolutely whatever they want. An owner isn't a licensee.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But they have every ability to do anything with it that the owner could, forever.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 22:35:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for your edit. I looked up indemnify and still I definitely didn't understand what you meant.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's just not true.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:28:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In what way? If I upload a picture to Reddit, what can I do with the picture that Reddit can't?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's really simple. Reddit can only do what the terms of the license you grant it allows it to do. It can't do something that is not in those terms. If you believe it's acting outside of those terms, you, as the owner and the person granting the license, have recourse. If you are not the owner, you don't.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:43:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So reddit can't stop other people from using it without your permission? But besides that, they basically have all the rights one would generally associate with ownership of something. If I had a snow blower like reddit has our pictures I'd feel like I owned it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:03:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a laundry list of things reddit can't do because it doesn't own your image. I can't possibly list all the things.
You also don't seem to understand why the terms are the way they are. Reddit needs you to grant it these rights because all sorts of things are done to the image when you choose to upload it. It can't do these things without first waiving liability.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you give an example of maybe one or two significant things that would be on that list?
I'm not super interested in the why. I'm still not a hundred percent on the what, to start worrying about the why.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:22:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It can't grant additional licenses.
It can't alter the license.
It is bound to the terms of the license.
It can't claim exclusivity.
It can't claim ownership.
It can't claim creatorship.
etc.
An owner isn't bound to any terms of any license. They cannot be sued over a non-existent agreement. A licensee can.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:25:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe the OPS point was the license is pretty broad. So what is an example of somethin they cannot do? Hypothetically they could print your photo and sell it. That's my interpretation. please someone who knows more correct me
dredmorbius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The owner can sue others for infringing use.
Reddit cannot.
lamarrotems ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:08:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who wants to buy my like-new-just-opened-but-never-used pitchfork?
FredFnord ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:57:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah... no. Sure, 'they would never do that'... unless Reddit goes belly-up, and suddenly everything anyone ever uploaded is part of the intellectual property that gets auctioned off.
strumpster ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:29:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp.. never mind
joeyoungblood ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:52:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Reddit owns the images posted? That's the way I'm reading this.
salma86q ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Old is cold.
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure what is meant by this. I see Reddit hosted images in Google searches and seem to be able to embed them in any html page.
SlidinSideways ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:40:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for all the detailed responses. Given that the image and post will be deleted if the original post is deleted, is there a legal justification for the rights to remain perpetual as written?
uncleconker ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 18:08:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a photographer, these are the most important questions.
Vhett ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:27:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed. I'm an amateur photographer but I would love to know this information going forward.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:49:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bad luck
Technically they need to say this to display your image even on Reddit, but still.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:29:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also interested. My understanding of the english language = they can basically do everything you can do with your image, except for claiming they are the original owner. So theoretically they can print it out (worldwide license to reproduce ... in any medium ) and sell it ( including commercial purposes ) or partner with another company to do so (authorize others to do so). I see no requirement for them to acknowledge you (royalty-free ... unrestricted).
I'm just quoting phrases and applying basic comprehension. If someone knows better (ideally a lawyer) please correct me.
munk_e_man ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, this is correct. Based on this rule, let's say you take the photo afghan girl and are super thrilled and go to reddit to post it and share with your community or whatever, theoretically reddit has the right to take that photo and sell it wherever. You retain copyright, but by posting you have granted reddit perpetual usage of the image in any way they want.
It would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did that as the negative PR would be pretty huge, but it doesn't mean that they can't or won't do it. Reddit is a company after all, and if it's profitable for them to partner with a stock image company, and take the images uploaded to reddit and sell them to said company, they most likely will do it.
TL;DR - If you're a photographer, host the images on a different site (preferrably your website) and link the images as you used to. Reddit can do whatever they want with your posts, text or otherwise.
nb2k ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well as you can see from the oldschoolred post (after you posted of course :) ). You still hold hold copyright but you grant them the power to do whatever the hell they want with it.
hellya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
case by case. with thousands of photos, it will be slow. It will be taken down, once the images has already gone viral and shared everywhere online. watermark them.
themaster1006 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely don't upload your original works to reddit then, because they'll have unlimited license to use them however they want (and even sell them). Or you could always post low resolution and watermarked images.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sharing is caring bro.
terrible_at_cs50 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Governed by existing user agreement:
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i6t1s
duckvimes_ ยท 1732 points ยท Posted at 16:13:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any support for keyboard shortcuts when navigating through galleries? Makes it much easier for one-handed navigation.
You know, in case of severe injury.
SimplySarc ยท 806 points ยท Posted at 16:22:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duckvimes_ ยท 292 points ยท Posted at 16:23:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DFGdanger ยท 304 points ยท Posted at 16:58:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hard to get severely injured at a safe workplace
temporalpair-o-sox ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:05:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Have you been involved in an accident at work? You may be entitled to....
tophat420 ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:11:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken arms?
...
Mom, what are you doing?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TrailRatedRN ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:11:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No matter how much I want to forget this, reddit always finds a way to bring him up again.
depaysementKing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fair enough, /u/TrailRatedRN. I'll help you forget.
StorminNorman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is with that attitude!
nliausacmmv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Severe to get hard at a safe workplace.
euratowel ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:17:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Underrated comment of the day
SilverRetriever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:20:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like, say, two broken arms
PirateNixon ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What, like if you break BOTH of your arms or something?
ollie87 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:03:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken arms won't be a problem
phuckman69 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:56:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they allowed nsfw communities they'd run outta bandwidth
WhataBud ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm out of the loop, what does SFW stand for in relation to reddit?
BoldShuckle ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:49:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safe For Work, as opposed to Not Safe For Work
Basically OP states that reddit won't host any NSFW images with this new feature, while OP of this comment thread might be implying they want keyboard shortcuts for browsing porn one-handed.
mos_def_not ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW = Safe for work
aka no porn
thouhathpuncake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything that is unsafe or inappropriate for a workplace, such as sexual content, violence and gore, etc. is NSFW. Everything else is SFW.
thunder75 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:49:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Safe for work, puppies, kittens, pandas, etc. The opposite is not safe for work, NSFW, gore and mostly porn.
Throwxinaway ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Sarc, I follow your youtube channel and enjoy what you do. Fancy seeing you here!
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 713 points ยท Posted at 16:17:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Great suggestion, we don't do that yet but will definitely look into it because I think it would be great for all of you to browse faster
edit: typos
freeall ยท 705 points ยท Posted at 16:20:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, stick it to the man!
mapping-glory ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 16:27:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they are The Man...
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:49:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ellen Pao banned them from using gender-based words in the workplace a long time ago.
mapping-glory ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I debated using "they are The Power" to reply just for gender-neutrality, but then it wouldn't be referencing freeall's words exactly.
Citizen3rased ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, take the lemons!
Hugo2607 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt6iTwVIiMM
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/YLH3NUS.png
taulover ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You lemon stealing whore!
andytuba ยท 263 points ยท Posted at 16:23:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The RES userbase would appreciate an option to disable any keyboard shortcuts reddit might add, or reaching out to /r/Enhancement to figure out tidy integration.
(Keyboard navigation really is a great way to browse images faster.)
ShaxAjax ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 18:06:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the subject of RES integration, it may be my version's slightly out of date or some such but I can't manipulate the size of opened images that were uploaded to reddit. It's distracting as all hell 'cause I fiddle with practically every image I open due to having a midlow-res screen.
andytuba ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 20:49:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That'll be included in the next res update, in a month or two.
OptimalCynic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:43:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Along with marking redditimage links as read when they're expandoed?
andytuba ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 03:49:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep.
OptimalCynic ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:04:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fantastic, thanks.
FLHCv2 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't do the same and I have the most up-to-date version.
i_wanted_to_say ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:03:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can manipulate the size on the front page by grabbing and dragging it larger or smaller, but once in the post I can no longer do that due to the changes they made a month or so ago with auto loading images in the post.
andytuba ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 01:54:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can disable the auto loading from your reddit preferences, and use res' expando instead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/4chmq5/reddit_change_media_expandos/
i_wanted_to_say ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
dwmfives ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:18:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And also drag to expand.
TriumphantTumbleweed ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:28:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should be disabled by default. There is no reason to have keyboard shortcuts turned on unless you specifically want them, and I assume the majority of people do not want keyboard shortcuts. (maybe I'm assuming wrong)
troll_right_above_me ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think most people just don't bother to learn them, but don't mind having them (but I could be assuming wrong as well)
TriumphantTumbleweed ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:34:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely, I think that's the main reason they should be disabled. If people start pressing hotkeys unknowingly, they might be upvoting stuff without even realizing it. It always might interfere with someone's custom browser hotkeys, or AutoHotkey, or like andytuba mentioned, RES.
shadowdev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
tu ba! tu ba! tu ba!
Abomm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a shortcut for flipping through an album on RES?
andytuba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:25:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
] and [. You can customize it in res settings console for keyboard navigation.
QuantumSand ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, I now know about RES shortcuts!
imperfectluckk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, especially when you need to jerk it to something? Being able to use a keyboard instead of a mouse for your non dominant hand is really useful.
the_noodle ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:58:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That should really just be a RES update. Overwriting a keyboard shortcut with whatever RES wants that key to do is trivial.
jaychok ยท 101 points ยท Posted at 16:19:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Defiantly?!?
[deleted] ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 16:19:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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wbarnard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Storm the gates!!
cscottaxp ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 16:22:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's typing with one hand. The struggle is real.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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cscottaxp ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:30:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably broken. But I imagine his mom can help him out.
Capdased ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK you know you've spent too much time on Reddit when you understand references like this.
[deleted] ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:47:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk, I can't go 5 fucking minutes without that reference popping up.
DFGdanger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:57:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's saying that 5 minutes is too long on reddit
uwhuskytskeet ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:58:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah that's super obscure and not referenced in every other thread.
Crisiss ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:11:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAE get this reference!?!
insert that one superhero gif
O-o-_-o-O ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:32:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
Windows_10-Chan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm hoping he's on a phone or something and just didn't proofread what autocorrect did
_riotingpacifist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He means these guys
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:21:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Deflantantly.
Bardfinn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:22:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My brow stands defiant, for I have a fivehead.
fdebijl ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 16:19:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kek
duckvimes_ ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:22:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Give him a break, he's typing with one hand.
Bromskloss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:07:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And the key presses keeps flipping images instead of coming out as letters.
UESPA_Sputnik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One-handed comment reply right there.
just_redditing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking for a friend... with one hand...
IranianGenius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should've been defiant about the typo...
iamafucktard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this like how Hillary looks into transcripts or will you actually do this?
ownage516 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you create a gallery of reddit images per subreddit? Like, be able to organize the images?
Killtrend ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Browse faster"...
Mhmm. That's what he meant
egoldin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please yes.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I get a red alien head by my name.
jb2386 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:43:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you convert AlienBlue to this system?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You forgot to fix the typos.
alfis26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:39:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kinda late to the party, but hope you still see this... Can you make an option to ctrl+v images directly to the reddit image hosting? That's the only thing I liked about imgur.
Coteup ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/g71jf/taking_a_road_trip_with_donald_duck/c1lg10c
alfis26 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:37:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okaaay? I guess? Did you reply to the wrong comment?
TheRighteousTyrant ยท 50 points ยท Posted at 16:19:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just get your mom to help.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:14:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted]
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EVERY
hanktank ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
redditp.com
dude_why_would_you ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look up RES.
4lt4cct ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:23:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only for SFW subs atm, so it doesn't matter much that they don't :(
usa-911-mastermind ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:38:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
hey look, it's the alt of /u/flytape, /u/theghostofdusty, /u/jamescolespardon, and a slew of disinformation accounts.
duckvimes_ ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahahaha
TheGhostOfDusty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy/gal has lost dozens of accounts is his delusional crusade to smear the /r/conspiracy mod team. In fact, you two should be staunch allies! xD
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
https://www.reddit.com/r/C_S_T/comments/4od7xe/the_importance_of_credible_sources/d4ea5cl?context=3
Moderators of /r/conspiracy are protecting disinformation spam accounts.
Come at me /u/theghostofdusty /u/flytape /u/jamescolespardon or whatever alt account you decide to use today; /u/brotherspartacus, /u/celinehagbard, /u/balthanos
Edit: dusty won't come at me b/c he doesn't want moderator corruption highlighted on reddit.com
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:23 on June 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's also either batshit crazy or a troll. Your long lost twin?
TheGhostOfDusty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:25:33 on June 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, urs!
usa-911-mastermind ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:40:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. - Noam Chomsky
Who pays you to reddit?
duckvimes_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
--me
usa-911-mastermind ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:48:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/user/duckvimes_/submitted/
Can't wait for your next "the jews" post.
duckvimes_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What spectrum? I'm allowed to talk about what I want to talk about. Your morons can whine about wherever you want.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Can't wait for your next "the jews" post. Don't play dumb Hasbara troll.
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe if you people don't blame the Jews for everything, I wouldn't have to call you out on it.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:39:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Hasbara troll confirmed.
the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves -VI Lenin
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If your response to getting called out on antisemitism is accusing people of being Jew shills, maybe you should sit back and think about it for a bit.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves -VI Lenin
Come on Hasbara troll. Your playbook (accuse people of being racists, accuse, attack, accuse, accuse, attack, no proof of claims) is tired.
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:06:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/isrconspiracyracist is the proof of those claims. Are you just determined to say random things until something sticks?
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've said nothing antisemitic. Your playbook is boring.
Your playbook (accuse people of being racists, accuse, attack, accuse, accuse, attack, no proof of claims) is tired.
No comments from my account in that shitty subreddit you moderate.
Care to try again agent provocateur?
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:45:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do explain how that sub is racist.
Also, I never said you in particular were racist.
More empty buzzwords, I see.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I've said nothing antisemitic. What are you on about Hasbara troll?
This is the part where you dance for me. Dance Hasbara troll. Dance!
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honesty is not your strong suit, huh?
Hiding behind alt accounts doesn't help you much either.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
you call out /u/usa-911-mastermind for comments /u/usa-911-mastermind did not make, then claim you're being honest.
Keep dancing, you're doing a good job of covering for /u/theghostofdusty, aka, /u/jcm267.
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:41:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're a terrible troll.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That means a lot coming from you /u/flytape's alt.
usa-911-mastermind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:50:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You're a moderator of /r/topmindsofreddit (one of the many troll subs you moderate) yet you always miss the juicy moderator corruption in /r/conspiracy, the sub you "monitor." Here's what you missed Mr. Hall "monitor" -
https://www.reddit.com/r/C_S_T/comments/4od7xe/the_importance_of_credible_sources/d4ea5cl?context=3
Moderators of /r/conspiracy are protecting disinformation spam accounts.
How much is reddit.com being paid to endorse these spam accounts?
How much money does the moderation team make to protect disinformation spam accounts?
You should write about that sometime. Or is that not part of your agenda?
We both know you're controlled opposition to /r/conspiracy.
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:24:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're doing that well enough without me.
wfaulk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP said it was for SFW subs.
yellowhat4 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
aggressive masturbation
CeruleanRuin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're supposed to have your mom do that for you.
lukewarmmizer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, they said SFW only so you should be fine.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Injury sure...
MathewC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens if you accidentally break both your arms?
danhakimi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Underneath_Hell ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"severe injury," sure... We all know why you want to use one hand...
kalitarios ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like broken arms?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think no NSFW pics allowed because it is only for SFW subs.
regreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, probably no risk of a "severe injury"
locke-in-a-box ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah...yeah...severe injury...
connorg35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:10:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those damn friction burns on the palm of my hand!
Pesto_Power ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have never appreciated how great it is to be left handed, but still use a right handed mouse, until now.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its only for SFW images.
create1ders ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:21:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like a broken arm or two?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:27:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if both of your arms are broken?
HeatherLaFrito ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll just have to have your mom help you out there.
VlK06eMBkNRo6iqf27pq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:05:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you miss the part about "SFW" or are you just very determined?
ALGUIENoALGO ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:04:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is just for SFW content, so this is not neccesary
Isotopian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:40:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if you break both arms?
plur44 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:52:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to ask your mom for now
skyfishgoo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:25 on August 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you'll go BLIND man!
thetoastmonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know RES's shortcut for that which is [ and ] right?
Big_Bronco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...such as, you know, two broken hands and all that shit...
Wolfy21_ ยท 460 points ยท Posted at 16:36:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I share a reddit image with my friends I usually just right click it and "copy image address" , with imgur it worked perfectly, but with these reddit uploads it copies this huge string https://i.redditmedia.com/k4WAkhVH4j4bS9w17xCewogwdNc0A7z0jYPr8e1upOM.png?w=712&s=8d0abe1b9e5e65418f72c05012bbe50c
Why is that? Can we have it fixed?
Hatman88 ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 17:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. Aside from using a link shortener, I can't think of a way to shrink it. Deleting the text after the "?" causes an unauthorized error.
fwork ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 17:35:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've seriously had to reupload images to imgur just to get small URLs.
Some of us share in IRC and other places where having a stupidass long link is a downside.
FLHCv2 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
copy the link address not copy the image address.
fwork ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:29:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Assuming I have the link address. It could have been crossposted on reddit and now I have only the image address. Or someone linked it in a comment.
marmulin ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:11:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. Copying the image address is a reflex, I'm not going to change that.
[deleted] ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 21:07:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is incredibly stupid. The file should be accessible without those unnecessary parameters.
If you try to complicate image hosting people won't use it. Imgur works just fine without any stupid parameters and files are accessible plainly.
ForceBlade ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 22:38:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're right.
It's just a really funny but unnecessary request method.
I mean, I don't like it either.. but if people are loud enough change will come so I really hope this is cleaned up and the system changed.
Using something like Youtube's video ID or Imgur's.. what, 6 character length? should be plenty of room. And fuck all that other stuff the users don't need to deal with that.
TheRedGerund ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing the s parameter helps identify the source of the image? I think they said it would only work through Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, but there's a lot of ways to do that without it.
a-priori ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 23:28:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I had to guess, I'd say it's because everything after the "s=" in the URL is a signature. Other file hosting services have similar ways to grant time limited access to a file.
The way it works is that reddit.com generates a signature that says "I am reddit.com and I grant access to file XYZ until 30 minutes from now". Then i.redditmedia.com can check this signature and serve the file... Until the signature expires.
This prevents the link from being shared outside of Reddit because they aren't valid for very long before they break.
umbrae ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 02:12:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just FYI that signature isn't time bound, it's purely so that folks can't alter the other parameters and create a bunch of different sizes of images or something, which could cause excessive server load. That URL will stick around as long as the post isn't deleted. (Cc /u/daveime /u/Theblandyman)
Theblandyman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:24:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
a-priori ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay thanks!
daveime ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:25:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I've come across this before, and it breaks the whole concept of sharing content. You share something, it appears to be shared, then come back the following day and the image link is now broken.
Theblandyman ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:39:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are very much correct. The way S3 uploads work is that you make a request to S3 for a signature, the response contains a URL with a signature just like that, and then you do an HTTP POST call with the image binary to the URL that S3 responded with in the previous step. The signature is only good for a certain amount of time, which can be specified by the programmer.
The way that they are allowing access to these files works in a similar manner.
Wolfy21_ ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:22:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can click it and then copy the link , it will be shortened. But its an annoying extra step we shouldnt need to do.
umbrae ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 02:15:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah we could do better here. Uploaded images also have a clean URL at i.redd.it which we need to do a better job of exposing. These big urls are mainly for previews or other places where we can save bandwidth by providing a smaller size image.
nakilon ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 03:23:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since one post can have only one image, why not just reuse the post id? And leave those silly
&s=only for thumbnails, etc., that is not a subject of right-click-sharing.iNEVERreply2u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:54:08 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just make the preview URLs shorter too, it's not like it matters.
roionsteroids ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 17:34:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Copy link address" in Chrome and "Copy link location" in Firefox both receive https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png.
Stoppels ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 19:33:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay, I tried it again, it is absolutely inconsistent and I think it's actually an intended feature.
Mulsanne ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:39:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, this is the solution. Just use copy link address.
Dzhone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Didn't work for me.
diff-int ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
on the image at the top of the page, not the link that OP posted.
Stoppels ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No they don't. Neither do. You must have some kind of extension that's stripping it for you. Alternatively, you have Windows and Mozilla and Google decided to have strange inconsistencies in copying between OS X and Windows.
SanityInAnarchy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:12:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I right-click the image itself, I get this:
https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png
It's a bit weird, though. I'm guessing it has something to do with the logic that redirects you to the discussion.
Andrei_Vlasov ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:24:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just don't have friends and the problem is solved.
Drunken_Economist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just right-click "copy link address" instead (on either the title or the image). That gives a nice manageable https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png
Nechaev ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does one do that without a mouse (android)?
sk3pt1c ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you can remove everything after (and including) the question mark
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That fails ("Unauthorized") but a right-click and "Copy link address" works fine.
sk3pt1c ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Huh, that sucks, there should be a shortener built in then to turn all that into something like http://redd.it/dhe38Jwr, no?
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:07:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given that the url is https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png it seems that the images have their own shortener built in (i.redd.it v redd.it).
Yesheddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This really is ridiculous
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A right-click and "Copy Link Address" does the job.
Synapse-Decisions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Judging by the silence it sounds like that's a no.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A right-click and "Copy Link Address" does the job.
squish8294 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems that copy image address pulls the shrunk down thumbnail.
DeadlyLegion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To be clear are you saying something doesn't work or just that you think the image URLS are "too long"?
NiceGuyJoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:59:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I had a textbook with a paragraph long url.
Ph0X ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:23:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This needs to be higher. They are completely killing image sharing, they are trying to force people to link to the reddit thread and bring people to the site rather than direct linking images. I'll stick to imgur until they change their mind.
EDIT: Maybe I'm confused, but there seems to be two kinds of uploads?
Try getting me a direct link for this image for example. It seems to be a different kind of format than the one in OP.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:54:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right-click image and select "Copy Link Address." No deaths here.
Edit: Why would you say it forces people to the Reddit thread? When I click on the long link or the small one, it takes me to the image itself, not the thread.
Ph0X ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:59:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, something is strange here. Some files are on i.redd.it, and others are on i.reddituploads.com
With the former, it works as you say, but not with the latter? Try getting me a direct link to the image in this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/4p4r7l/pep%C3%A9_le_pew_jnr/
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems you are correct. When the link is on reddituploads.com it is much longer than i.redd.it. Hopefully they just stick with the latter; it's short enough and works just fine.
zxcsd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.reddituploads.com/41e1cac3e5de453f9163d4d3049c6f25?fit=max&h=1536&w=1536&s=53e7f32e1c6894c12d2e807c83db861d
Ph0X ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:13:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly, so you're back to what the top comment was complaining about. This is an extremely long and ugly URL (compared to the other one which looks like https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png)
I'm gonna stick with my short imgur links for now...
Honestly, even the other one could be much shorter if they used base64 identifiers. That would've allowed for identifiers that are at least 4 characters shorter, maybe more.
zxcsd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i thought you didn't know how to get a direct link, not that it was long...so i showed you how.
btw, the redditmedia vs .redd.it issue is mobile vs. desktop uploads i think.
Stoppels ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:17:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That does not work for everyone. It's not some kind of absolute truth.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Are you clicking on the image itself? If so, it seems you'd be correct on that. Still, it'd be useful for some, even if not for all.
Stoppels ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:26:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Using /u/Ph0x's linked Reddit thread:
Linked image (reddituploads.com)
Right-clicking and copying the title's link
Chrome: reddituploads
Firefox: reddituploads
Safari: reddituploads
Right-clicking and copying the thumbnail's link
Chrome: reddituploads
Firefox: reddituploads
Safari: reddituploads
Right-clicking and copying the image's link when expanded
Chrome: reddituploads
Firefox: redditmediaSafari: reddituploads
I hadn't clicked a post's image itself so far, I figured you guys meant the thumbnails. Firefox seems to be off one, showing the link as reddituploads while copying redditmedia, which is buggy behavior (in other words, Reddit's beta-testing something wrong or beta-testing something the wrong way).
NINJA: I just copied the expanded image in Chrome 3 times. 1 out of 3 times it copied redditmedia! So this is a buggy bug or it is intended to lighten reddituploads' server pressure (I read it went down when the admin posted the original image).
Edit 2: Okay maybe it's just really buggy. I copied it another 15 times and they were all reddituploads. Fuck this shit.
Edit 3: Firefox also switches, but it gets redditmedia most of the time. I think this is a dumb solution to lighten Reddit server load. There's no need to use a different domain name.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:55:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like it depends on the link; with the image posted here, I always get i.redd.it, but with /u/Ph0X's link, I always get reddituploads. I think that might have to do more with early implementation than with server load, but until reddit lets us know, we can only speculate.
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it seems so. redd.it was of course already in use as shortlink generator, so I couldn't guess how its image service would differ from the existing two.
Ph0X ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:30:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's definitely something very wonky going on. Earlier I was having the issue on this post's image, but not anymore now... I kinda assumed that they monkeypatched it, but maybe you're right and there's randomness/bug involved?
Stoppels ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems to switch continuously (see my edits). I think this is a feature, but the domain switching seems like a dumb decision that we perceive(d) as a bug.
pchc_lx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A lot of chat programs are started to allow full image copy paste, FYI. I do it all the time on hangouts and WhatsApp. So much better than pasting a URL.
Edit: pushbullet supports it for sms as well
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Right click copy image address, go to http://sli.mg, paste it and upload it. I do this all the time with 4chan images since my friends are scared of anything posted on there.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A right-click and "Copy Link Address" does the job.
Thromboid ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right click -> Open link in new tab
Then Right click -> copy image address
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:19:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Thromboid ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:24:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png
It's really not...
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Thromboid ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:32:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You have to click 'open link' rather than 'open image'. Then you get the shorter url.
kemitche ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The gif shows you copying a long link that someone already posted - of course that'll be a long link. Try doing the same with the link submission for this post, which is a much shorter https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png.
Operation_getsome ยท -24 points ยท Posted at 16:58:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could always just link them the post on reddit.
dchaosblade ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 17:14:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not all my friends use Reddit, and don't care about the comments/etc. If I want to share an image with my parents, they'd likely as not get confused if I send them to a forum, wondering if I want them to read everything, when all I want to do is show them a cool/funny picture. Plenty of reasons not to send someone a reddit post, but want to send them just the picture.
Operation_getsome ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 17:17:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then gyazo the picture in the post.
FuckDefaultSubs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:23:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gyazo sucks though
dchaosblade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:42:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So...instead of just simply sharing the picture, which would be the obvious and simple solution, you expect me to basically take a screenshot of the picture, and share that? That's like the people who take a picture of their computer screen with their phone to show me an image they found. It's absurdly stupid.
Operation_getsome ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:52:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what if the link is a little long, its a new system give it some time and in the meantime you are just gonna have to deal with it.
thecravenone ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:14:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's unfortunately probably the plan.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A right-click and "Copy Link Address" does the job.
Operation_getsome ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:03:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, and this guy knows that works, but hes bitching that the link it privides when doing that is too long
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's just ignorant, but I dislike that people are so hostile about it all.
jpkx72 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No he's making a good point. Why is the link absurdly long? An imgur or gfycat link is much shorter and for sharing purposes (ie. A text or twitter) where there is a character limit this is much more convenient.
duffmanhb ยท 906 points ยท Posted at 16:21:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make them scalable!
That's the most annoying thing when I open one of these links. RES allows me to scale with the mouse images, but not these reddit hosted ones.
Dances_With_Boobies ยท 122 points ยท Posted at 16:24:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes this is quite annoying, who can fix this? Is it dependent on RES or on the image hosting?
Edit: It seems like it's possible to disable reddit's built-in expando functionality, and thus enable the RES one?
hapaxLegomina ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 16:32:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Either. RES only allows you to scale using the plugin's expando feature. It's a totally different object than a Reddit-native expando. Either Reddit can support the drag-to-resize feature or RES can jump in there and (I'm guessing) apply a new CSS class to the Reddit-native image.
andytuba ยท 39 points ยท Posted at 17:07:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a bit more complicated than adding a new css class, but the plan is that RES will add its own handler to replace reddit's.
Dances_With_Boobies ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:58:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
WOOOH! Thank you very much for the amazing work you do!
ItsThat1Dude ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 16:35:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes please. It is very annoying when pictures are too small or too large and RES will not allow me to resize them on the page. I have been actively skipping links that have the image hosted on reddit.
tashibum ยท 34 points ยท Posted at 16:45:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please! It's driving me nuts that I can't click and drag for scaling!
andytuba ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 16:47:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES will include resizing, purpling, and all the usual bells and whistles in the next release, in a month or two.
kmmeerts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it take that long? Should be a very easy fix
andytuba ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 17:04:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because it's too much effort to ship a release for every tiny little fix, especially when there's active development on many other parts of RES.
I am working on a system to push hot fixes for new/updated image hosts, though.
kmmeerts ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:10:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Aw shoot, I didn't see your username. I wasn't complaining, just curious :)
roionsteroids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Going very off-topic here: Do you know whether the new storage system for RES is coming with the next release?
andytuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sure is! Lotta great work from the other res contributors has gone into the upcoming release.
roionsteroids ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:30:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YIHA thank you so much, for multiple months now my (newly) created RES tags didn't survive closing the browser. It's pure hell.
If you need a heavy beta tester cough cough let me know lol
andytuba ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:58:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try finding the clearTags button in the troubleshooter section in RES settings console and running that.
Next step: back up your res data (how-to linked from r/Enhancement sidebar), un install res, reinstalling, and restore your res data.
I'll keep your offer in mind ๐
roionsteroids ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:25:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ERMAGHERED THAT WORKED
Holy shit. Thanks.
My RES json is about 1 MB smaller now. I guess that were quite a lot of +1 -1 votes over the years lol
zimzamzoom2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you happen to know why every time RES updates, all of the RES settings (night mode, Inline Image Viewer>conserve Memory to name a couple) reset to the default. I am always using the latest Firefox version. Cheers!
andytuba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:26:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/enhancement/wiki/faq/update_lost_data
itsme_timd ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:17:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please respond to this /u/Amg137.
I didn't know that was what was causing me not to be able to scale images. I use the Imagus plug-in in Chrome and specifically the scaling feature quite a lot on Reddit.
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:51:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are i.redd.it links not working with the Imagus plug-in? I just tried it and seems to be working fine.
itsme_timd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:52:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They work, but some of them won't scale. The one in this post scales just fine, but some of the pics don't.
e-wrecked ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:12:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah this is a deal breaker for me until it's fixed.
tresser ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:31:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
it seems like only some of them are scaleable.
like, the OP image i can embiggen. and then i'll come across a gif that i cant. :(
edit: this one isn't https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/4p4n3k/a_valiant_effort/
maybe it's the difference between site uploads and mobile uploads.
M3n747 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GIFs just aren't cromulent enough.
Erdumas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's weird is that I can scale the OP image in the comments section here, but not on the front page.
tresser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i have no issues with that here, on the announcements page or from the all feed.
then again, i have minorly fucked up setting for reddit...so that might be the issue why it isn't broken for me.
greany_beeny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've noticed that "i.redd.it" is scaleable, but "i.reddituploads" isn't. Not sure what the difference is.
tresser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:10:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i think the latter is from their mobile app, but im not sure
turkeypedal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:19:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I aksed already. One keeps the image extension, the other doesn't. Since the last version of RES didn't know about those domains, it only detects the image by looking at the extension.
kjhwkejhkhdsfkjhsdkf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I just tried both a gif and a JPG and it scaled just fine for me, so not sure.
Jardun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:02:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that a real word? I googled it and it doesn't appear to be in the dictionary.
I like it.
madlee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 02:02:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not entirely sure why RES isn't applying the scaling behavior now, but it looks like they will fix it in their next update.
fenrisulfur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:16:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, yes a thousand times yes. Can someone fix this please?
atwork_safe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:34:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bump /u/amg137 please respond.
satiricalspider ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, also hover-zoom does not work on these images.
random_ass_stranger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They either just made a change or it seems to work fine for me: https://i.redd.it/wo4ytzs5mo4x.jpg
duffmanhb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It depends where you see it. It wont work on the first page, or the expanded version when you are in the main comments.
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cakeday!
duffmanhb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks. I want to abuse it, but I dunno what to do.
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd order cake. Or pizza. With fries.
duffmanhb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do they deliver to Berlin?
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, if I were you and ordered from a Dominos Deutschland in Berlin, then yes. ๐ Dominos or NYP Amsterdam don't deliver over there. I can order and eat instead of you, though!
duffmanhb ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:46:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, how about you eat it on my behalf! Can't be eating pizza right before the gym regardless :)
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:50:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like a plan, I'll schedule it in! :+)
Jardun ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:00:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here here.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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duffmanhb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work for me on Chrome.
NosyEnthusiast6 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:25:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works for me.
kaesp ยท 4527 points ยท Posted at 16:12:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As long as this means an end to "Download our app now!" popups and intrusions, and makes for a clean image experience, I'm all for it.
edit: Thank you for the gold, kind strangers!
nordic9 ยท 1735 points ยท Posted at 16:15:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Are you not a fan of a cat paw popping up and shaking your screen?
Edit: /u/barbarr has shown Reddit's testing something similar.
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ShakespearesDick ยท 741 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur: Cat paw because so random and get it cuz memes
rabidbot ยท 304 points ยท Posted at 16:42:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I haz your dated and stale meme
PicturElements ยท 188 points ยท Posted at 17:06:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
-imgur, 2016
xenago ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:42:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
fam
yoghurt_monitoring ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:51:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's that boy!
oh snap what up?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:00:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fellowkids
RumorsOFsurF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:35:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
stevebuscemi.jpg
Turk182 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:27:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dank meme, more like stank meme. Amiright?
AnindoorcatBot ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:50:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
o shit!
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:51:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Waddup
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:54:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here come dat Jon
IAmAShitposterAMA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:27:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can haz
You fucking plebian memeserf
dankmernes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:16:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a whole cupboard of them, but you'll have to get them because of my broken arms
DFGdanger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:54:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dated and stale meme is dated and stale
saxxy_assassin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:32:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no.
iamjamieq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:31:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should totally be a skeleton and a trumpet, or John Cena. Or are those already stale memes, too?
Scherazade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:42:15 on July 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
๐บ๐
PM_ME_HUGE_TITTIES ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:25:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Were so relevant and funny with this generation, right guys?"
/r/FellowKids
barbarr ยท 268 points ยท Posted at 17:04:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, since your comment is highly visible, would you mind editing it to let people know that Reddit's testing out something similar?
Jazzy_Josh ยท 79 points ยท Posted at 18:01:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy fuck. Fuck that.
13steinj ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:07:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's only being tested for some logged out users.
Jazzy_Josh ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 19:29:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that.
I'm providing feedback that it's an annoying as fuck way to bug people to sign up.
crimzind ยท 284 points ยท Posted at 17:33:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Ugh, I hate that kind of registration request. Pintrest does the same thing, and it's infuriating. Because, hey, I'm already registered, I just am not / didn't want to log in.
Maybe I'm in a public place and just want to browse the site without logging in to my account. Maybe I have NSFW content visible on my Account. Maybe I'm just lazy.
And I've got ODD, so, of course, then it's no, I WON'T log in, you can't make me, and then I spend 10m or 90% of the time I'm on the website using ublock or whatever to manually add the stupid content-hiding crap... because you're not the boss of me, Pintrest.
...and now after typing all that, I can see Reddit at least has a dismiss button, so... uh... carry on.
ACEaton1483 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 22:50:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pinterest is THE WORST for this. I stopped using it because it was so annoying.
dumbyoyo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 12:08:33 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I absolutely hate pinterest because of this, and I will absolutely hate reddit if it thinks it can do the same thing.
Luckily you can at least get a greasemonkey script to disable that crap on pinterest: Pinterest without registration
ermaecrhaelld ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:16:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oppositional Defiance Disorder?
crimzind ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:23:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
blasto_blastocyst ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 21:34:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No.
Cunt_Bag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:21:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the spirit!
sizeablescars ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:16:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ya I like looking at shit at work but I'm not logging into anything there
twenny1 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:23:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quora.com does the same.
igetbooored ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:39:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand your frustration, but uBlock can create a new rule in about 30 seconds. If you click the uBlock icon on your bar then click the little eye dropper icon you go into Select Element mode. Then you click the offending bit on your screen, click the "Create Rule" option that pops up next to it, and you're done.
crimzind ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:47:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The eyedropper was what I was referring to. But it doesn't always get everything. There's the content blocking panel, text boxes, various content "containers", buttons, images, invisible overlays that mess things up. It's takes a few minutes to get everything and sometimes you click things you actually need, so you have to go in and delete the new rule, etc etc.
It's a pain. Which would be easily solved by logging in to my already existing account... but I won't let Pintrest beat me!
igetbooored ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure that we're talking about the same thing.
If you accidentally click the wrong element when in Select Element mode it doesn't automatically create a rule that you would need to delete. It just selects something, you can then click something else, or click Cancel, Create, etc from the context menu.
I haven't "accidentally" created a rule I didn't intend to ever. You would have to click 3-5 times to do so, how could you do that by accident?
Either way though, uBlock makes solving that issue a matter of seconds if you use the tools it provides you with the base no-frills experience.
crimzind ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:06:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, in my experience, there are often multiple containers loaded, and creating a rule, in my experience, usually involves blocking a couple of pieces. Sometimes, I've blocked a part of something that I thought was part of one thing, but turned out to be something I needed.
For example, Pintrest's sliding register/login thing. It slides up as you scroll down. I was trying to block the sliding section. I did that, but upon opening another page or refreshing, I found I wound up somehow disabling the ability to scroll down the page at all. So I had to undo it.
igetbooored ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:32:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh I understand what you mean now, and yea I agree with you that can be an issue on some sites.
Sadgasm0 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:14:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should say 'Please stop using Reddit.' It doesn't provide any other purpose
Nloveladyallen ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hope it still loads the rest of the hidden content so we can just hide the element with an ad blockerโฆ
ponytoaster ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:22:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this with Pinterest, but they changed their fucking api to not return stuff past a certain number of cards unless you are logged in :(
Vawqer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:43:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You sure that wasn't custom CSS from r/assholedesign?
rhinofinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:49:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I noticed this the other day when I was using a computer that I did not want to log in through. Damn thing keeps popping up on every single page. Makes Reddit unusable.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:29:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But why would you browse Reddit without being logged in?
barbarr ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:39:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As of 6 years ago, 80% of Redditors were lurkers. Even now, lurkers are a huge part of what makes Reddit Reddit. Because lurkers are such a large demographic, adding a potentially intrusive login screen is unacceptable.
I understand that Reddit needs to grow as a private company, but we need to stand against this if Reddit ever chooses to make the pop-ups undismissable like Pinterest. Many lurkers are also regular reddit users who are not logged in, so pop-ups interfere with the experience of some regular users as well. And even on a matter of principle - people just don't like things like it. See how visceral the reaction is to Imgur's cat paw popup, for instance.
In summary, as long as there's a dismiss button (which there is for the A/B tests), I will not raise a huge fuss about it past what I wrote in this comment. However, if that dismiss button ever disappears, you can bet I'll be the first one to campaign against it.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:10:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I knew there were lurkers, but I never thought there would be that many.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:59:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's true for most websites that don't hide content behind logins.
jakethe5th ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't log in regularly because there's not a lot of reason to. If they implemented this "feature" I would probably end up doing something else, just out of laziness
If I could find something else to do
[deleted] ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:31:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That cat paw scares the shit out of my every time.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:45:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't seen it in a while.
Because for some reason they keep loading the desktop site.
On my phone.
Oh how the mighty have fallen...
MikeTaylorPhoto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:29:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Out of your what?
CountedBeef122 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:33:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time
Bajurf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:33:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
duh.
theAmazingShitlord ยท 48 points ยท Posted at 16:22:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just want to use your fucking website. Thanks for annoying me in the process.
ezery13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:43:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pinterest is the worst with this kind of shit. No I dont want to keep browsing in your app. I just found a picture on Google and I want to see it.
[deleted] ยท 115 points ยท Posted at 16:18:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Rooonaldooo99 ยท 97 points ยท Posted at 16:22:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
S..senpai noticed me?
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:24:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He will only allow your upload.
That is all.
kawaiiChiimera ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hella.
brickmack ยท 52 points ยท Posted at 16:34:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been on the internet long enough to know not to go to any URL with pomf in the title without, like 7 proxies
Darbon ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you've been on the internet long enough you would've known pomf.se was an extremely popular content host, especially for high res WebMs with audio, before it got shut down which lead to pomf.cat being created
razuliserm ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:09:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pomf.se was amazing, he gave fuck all about takedown request unless it was cp or an actual DMCA claim. It's all archived luckily.
Every taledown request was also posted to the site.
LostMyPasswordNewAcc ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:26:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah SFM porn creators loved it
420dankmemes1337 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why was it shut down?
P1xels ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:05:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Creator got tired of people uploading general unwanted stuff.
DV_shitty_music ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:12:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pomf =3
Mr_Roblcopter ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:42:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Excuse you.
princessprity ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:40:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh hate when subreddits have a blanket ban on all image hosts but imgur.
Garbouw_Deark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:37:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or singling out image hosting sites just because they're used by an "enemy subreddit". sli.mg is pretty good, and the guy who created it is pretty chill, but because /r/The_Donald uses it...
sbd01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:11:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't sli.mg the same thing as Slimgur, the FPH image host from a while back?
Garbouw_Deark ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:54:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe so. IIRC it got raided almost immediately after the creator did an AMA, which sparked a bit of drama.
KofOaks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well those redditupload images sure dont work on my Lumia 920
bathrobehero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just use something like Imagus for Chrome (or maybe even RES can do it) and view images with hovering over image links, videos or even albums. I don't know the last time I visited imgur.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:59:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ThisIs_MyName ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:03:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can use RES in the Tor browser.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SirNarwhal ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:37:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My fucking mother in law even asked me and my wife what the shit that was. We just wanted to send her a cute cat pic and she freaked the fuck out.
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 16:18:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Look at me
Download our app now.
bjokey ยท 59 points ยท Posted at 16:22:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO ESCAPE
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:54:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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B1GTOBACC0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:02:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The money isn't just thrown at them like "Hey, I like your app! Blow this cash!" They expect a return on their investment.
norgegorge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:41:01 on July 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:24:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So meta.
DestroyedAtlas ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:18:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saw the reddit thing yesterday while looking up a VPN issue. It really pissed me off.
ForceBlade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:53:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit that was annoying. Seems to happen randomly when loading imgur links, like.. I fucking KNOW it exists because I'm always accidentally doing it trying to swipe out of the window ffs
bsmith0 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That scared me so much the first time that happened!
dtech12 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That scared the shit out of me tbe first time it happened...
Norci ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:45:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That cat paw shit is fucking retarded, and the most scary thing is whoever designed that atrocity still likely works at imgur. Fuck, wouldn't surprise me if they all were giggling like kids designing it with no regards to the fact that it breaks user experience. That paw lagged up countless albums for me.
Reddit isn't really one to talk, but for a modern site imgur sure has an awful ux designed by monkeys.
Rooonaldooo99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:19:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This thread just got interesting. /u/ThatsMyHoverboard and /u/rooonaldooo99 are here for their final showdown!!!
igetbooored ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea. Had to make a new rule in uBlock to knock that shit off. Sometimes I want to browse without logging in.
shamoni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:40:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you do that, and can we do it with Pinterest as well?
igetbooored ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:31:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it works for Pinterest too, I've created one for them as well. It's a bit difficult to explain in text, but here's a video that explains what it is in uBlock as well as how it works.
Not the best video but that's what I could find on short notice.
Also worth mentioning that I don't have an account on Pinterest, so this function may interfere with site functionality so be careful. Another user mentioned that they have had issues specifically with Pinterest.
hellokkiten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh damn pinterest does that and because of that I will never, never use it. I like that all of the content on reddit is there regardless of if you have an account or not.
[deleted] ยท 121 points ยท Posted at 16:16:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imagine my disappointment when I did finally give the app a spin, and there is/was no notification or messaging interface. Really, guys? Back to the app harassment that actually lets me use the whole site.
Frostiken ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:26:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It also says "uploading is easier!" and I literally couldn't find an "upload" feature.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uploading is easier... just not for you, plebeian!! =P
But for reals it was missing on mine too
rangoon03 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need an upload button because your file is there and spread out across millions of other phones!
OCedHrt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is messaging? Although probably not notification integration with the OS.
WacoWednesday ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah I'm still using the Alien Blue app since it actually has useful features
ProjectManagerAMA ยท 147 points ยท Posted at 16:18:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As great as this is for the community...
Seriously, and stop pushing me from i.reddit.com to m.reddit.com when I'm already in i.reddit.com. I really don't like the m.reddit.com or the app interface. :(
stylishg33k ยท 201 points ยท Posted at 17:02:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate the Reddit app interface. It's why I'm still using Alien Blue
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 17:11:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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IvanKozlov ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 19:29:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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KMartSheriff ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:18:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit thank you. I make this same complaint and people act like I'm crazy. Maybe I am, but how fucking hard is it to at least offer the option for such a feature?
ForceBlade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:56:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope I'm here too. I can't find alienblue in my App Store history and I even had the premium features [ :( ]. Where the fuck did it go. The new reddit app is infuruating without being able to swipe in and out of posts etc. Always missing the 'hide comment chain' border with the users name in it so you end up going to their user page instead of just hiding the fucking comment oh my god help.
Oh... and the new feature that allows in-feed auto-play of gifs as you're scrolling, Much better than having to load imgur's shitheap.. but here's the catch for me, I have 4 or full 5 bars of 4G on my phone when I'm out so it INSTANTLY drains my internet quota before I can even try to stop it. And if I'm at home? it brings everyone's internet access to a grinding halt. I had to turn the feature off to protect myself. These problems are only if it's a GIF and not a video format (imgur's gifv or html5 embedded video do not cause this issue. They're more efficient and load quicker.)
A_Hairless_Trollrat ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:08:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I burnt through 2.2gigs last night because I passed out and had some log cutting thing play for hours.... First off, why aren't gifs cached? Second.... That's my work line, we ran over our data a day before it resets. It's more of a TIFU but what the hell? Gifs please.
daisybelle36 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on m.reddit.com and it has one-tap inline up- and down-voting. Apps are stupid when you can just use your browser.
Lucas12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I'm understanding what you are saying correctly, the official app has it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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OCedHrt ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:42:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely one tap to vote.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congratulations on being the most pathetic thing I've read online today
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TheBoiledHam ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't imagine voting so often that you need the option readily available for every comment. That being said, it should be an optional setting as it can't be that hard to implement compared to what other people likely wish for in Reddit apps.
Dr_Insomnia ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:51:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how you can't see how much karma your comment has and when you click to see your comment in a thread you have to scroll all the way through the comments to find yours.
Good thing corporate pays for my poops
akatherder ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:03:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the #1 reason the reddit app is useless to me. Maybe I'm an outlier but I've been registered 8+ years and I've submitted like 10-20 posts (if that), sent/received 10 personal messages (if that), and probably posted 100,000 or more comments.
The app just shits on comments and highlights messages and posts.
TheRedGerund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget they mix link and comment karma in the user view.
bladderbunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wait...i thought my alien blue stopped working. can i use it again?
Marc4120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Same here
SBDD ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:29:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought alien blue got bought by Reddit and is the official app?
Solid_Freakin_Snake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:03:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woo! Alien Blue for life!
Seriously though, I'm gonna be sad when it doesn't work anymore because it just gets to be too old.
yteacher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where is the search function in the app, right? How do you omit one of the most important functions on Reddit. Went right back to Alien Blue.
Mattallica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a search bar at the top if you tap the 4 dot icon at the bottom.
Also, today's update includes an option to search within a sub now. Just tap the 3 dot icon in the top right when in a sub and select 'search'.
yteacher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:22:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Definitely a step in the right direction. But curious, why the decision to make the search function require a clunky in between step? Both Alien Blue and the Desktop version have the search and filter function right on the same page. This should be the same idea for the app, but instead we have a less optimal version.
Mattallica ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know why they chose to put it in that menu. Probably was the easiest and quickest way to add it.
TheKharmeleon ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:40:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The fact it does not have every setting option Alien Blue does is ridiculous. They bought it out and then stripped all the options away? No way people are going to stop using AB for such a bare bones app. They removed AB from the App Store too, so if you delete it you have to download from your purchase history. So clearly their intention is this new one replaces AB.
[deleted] ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 16:32:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I just use the desktop site on my phone. Far better than any of reddit's mobile layouts.
jstenoien ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:00:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redditisfun master race! Seriously though, I find myself disappointed by the regular site when I'm on my laptop now.
Erilaz ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:31:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I switched from Android to the iPhone I was really disappointed when the iPhone didn't have redditisfun.
Nloveladyallen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Antenna forever
Wegmans4Ever ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:07:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just wish rif showed flairs
alb1234 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not me. On mobile, I want the interface to be quite minimal, but still present content to me in an easy to read quickly fashion. Only essential stuff for me, please. Reddit Is Fun does this best for me.
Wegmans4Ever ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok. I wish it gave you the option to toggle flairs then
Wegmans4Ever ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just wish rif showed flairs
ProjectManagerAMA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll use the desktop site once they get rid of the compact version. I have a very high resolution phablet and it's hard to hit the links on it.
randomguitarlaguna ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check out Antenna if you have an iOS device. Probably the best interface I've used yet.
no-sound_somuch_fury ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what I did until I downloaded Narwhal. It's so much better.
Ivanstyg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try reddit.com/.compact
JM2845 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i.reddit.com master race!
duzitickle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I loathe m.reddit. No matter how many times I click the x, it comes back and sometimes tricks me by suddenly throwing me on that m.reddit b.s. If I wanted to be on mobile reddit, I would have already been there on purpose. I prefer desktop on my phone when it comes to reddit.
Iwannabefabulous ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:56:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's absolutely broken on my small screen smartphone q-q
drogatos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Click in the top right on the menu button and then hit use desktop site. It will forever remember to put you to desktop
PixelSentry ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:02:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Honestly I am so sick of IMGUR asking me to download their app in a giant pop over window at the top, every time I open an image. If I closed that window once, this means I am not interested. Why does it have to pop up every time I open an image on Reddit? It's the worst.
barbarr ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 17:00:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, since you're a top comment, would you mind editing your comment to let people know that Reddit is starting to do the same thing for some not-logged-in users?
mega_trex ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:15:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God I hate when sites pull this shit especially for their apps. I don't want to download your app to look up one thing.
nightofgrim ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:41:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur used to be so cool too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Image Hosting Great Again
SchuminWeb ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looking forward to Reddit's moving away from Imgur once and for all.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just wish .GIFs wouldn't show in a giant size (bigger than the screen) on the iPad...
I_KeepsItReal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:53:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seriously. I like using imgur and all that, but that shit gets so annoying no matter how much you like using a website. Imgur has been progressively getting more annoying with it over time, I just want to make a post and be done with it.
AnghellicKarma ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur.
infinite0ne ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How far you have fallen, imgur. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
itsfoine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Type something wrong and post on the app, have to log into the web version to delete it anyway
WHERE IS THE LOGIC !
joewaffle1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jabba the huts nuts
Pascalwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you use some reddit app?
DetEndeloseSvart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:31:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shit, I always made hidden galleries on imgur when I wanted to send people a few pictures with descriptions (like pictures of a vacation or something). I've never seen any of the annoying crap that everyone is talking about, so I had no idea that I was sending people links to a site full of cancer if they don't have ad/javascript blocking.
Welp, back to not having a way to do that. Yay.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, they will just replaced with reddit's ads to sign up instead.
GuardianOfTriangles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have a saved screenshot of that shit site (which is actually a great site that turned to shit) having 3 ads to download their app. One on top, one on bottom, and one on the side... on my standard screen sized smartphone.
cbih ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Add as long as it's not used as a tool for censorship and I'm with you.
whats8 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
le kind stranger lol XD XD XD
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:35:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still like imgur because I can free up my memory. It's pretty good way to organize pictures as well. I think youtube could take some points from them
Tcbf88 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:03:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry to hijack but hoping this will be seen!
The hover function on AlienBlue works great with imgur and gifycat links but never loads with Reddit hosted images. Will this fix come from you guys or the AlienBlue devs?
mmmmmbeers ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:37:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
God you guys always fucking complain.
[deleted] ยท 701 points ยท Posted at 16:16:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 406 points ยท Posted at 16:28:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything good on the internet turns to shit after a while.
msx ยท 64 points ยท Posted at 16:41:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sad but true
hovdeisfunny ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 16:51:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So when's reddit's time up?
[deleted] ยท 433 points ยท Posted at 16:53:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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christocarlin ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 17:18:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep Reddit Shitty
peacekeeper ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:43:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We have enough supply of memes to keep it shitty to the end of the universe
Evolving_Dore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:09:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Reddit Shitty Again like it was earlier today
submanr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet we can never leave...
dace55 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:53:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
xenago ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's the spirit
fnhflexy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For now
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MRSA
Meskaline ยท 55 points ยท Posted at 16:55:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty much it's been down hill since The Button
dcwj ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 17:03:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"reddit's been going downhill since I got here" - everyone on reddit, always
Parsley_Sage ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:15:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's been going downhill since they added comments!
dcwj ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:30:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a reference to the first reddit comment ever posted right?
Parsley_Sage ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:34:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes.
thepulloutmethod ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:38:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like how SNL was always way better five years ago.
aWssrfsdfsegf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am going to let you in on a little secret
Yearlaren ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:28:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everyone, everywhere, always.
loggedout ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But I'm not the problem!
ConTully ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 16:58:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yet here we all are.
RockLoi ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:07:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Better the devil you know eh?
SickMyDuckItches ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:12:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like we have options...
looksLikeImOnTop ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Where else are we all supposed to go? :(
thepulloutmethod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Digg?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has gone downhill since it began to be fair.
Gratstya ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So THAT'S what the button did.
Knew I shouldn't have pressed it.
coopstar777 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:40:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way before that man. I'd say reddit's peak was 2006
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:54:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Already there
JarnabyBones ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It turned to shit a few years ago really. This is all just sustained momentum and habit.
Mr_Zero ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't enjoy the military spam in all the largest subs? /s
WhatredditorsLack ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:39:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's peak has already passed.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:17:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 2 years ago.
DerpyPyroknight ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A year ago
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hahahaha
027877 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It happened years ago
I_EAT_GUSHERS ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Around 2012, AdviceAnimals and atheism and funny were default subs. Now, they're not. I think we've passed that point.
nfsnobody ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 07:37:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
About 6 years ago
evmax318 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[looks at my account age] Oh, around the time of the Digg Migration
Newdatawasfound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are about 5-6 years too late unfortunately :(
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:24:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every good site reaches a peak and then crashes. Something will eventually replace Reddit. I don't know how long from now, but inevitably it will reach a peak, crash, and then be replaced by the next big thing. It's happened to other sites before and it'll happen again.
I know it's hard to believe because we're still living in the time where it seems like Reddit will last forever and it's doing very well.
DANNYonPC ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yesterday
AlwaysDefenestrated ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not Zombocom
ThaddeusJP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how long have you been in the internet /u/msx?
msx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:47:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
since about 1996, with a dial up connection. Been on Digg before reddit, and on reddit since before subreddits existed and it was all a single reddit
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:58:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to get meta and upset people but for example, reddit comments have largely devolved from posts to tweets. Just one liners, no discussion. Specialized subreddits aren't so much affected for whatever reason, but good luck trying to "talk" to anyone or convey anything actually meaningful on a frontpage sub these days.
nmgoh2 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Usually a couple of months after the venture capital runs out and the investors are looking for some returns.
CeruleanRuin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ftfy
That's just entropy, brother.
itsfoine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there is no greater feeling than shit posting while on the shitter
DoYouLikeOurOwl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You either die a hero or live long enough to ask people to download your app.
DANNYonPC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whats the problem with imgur? for just uploading pics it seems all fine
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:33:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mobile site redirects people to app stores for stupid games, they have a pop-up link that redirects to the app store, they have an online community now so everything you post shows up there and looks like content posted by members there, they have begun filtering images they don't agree with. It has become the very thing it was designed to replace.
It makes sense for reddit to want to have their own image hosting service opposed to using one run by one of their competitors.
Chairboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Harvey Dent principle?
TheNumberMuncher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everything in life
lancea_longini ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Caesar's sentiments about the Senate and Rome actually.
foresculpt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:48:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You either die a hippo, or live long enough to see yourself become Sicilian.
WackyWormy ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:51:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like reddit
redditjatt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:14:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Especially porn.
LogicDragon ยท 80 points ยท Posted at 16:24:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm out of the loop - what's wrong with Imgur?
roionsteroids ยท 260 points ยท Posted at 16:29:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently ads are increasing a lot lately, especially on mobile.
As a desktop user with ฮผblock I haven't noticed any differences though hah.
memtiger ยท 258 points ยท Posted at 16:37:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reason why there weren't any direct-to-image hosting sites before imgur came along was not because no one had thought of it before. It's because it's nearly impossible to make money if that's your service.
They've either got to make imgur account oriented with fees for server space, or they have to show ads to recoop the costs. Those are pretty much the only two ways to survive. Either option means they're going to lose customers. And that is going to happen with any venture like that.
We're living in a tech bubble where there are 100s of companies surviving off of venture capital funding with no real way to make solid money work over the long term. Eventually we're going to have another crash and burn in the tech industry like what happened in 2000. A lot of really good websites we enjoy are going to go tits up because they have an awesome service with a shitty business model that doesn't make money.
[deleted] ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 16:51:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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memtiger ยท 81 points ยท Posted at 17:00:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yes, even Reddit is going to have to figure out a better way to monetize, than selling fake gold that doesn't amount to much benefit for a user.
Things i could see when the crows come home to roost at Reddit:
As of right now, Reddit is still growing, and looks like a *potential* cash cow. Eventually, all the venture capitalists are going to want a return on that investment. Maybe that's in a year maybe it's in ten. Eventually though, Reddit will reach peak growth and plateau, and that's when things will begin to start changing.
* thanks for the gold! still not sure what it gets me at this point though other than helping Reddit out. It reminded me I needed to buy some as well.
Dr_Insomnia ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:17:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We had Flickr back before imgur. Not that I'm saying your wrong but Flickr was there.
CalcProgrammer1 ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 17:22:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then everyone leaves. That's what happened to Digg, they turned up the advertising dial and everyone left. If they start inlining sponsored posts I'm out. It's bad enough that companies are operating shill accounts to promote their garbage, we don't need any more blatent advertising here.
The flip side of the Internet is that there's always something else or someone else to take your place. Screw up too much and your users will leave.
davidabeats ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then how do you suggest that reddit makes money then? Frankly, the fact that Reddit exists at all at the size that it is and the so few amount of ads you're forced to see while remaining a free service is amazing enough. Hell, none of the ads are even forced on you, they're at the top section, a portion of the screen you can easily ignore.
RealTimeCock ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:51:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't really matter to me of Reddit is profitable. There will always be sites with minimal ads. When reddit starts to become unbearable, we'll all move on. Those of us that don't will watch it crumble around us.
I personally refuse to view ads. If services begin forcing them on me, I just stop using that service.
thestrugglesreal ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 17:59:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you feel entitled to content and the fruits of other's labor for free, gotcha.
flounder19 ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:22:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, I'm not going to suddenly stop riding the wave of upstart sites giving everything away for free during their early years in an effort to grow their userbase for future monetization. It seems like the circle of internet life in that some upstart undercuts the established name with a superior product (usually because they aren't trying to make a profit), grows significantly, becomes established, starts monetizing, and then loses a significant portion of their users to a new superior product that isn't yet thinking about turning a profit.
The good news for reddit is that their usurper hasn't come out of the woodwork yet. Without a known and accepted alternative, they have some leeway in ramping up revenue streams without scaring off users. But there's always going to be a tipping point where people start fleeing to different options.
For example, Snapchat has really ramped up their ads recently putting the sponsored content more prominently in My Stories and adding advertisement between your friends' snaps. But I'm not leaving it right now because there isn't an obvious alternative yet. If one does arise, though, you can bet your sweet buns I'm trying it out.
I doubt the pattern will change as long as there are investors willing to front the cash for apps and companies that have no short term plans for profitability but plan to eventually monetize a giant userbase that they gained by being free. If reddit collapses as an unprofitable mess, I'd consider it a failure of their original business plan than a shortcoming of the users who may have choosen to use this site because it was relatively ad-free and unmonetized
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:08:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
were did he say that?
RealTimeCock ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel entitled to not be psychologically manipulated be marketing departments. I also feel entitled to not leave my browser wide open for potentially malicious content to be executed on my browser.
justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If static images are potentially malicious, please just get a new computer.
RealTimeCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:09:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://threatpost.com/png-image-metadata-leading-to-iframe-injections/104047/
Image file exploits are fairly common. Not to mention that many ad networks still support flash.
justcool393 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:48:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But reddit doesn't. They only serve static image ads without metadata needed to have that sorta exploit.
thestrugglesreal ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 18:30:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then get off Reddit. They owe you nothing and you're stealing from any site that you adblock from. I'm not saying I wouldn't use adblock, I'm just not an entitled asshole who acts like I'm owed any of this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like this site disagrees
thestrugglesreal ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mean they disagree with my statement - if I'm against adblock then clearly I can't be an entitled asshole because I don't believe I'm deserved any of this content for free.
davidabeats ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:00:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the point is, the original comment said
If what reddit is doing is WRONG (minimal amounts of advertising and a few easily identifiable company account shills) and is a problem, what's your solution?
RealTimeCock ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't have one. If I could trust advertisers to be honest, trust add networks to remove mallicious content, and trust content creators not to shill for companies that pay them, I wouldn't really have a problem with it.
Ad networks should be working to remove bad advertisers and increase the value of ads. When your network is interested with garbage, and everybody knows not to click ads ever, it really makes your whole service look cheap and shady. The solution is to improve consumer trust in advertising by treating him with respect. As consumers, we should be holding websites accountable for the content of their ads and let the sites work it out with their ad providers. Hopefully the accountability can trickle up into the ad networks and marketing departments of these companies.
So when we as consumers of content decide to block ads on a site, we're taking the first step in the process of fixing the problem. We're holding website owners responsible for the content of their ads.
davidabeats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:52:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like your problem is with ad networks then, not so much reddit.
The guy I was replying to said that reddit is somehow in the wrong for permitting companies to advertise on reddit, either through accounts or through the commercial posts on top that you can easily ignore.
Your problem seems to be with deceitful ad networks, not so much the fact that ads are on reddit. Fair enough, that's my issue as well. And I can understand having ad block on some sites. For example, Youtube does a shitty job of providing ads that are relevant to me, and since many of the ads are unavoidable and intrusive, I can understand wanting ad block.
What I don't understand is having ad block on reddit.
Take a look at this post. If you're on mobile, it's a link to a joke post on r/headphones that's shitting on Bose headphones.
I count exactly one advert on this page. It's a Dolby Atmos ad, perfectly relevant to the average r/headphones user. It's sitting in a fairly small box on the right of the screen, and if I wasn't looking for it, I prolly wouldn't have noticed it. Adblock would have taken care of that ad easily, but what it wouldn't have taken care of is the MUCH bigger issue.
The post that I just linked you is sitting on the front page, but it's a joke that's been done several times before and become extremely old on that sub. There's actually a decent chance that the post is some sort of shill by a company opposing Bose that wants to discredit their quality. There's been a lot of those on r/headphones even tho many of the comments actually argue in defense of Bose, saying that they're not the best, but certainly not shit. Hell, they're the world leader in noise cancelling technology. And change the comment ordering from best to top, then look at the top 3 comments on that page, all praising bose in some way.
Now tell me, would your ad block have removed that? It certainly would remove the harmless and unintrusive ad on the side bar of the screen, but it wouldn't have removed that potential shill of a post, as well as the many others that has been plaguing subs up and down this site.
RealTimeCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that official company accounts and sounded content is fine as long as it's clearly marked. Companies being able to respond to bad reviews and criticism is important.
In fact, Reddit is a great platform for companies to host their news and forums.
RealTimeCock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that official company accounts and sounded content is fine as long as it's clearly marked. Companies being able to respond to bad reviews and criticism is important.
In fact, Reddit is a great platform for companies to host their news and forums.
TheBellJarCurve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you refuse to view ads? That's how a service makes money.
ImJLu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As it stands, any change would piss off this user base. May as well just start selling data.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like Reddit benefits from the sheer amount of social trends and data they could expose. Also "sneaking" ads in under the guise of content wouldn't be impossible either
Coffeinated ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:42:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How much money would you donate to Reddit each month for an ad- and bullshit-free experience?
memtiger ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:26:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably $5. Although i value it as much as my Netflix viewing and think it's worth $10
TheRedGerund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ads between threads are a natural choice. It gives you the opportunity to scroll right past it. Also I think more promoted content would be a good choice. Everybody is using accounts to manipulate the conversation already, might as well make some money off of it.
The app thing won't happen I think. To shut down the API would kill all bots and apps.
gbtimmon ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 16:54:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit premium. 10 links per day free, unlimited with premium
the_Phloop ยท 60 points ยท Posted at 17:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
flounder19 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:05:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Daily upvote/downvote quotas with an option to purchase more
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 09:57:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1/100th of a vote for unpaid users with no option to downvote
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:14:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guarantee they've already thought about it. Remember...Reddit is a business first and foremost.
CeruleanRuin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Free makes you view an ad for every link.
Hust91 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Joke's on them, I mostly read comments.
i_wanted_to_say ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like the Fark/TotalFark model. I left Fark to come here years ago. Sometimes I wonder if I'd be better off with 50 links a day or whatever it was they had.
WarLorax ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like Twitter
Felshatner ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Realistically, yes this one.
Strong__Belwas ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:54:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is a conde nast publication. There's still value.
devlspawn ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:55:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Coughtwittercough
memtiger ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:10:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes Twitter! They're in some serious shit imo. I would not be surprised if they are eventually the company that pulls the rug out from underneath all these tech darlings.
Twitter has been losing on average of $500M+ per year. Half a fucking billion a YEAR with no turnaround in sight. I do not see how they are going to add that many ads to counteract the millions of people that would leave the service if they did.
And they don't just need to break even, they need to make money to pay back those billions of dollars that they're blowing through.
danopia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused why Imgur stopped taking money then. They had a premium no-ad plan and I was subscribed, then they just removed payment and enabled premium features by default.
memtiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure. Maybe confusion. Maybe not enough people were signing up to make it worth having the sigma of having paid accounts.
CeruleanRuin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not move to a crowdfunding model? It works for all the podcasts I listen to and a good chunk of the games I play. Why not websites we all use? Wikipedia seems to have it figured out.
memtiger ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:15:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's essentially what Reddit Gold is. I can't see that as a long term model of surviving. That can definitely help initially with the die hard faithful and original core of Reddit.
But 5-10 years down the road, long lasting crowdfunding doesn't work. A fractional percentage buys Reddit Gold. And as Reddit has grown to be "the homepage of the internet", they are bringing in users that have less allegiance to Reddit and just use it as a free tool, which further dilutes the die hard core that pays for it.
scwizard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really need to make an s3 extension for greenshot.
samyili ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess Silicon Valley (the TV show) is closer to reality than I thought.
neutron_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When pointed to a direct link, instead of redirecting to the mobile site that has a shitty buggy interface, a shit loading gif icon, other images, a nagging notification to download their crappy app and advertisement, they could have just made a direct link and an adsense/doubleclick advertisement underneath it. That would have been fine by me and many redditors. But they didn't. Fuck imgur. I loved the old imgur. Now, I just wish that it becomes like one of many million image hosting sites like photobucket which no one uses.
TheRedGerund ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:56:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for what they did, growing a community so they hang out on the site and then putting ads in that interface.
Akiba89 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:57:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People's ever growing aversion to ads is going to bubble over eventually. I too am a user of adblock. I turned it off once because I do want Reddit/imgur/YouTube to stick around (especially YouTube, that ad money goes to the content creator) But there are some sites out there that are chock full of ads that it's obnoxious and curating what site I do and don't use ad block for is a hassle
[deleted] ยท 42 points ยท Posted at 16:37:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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dreams- ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:53:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The bloody cat hand swiping the page...
KingDarkBlaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:45:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Alien Blue optimal mode, anyone?
princessprity ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They are most annoying on mobile with the purple"open in our app" button that appears over all the content.
RenaKunisaki ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:32:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They sold out an[DOWNLOAD OUR APP NOW]
arcrad ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:33:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're all over the place with crazy annoying bullshit. They set out to just host images, simply and well. Now they're being overtaken with bullshit.
Kyoj1n ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:30:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure on details exactly but from what I understand they started to do things like make the default link the album link so unless you went out of your way to get the direct link you post would take people to the actual imgur website and not the image.
Its made browsing on mobile and such a lot more frustrating.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Ecocide ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:37:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just add .gif at the end of the URL? That's all I do for jpg's.
TexasWithADollarsign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:43:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try it on mobile. It'll redirect i.imgur.com to m.imgur.com no matter what extension you use.
[deleted] ยท 70 points ยท Posted at 16:28:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Their admins delete images on topics that they don't like. That is why some subreddits use slimgur. They also don't want to be seen as an image hosting service for Reddit like it was created to be.
duckvimes_ ยท -14 points ยท Posted at 16:41:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's honestly bullshit. You can find everything other than child porn on imgur.
[deleted] ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've witnessed first hand images being deleted that were controversial. These weren't illegal, just controversial.
[deleted] ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:53:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Vajazzlercise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was it actually just fat people hate though? I know what you're talking about but I recall the main problem being that r/fph was posting stuff involving the staff of imgur or something.
Th4tFuckinGuy ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:04:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, they reposted an image of imgur staff that was posted by imgur staff themselves. So basically Imgur said "It's okay for us to make this information publicly available but if you use that publicly available information in a way we don't like then fuck you".
Which is their right as a private company, though it does call into question their commitment to free speech and fairness of applied rules.
Vajazzlercise ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:09:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean, that's fair enough IMO, and I'm no defender of "fat rights" or whatever. Reddit and imgur have both long been against bullying or whatever you want to call it, and that seems like a decent example of it.
Th4tFuckinGuy ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:23:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the issue started differently. FPH was noticing that a lot of their posts were being deleted off imgur even though they didn't specifically violate the rules of imgur. Their big complaint against imgur was that it allowed the hosting of all sorts of content that mocked people and insulted people, the most prevalent examples being white people and "neckbeards", but that they were selectively deleting content which made fun of fat people. The argument from FPH was that it's ridiculous to allow the mockery of people for things they cannot change, like having Downs Syndrome, or being White, or Gay, but not to allow mockery of people for things entirely within their control, like their weight. Imgur responded by auto-deleting every image posted to FPH, regardless of whether it was bullying or not. FPH began brigading other subreddits with images of the Imgur staff showing that the staff was itself made of fat people and that they were being extremely hypocritical in their selective enforcement of harassment rules.
So it wasn't that FPH was any worse than even /r/funny or /r/blackpeopletwitter where people routinely post images hosted by Imgur that mock individuals in a way that could be construed as harassment. They were unfairly targeted by the admins of Imgur because the admins of Imgur had a personal issue with mockery of fat people, and FPH responded in the only way they legally could: by shitposting all over reddit to ensure every single person knew that Imgur was run by fat people who could dish it out to minorities and the disabled but couldn't take it themselves.
And, for the record, I am a fat person. I'm not a landwhale by any means, but I'm not wearing a speedo any time soon either. Even though I'm fat I still completely understand the FPH users issue with Imgur and I support it, because fat people like myself CAN be mocked for our lack of self control when it comes to eating, and our lack of discipline when it comes to exercising. If we can't be mocked then who the fuck can?
Vajazzlercise ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, I see, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know that they were deleting stuff beforehand. Imgur... Kind of has the worst culture.
Th4tFuckinGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problem. I'm not support FPH's tactics after the debacle began, I found it pretty childish, but I really really don't support the way Imgur went after them but not other equally offensive topics.
DubTeeDub ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/blackpeopletwitter does not mock people (except the occassional celebrity with the crying Jordan face).
Any posts on that sub that are laughing at the poster, not with them are removed.
Th4tFuckinGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:37:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A good majority of posters on /r/blackpeopletwitter are white and the way they write could be considered offensive, but that's not the point of my post so just skip past that part and read the rest and if you still have an argument then go ahead and make it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Dr_Insomnia ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't want free speech, they want you to recycle the same pop topics, memes and viral sensations to keep you plugged in to keep the servers running and a profit coming in.
Th4tFuckinGuy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:26:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which is why I support the idea of a state-funded social network and news site which operates like reddit but has a legal imperative to remain free from censorship of topics people find offensive, and which would have open-source records to ensure nobody is engaging in malicious censorship.
ki113r116 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Was? Heh
duckvimes_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, harassment was an issue with FPH. Don't harass people and you won't get banned.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:50:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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duckvimes_ ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they don't actually do very much. FPH was many times larger than SRS.
imgur_throw_away52 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:30:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
No, that's honestly a fact. Their moderation is ignorant, biased and inconsistent, we don't even need to bring FPH up but simple distasteful SFW jokes, here's your proof. But I am sure /u/mrgrim can make up some excuse on why Imgur's moderators and staff consider a crude joke as "sexualization of minors". Or hey, how about their mods using mod tools for personal threads?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh wow the arrogance
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice jokes, m8. They removed posts about Radical Islam from the_Donald.
RobotFolkSinger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The original point of imgur was to be a simplified no frills image host that would make it easy to post direct, quick-loading image links to reddit and similar places. Recently they've been increasingly trying to push imgur as a destination for viewing content rather than just the middle man. That means annoying pop ups and a fancier mobile interface that makes it slower to load. It's becoming more and more like the sites it was supposed to replace.
XaeroR35 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:25:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am surprised that anyone is surprised by this. It is amazing Imgur has run as long as it has. I cant image the server and bandwidth cost to run it.
Pascalwb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It still work in reddit apps.
ShickDits ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:44:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constant popups for its features and app on mobile, and the toxicity of its community towards reddit.
imgur_throw_away52 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:27:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Everything if you care about more stuff than hosting. Shitty and biased moderation without any consistency. Community that home to sit thanks to the childish "we like memes lol" marketing that brought a lot of simpletons to the site. Website riddled with shitty UX, etc etc.
Oh, what's that, you only care about hosting? Yeah good luck, that is taking a hike because of the push for the "community" aspect (good luck with that and 140 comment char limit) the housing is so far behind that they've removed their "the simple image sharer" or w/e tagline. Their shitty mobile site that is hard to use because of their push for their unusable app which still lacks basic hosting functionalities. Viewing direct link to image? Haha forget it, we will re-direct you to our bloated shit of a mobile page promoting the equally shitty app and waste time making memes.
They don't even give a shit about your privacy. They were deaf to criticism when it was discovered they've suddenly started showing uploader's name on single images (imagine how many gone wild posters that would screw over?). It took Reddit shitstorm to have Alan suddenly show up and change his opinion now that his golden goose was making a fuzz.
Because Reddit made imgur what it is today, and they know it. But the simple fact is, they no longer really need it, Reddit was pumped and dumped, now that imgur is popular they are cutting all the ties to Reddit. The (source) linking to the actual post on Reddit that made image popular? Forget it, it's removed, Imgur owns your images and will instead add them to their public gallery under your Imgur name, doxing you hardcore. Despite you never agreeing to publicly share it there.
Reddit was used by them to gain popularity and now they no longer give a shit about their powerusers, instead focusing on creating a new 9gag.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:02:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
...Look, I don't like 'em as much as the next guy but let's keep things in perspective here
imgur_throw_away52 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:06:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You know, I kinda am. Currently, imgur is honestly not much better than 9gag other than company behind it being more open and people-friendly. Same inane shit that makes front-page on both sites, same annoying push of their apps, same freeloading off Reddit, same stupidity in comments.
robothelvete ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:41:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As one of the like, 5 people in the world who use Firefox on Android, it simply doesn't work. Images and videos only show on Tuesdays after a full moon after three refreshes, but the "download our app" button always shows up.
JuanDeLasNieves_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For some users it's become pretty slow (not my case) but also it has changed it's mobile experience, it's such a pain to upload images and manage galleries on the app, instead the app tries to force you to participate in their community and browse their memes and reposts, rather than what imgur used to be, an image host
timescrucial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nothing. this is a power grab. reddit will now own all of the content you upload. have fun :)
DaFrustrationIsReal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
All of the above and DUDE CAT MEMES LMAO
xzbobzx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It 404s constantly for a lot of people (including myself). It's literally unusable. 90% of the time, the image I want to see just doesn't come up.
Steamships ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In addition to what everyone else has said, on mobile you get redirected to an imgur page with the image in it rather than the image itself.
It wouldn't be so bad if the images actually loaded for me...
TexasWithADollarsign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:41:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To find out what's wrong with imgur, you need to download the app.
piblicshame ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They sold out to the mighty investor dollars! Now they come with tons of ads along with that stupid GIFV. And their whole community sucks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to the fraternity of /r/IgnorantImgur, dear Draconian brother!
thatchers_pussy_pump ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:54:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, external hosting did take away load from Reddit servers and this will add load. And if there's anything Reddit servers are good at doing it's handling increased load.
newsfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How so?
ShickDits ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Constant popups for its features and app on mobile, and the toxicity of its community towards reddit.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:53:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/IgnorantImgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm pretty happy about this. The people on Imgur get real uppity about a site created for uploading images for Reddit being used to upload images for Reddit.
That said, I hope Imgur doesn't die off. It's still the best site for uploading images.
JuanDeLasNieves_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turned into 9gag 2.0 and their mobile experience is awful
b0jangles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just glad they didn't buy Imgur and then neglect it for a year or so before launching their own product but not supporting all form factors. --posting from Alien Blue iPad
solidfox535 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Used to be the simple image sharer now it's a monster
ryty0591 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Peter!
tabarra ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:52:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They need to make money.
Gordondel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:06:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that I can see the number of views on an image on imgur, this wouldn't be the case on the Reddit uploaded pics though.
FurRealDeal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:24:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/ignorantimgur
AmsterdamNYC ยท 379 points ยท Posted at 16:43:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur mirror
dont_worry_im_here ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:01:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As someone who isn't tech-savvy whatsoever... what does all of this mean? ELI5?
[deleted] ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 17:08:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is a joke. Imgur is what this is trying to phase out because it has become bloated and a direct competitor of Reddit now.
captainAwesomePants ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 17:09:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until now, Reddit only supported posts that were links to other sites or text messages. That means that if you wanted to share an image on Reddit, you'd have to upload it to some other site that let you upload images and then share a link to that site as your Reddit post.
Now Reddit allows users to post images directly, so users can upload images directly to Reddit without having to involve some other website.
This is probably good news for Reddit users, but it's very bad news for the websites whose business was mostly letting users upload images to share on Reddit, notably a site started by a Redditor called "imgur."
I expect that the parent post, an Imgur mirror of this message, is something of a joke because of this.
dont_worry_im_here ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:38:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh gotcha! So when I click an image link, instead of taking me to imgur, I'll remain on the reddit site?
Was having images hosted on imgur an issue for reddit? I would think it saved them a good amount of money not having to host all of those images.
stuffandotherstuff ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 18:47:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur was initially created by a user to be an image-hoster for reddit. It has since gained a life of it's own as a social network and is seen a direct competitor to reddit. I imagine the higher-ups weren't happy with the fact that reddit was giving away page views to their biggest competitor and this is the best way to keep that from happening.
PhreakyByNature ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally I try and avoid anything that isn't i.imgur.com; I don't like going to their site but having just the image link is usually great for me.
I always share the direct link and wish others would too.
FatalDeath ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:37:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/FirstWorldAnarchists this way!
hanexar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:18:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The hero we don't need, but the hero we deserve. Thanks /u/AmsterdamNYC !
kingdeuceoff ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:56:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came here to see if someone posted a mirror to imgur...12 minutes too slow.
jwmosher ยท 269 points ยท Posted at 16:33:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is the snoo wearing a German football kit?
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 260 points ยท Posted at 18:29:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's my snoo, why do you think Bastian didn't play the first half in the game. Someone had to make this post...
KingDuderhino ยท 32 points ยท Posted at 19:09:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But the jersey is confusing. It looks like the jersey from the World Cup in 2014 but it doesn't have the three stars. Also white eagle on black ground reminds me of the old Eintracht Frankfurt logo.
So, you are saying Schweini goes to Frankfurt? Is this the hidden message?
iWearThePantsHere ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 19:30:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it's not that deep fam
JarethKingofGoblins ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:35:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
r/ilerminaty
MyNameCouldntBeAsLon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would be SO happy if that were to heppen. SGE needs all the help they can get.
KingDuderhino ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:40:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You've got Bobic. You don't need help, you need a miracle.
veeree ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Half-Life 3 confirmed.
9w9 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:42:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you, next game Bastian will have his moment again
FehMac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Play of the game
9w9 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:36:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
50% improvement every game, finals here we come
ElliottB1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:40 on June 28, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think /r/overwatch is the subreddit for you guys
rpguig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll take that 1-0 defeat. Come on Turkey...
Gsicht ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Confirmed Schweini.
duckvimes_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nooooooooob
Devilheart ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I have the background image to use as a phone wallpaper? It looks nice.
riported ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:10:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reported.
RoxasHerzloser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:11:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hasn't played in a while give him a break. Wouldn't want him to get injured again just after he recovered.
jwmosher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've got his kit for United arriving today
seven3true ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't appreciate it. Spain is going to win and I will personally curse you out in Spanish as a way of making me feel better about you offending me.
And with that said.... Bye! :)
simmocar ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:54:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Italy is going to win and I will personally curse you out in Italian as a way of making myself feel better for you insulting me.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:57:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Ireland is going to win and I will personally curse you out in Irish as a way of making myself feel better for you insulting me.
anomynoms ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:05:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, Poland is going to win and I w--ah fuck it, never mind :(
onlyFPSplayer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please not, they already won 3 cups in a row before we Germans won the WC.
totipasman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an argentinian, I'm not too happy with snoo wearing that jersey.
KingDuderhino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't you like it?
totipasman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't do this to me.
If I had to guess from your username I don't think you're too happy with that jersey either.
KingDuderhino ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:45:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm happy with that jersey.
hadapurpura ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 00:47:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It could be worse, you could be brazilian.
dalr3th1n ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:15:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't know the kid from The Neverending Story was a professional footballer!
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:04:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about? He's clearly talking about the robot that gets all the POTG in Overwatch.
LagunaBeachSucksDik ยท 58 points ยท Posted at 17:15:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And holding a Cal Rowing oar!
๐๏ธ Amg137 ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 18:09:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am impressed you recognized it!
[deleted] ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 18:56:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Suckonmyfatvagina ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:03:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go purple pls
Mixels ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 19:33:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
derGraf_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:51:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Start wearing purple
Lanzenreighter ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:28:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pain Train.
caffeineninja ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:59:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It speaks a hidden message. Any image related to Cal or Die Mannschaft automatically goes to the front page.
txl498 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:19:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its' nice to see someone recognizing the IRA national champions. Are you a former rower?
el_sausage_taco ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
National Champs, baby!
petercipollone ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:53:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the significance of the Cal oar? Go Bears!
janitory ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:00:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess they wanted him to resemble Bastian Schweinsteiger, but no idea why they made Snoo look like that.
RussianFSB ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it has to be Schweinsteiger. They should have added a little injury under his eye though haha
jwmosher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My Basti kit arrives in the mail today!
McDouchevorhang ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:47:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Schland!
yakoudbz ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:47:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Germans are playing against Northern Ireland at the moment... It must be related.
jwmosher ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:56:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And game end! Top of the group
Meskaline ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:57:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks a bit like Marco Reus. Two thumbs up.
jwmosher ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:59:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But he isn't in the team right now due to injury.
Meskaline ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:01:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still looks like him tho.
Or could be Muller; but Muller's hair is a bit curlier?
Also, what is he holding?
jwmosher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or Kroos or Neuer. There's a lot of blond Germans. Hmmmm
And I have no clue
Meskaline ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Kroos wears his hair different tho; flatter and to the side; so does Neuer, and his uniform is different.
...
I should go back to work.
DIY_FYI ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:07:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, stay and tells us how you could tell if an image depicted Ozil or an albino praying mantis
Meskaline ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, Ozil is NOT an albino praying mantis?
Kiiopp ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like a soccer ball to me!
DrewsephA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And what's he holding in his right hand??
DARIF ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Football
DrewsephA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:59:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jwmosher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DrewsephA ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Snoo's right hand, jesus christ. He's facing us, so his right hand is going to be on the left side of the image.
jwmosher ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:57:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DrewsephA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How the hell is that related to soccer in any way?
jwmosher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:32:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
buckweed_the_African ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:09:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
More importantly, why in the world does he have Ramsey's hairstyle
[deleted] ยท 193 points ยท Posted at 16:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are GIFs converted to WebM/other HTML5 format, or kept in their original .gif format?
madlee ยท 246 points ยท Posted at 16:16:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, gifs are converted to mp4s for playback in the expandos on listings/comment pages.
DrCubed ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 16:19:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we directly upload mp4s?
madlee ยท 61 points ยท Posted at 16:24:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not at the moment, but we want to look into it.
cocobandicoot ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:46:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be awesome and would save a ton of time. I hate having to use some website to convert MP4 to GIF just to upload.
DrCubed ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:26:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks.
donuts42 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:45:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please do this, I don't think anyone wants to look at videos that look like gifs, they want to look at videos that look like videos.
DannoHung ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:04:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Add support for sound if you're going to do this (default to off, of course).
SinisterPixel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:18:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just as a request, I browse and submit to a lot of game related subreddits, one of the biggest ones currently being /r/overwatch for example. Gyfcat is an excellent service for allowing me to submit in MP4, but the issue is the 15 second limit is sometimes a little too harsh, and every MP4 uploading service similar seems to keep the same limit. I'm not saying make them limitless, but if Reddit did dip into the realms of MP4 hosting, I would quite like to see an increased time limit, such as 25 seconds.
E06SP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:43:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My app didn't indicate that you're an admin. When do you plan on fixing this?
madlee ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:51:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's probably because I didn't distinguish that particular comment. Or this one. (or did I?)
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:35:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You should log out or look at these posts from another account. It's pretty clear that you haven't distinguished them as admin posts.
That is your prerogative of course. The way Reddit currently works, users have to click on a redditor's username and check their overview page to see if they're an admin for sure. I think this is alright, for instance if an admin wants to be a "normal redditor" on some subs. Go for it. The other option, having a separate non-admin account, smells faintly of Unidan-ism. Personally I really don't care if you have a separate account for non-work-related use. The only ones who might complain are other Reddit employees, 'cause having an admin Reddit account that ONLY posts about work related topics makes one look rather like a mouthpiece. Choice is better.
PS: thanks whoever is downvoting. If you disagree with me that's cool, but downvoting me makes /u/madlee look poorly and honestly, I like them. They've been nothing but cool today. Remember, the downvote button is not an "i disagree" button. If you have a problem with concerned citizens sticking up for privacy, well, quite frankly you can eat a bag of dicks. I'm not here to bash Reddit. On the contrary, I'm looking out for reddit's reputation in a world that's full of far too many ignorant sheep and crooked spooks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:13:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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E06SP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know for a fact that Reddit Is Fun distinguishes admins from normal users though.
EVOSexyBeast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:29:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please remember to distinguish comments written in full company compacity.
blueredscreen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:56:42 on July 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about h.265?
Buttguy1 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:13:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just convert it to a .gif before uploading it :)
DrCubed ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:27:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So go from 16.78 million possible colours, a framerate of 60, and 1080p which is smaller than a gif, with 256 possible colours* (* Technically you can change palette for each frame but it's not the same.), a framerate of 10-20, and and a resolution below 480p.
That will then be converted back the the modern format, but having went through an extra layer of compression... No thanks.
MrMegeesh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:55:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you missed something there
DrCubed ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Haha, whoops. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
420yoloswagblazeit ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:17:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat. Thanks.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:53:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You made Richard Stallman cry.
daveime ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 00:30:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd question the logic of allowing someone to upload a 100MB GIF, just to convert it on your end to a 2-3MB GIFV (MP4). Why put all that unnecessary load on your incoming bandwidth?
GIF really needs to die, it forces low quality animations with a limited pallette and all the associated compromises that brings - so you'll have people converting MP4 to lower-quality GIF at their end so they can upload to Reddit, just to have you guys convert it back to GIFV which is essentially MP4 anyway?
ununium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GIFs won't die that easily.
This is something that could be addressed by running the GIF2MP4 conversion from the client's machine, and then uploading it as mp4.
I don't know how this could be accomplished today, but back when I was into web development, java was king for this kind of tasks.
SynthD ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:37:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you keep the gif around?
madlee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:43:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep
Theblandyman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:49:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you guys using a separate EC2 instance to do these compressions and conversions? This won't be a task performed on the regular Reddit.com servers will it?
RenaKunisaki ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:30:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are PNGs converted to JPEG or left alone? Are JPEGs recompressed?
Theblandyman ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:47:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow that would be so stupid if they converted png to jpg. What would be the point in that?
Lachiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:02:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of people use the wrong format a jpg can result in much better compression at a minor degradation of quality which is worth the tradeoff.
drjekyll ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:24:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for photos. not for graphics.
this is why this decision should belong to the user, and the file-format should not be converted.
Lachiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:47:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course, it's not entirely difficult to determine if an image is better suited as a png/jpg even if a conversion is performed and compared.
This would be far less intrusive than what has happened with gif being automatically converted to mp4 as plenty of devices suffered by pausing any music you had playing just to preview the converted gif.
If the user made the right choices sure, you're not paying for a service to store your images how you want, they can/should store it any way they like, especially if it saves them and users in terms of storage/bandwidth/quota.
As much as a pain the gif to mp4 was it was a significant improvement.
drjekyll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am not at all talking about gif/mp4-conversion! I absolutely see why to convert video to a desired/more popular/better supported format.
But for images? Seriously, both JPG's and PNG's support on modern devices is more or less perfect! But both for very distinct use cases. No reason to convert one to another.
I really loathe this in facebook image-hosting.
and I guess there won't be "automatic determination which format fits best" in the near future on reddit image hosting
Lachiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not saying you are, but I am.
The hamfisted approach of converting all gif's large and small to mp4's was quite annoying especially when I was on my old phone that would cancel any music being played just so this soundless video could play, personally I'm a fan of gif and would prefer the h264 codec used in a container that is specifically designed to be inlined on the page without any sound, an exact replica of gif with controls and a better codec would have been fantastic.
Luckily the new phone seems to handle it better.
Support isn't the topic either, size is.
Whilst reddit users haven't been too bad about using png's inappropriately from what i've seen, the reason is for when a png is used when a jpeg should have been used, i'm not advocating converting all png's to jpegs, but only those that would benefit from it if the resources are available.
Facebook converts everything to jpg? that's annoying.
Yeah that's the real kicker it's a nice idea if they do it properly but they most likely won't.
JebBartlet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:36:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a size limit on the gif being uploaded before conversion?
madlee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:43:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100mb
Pandalicious ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is there a way to easily modify a gif url so it links directly to the mp4? e.g. with an imgur link I can change the .gif to .gifv before IMing the link to a friend and that way they get a 2mb mp4 that loads instantly instead of a choppy 20mb gif.
kylegetsspam ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:46:38 on December 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never actually see this happening. It's 70 MB GIF after 85 MB GIF. What gives? It makes the browsing experience horrible. Thankfully I don't use reddit on my phone.
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:03 on December 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah same, came here to check this, changing extension to .mp4 or any other popular format seems to be failing for me as well, did they silently scrap this feature?
.../u/madlee?
bahwhateverr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:30:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that lossy?
smiba ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it is
Kensin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is quality lost at all in this conversion? Can the original gif still be accessed?
robheffo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chances are you most likely had an elephant stomp on the quality by converting to a gif in the first place. Turning it back to MP4 will just fix the shitty bandwidth problem
Kensin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:03:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there are some /r/HighQualityGifs out there, but mostly my concern is that in the rare occasion I see something worth saving I want to make sure I can save it in the highest quality available, hopefully avoiding some several times compressed to save bandwidth copy of a copy of a copy.
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:50:16 on December 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happened to this feature? I don't see it anywhere..
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:56:27 on December 14, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gifs are converted to mp4s for playback in the expandos. If you click the title to view the source, you will see the original gif, if you click the expando icon to open the preview, you will see the mp4 version.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe. expandos.
AmericanFromAsia ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, can we upload mp4/other gifv formats or just gif?
madlee ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:19:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently just gif โ we want to look into supporting direct mp4 upload as well though.
protestor ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:23:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just remove the sound of mp4 files (or throw an error if they have sound and only accept soundless stuff).
Do you serve GIFs for old browsers that don't support HTML5 video?
new_account_5009 ยท 193 points ยท Posted at 16:14:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like this will be pretty costly to maintain. With big increases to expenses, what's Reddit's plan to increase revenue correspondingly?
Drunken_Economist ยท 316 points ยท Posted at 16:26:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait I thought we agreed that you were gonna cover the hosting costs. Oh man this is awkward
NowICanUpvoteStuff ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 16:30:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
+1 for username corresponding to post
UnacceptableUse ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:07:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
+1 for also a actually working for reddit
Golden-Death ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 16:19:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Affiliate links is one plan.
roionsteroids ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:25:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how much profit that is actually generating though. You can opt-out in the reddit settings, already existing affiliate links are not overwritten and also amazon links are not affiliated.
therico ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur's bandwidth costs must be 100x reddit's, how do they stay afloat?
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:13:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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humanysta ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:25:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gold?
trisight ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 17:33:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah I'm good, thank you for the offer though.
tabarra ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who am I kidding, will never receive gold.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:31:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, bud.
s_SoNick ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not with that attitude!
ddhboy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:56:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They have ads as well, and sort of like Facebook the can be targeted since Reddit at least knows what communities you like. I don't really know what Reddit's costs are to maintain the site, but prior to this image hosting service they've added, they probably aren't terribly expensive to maintain. Architecturally, its similar to 4Chan, with the exception that it maintains an archive, and those database costs are pretty low in a world with AWS and Azure.
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, Reddit is sitting on a gold mine if they decide to roll out ads without driving users away.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:30:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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zxcymn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure where it is now, but they used to have a daily gold goal counter and it consistently went past 100% every day.
Koiq ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:55:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They still have it on the sidebar, currently sitting at 54%
hbgvyftrdes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:04:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gold, whitelisted ads, and reddit tshirts etc. I would guess that there are probably usage stats which are valuable to people who want to rule the world etc.
TelicAstraeus ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:55:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
they are sitting on a trove of personal user data to sell to marketers and intelligence agencies. that is worth a considerable amount of money.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:35:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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kushangaza ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:20:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't need an email, but it certainly helps by allowing you to post faster even before you have karma. I am willing to bet that most reddit accounts have an email associated with them.
I am also willing to bet that your upvoting and downvoting habbits tell a lot about you. It might be hard to tell which kind of cancer you have, but it should be relatively easy to distuingish for a lot of users how they might vote or whether they prefer cable, netflix or hulu.
shamoni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:46:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And I'm willing to bet that 90% accounts don't link to email. Been here since 09, never felt the need to.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:55:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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TelicAstraeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets/
qtx ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:45:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personal data like what?
Everyone uses nicks, personal information is hardly shared, there are almost no ads people can click.
There isn't much personal data here.
TelicAstraeus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:46:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/05/30/reddit-knows-your-dark-secrets
Sir_Abraham_Nixon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Individual entities can pay to have their content pushed to the top. You can already see this with the sponsored content at the top of the page. Astroturfing is about to become even more ubiquitous.
therico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:17:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit gold subscriptions, reddit ads (although they're not popular), affiliate links (recently added), mining your comments for personal data and selling it to advertisers.
omegian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur content is largely static. It's a transparent http proxy's ideal use case.
therico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:15:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So basically bandwidth is much cheaper than CPU/RAM?
As far as I know, reddit is also very static, most of their users are unauthenticated and those pages are pre-cached and CDNed. Even for authenticated users, all of the subreddit front pages, most hot, most voted etc. are regularly regenerated and cached. But I guess there's no avoiding a fair amount of database load, especially in the comments.
ruizscar ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 18:06:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No official response = you wouldn't like the response
SlipMyFhit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:08:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing Saudi money. Which is why reddit is so squeamish about anyone mentioning [redacted] terrorism.
nathannapalm ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:08:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also, i'm wondering how will this affect imgurs revenue?
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:19:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I predict it will dip, almost certainly.
Stoppels ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happy cakeday!
wkoorts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:37:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They're anticipating the feature will pay for itself. There's just no way any business would lay out that kind of cash without expecting a return on investment.
With any online app like Reddit, the number one goal is to drive traffic up. Very simply, that leads to more ad revenue. That means when a new feature is introduced it should in some way cause that to happen. If we look at image hosting, that could happen in a few ways:
At face value, making it easier to use Reddit by introducing image uploads means people will be more likely to submit content. More content means more reasons to keep coming back to Reddit.
A more subtle effect could be that they feel they've lost too many users to imgur. With imgur having its own app nowadays with commenting, voting etc. I'd be willing to bet Reddit feels concerned that people are going directly there and bypassing Reddit entirely. Anecdotally, I have a friend who has done exactly this since a few months ago.
highlord_fox ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:49:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hilariously, I would troll imgur for ages before I realized reddit existed.
WhatredditorsLack ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bigger issue is that imgur is basically a competitor to reddit at this point, and they want to stop driving traffic to a competitor.
mrbooze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:44:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
S3 is a lot cheaper than you might think, especially if they consider this low-importance enough to only pay for a reduced-redundancy bucket (or whatever the current AWS equivalent is).
I'm sure it will still be a decent chunk of money at reddit scale, but probably a very tiny fraction of their overall hosting costs.
freeall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure there's cost involved, but as long as you don't do video it won't be an extreme cost.
Tananar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:52:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Storing files on AWS is cheap. The first terabyte of storage is $30 per month, and it just gets cheaper from there. It looks like they use CloudFlare for CDN, so that would make the bandwidth cost pretty cheap too.
Jakeable ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:07:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They plan on hosting videos apparently.
ddhboy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Video hosting's an ugly game. Either you pay an arm and a leg for a service to transcode the videos for you (lots of people use Brightcove, which sucks), or you have to make your own transcoder, which if you don't want to get sued, you have to pay for encoder licenses.
snakespm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Also with the amount of reposts reddit has, I wouldn't be surprised if they only store an individual picture once, and then just have multiple links to the same image.
dace55 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:56:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this what's it like to be in upper management?
[deleted] ยท 113 points ยท Posted at 16:45:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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aldonius ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:22:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe that's because it's a reddit-native expando, not an RES one. Should be fixed in the next RES release.
mechakreidler ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like something we'll have to wait for the RES devs to address.
hce692 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:11:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been so infuriated the last few days with photos acting like videos and not turning purple. Drove me absolutely insane. Now I know why it was happening & glad I'm not the only one
Niyeaux ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's doing that to me too. Also Chrome with RES.
Toppi_The_Topic ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its working fine on Firefox with RES.
Edit: Open source forever!
KyfeHeartsword ยท 135 points ยท Posted at 16:18:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does Reddit have the bandwidth capability for this when it barely has it for the normal text demand from its users? I don't want to see the Reddit unable to connect message more than the usual 3 or 4 times a day.
unkz ยท 43 points ยท Posted at 16:20:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would imagine that static image data would be much easier to serve across a CDN than dynamic content. Bandwidth isn't the issue.
willworth ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:28:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd love an ELI5 please. (The why, not the what of what you've said.)
unkz ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 17:52:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are two key elements here, the work required to do the task and the parallelism of the task.
First, the work involved in doing it once. Basically, a static image is simple to take from storage to network -- you can basically just copy the bytes to the network with no processing.
Contrast that with the work involved in displaying a threaded message page like reddit. You have to figure out what subreddit we are looking at, what is ranking of the comments at each level of the comment tree, whether the user who is viewing the page has voted on each comment, current vote counts, the text from each comment, etc.
The other aspect is caching. Every time you load a text page on reddit, every user's view of the same page is different and every refresh of the page may be different because people may have changed their vote counts, advertising rotation, there might be new messages in your inbox, etc.
An image or video on the other hand is the same no matter who is viewing it or how many times it has been viewed. This means it can be farmed out to a content distribution network (CDN), and any computer in that network can serve that content without having to go back to the central reddit database.
lyspr ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:24:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's sad that it's gotten this point of "I want a massive website that millions of people use to only crash a couple times per day."
Where is all this money going and why is it even possible to see that message still?
MillenniumFalc0n ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 17:12:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because reddit is held together with tape and prayer. Bandwith and storage aren't typically the issues that cause reddit to break.
hbk1966 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:09:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is like a car from a MadMax film. It's beautiful, when it works.
CodexAcc ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:59:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't remember the last time Google went down.
lyspr ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has that ever even happened? And they're running an operation astronomically more demanding than Reddit, so it really makes no sense that I get "can't connect to Reddit right now" half a dozen times every day.
[deleted] ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 18:08:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, it's happened and it was absolutely catastrophic on the entire infrastructure of the rest of the internet.
I was working in tech support for T-Mobile USA at the time, basically when customers had a problem with their service they could call the technical support number and be connected to me. It was a pretty average day in the morning, but around 2pm we got hit with the biggest network outage in the history of the company. Data services were down in pretty much the entire country, and our phone lines were completed jammed. We had hundreds and thousands of people in the queue waiting to complain about their internet being down. Eventually we had to shut down our incoming phone lines with an automated message that the network was down nationwide because there was no way we could handle the thousands of customers in the queue.
We found out later that there had been a Google outage (I can't remember if it was all of their services, but I remember for sure that gmail and search were hit) for about 15 minutes. During that time no one was able to access Google, and when Google's services did finally come back up, all the people hitting our network all at once was enough to knock out data services across nearly the entire country.
It goes to show how vital Google is to the rest of the internet at large, and how well-oiled a machine they usually are.
1PsOxoNY0Qyi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 23:23:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Back in the day AOL ran what was the biggest web cache on the entire Internet. The 35 million users of AOL users would get all of their content through this cache (by force).
Because of this, websites were not seeing how much traffic they were actually receiving. One day there was a failure that caused AOL to disable it's caching, no big deal though right? just a hit on their bandwidth. Turns out this caused dozens of websites to fall down because they became inundated with traffic they had no idea was never reaching them, and it wasn't until the AOL web cache was back on-line before the sites could recover.
u38cg2 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:20:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once or twice a year it goes down for like fifteen minutes. You never hear about it because the matrix gets adjusted once they fix it.
mrbuttsavage ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:27:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google hires world class engineers. reddit doesn't pay well enough or have the reputation to attract them. Also, reddit doesn't allow salary negotiations, which certainly isn't going to bring in any top talent in the valley.
alphanovember ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:14:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google also has several orders of magnitude more revenue than reddit.
SilentJac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Michael Jackson died, Google caught on fire
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:17:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you specifically mean google search? I think that's pretty rare indeed. But gmail, apps, etc. aren't 100% at all
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:14:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Google has thousands of SREs; reddit has, like, two.
East902 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:03:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I rarely see Reddit crashes anymore - is it still a common occurrence?
hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think I've have seen one in a few weeks.
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hbk1966 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my experience it crashes less in summers. I figure the load is spread out more evenly throughout the day with people being out of school.
thatchers_pussy_pump ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The message can be seen because it is likely a static page served from the entry point into Reddit's network. It never makes it to another server for the request to time out.
ww_crimson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe a lot of the high load issues we see from "normal text" are due to insanely large threads with heavily nested comments that get refreshed thousands of times per second. This typically happens during major sporting events, etc. Could be totally wrong, but I recall reading something like that a few months back in one of these announcement posts.
gctaylor ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:37:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a lot more complicated than that. Bandwidth isn't the issue.
Theblandyman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:45:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can take a stab at this and hopefully provide a more true answer than the other comments.
Basically, none of these images are actually being hosted or access on the Reddit servers that you are thinking of. Instead, Reddit is using Amazon's Web Services (AWS) which provides them a virtual server with cloud storage, called S3. S3 is really really neat because it automatically grows as more and more data is added to the service, and automatically switches to faster servers with more available bandwidth if demand becomes high. Even though these images and the platform is hosted on AWS, Reddit makes it look like they are hosting them by masking the S3 url behind a reddit.com url.
This is just about the best way for that they could have implemented a service like this. I am a huge proponent for AWS and use it every single day at work, as well as on my personal projects. The fact that they are using AWS for this could even signal plans to eventually host the entire site on AWS, which would be amazing.
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:17:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Those things are entirely different at a technical level; if you wanted to look at car analogies, it'd be like asking "why did you put a bigger stereo system in? The engine already stalls every now and then."
Bandwidth is not a problem for reddit. Generating very computationally expensive pages is, but those images are already generated.
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 648 points ยท Posted at 16:24:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well, I'd like to give some feedback.
What's up with the color fidelity and compression?
From this submission I made about a photo I took in Japan: the original, and the compressed rehost used for the thumbnail. Notice the way dialed down yellow, for instance.
By the way, I never permitted that rehost when submitting a flickr image to /r/pics. I'm not annoyed that it was rehosted, I'd just like there to be a heads up when that happens. And I'd prefer for the color fidelity to be at least somewhat more similar.
Beyond that, thanks for the image hosting service. It's neat to see that the hosting will be done at reddit instead of the typical imgur. Their pushing the imgur app to mobile users has been quite annoying.
edit: for those interested: here's the full size, uncompressed image (direct link) - Flickr does a great job of hosting images at full resolution but can be a bit annoying to navigate.
MiamiZ ยท 471 points ยท Posted at 18:37:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for the feedback! I just pushed a change to keep the color profile so that the colors remain beautiful.
porthos3 ยท 119 points ยท Posted at 20:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not enough acknowledgment of how seriously impressive that turnaround time was. Figuring out a bug, fixing it, testing it, and pushing a change live to production for a customer in two hours is seriously impressive.
I really appreciate you guys doing such a great job listening and responding to the community. A huge improvement over previous years.
hbk1966 ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 21:04:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems someone knew exactly what the problem was.
Zalack ยท 29 points ยท Posted at 21:27:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For stuff like this sometimes it just comes down to someone pointing it out. This wasn't a bug so much as feature request. Meaning they knew exactly what to change once the request was made, probably swapping out what library was being used for the color profiles.
Bugs take so long because oftentimes you have to figure out where you even need to start
MiamiZ ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 23:12:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup that's right. u/XplodingForce's comment made it really easy to figure out what needed to be changed (don't strip color profile) and it was just a quick fix with PIL after I looked it up.
porthos3 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:37:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even if they knew exactly what was wrong, developing and deploying a fix for it so quickly is still very impressive.
Some of the companies I have worked with, it would take at least a full day to be able to get such a feature out into production even if it were a priority.
MattPH1218 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:29:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pretty cool improvement, pretty cool feature overall. Reddit got it right... for once :)
MiamiZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:36:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks :) I really love reddit and the ability to make things even just a little bit better for users.
porthos3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:40:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not a problem. :)
I'd ask if you guys are hiring, but I just recently found a job. Didn't even think to apply here for some reason.
MiamiZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Congrats on the new job! We are hiring!
porthos3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll have to keep that in mind for the future. :) Is there any possibility for developers to work remotely from somewhere other than CA?
MiamiZ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think we're trying to have everyone in-house. There have been a couple of exceptions in the past for employees outside the US, though.
porthos3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense. Thanks for the info!
alficles ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:03:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wonderful! Impressive turnaround. :D
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 19:25:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice, thank you!
pirateo40 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 04:52:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks to me like that programmer had some good upbringing, probably by a nerd.
MiamiZ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:11:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Raised by the best nerd ever :)
pirateo40 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 05:16:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
๏ผ๏ฟฃ๏ฝ๏ฟฃ๏ผ
mrdaojones ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:11:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this your picture? It's a nice picture. :)
Also I have noticed you have been a redditor for 4 years and 20 days today. Just saying.
MiamiZ ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:15:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, it belongs to u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT and I agree it's beautiful :)
Haha nice I didn't know that!
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 23:02:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks again. Really impressed how quick you guys resolved this!
MiamiZ ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 23:10:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problem! It was an easy change :)
thegr81isbak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you do a blog post about reddits continuous deployment model? I'd be very interested/so would a lot others.
xiongchiamiov ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 05:11:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step 3 is optional.
MiamiZ ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 05:27:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe that's true indeed :)
u/thegr81isback, you can check out https://github.com/reddit/rollingpin which is the tool we use to deploy the code. Is there anything in particular you had questions about? I'm not sure if there's anything terribly interesting for me to say about it
espressoforall ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn impressive turnaround time. I may be cynical about the motivations, but uh, I can be convinced it's worth it for the added integration, speed and responsiveness. Cheers!
Tuxmascot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we expect the image hosting code to be open source?
MiamiZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup it should be open sourced shortly
Tuxmascot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fantastic, thanks!
umbrae ยท 448 points ยท Posted at 16:36:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, I haven't seen that sort of reduction in quality before. This is an image preview though, not an upload, so it is a different system. I'd be curious if you see this loss in quality if you made a direct upload to reddit. It may be something to do with a high quality jpeg not being expected on resize and losing some jpeg-specific data.
We'll definitely take a look at that though, thanks for letting us know.
XplodingForce ยท 402 points ยท Posted at 17:08:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
As a pointer: this probably has nothing to do with compression. The original image has an Adobe RGB color space, which the reddit image host strips. By stripping the profile, the browser will interpret the image as sRGB, which causes it to look undersaturated, since the same value in Adobe RGB corresponds to a much more saturated color.
There are two solutions to this problem:
graaahh ยท 145 points ยท Posted at 17:33:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what all this is about, but I just want to say that one of my favorite things about reddit is and always has been that there's people like you all over the place on this site offering expert advice to the most random things like this. Like, it's just really cool to me that someone can have a weird little problem like this and somewhere out there is a person who immediately knows what the computers behind the scenes did wrong and how to fix it.
XplodingForce ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 18:20:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, that's really nice of you to say!
Pteraspidomorphi ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:49:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It has to do with how the colors stored in the picture (as numbers) are displayed by your monitor. There is no absolute comparison standard for what exactly a specific color should be. OP's image contained a hint telling the renderer to display it in a certain way. That hint was stripped by reddit together with other metadata, because that metadata may contain personally identifiable information and coordinates. But reddit did not actually convert the image when removing the hint, so all of a sudden the values stored in the image are mismatched with the "intended" coloration.
sorenant ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:10:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So the ELI5 would be that the OP's image hint-hint-wink-winked to Reddit but Reddit is too socially awkward and missed it?
Tgguufthfuwrf ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:08:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ops image hint hint wink winked to reddit but reddit put its fingers in its ears and said "tralalala, I'm not listening to what you're saying for fear of compromising personal data such as gps location of & time when the photo was taken"
niveusluxlucis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:00:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The International Color Consortium have produced ISO standards that do exactly this. It may seem arbitrary, but you can definite colours to a particular wavelength and then measure error and correct your system to reproduce this.
zxcsd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
regarding 2. if i understood you correctly, this is a separate issue and this issue existed since reddit started hosting their own thumbnails, and not using imgur thumbnails, correct?
i don't know when that was, i'm guessing in the last year?
XplodingForce ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, 1 and 2 are both different solutions to the same problem. If you have an image with a different color space than your monitor, modern browsers will do the conversion for you. 1 retains the color profile to let your browser handle the conversion, while solution 2 is to just convert the image to sRGB, which is the color space most displays use.
I don't know for how long reddit has hosted their own thumbnails, but I guess the issue has existed since they started doing that for the thumbnails. Whether the issue currently only exists for the thumbnail version of reddit or all images that are uploaded using the service I don't know, I did not test it myself.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:57:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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XplodingForce ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:04:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think all major browsers on desktop support color profiles out-of-the box nowadays. On mobile it still does not work correctly, but I guess it'll get there in a few years, just like desktops did. You are absolutely right that if you want to be sure you're photo looks the same everywhere, sRGB is the way to go. However, whether an image upload service should convert for you is a different question. I think if you upload a photo with another color profile, the service should just retain that, however it's a complicated question.
elsjpq ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:32:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's no longer true. All modern browsers are aware of color profiles.
LiquidRitz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:31:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I appreciate comments like this.
Thanks.
loki_racer ยท 94 points ยท Posted at 16:40:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why no response to this? Flickr maintains copyrights of the photo owner. I don't think reddit can legal rehost it without breaking copyright laws. Especially if EXIF data is stripped as you say.
Georgy_K_Zhukov ยท 71 points ยท Posted at 16:49:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I understand right, this is the hosting for the thumbnail image, right? I think that might be covered by Fair Use in the same vein that image search engines are protected, see Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.:
That "thumbnail" is pretty big though, so... maybe not:
Seems to be vague on that count, so like I said, only might be covered. But point is that rehosting in of itself wouldn't automatically be breaking the law.
vikinick ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:01:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
user0x29a ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:47:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as it is user generated content you can always fill a dmca claim. nothing new to say for reddit.
Poppy_Tears ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:32:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thumbnails have always been hosted by reddit, that's why fappening links had to be removed.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Flickr lets you set your own Creative Commons license. Who knows, maybe OP set his to share.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:29:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's irrelevant. I am positive that reddit's preview generation is agnostic towards license on Flickr. Plus, it's not like preview generation is going to abide by any specific CC terms like BY, SA, NC, ND, etc.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:01:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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loki_racer ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:30:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which doesn't in the least address if someone that doesn't own the photo, posts a link to it on reddit, and reddit takes and rehosts the photo regardless of what copyright was applied to the photo on the source site (i.e. flickr).
Drunken_Economist ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:32:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's actually covered directly underneath the license grant:
If you ever see IP you own on reddit that you did not grant license for, you can file a DMCA with us.
loki_racer ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:34:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
doesn't address my statement. Other users, other than the copyright holder, can submit content to reddit (possibly, I'm not a lawyer). Reddit assumes the submitter is providing reddit with the right to rehost, except your user agreement doesn't state that.
How? imgur makes it extremely easy. I submit a simple form to them and within a few minutes, my copyrighted material is removed. I tried to sort out how to do this right reddit and couldn't find it.
http://imgur.com/removalrequest - super simple.
MarcusOrlyius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:01:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me about 10 seconds to figure out and half of time was spent scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
"Need to file a DMCA takedown request? Please email dmca@reddit.com with a link to the content on reddit and all pertinent information."
FurbyFubar ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I didn't see him asking for legal advice so much as an explanation why reddit thinks they have the right to rehost an image from flickr without notice just because you submit the link to reddit.
Not everyone has as a first reflex to call their lawyer before giving the other side a chance to explain themselves or change their behavior.
Drunken_Economist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In that case, he should make sure to read the User Agreement before participating. It's pretty accessibly-written, and not too long. I actually really encourage all users to give it a once-over. In this case, the specific part is titlte "your content":
Basically, it's a clause that allows us to actually serve the content (comments you make, images you post, etc) to other users without having to reach out to the submitter to get a license for each user.
FurbyFubar ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:37:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So are you saying I can't link to another person's image on Flickr, that is, an image I don't hold the copyright for, without breaking the User Agreement because Reddit somehow thinks that a link is content?
Because this is not what what's written about links in the User Agreement implies unless I'm reading something wrong.
loki_racer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:38:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read it more like: reddit reserves the right to rehost content, regardless of copyrights that apply to the content.
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:43:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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FurbyFubar ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:51:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for assuming I did not read your link while ignoring the paragraph in it I mentioned in my post, that is the one about links:
My point here is that uploading the URL to an image is NOT the same thing as uploading the bits of the image itself. I can legally link to an image I do not hold the rights to, and even legally hotlink it (even though this is a dick move). But that does not give me the right to make copies of it. That is a different thing.
TL;DR URL of an image โ The image itself
loki_racer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:19:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exactly this. I'm sure reddit isn't trying to be nefarious, but pretending that they protected from copyright laws because of their user agreement is silly.
FurbyFubar ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:29:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, to be fair since the reddit mods/admins are not the ones making that argument, so I would give them a bit to respond and or change their ways before bringing out the pitchforks.
As /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov pointed out in a response to you above: Thumbnails could be seen as protected under fair use, though those reddit hosted images do seem very big for thumbnails if you ask me...
loki_racer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Drunken_Economist is a reddit admin/employee as far as I know.
Ya, IANAL, and /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov an interesting point.
MarcusOrlyius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:18:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea what point you're trying to make.
If you provide a link to a site, reddit is not responsible for anything on that site. If you upload an image to reddit, reddit is still not responsible for any potential copyright infringement - you are.
FurbyFubar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I provide a link to site I have not committed any copyright infringements. If Reddit then follows that link, downloads an image there and re-hosts it on reddit's servers, reddit has (likely) committed a copyright infringements.
This has been tested in courts many times over the world: Giving out an URL should not be copyright infringement since you are in fact not copying any protected data by posting a link. Wiki link to the legality of linking.
Imagine if sharing a link with illegal stuff was made illegal from a copyright aspect. If you posted a link to my server, I could change what the response to that URL was from the server to an image I hold the copyright for and then try to go after you.
MarcusOrlyius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:20:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit doesn't do that though.
mathemagicat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:55:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes it does, which is the entire point of this conversation. In order to generate thumbnails, Reddit automatically downloads user-linked images and rehosts them.
MarcusOrlyius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it? Or does it simply download the images, generate thumbnails, delete the original images then host the thumbnails? Why on earth would it waste a load of storage space storing the original images?
Hosting thumbnails is not the same thing as hosting the original images and as other people have pointed out, thumbnails are not considered copyright infringement and are fair use.
mathemagicat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:06:27 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
At the top of this thread, in the post that spawned this whole discussion, /u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT linked the full-size compressed copy of their image, which had been automatically re-hosted on Reddit servers for thumbnail-serving purposes. The existence of that image is what prompted their question in the first place.
So yes, it does.
Why? I have no idea.
Hakul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:04:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The point is that reddit is re-hosting the content of links.
MarcusOrlyius ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:54:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is isn't though.
TelicAstraeus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what does reddit intend to do about the rampant violation of this clause of the user agreement that has been going on for years?
loki_racer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:07:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They'll let you send them a snail mail letter that they'll promptly ignore.
loki_racer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:50:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except that it's reddit that is causing the copyright violation. If I submit a link to a photo, I don't assume that content will be taken off the source (say flickr) and rehosted on reddit.
In fact, the user agreement that you keep linking to doesn't address that situation at all. Everyone has a right to share a url (DCMA protects this). reddit DOES NOT have the right to assume that content can be taken off the source site and rehosted.
Show me where in your user agreement that it says that by submitting a url, I agree that I own the copyright and provide reddit the appropriate rights to rehost the content located at that url.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:54:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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loki_racer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The right to submit a url is protected under DCMA. Your user agreement does not allow reddit to rehost content located at submitted urls.
Your user agreement requires me to send you a freaking snail mail letter. 1996 called, they want their processes back.
PirateNinjaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:39:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Making a thumbnail isn't rehosting, it's fair use.
loki_racer ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 21:03:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's fair use under certain conditions.
Look at /u/I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT's thread. The image displayed by reddit is the i.redditmedia.com image. It's not significantly smaller than the original and it's designed not to be a thumbnail, but the actual content of the the thread.
Reddit didn't take the flickr url and create a thumbnail for users browsing lists of threads. Reddit took the flickr source, rehosted it, in an attempt to keep users on reddit.
PirateNinjaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would still consider that a fair use thumbail since it is a .4 megapixel image that appears on the comments page and when I click on it it loads the original URL.
loki_racer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:09:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well hey, I guess since you're alright with it, we all should be.
mathemagicat ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 06:59:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then why did you insert yourself into the conversation and start making condescending "read the User Agreement" comments?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:39:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mathemagicat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:09:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing is, though, that you didn't actually answer the user's question. You answered the wrong question, and you answered it like a condescending prick, and then you kept insisting that you were right through multiple rounds of people trying to tell you that you didn't even understand the question.
And then when someone finally got you to understand what the question actually was, you essentially replied "don't ask me!"
They didn't ask you.
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:42:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yeah, I can see it was used automatically for the image preview feature, which is why I assumed most of the compression was simply intentional to provide a small preview image. It's a bummer it compresses so heavily, though, as, for instance, the Reddit Enhancement Suite auto-previewing makes it look worse than it should be!
Thanks for looking into it!
Regarding the second part of my feedback... It'd be great if there was some sort of warning there would be a compressed rehost for the preview too, just to let photographers know, regarding their rights to the image and that preview. Technically, Flickr doesn't allow that to be done, especially when someone posts an image that isn't theirs but is hosted at Flickr.
OCELOT525 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Looks like the embedded ICC profiles are gone in the thumbnail.
Probably caused by the image rescaling library that Reddit uses. I had a similar problem once when I used a Java lib to rescale pictures of company logos.
EDIT: yep, the AdobeRGB color profile is removed in the thumbnail
dodgy-stats ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Flickr image contains an embedded color profile (Adobe RGB 1998) which is being removed by ImageMagick's -strip option without either adding the color profile back in or correctly converting the image into the default sRGB colorspace.
kritzikratzi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the color change is not a loss in quality, the converter ignores the embedded color profile and this results in the dramatic color changes.
you can easily test this by opening the flickr image in photoshop. choose "discard embedded profile" when opening and you get an image very similar to the one from redditmedia.com (minus the compression artifacts of course)
uniptf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just breezed right past the part about
Woofcat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#p_18
So he did allow them to rehost his image.
Edit: Also Thumbnailing is fair use in America.
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:40:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like it's removing the images color profile. Your Flickr image has Adobe RGB but the Reddit Media image does not.
worm929 ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:30:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh wow, that's a HUGE downgrade in image size and quality.
what happens if you upload it to imgur?
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 16:34:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I imagine the downgrade happened because it was an automatic process to generate a thumbnail image.
Rehosting to imgur was quite lossless on the 1356x2048 sized image. Of course, the fidelity is much higher on Flickr, which keeps the full size clean too. Imgur's been known to resize big panoramas.
JapanPopShow ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:49:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should we try "middle-out" compression?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy fucks
Drunken_Economist ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:48:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a reddit image uplaod though, that's the thumbnail/preview thing . . .
dodgy-stats ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:39:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The Flickr image contains an embedded color profile which is being removed by Reddit's metadata stripping function. They should change their thumbnail creation function to correctly preserve the color profile.
If you want consistent colors on the web I would recommend setting photoshop's (or the tool of your choice) color space to sRGB before exporting the image as a JPEG.
Denroll ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a badass pic. Even on my craptastic work monitor (4:3 master aspect ratio!) I can clearly see the difference.
Wodashit ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Highjack, That's a nice picture, love the composition and the light fellow pentaxian!
BTW it lists the 28mm 2.8 is it the A or the F, because it list 1.7 as aperture so I am slightly confused? (I always loved the 28 A).
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! Pentaxian brofist :)
Actually, Flickr seems to mess up the EXIF a bit with the setup I used there. That's actually shot using a Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX DG Aspherical Macro.
Wodashit ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:10:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see, maybe applying the profile correction in lightroom does mess up the exifs too?
Nice glass BTW, was thinking about it, I think this shot is really close of convincing me since if I am not mistaken it can be used in FF and the K-1 is really eying me from across the room, though my wallet is judging me ...
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Curiously enough, Photoshop Camera RAW reads the image EXIF from the RAW file as f/1.7 too. Probably related to the camera registering the wrong aperture?
I definitely think it's a great lens, especially for its price (almost half of the similar Sigma Art 35mm f/1.4 DG) and for the full frame compatibility. Lots of great pics in the Flickr group for it too. Personally I'll probably be getting a Sigma Art 18-35 f/1.8 soon, but I see it's not a full frame lens! Would love a K-1 too but I'm happy with my K-5 IIs.
patssle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you again. :)
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hehe, always good to see you around :)
oonniioonn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a common problem with re-compressed images if the original colour profile is removed and the image isn't adjusted for it.
rlbond86 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:10:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Higashiyama ward! Nice pic.
laosimerah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:52:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Asking exactly the question I was going to ask. Compression on imgur was terrible, it forced me to use Flickr for everything if I wanted any semblance of detail left when I uploaded it.
dylmye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:33:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't know if this helps you but I'm pretty sure they use imgix for processing
ajsayshello- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gotta get those Pied Piper guys involved.
RedditKarmaFarmer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope you get lots of gold for this comment. Well done.
moderndukes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:31:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Obviously Reddit hasn't mastered middle-out compression yet like Pied Piper...
[deleted] ยท 62 points ยท Posted at 16:27:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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deleted_away ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:00:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This needs to be further up. Until that happens I'm not looking forward to people using this feature more. Hopefully RES will get around to that soon.
stronglikedan ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:48:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope RES is updated soon, so that the link turns purple when I expand the image. Resizing too, but purple links are more important to me, personally. Nothing like viewing the same images three and four times a day. ;-)
tojoso ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:59:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, I hate that I can't re-size with RES. Especially on any image that has small text which is unreadable at normal size.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:00:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mgr86 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:13:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
same! this is terrible news. I also hate these embedded imgur galleries too.
placebo_button ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to see someone mention this. Definitely a pain, hopefully they fix it.
TheAnimus ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:24:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How will copyrighted images be handled?
cl191 ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:52:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And to expand on that question, I am a regular OC uploader to the SFW porn network subs (/r/earthporn ...etc). What are the "fine prints"? Like am I giving up my rights in any form?
oldschoolred ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 17:00:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You still retain ownership. Uploaded images are covered by the same policy as comments and posts. Hereโs the relevant section of our user agreement
oldschoolred ยท 20 points ยท Posted at 16:59:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can report it by PMing /r/reddit.com or sending an e-mail to contact@reddit.com so we may review and remove it if necessary.
imbowen ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:33:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If an image is removed is the attached post now going to be removed also?
Realtrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's an interesting question ( that I'm not sure they've thought of yet).
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:34:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm guessing the answer is "no", but the link from the original post would also be broken.
Thadoor ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you mean "we may", that's incredible broad and provides no certainty if it will indeed be reviewed or not?
Unless you mean the may in relation to the removal of an image/post and not the review of said image/post as this is always done upon an email request?
Realtrain ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 20:37:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think they mean it in the sense of allowing them to do it.
ben7amin ยท 160 points ยท Posted at 16:12:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will NSFW be expanded into?...
[deleted] ยท 73 points ยท Posted at 16:17:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When Reddit decides "Yeah, we've got enough money and a big enough legal team and plenty of extra manpower to police this."
umbrae ยท 197 points ยท Posted at 16:23:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW support is coming soon, we're just rolling out slowly for capacity/bandwidth management purposes and the SFW/NSFW split was a good way to segment our traffic.
P-01S ยท 161 points ยท Posted at 16:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we expect some amusing statistics and charts about nsfw vs sfw image traffic?
umbrae ยท 130 points ยท Posted at 16:29:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe in /r/redditTraffic!
hrtattx ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 16:26:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what is the SFW/NSFW traffic split, out of curiosity?
itsfoine ยท 30 points ยท Posted at 17:19:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With the new /r/all algorithm, I've been introduced to a lot more porn and a lot more varieties of it.
Reddit loves porn, the split is 81% NSFW 19% Repost and 73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:01:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meanwhile imgur is making their "mature content" definitions even stricter than before.
Because naked women are bad.
itsfoine ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:08:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
เผผ ใค โ_โ เผฝใค#freethenipple
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:06:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's such a strawman argument. They are establishing themselves as their own separate "silly" and "open" community nowadays. A SFW one which will attract a number of advertisers and already has. Nothing about tits being a moral corruption on society. That said, nobody needs to see tits every other image. It's very annoying (not to mention the comments are as sad as a porn comment section's). And nobody uses the damn tags correctly either, which makes filters useless.
flounder19 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 00:11:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Porn comments are great for sourcing and pornstar names at least
KDLGates ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This statistic is itself wrong.
Daniiiiii ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 16:32:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 to 99
IHaveLargeBalls ยท 28 points ยท Posted at 16:31:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
80% NSFW
hrtattx ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:38:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
well if anyone would know, it would be /u/IHaveLargeBalls
IHaveLargeBalls ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:48:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're damn right. Gotta keep these puppies drained.
Elementium ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:42:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ha be prepared for some serious moderation needs. It's gotta be a little different when you're actually hosting the content in terms of liability and shizz.
You guys WILL be the site that hosts subs about dead children and watching people die.
roionsteroids ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:01:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit already hosts thumbnails of third party site images.
For example
https://i.redditmedia.com/o0AvF7IHHC1nWPVvk0mQxDljIHlrkFodYHpsP6rkJss.jpg?w=757&s=aa2218faf6ec6728e3ba49795055e848
from
https://www.reddit.com/r/DrugStashes/comments/4opq2t/you_can_keep_your_84_pure_brown_sugar_molly_bro/
Even if the imgur image would be deleted, the reddit thumbnail is not.
So I don't think that'll change anything, legally speaking.
Rigolachs ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In before they block all self-hosted NSFW content for Germany/German IPs similar to how they block watchpeopledie. In theory, all hardcore pornographic content is considered harmful to young persons per se just like that sub I mentioned which the BPjM indexed...
bsmith0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are the images hosted on a different set of servers vs Reddit.com?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:30:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are your thoughts on this killing imgur?
samprog ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:20:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I expand into NSFW every evening
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:25:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure you do!
Mendokusai137 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:42:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's more fun when its at work.
samprog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not safe though
AmericanFromAsia ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:15:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
( อกยฐ อส อกยฐ)
IHaveLargeBalls ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This guy fucks.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:22:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't be surprised if the answer is "never". It might be convenient to not host that yourself when doing business.
dick-pickles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
once imgur is full of porn
brian21 ยท 140 points ยท Posted at 16:17:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! Imgur has become the same bloated hosting site that /u/MrGrim was trying to replace.
essidus ยท 98 points ยท Posted at 16:29:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Naw. I remember when photobucket and imageshack were basically the only choices. Painfully slow load times, terrible uptime, hideous GUI. Imgur, for all of its current flaws, is still markedly better as a service than anything at the time. That said, imgur has also outgrown reddit, and has its own userbase that often don't overlap with reddit users in the venn diagram. They made the right business choice to split off from their roots, but they also have to accept that they'll lose reddit traffic because of that.
I'm not entirely thrilled with reddit self-hosting considering the ongoing uptime issues it has, but I'd rather it stay in-house than have to start using that stupid redpill alt service slimgur.
FunkyHats ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:57:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's just going to be fun to see what happens with the imgur community once 99% of their content is gone because reddit won't use it anymore.
East902 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:05:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think that'll happen for a while yet - imgur is still by far the most popular host here, even with reddituploads
flounder19 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:54:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has content creators and dedicated posters like reddit. I'm sure some accounts will seize the opportunity topost reddit-hosted photos to imgur for whatever their equivalent of karma is.
But I've seen way too many green upvote gifs on reddit to believe that Imgur can't live on its own.
JuanDeLasNieves_ ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:20:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was like this: photobucket -> imageshack -> tinypic -> imgur
Seem like image hosts have a life cycle and you can tell it is going to shit when you click a direct link and it re-directs you to view the image in their website, then comes the bloating ... Imgur is in its last stages.
Q1189998819991197253 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 18:37:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Slimgur is great, though. It's just imgur without the added censorship.
BackFromVoat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:48:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People don't like it because is was spawned due to FPH having images removed by imgur, so they made slimgur in protest.
Q1189998819991197253 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see what's wrong with that.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:31:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How has linking an image (almost everyone links the PNG directly) been bloated and how is readdit not in the same sense?
Compliant_Automaton ยท 40 points ยท Posted at 16:50:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you sweet summer child, you must be too young to remember the days of imageshack and photobucket... you would click on a link, only to be redirected to a website with a veritable vomitorium of other links, and ads, and after a minute or two, your gif would slowly load in some stray corner amidst all the noise and fury of their bloated web pages. Have you ever seen a browser that takes up half the screen with useless toolbars, as is likely to be found on an elderly relative's computer? Imagine having to go to a webpage that looked like that, just to see an image.
Into that toxicity waded /u/McGrim, who (basically overnight) revolutionized the system, and forever changed Reddit from being more a site to link articles and discussions thereof into the dank meme factory that it exists as today.
Of course, as that McGrim did not die a hero, but instead saw massive success in his endeavor (which was originally not intended with an eye toward profit at all, curiously enough), he has ironically become the villain. No good partnership lasts forever. People change and so to do companies. Imgur and Reddit are going through an amicable divorce.
But never forget what Imgur did for us, in that far gone yesteryear. We owe them our thanks, even as we show them the door.
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:03:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm talking about imgur, not imageshack. How is opening an image file linked on reddit to imgur different than opening an image linked on reddit from reddit server?
There are no ads on the .PNG etc.
And if you compare reddit to imgur - you need to take into account that reddit is also a website that has ads on it.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Aenir ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He's not talking about Ye Olden Days, he's talking about imgur today. How is it bloated? I haven't had any problems with imgur, and all these comments talking about imgur being shit are completely baffling to me. I have literally no idea as to what anyone is talking about.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:29:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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VAGINA_EMPEROR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:08:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget le cute swiping kitty paw! It's just so quirky and fun!
alphanovember ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:28:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Happens on desktop, too.
tookiselite12 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:28:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ever browse reddit on your phone? If not, whenever you go to the imgur page for an image (because someone didn't directly link to the image) you are harassed to download their app, the page is slow as fuck due to ads + the app harassment, and every once in a while they decide to make an animated cat paw show up on your screen and show you that you can swipe left/right to view other images.
The imgur page for webms will sometimes refuse to just show the fucking thing right there and try to get you to click on it to open up a new page and show it there instead.
Even worse, if someone DOES post a direct link to the image on reddit you will get redirected to the imgur page for the image about ~25% of the time for regular pictures and ~75+% of the time for gifs/webms.
Obnoxious does not even begin to describe it.
Aenir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, so everyone is talking about the mobile version.
I don't have a smartphone so I only use desktop.
Znuff ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:38:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what year is this?
flounder19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shouldn't be. The real make or breaks will probably be how they perform for mobile users, how they interact with RES, and how they behave with photo galleries.
josh6499 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People browsing on smart phones (many with higher resolution screens than the majority of PC users) get redirected away from the direct image to a lower quality image on the imgur page.
TheQueefGoblin ยท -15 points ยท Posted at 16:52:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go outside.
Compliant_Automaton ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But there are so many worthless and disagreeable people outside, such as yourself. I might accidentally run into you... with my car.
maynardftw ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:49:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apparently the app for imgur is a garbage fire.
demonstar55 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:00:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The website kept telling me to install the app I already had installed and then it tried pushing me notifications. Shit got uninstalled.
JimmerUK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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celerym ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:55:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uhh
dylmye ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
MrGrim made Imgur to replace bloated websites like Photobucket
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and now he is super wealthy and gives 0 reddits
Aenir ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:08:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm confused, how is imgur bloated?
brian21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When it started, it was to be a simple hosting site that did nothing but give you a link for your pictures. Now it has all these other things going on and has grown to be almost reddit-like with different categories, comments, etc. and seems to be more focused on getting people to stay on their site and get more pageviews than be an easy-to-use image hosting site.
enalios ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 16:13:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans to allow image uploads more generally? For example to post an image as a comment?
IPostStupidThings ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:21:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In case no one else has done this already, I just created a sub that can be used as an image host in the meantime. Post there then use the direct image link in comments
r/imgit
If there's already a sub dedicated to this, let me know, I don't really like the name imgit.
enalios ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:33:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey dude(tte)! I like that idea! Haven't seen another! I think imgit is the most logical name since reddit hosted images is meant to replace imgur (sort of).
I thought for a second on what else it could be and the only thing I could think of was sawit but that sounded dumb too. But reddit = "read it". Anyway then I thought maybe seeit could worm? So I made /r/seeit, though it's not any better that imgit. If you'd like to be a mod you can!
I say the actual name doesn't matter as much as that they exist. I humbly suggest that everyone use imgit though!
IPostStupidThings ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, glad to see I wasn't the only one with this idea!
I'd be in favor of seeing which one takes off better and making that the de facto image hosting sub!
enalios ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:39:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah! That would be fun, good idea!
porpoiseoflife ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe get /r/orangered and /r/periwinkle involved.
The Great Reddit Civil War Of 2013! #NeverForget
86smopuiM ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:27:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be super annoying
enalios ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe some times.
But there are subreddit dedicated to doing just that.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes! As a comment or as replies to PMs would be very convenient.
jimstr ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 16:49:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
can't resize image by dragging it == sucks
e i feel dumb for many reasons, one of them is maybe because it's something that RES do and not Reddit?
adeadhead ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 18:14:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
EmperorJake ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:26:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Really? Thanks for telling me this, no more of that pesky imgur gallery thing
MikoRiko ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:21:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh my - thank you! I'd have been pretty peeved if I never knew this. The new Reddit image service has been on my nerves because of this.
Magnetic_Eel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:06:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I can't find that option. All I see is "Don't auto-expand media previews on comments pages" and that doesn't make it work.
Edit: actually nevermind, once I closed Chrome and reloaded the site it seems to have fixed it. Thanks!
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:29:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ayy!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:53:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm having this same problemโcan you tell me what changed once you closed Chrome? I still don't see an option to disable media previews, just the same options that you stated :(
jplr98 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:34:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
true
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 13:54:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you figure out a fix for this? It's happening to me too!
jimstr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:12:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no it doesn't work all the time and i don't understand why still :/
jmxd ยท 69 points ยท Posted at 16:44:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What if we want to share an image elsewhere?
isn't exactly userfriendly
roionsteroids ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:43:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Copy link location, not image location and you'll get the proper direct short link.
YouAreInAComaWakeUp ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:41:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i7w77
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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YouAreInAComaWakeUp ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:55:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Try it on the image being talked about in the post I linked to. Not all posts seem to be working when you do it that way.
Lolor-arros ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:13:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They don't care.
They want you using reddit.
fckingmiracles ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, as they are allowed to. I basically have nothing against it. It's about time they offer an alternative to external hosting companies. I like the step.
ExeusV ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:32:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goo.gl
iamaquantumcomputer ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:42:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Each image is a link. Click it and copy the url, or right click and click "copy link address" for a shorter link
https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png
jmxd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait, they just changed it to that? It was the url i pasted above earlier
iamaquantumcomputer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No you get the url you posted above, you clicked "copy image address"
You need to click "copy link address"
Rooonaldooo99 ยท 53 points ยท Posted at 16:13:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as using the direct image link is standard, I like this. I hate browsing non-direct Imgur links on my phone.
ThatsMyHoverboard ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:29:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When it isn't direct I waste data. It's a pain.
geocitiesuser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's going to do the exact opposite.
chrismanbob ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:22:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plus RES can't open image inline if it's nondirect.
umbreon120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:44:08 on July 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Crashes
East902 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Apps like Sync for Android fix this, all imgur links open direct in app.
Pascalwb ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:37:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Get some reddit app.
irishsaltytuna ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:59:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any way to post albums planned for the future?
thefishestate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:18:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should be higher, I can't believe only two other people asked this.
siirka ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:41:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone explain why I can't drag to resize with RES on images hosted using this?
SlothOfDoom ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:13:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they didn't listen to beta feedback when this was rolled out to limited subs a while back.
siirka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shouldn't annoy me as much as it does, but it's seriously annoying.
SlothOfDoom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:27:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It annoys me more since it was the first then everyone said about it when they dropped it in various subs, and apparently that feedback was ignored....and now we see it all again. Why release something as a small test and then ignore feedback?
adeadhead ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:14:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
siirka ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:37 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, but does this remove thumbnails?
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:47:38 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nopr
umbreon120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:43:35 on July 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sm
protestor ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:24:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what's the difference between i.reddituploads.com and i.redd.it?
pixiedonut ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:08:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
uploads.com
draginator ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:14:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not necessarily your guy's fault, but any "i.reddituploads" image can't be resized with res and makes me not click on them.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
draginator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have it set to "Don't auto-expand media previews" and it is still broken.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There should be an option to turn it off entirely. That's the one you want.
draginator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you possibly screenshot it? I can't find it.
[deleted] ยท 111 points ยท Posted at 16:21:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:29:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now with 100% more dog shit comments!
DV_shitty_music ยท 25 points ยท Posted at 17:14:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, fuck this shit, I'll click comments if I so desire.
nixonrichard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:40:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur did this too. The idea is that there is no value for Reddit/imgur allowing you to see just the image by itself, so they don't want any clicks to result in that behavior.
Lolor-arros ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 18:13:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's shitty and wrong.
nixonrichard ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:13:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I agree. The problem is these imaging hosting people don't actually want to be image hosts, they want to be eyeball farmers.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:07:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except it doesn't prevent hotlinking, which will work just fine. This image is hotlinked . I'm already on reddit when I click the link to the image. So what's the gain?
PirateNinjaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe the move is to make a dummy submission with the image attached, and then hotlink the attachment to a new post so that when people click on it they go straight to the image.
kfresh ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:53:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Except for that simplicity being the reason I come to Reddit in the first place. If they start changing the behaviour of the site in a manner that annoys me, I might start using it less. There's no way I'll keep browsing quick-view image subs if I have to click twice to open an image, and the back button twice to return to the list.
LiarVonCakely ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:03:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're on Chrome, get imagus. You can just hover over the link and see the picture. I can never understand how someone could put up with clicking on each and every picture to see it.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:05:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have imagus. The issue is when I go to share the link with friends, if I copy the link from the front page, I get the bloated link.
flying_fuck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:23:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't see that behavior on mobile at least
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:26:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"On mobile" is a very generic term. Does "on mobile" mean using an app? On iOS? Android? Does it mean using the mobile website?
I can tell you that from the front page, if you click the link for this story on desktop browser, you get (as announced) not the picture, but the comments.
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Multiple devices using app and web. But, Ah, thank you for clarifying. I thought people were saying that somehow the URL of an image somehow takes you back to the comments (which didn't make much sense to me). You just meant the links for the post like front page and whatnot. That makes more sense. Thanks!
Higgs_Br0son ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On vanilla reddit, clicking the expando and then the image will open the image full size and without comments. May work on RES too, I don't know.
Mynameisnotdoug ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does work.
PirateNinjaa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still two clicks to do what should happen in one.
[deleted] ยท 23 points ยท Posted at 17:08:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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weeeeezy ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:33:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/madlee, please look at this, it's important to get this working with AlienBlue.
SnakeMean ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:02:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this issue seems to be prevalent in all but the official Reddit viewers. My personal conspiracy theory is that Reddit is actually phasing in this new content host system in an attempt to force users to use the official Reddit applications.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
xenonsupra ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:43:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be awesome if Alien Blue got an update to support long press thumbnail viewing for reddit uploads. Considering AB is no longer under development, how could we make this happen?
weeeeezy ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:33:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/madlee & /u/oldschoolred, please look at this, it's important to get this working with AlienBlue.
orlandodad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:49:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not going to happen. Alien Blue is end of life and will never get another update.
Darkelement ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:37:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is all i care about. alien blue WONT be updated as reddit bought them and then deleted it from the app sotre in place of its own app. i havent even tried the reddit app yet. AB has been more than kind to me.
MonkeyNin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:40:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:( Except Alien Blue supports iPad, reddit appp does not.
sholnay ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:46:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it will never happen. Alien Blue has been abandoned - it's no longer available to download in the store. I still haven't given up on using it but its days are numbered because of moves like this from reddit. The reddit app still sucks for this main reason, no preview. So frustrating.
EditingAndLayout ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 16:27:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any chance of uploading a gif and then posting it later? I usually upload all my new gifs over the weekend and post them throughout the week. Without that feature, I'm not sure this works for me (or most gif-makers).
[deleted] ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:01:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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invisi1407 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:00:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as the MIME type. Hah.
Dopeaz ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 18:05:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a MEME type.
orlandodad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:47:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You earned it
MikoRiko ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:24:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I never knew there were people so meticulous about gif posting...
MachoDagger ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess using a completely separate alt could work.
EditingAndLayout ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:56:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That would be way too many extra steps.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd assume not, since in another comment an admin said the uploads are tied directly to a post--if the original post is deleted, the upload is deleted.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doubt it since there are no accounts. It's purely an image host without any frills.
skullkid2424 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:16:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Posting them to a private subreddit would be an option. Can still easily sort by new to get recently uploaded gifs, and if a base post elsewhere gets deleted, your image will stay.
metamorphomo ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:55:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, I'm not super technical so I don't know the details of what's actually happening here but... I've used Hoversee for ages, and can't imagine browsing reddit without it now. The only thing is, it doesn't work with the reddit uploads, only imgur, and it does struggle with gfycat, too. Is this something that could be looked at this end, or entirely Hoversee's problem? Thanks!
qtx ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:53:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imagus instead. It's a lot better and what you want works.
metamorphomo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:19:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, Imagus is working well!
BordomBeThyName ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 03:00:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't seem to support gifv's.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It does. Works like a charm.
KingGumboot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:39:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works with Imagus for me. Hoverzoom should work too, although I remember being told not to use that one because of malware or something
metamorphomo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 11:18:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks to everyone! I'm on Safari, and the Hoversee, formerly Hoverzoom, is actually a different thing that just happened to be given the same name. The Chrome extension was the dodgy one. The Safari one isn't actually malware. I've changed to Imagus now, though, and it works nicely.
yukisho ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use HoverZoom+. Works for everything. Even youtube videos.
da_realest_bamf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:36:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit Enhancement Suite doesn't seem to handle these images either.
CharonNixHydra ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:26:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this lead to banning competing hosts?
MuseofRose ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:32:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eventuall
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:42:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As they've said elsewhere in the thread: Nope.
you-create-energy ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:13:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great feature! One small concern: Why can't I resize it by clicking and dragging in the browser window? I can do that on almost all images, but you guys are displaying them in some way that the browser doesn't allow us to dynamically resize them.
adeadhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
you-create-energy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks!
alphanovember ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:53:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What browser allows you to resize almost all images?
you-create-energy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Chrome, just click and drag. It only works on standalone images though, not images in the background of a webpage or integrated with the html. Those drag and drop (download)
alphanovember ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:21:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What version of Chrome are you using?
DenizenSiege ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:24:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This seems like a good place to ask this. Why do I get "URI signature match failed" or "Unauthorized" when trying to view these links in my phone's third party app or the browser? Strangely doesn't happen with the image linked here explaining the changes.
xiongchiamiov ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:25:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That will happen if the app alters the url; in particular, if you change the
sparameter, which is a cryptographic signature, the url will fail to validate.Verdomde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:59:54 on September 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi, any idea of a workaround for this? Im sure im missing cat pictures that would change my world!
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:25:26 on September 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, don't use a shitty app. Or complain to the developer of your app about their app being shitty.
Verdomde ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:57:21 on September 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ace! Thanks for your very helpful non-answer...
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:16 on September 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is the only answer. The image system will not work if you strip out the signatures. There is no way to get around that. Therefore, you need to stop stripping out the signatures. The developer of your app is the only person who can change that behavior, so you either have to convince them to change it or stop using that app.
gpia7r ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:30:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let me drag to scale the image, like Imgur allows.
Let me right-click, copy image link, and embed it on forums elsewhere... like Imgur allows.
vikon_727 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:24:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, and I'd also suggest formatting the URLs so that you can use Google image search on them.
[deleted] ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:42:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only complaints I have at the moment are that the images aren't scalable and the links don't turn purple or "seen" after you view them in RES. Fix these two things and there you go.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not a bug on reddits end, it's something RES needs to fix.
IdRatherBeTweeting ยท 108 points ยท Posted at 16:18:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW? Oh, boy. There is going to be a big debate about what is NSFW because of this. Just host all content that isn't illegal and make it easy on yourself Reddit.
Also, RIP Imgur.
SheeEttin ยท 65 points ยท Posted at 16:24:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Subreddits mark themselves SFW/NSFW. I'd imagine that's what's controlling this.
nixonrichard ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:43:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not entirely. Reddit has been abusing the "NSFW" designation and doing things like forcing the guns sale subreddits to be NSFW (even though there's nothing remotely unsafe for work about buying and selling guns).
almodozo ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 23:37:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Depends on what part of the world you're in. Lotta Redditors outside the US.
nixonrichard ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've never seen a company outside the US even with a policy against browsing arms deals websites.
almodozo ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:13:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have no idea whether companies in some countries mention "arms deals websites" specifically in their policies. For most countries that would be a weirdly specific thing to mention explicitly, since very few people would be likely to visit such sites anyway. Like, you can see why company policies would single out porn websites as verboten, and not - say - sites facilitating the trafficking of rare animals or something similarly unlikely to come up much in practice. Instead, I imagine there might be a blanket phrase about illegal content and content that violates the ethics and good name of the company blah blah.. which arms deals websites are likely to fall under in a bunch of places outside the US (depending on country, company, etc). But to be honest, I don't really know.
Instead, I think that this tangent seems like a bit of a red herring. The way I always understood the NSFW tag, as random regular user, is that it's not just meant to flag content that would explicitly violate company policy. I thought it was meant for any content that you wouldn't want to pop up (all too visibly) when your boss or colleague pops their head in. Like more of a general "you might want to be careful opening threads (and especially images) in this sub if you're not in a private space" kind of thing. And having a page full of pictures of guns open in your browsers might definitely get you some awkward looks and conversations from bosses etc in a bunch of non-US countries.
I might be wrong though. I started doing some work for an online forum not long ago and they explained the other day that the only/main reason they applied NSFW tags to threads actually had to do with Google and ads. Basically, the tag just tells Google not to place ads next to those threads. That's worth doing because Google gets upset if the ads appear in contexts that advertisers wouldn't be happy with. Come to think of it, though, putting NSFW tags on threads about buying and selling guns would definitely make sense in that context too. I would guess that many non-US advertizers (maybe even some American ones too) wouldn't want to see their ads juxtaposed with those.
nixonrichard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:21:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think it's any worse than having a page full of Reddit links ;)
almodozo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Heh. Well, neither would be good. :-) But ahem, I think there would be a slight difference.
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So that means NSFW subs will start marking themselves as SFW
Killjoy4eva ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:17:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would they do this? I doubt they care, and they already said they will be supporting NSFW soon.
I_AM_STILL_A_IDIOT ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 16:29:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You misunderstood - NSFW images can still be hosted using the reddit hosting, it's just that generally SFW subreddits, like /r/Pics (which is generally SFW) or /r/EarthPorn have had the feature enabled. Even /r/WTF has it enabled.
Imagine_Cat ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:29:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They said NSFW support is coming soon
madlee ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:25:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
soon
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:00:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:48:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most of the content that imgur users want to see is submitted through imgur - the community usually actually gets mad when images that are made popular through Reddit show up on the imgur front pages
xereeto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd imagine it's probably for traffic reasons - there are probably a million times more NSFW picture/gif subreddits than SFW ones, and I don't think reddit is ready to deal with all thatusage yet. It's probably nothing ti do with reddit being prudish.
luckyjames99 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:54:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is going to be fine. It now has its own self-sustaining community.
IdRatherBeTweeting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:00:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The content will drop dramatically. The community will survive, but it will look different.
JtheNinja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume it's going by the subreddit NSFW tag? Also, I could've sworn I've seen reddituploads posts in GW before...
Dirt_Bike_Zero ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They basically pushed for this to happen by changing the API, if I'm not mistaken.
GuyNoirPI ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:10:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's just to make the rollout easier.
hukiki ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:27:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol.
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's the lol about?
dace55 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:57:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
laughing out loud
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No shit, I'm asking what he's laughing about.
fiveSE7EN ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:12:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol.
hukiki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
hukiki ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:20:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol, because we are going to have people then debating about what's illegal and legal
Q1189998819991197253 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:38:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not really. Because reddit is US based, it will go by US law.
iHeartCandicePatton ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a pretty clear line.
hukiki ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:23:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:55:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! Seriously, why cut out a HUGE portion of the site that's almost completely based on sharing images/videos? Utterly ridiculous.
giact ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:17:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does your image service provide a way for the image uploader to change his mind and delete the image from your server at a later time?
Does your image host allow hotlinking from sites different from Reddit?
twists ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:42:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As stated, when you delete a post, the image is deleted from the server.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i4w0b
giact ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, thanks for the link! That comment wasn't there yet when I asked.
twists ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:14:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no problem!
ViennaKP ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:31:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only problem with this that I have is that the images so far can't be opened with Hover Free (the free hoverzoom extention thing), will this be updated?
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The extension developer would need to add support for it.
ViennaKP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thought so, still disappointing
yukisho ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:45:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we have an account option to not do this and instead take us to the actual image? Not everyone wants to read the comments, some of us just want to look at pictures.
SparkStorm ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:21:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only reason I'm not happy for this is because I can usually hit the save image button on alien blue of I see a picture I want to keep, but with the new reddit hosting it won't save it so I can't save any pictures
NicotineGumAddict ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
not leaving AB for anything at this point. fuck their products. screw me once, shame on me. deleted their new mobile app, back to AB/Imgur.
ProvidesTranscripts ยท 74 points ยท Posted at 17:00:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
[An image of Snoo with various items, including hair, a soccer ball, and wearing a shirt. Snoo is saying:]
DrewsephA ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:27:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for this!
ProvidesTranscripts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:02:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No problem! Glad I can be of help. :)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R u a bot?
Cycloneblaze ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:49:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Accurate descriptions of images by robots are a bit beyond our current level of technology, so I doubt it. Dude's probably just a novelty account.
Roland_B_Luntz ยท 51 points ยท Posted at 16:41:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PLEASE make your hosted images work correctly with RES. As of right now images show up as videos and they can not be resized. It's very annoying and is detracting from the user experience.
mechakreidler ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:24:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's something the RES devs will fix. They know about it.
regmaster ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:21:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I believe that burden falls squarely on the folks who created RES.
Edit: A word
OmgTom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
go to reddit preferences. Check "Don't auto-expand media previews on comments pages." Then saves the changes. Should fix it.
Magus5311 ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:04:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With RES and imgur hosting you can expand the image from your home page and click and drag to resize. Do you plan on ever copying this feature for i.redd.it links?
pmMeYourBoxOfCables ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Non expandable images is a deal breaker for me. I absolutely hate that I can't drag to resize.
bokuwahmz ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:40:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish the links for these i.redd.it images would turn purple when I expand them on the frontpage.
[deleted] ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 17:02:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why the fuck would you encourage 100mb gifs?
Do you just hate your own bandwidth?
Aero_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:19:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not 1992 anymore, there are better ways to encode moving images!
alphabravo221 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:17:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work on all mobile apps, for example BaconReader.
TechnoShaman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it straight up sucks balls on baconreader. click a post that's hosted by reddit. cool. you see the image. click to go view comments of said image. big old NOPE. If you have hide links I've viewed enabled, which I do, then if it's a reddit hosted image, it's either view image or view comments. if you view image, the comments are forever hidden, which kinda sucks.
ps0ps ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 20:50:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Turn on IPv6 on your cloudflare please
Trump4king16 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 01:10:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No thanks. Don't need you guys being able to censor more than you already do you scumbags
Andrei_Vlasov ยท 24 points ยท Posted at 17:26:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
With imgur Dog pictures looks very cute, is this new format going to affect the cuteness of the dogs?
Edit : Gold? the same day that my previous gold expired? Thanks reddit you are awesome! i always knew dogs are the best.
SmittyFromAbove ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:38:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One day I will see you in the land of the Gold!
bacchus213 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:38:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it's my version of RES, but I can't easily resize these hosted images. Any change that can be looked at?
adeadhead ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:15:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
bacchus213 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool. I'll take a look at it. Thanks!
Black_Nerd ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:38:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That German allegience..
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:49:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you considered hosting images via their MD5 hash value in order to potentially save huge amounts of server space?
*edit, a word
Blimey85 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a web developer how have I never thought of this? File name is automatically either unique or the file is a duplicate. I like it!
[deleted] ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:47:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Blimey85 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok so using just MD5 to tell if two images are identical won't work. That's good to know and thank you for the info. I'll read up on MD5.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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oonniioonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not an image hosting service but one of my back-end storage systems works like this. It takes the MD5 hash and the file size (to prevent hash collisions) and makes that the name.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:49:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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oonniioonn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:10:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's literally <md5sum>-<filesize-in-bytes>.bin on disk.
The idea isn't to protect against anything malicious but rather prevent two different files that happen to have the same md5 hash from colliding, on the assumption that the chances of them having the same hash and the same size are immensely small.
By the way to my knowledge we have not yet run into any files with the same hash (that weren't actually identical), so it's really just a precaution. (In the mean time I'm re-checking this so check back later.)
Edit: nope, no files with identical MD5sums but different sizes in my data set.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:19:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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oonniioonn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well if two files ever do match both in MD5sum and file size, the first would override the second. I.e., the person uploading the second file would be returned the first one upon viewing it. For what we're storing we considered that an acceptable risk.
eco_was_taken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:01:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Take a look at IPFS. It's basically like bittorrent + git using content addressing instead of location addressing (i.e. you link things based on a hash of their content which enables the request to be handled by any node with the content rather than whatever server the link is referencing). It's very cool technology.
GoldenSnarl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't be able to link back to the Reddit thread if there are multiple which link to the same image.
Most enterprise storage systems have deduplication / optimization happening at the data layer anyways.
That being said it would be a neat little option to see if there are other identical images and link to each thread (would catch some reposts).
rlbond86 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dat birthday paradox tho
HellaBester ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:54:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My only question.
Are the servers ready?
qwerzt ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 18:01:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Out of interest, how much might this affect reddit's server costs? It seems like reddit had a pretty sweet deal by only having to serve the revenue-giving html pages, and having imgur.com handle the expenses of image traffic. (Especially since most images are opened inline).
Also, most importantly, are you compressing .pngs into .jpgs or recompressing .jpgs at all?
footinmymouth ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:05:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur has grown into a direct competitor for Reddit. They advertise the fuck out of that traffic. Reddit obviously feels they now have the capability to build it in and make money on it.
WearyTunes ยท 85 points ยท Posted at 16:15:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat! Good job gu.. Wait, what about SRS???
madlee ยท 148 points ยท Posted at 16:22:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't worry, SRS can upload images too.
urA_WizardArry ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:42:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
adeadhead ยท 49 points ยท Posted at 16:28:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, the ol' preferential treatment-a-roo.
conditionred ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 16:33:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my privilege I'm going in!
Iamabioticgod ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:57:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how deep does this go and why?
compounding ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:26:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As of 8 months ago, the longest chain was 1,427 nodes long
Its dangerous to go alone, take this map.
Here is the full discussion and data for the map as well as the answer to about every question you could have.
MissLauralot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:01:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most amazing thing I've seen in quite a while ... and I've been watching /r/twitchplayspokemon.
FrostByte122 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:05:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awh that's cute. You have much to learn. I see you've already mastered karma farming though so that's good.
Iamabioticgod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought I knew all the memes
mummys not gonna be pleased with me :(
adeadhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's 4 years and thousands of nodes deep. And because it can.
HumanInHope ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:35:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hold my pitchfork, i'm going in!
ShaneH7646 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:34:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can they also ban themselves?
PatrioticPomegranate ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:28:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kek
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:25:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh boy, here we go Morty.
CunchMuncher ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:07:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why wouldn't they? It's not like admins aren't members of SRS.
WearyTunes ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:16:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
admin favoritism at its worse imo
ButtGardener ยท -16 points ยท Posted at 17:19:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Why is r/shitredditsays even allowed to exist? They use non np links, are widely known by all users to brigade, witch hunt and doxx.
Not to mention they removed the giving gold ability which was confirmed by u/krispycrackers as a violation of reddits own terms.
All of which are reasons other sub reddit's have been banned or warned in the past.
EDIT: LMAO, I just got banned from r/shitredditsays for asking this question. That's hilarious, ive never even posted or wanted to post in there sub.. But still that's hilarious I get banned for asking an administrator a question.
Also, mods are suspiciously quiet on this question.
WearyTunes ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 17:38:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't even worry about srs, it's the cabal that you need to watch out for
[deleted] ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:42:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
omg people actually fell for you whataboutsrsing
๐ ๐ ๐
celocanth13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:24:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am positively miffed that I am not on that map
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 12:12:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
me too. me_irl is fempire cabal, right??
the_vizir ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:57:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/BestOfOutrageCulture and /r/circlebroke2... fempire cabalist confirmed.
LiterallyKesha ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:41:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every time I see this I laugh hard and then question why I'm not on it.
the_vizir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:18:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand why I'm not on there... I'm just that shitposting guy. But you? You're LITERALLY KESHA!
Sansa_Culotte_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:21:24 on June 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not to mention the Illuminati, and the Knights Templar.
jensenj2 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 17:31:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wahhh wahhh SRS boogeyman :(
it's been stated multiple times by admins that SRS don't have any more significant a brigading problem than many other subreddits.
and if not always using .np links was a reason to remove a subreddit, then we'd have one big fucker of a list to get through
ButtGardener ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 17:41:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Its not just that, what about their mods doxxing people? Witch hunting? Removing gold against reddit TOS?
Or at you just going to completely ignore the real issues here.
Edit: Wow. Being downvoted for asking why people are warned/punished for doxxing and witch hunts.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stop crying, it's just Reddit. If you don't like the content then don't go to their sub. I completely forget it exists 99% of the time I'm on Reddit
ButtGardener ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:07:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I totally agree. I was just asking an administrator why they get away with it. It's always confused me.
Other subs haven't done half as bad things as them and got hit hard by the admins, such as u/pcmasterrace
caesar_primus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, he said it!
jensenj2 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
citation needed? also witch hunts and doxxing are a problem with the users carrying it out, not a subreddit they're affiliated with
as for the gold thing, i've never seen a part of the TOS that says that. you can probably still gift gold with the subreddit css turned off, so the feature hasn't actually been disabled. just hidden
ButtGardener ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:25:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Its happened a bunch. Last time was about a month ago when they doxxed a mod of another sub reddit.
http://m.imgur.com/a/wbK77
Aerik ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:06:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
there's no visible usernames
and anybody could write like that.
ButtGardener ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:12:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True, but what can they do? They can't publish names. Unlike srs, reddit bans people who publish names of people.
Aerik ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 19:27:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
linking to actual reddit comments is not doxxing no matter how you twist it.
you want me to believe that reddit doxxes in order to believe the screenshots that prove reddit doxxing. circular much?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/user_history_bot @cerkies4lyf
User_History_Bot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 06:56:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Data for the last 993 comments for /u/cerkies4lyf (MAX 1000)
Have a question or suggestion?
To summon this bot, the first line of your comment should be: /u/user_history_bot @USERNAME
ButtGardener ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:58:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So you're going to ban me and mute me from your precious sub for asking a question?
Even though I've never visited or even posted in your sub?
Jesus Christ you cunts are as toxic as everyone says you are... I just wanted to ask a question, I didn't actually think you took reddit this seriously lol
Aerik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:27 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i wasnt even aware of your banning. but if thats just asking a question... sad.
if you only have reddit usernames it is not doxxing. so rreally all u have is jive.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:40:33 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know it's sad right, banned for asking a question. It's kind of confirms NY suspicions though, which is ironic.
Not sure if you checked the link I posted but srs mods went after this guy's real life.. Not his reddit persona. I. E. They doxxed him.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:57:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/user_history_bot @aerik
User_History_Bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Data for the last 989 comments for /u/aerik (MAX 1000)
Have a question or suggestion?
To summon this bot, the first line of your comment should be: /u/user_history_bot @USERNAME
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Holy shit... I can't say I'm surprised.
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:59:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup. I like video games, history, porn, Movies, sports, technology... I'm not here to push an agenda or be a white knight.
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:03:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah it's really surprising considering how dumb and bad your opinions are.
ButtGardener ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:08:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm dumb and bad for asking an administrator why a sub reddit is allowed to break the rules?
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:15:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then calling them out for doxxing for linking to posts while also arguing that there should be a level playing field between bigoted subs and a sub that calls out bigots because reasons.
I think you'd be surprised but a lot of us that feel SRS spends too much time getting offended at everything still think they're fine considering Reddit spends so much time sucking off the free speech crowd that they can't get around to banning the massive swarms of bigots.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:24:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I called them out for doxxing for harassing people outside of reddit and contacting them and treating to release their identities lest they leave reddit and deactivate their accounts.
The linking without np links isn't doxxing, its brigading.
Also removing the ability to gild is against reddit ToS.
I don't know what bigoted subs you are talking about, I just asked why it gets to break major rules whilst a sub like say, for example, r/pcmasterrace which isn't bigoted, gets severely punished for brigading once.. Which to the admins credit, they did roll back on, but now that sub does not link to anything at all. You can't even mention other subs as there's a bot that removes your post due to fear of admin retribution.
It's just very interesting to me how one sub gets to Witch hunt, doxx, threaten people and it's cool with the reddit admins. Other subs don't do nearly as serious stuff, but yet get severely punished.
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:29:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think you vastly overestimate how many of us give a fuck that shitbag bigots have their content factored into moderation decisions.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd argue that people who don't believe in freedom of speech and expression are worse that any bigot.
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is a private company and is under no obligation to provide material support to hate content. It's not a free speech issue.
ButtGardener ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 02:44:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's not my point, I think you misunderstand me.
I'm just asking for an explanation why certain hate groups like SRS are allowed to operate freely, doxx people, witch hunt, brigade whilst other subs do not even break as serious rules and get punished by the admins, again, r/pcmasterrace is a perfect example.
If reddit supports the right for a hate group like SRS to operate and harass other people and other sub reddit's, that's up to reddit. I was just asking an administrator, u/Madlee , why this was, if as you say, it is reddit's official stance that they support this kind of bullying behaviour then, as I say, that's reddit's prerogative.. It would just be nice to have a clarification on the issue, because as it stands it's very confusing to have a strict policy that is not enforced on one sub reddit.
Haoleopteryx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Okay but the admins have said they don't do those things soooo
SRS isn't a hate group are you fucking kidding me
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:48:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its been proven time and time they do.
You're saying a group that rails against other people for having an opinion that differs from their world view, harasses, directly links to comments, doxxes, witch hunts and generally uses Internet bullying against anyone who doesn't agree with them, isn't a hate sub?
Umm....k..
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:07:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
The admins disagree. I trust them more than people upset at being called out for posting bigoted dogshit. Not to mention every single bit of "proof" I've seen operates on the assumption that any and all downvotes come from SRS brigading as opposed to the huge number of posters like me who don't read SRS but downvote dumb hateful shit.
And do you use a ladder to get down from that high horse, or just try and roll when you jump off? Because I find it really strange that you're calling general sexism and homophobia a worldview that deserves respect and that calling it out is "bullying" is fucking ironic.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:09:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If all srs did was call out homophobia and sexism I would agree, but they don't. Hell, they even get butthurt about harmless jokes people make.
They link and brigade anyone who doesn't follow their narrow world view. It's disappointing.
Haoleopteryx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Again, there's no evidence of brigading. Shitty comments get downvotes. That doesn't mean it's a brigade.
Again, I actually already agreed with you on one of your points about SRS.
ButtGardener ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:06:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Haoleopteryx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:10:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like rocks and clothes. Learn anything useful? Turns out some of us non-essjaydoubleyou sub posters actually don't really have a problem with bigoted fucks being called out for being bigoted fucks and think the freedom of speech arguments are pretty hollow and masturbatory. Of course all downvotes are SRS brigading.
ButtGardener ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 03:16:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SRD, enoughtrumpspam, trollxchromosomes
Kind of what I expected.
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Aerik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:03:35 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and this is why u git banned. bc of this witch hunting bullshit.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:38:25 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This isn't witch hunting you idiot. This was just to confirm that you are in fact what you are.
celocanth13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:27:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BOOC and /r/bicycling? Whats up friendo!
ButtGardener ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:30:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That wasn't a screenshot of reddit comments...
meikyoushisui ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:42:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
jensenj2 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:29:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
eh, from what i can see, there's no solid indication that it was actually a mod of SRS. pure conjecture
BRD signing means nothing - anyone could do that
ButtGardener ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:12:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, considering other subs have to blur out names to prevent witch hunts they can't publish the name.
If they did they would get banned, which goes back to my point of the different treatment srs recieves.
TheRighteousTyrant ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:20:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So go post this in SRS without censoring it and test your little theory.
ButtGardener ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really don't fancy fighting that fight today. I try to avoid that cancer as much as possible.
I was just curious as an administrator directly mentioned SRS, so thought I'd ask the question.
ZakenPirate ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:57:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as /r/thedonald exists, SRS is just fine.
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 17:40:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SRS is actually an internet cult and they meet most of the criteria needed for being a cult. The way in which they effectively serve as an internet cult is that it is possible for anyone to easily join the cult so long as they have an internet connection and a reddit account and are willing to do exactly what they are told by the SRS moderator hierarchy and the people who control and run the subreddit. The worst thing about Shitredditsays, however, isn't that they have their own shitty subreddit that makes zero sense to the outside world and to those who are sane and don't believe in the views of social justice warriors and radical feminists. The worst thing about SRS is that they and their friends from other like-minded subreddits on reddit - with the cooperation and unspoken support of a few reddit administrators - have managed to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 where a clique of users who are chummy and friendly with each other have managed to take over a very large portion of this website. The users who have turned reddit into Digg 2.0 and who threaten to ruin the site are what I and some others who understand the situation have come to know as and refer to as "metareddit cancer." I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and create the subreddit /r/metaredditcancer to act as a watchdog that chronicles everything that this cabal of reddit users are doing to turn reddit into Digg 2.0 and - in particular - to turn the site into a place run by social justice warrior and feminist moderators who tolerate no deviation from their beliefs in the numerous subreddits that they have come to control as moderators.
My hope is that after reading this comment of mine that you will subscribe to /r/metaredditcancer so that you can stay well-informed about a very serious situation that has arisen - largely unknown to most users - on this website so that we can all gain a greater understanding of what a powerful cabal of agenda-driven users are doing to and have done to this site that we all love. I am a long-time user on reddit who has intimate and in-depth knowledge of this cabal and who has modded multiple subreddits both large and small, who has been intimately involved in discussion with this cabal of users regarding their control of reddit, who knows what their agenda is and what they want to do with their power and control, who has sat in their private discussions in internet chat rooms, who has seen leaks from their private subreddits, and who has absolutely had enough of what they have done to reddit and of what they will continue to do to this site unless the rest of this site is exposed to who and what they are and what their endgame is. What happened to Digg and what has happened to 4chan very recently is undeniably and positively what is happening to reddit now and what has been happening here since 2012.
The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metareddit cancer" hail from the subreddits Shitredditsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubredditDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subreddits and these users also control many other subreddits with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subreddits like /r/news, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/Subredditdrama, /r/creepyPMs, /r/offmychest, /r/TIFU, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/changemyview, /r/LGBT, and numerous other subreddits where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subreddits. They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subreddits like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subreddits every week. This is absolutely the case with offmychest, creepyPMs, and Subredditdrama. Maybe the worst example of their way of worming into moderator positions and destroying subreddits is that of /r/LGBT and how 2 transsexual radfem SRS trolls - one of which has become infamous on reddit and other chan websites - managed to take control of the subreddit in 2012 and then acted like dictators and abused their power so badly that reddit's administrators had to be called into the drama. The admins refused to remove the two SRS moderators, the LGBT subreddit went into meltdown because of them, and this led to the subreddit being ruined and people having to flock to the newly created /r/ainbow subreddit because one of the biggest forums for discussing LGBT issues on the internet was taken over by members of Shitredditsays. This is the first notable time that SRS and other metareddit cancer have taken control of subreddits and they've gone on to manipulate reddit's subreddit request system to bring even more subreddits under their control. They organize subreddit request attempts in private subreddits where they plan out their agenda and they do the same in their internet relay chat rooms as well. I can say with total confidence that there is no other reddit clique and group operating on this website that looks to take over and control as many subreddits as they can in a clear and indisputable attempt to control the flow of conversation so that conversations in any given subreddit always lean and kowtow to radical feminism and a perverted form of social justice. NO OTHER GROUP EXISTS that is looking to take over as much of this site as possible.
One of the more troubling things that I have come to understand having been an intimately involved user of reddit for years, is that some of reddit's current and past administrators support and belong to this cabal of metareddit cancer. An administrator who was fired from reddit two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitredditsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitredditsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out SRS's agenda. He routinely ostracized and terminated the accounts of (shadowbanned) people who posted in subreddits that SRS want destroyed and now he sits as a moderator of SRS. This is one of the biggest yet unknown bits of corruption in reddit's history yet you wouldn't know it because the subreddit created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/Subredditdrama - was taken over by SRS and reddit metacancer in 2013 and they censor discussion about themselves so that people aren't aware of what is going on. The takeover of SubredditDrama is one of the worst things that has ever happened on this website because of its 150K subscriber size and because the very people who are the problem that I am discussing happen to be in control of SubredditDrama. This is clearly a monumental conflict of interest given that anything nefarious that this group of users do cannot be openly discussed in SubredditDrama without their consent. What caused this cabal to come to be and what is it that unites them in their desire to control the site through moderator power and through cliques?
A need for friendship that's lacking in real life. A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts, or just want to have some internet friends because they spend a lot of time on this site. This last reason differs a bit from the other reasons and is different in that some users - a smaller number - belonging to this cabal get drawn into it without knowing what the agenda is and they simply just want some internet friends. However, they always cave to the agenda when it is brought up (perverted feminism and social justice and tightly-controlled, censorship-happy moderation in the cabal's subreddits) and so it doesn't matter that their intentions for joining the cabal were innocent. In the end, they always come around and you can already see how this is cult-like behavior. Anyone who doesn't toe-the-line and go along with the agenda is shunned or cast out. I've spent time talking to one of them who was cast out of one of the cabal's private subreddits after realizing that the nature of the cabal and "group of friends" wasn't innocent and that everything revolved around feminism, social justice, and the ego-driven desire to control as many subs as possible. The scary thing about my interaction with this cast-out former member is that the cabal looks to get your name and personal information. They do this through their everyday IRC chats and in Facebook groups where some choose to take friend requests with their real names. Others use new Facebook profiles with their reddit names. This cast-out user used his real account and he knows now that a reason why they send friend invites is so that you think twice about going against them because then they have your personal info and can come after you with threats at home, work, and anywhere else.
What the users in the cabal do to gain entrance is act smug and superior (social justice, feminism, morality policing) to redditors. The cabal acts as their cool kids club that they weren't good enough for in real life. THAT IS HOW AND WHY THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WHAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACT THIS WAY. A cabal on Digg is what led to the deterioration of the site and is what led to the migration that saw users flood to reddit. I'll be damned if I watch the same type of behavior from a group of a few dozen users continue to move reddit towards becoming Digg 2.0. 4chan has been thrown into a serious mess like this after Moot gave mod positions to authoritarian mods in the last year who now control the site given his recent abdication as site admin. Let's not let this develop further on reddit because there's a point of no return.
TL;DR: The SRS cabal controls too much of and is ruining reddit
MysticKirby ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:57:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
please tell me this is copypasta
bytester ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:26:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes
forknox ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 20:10:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is but it was written by someone in all seriousness way back. /r/Askreddit actually gave it thousands of upvotes and thousands of people joined metareddit cancer before it devolved to the members calling each other cancer.
caesar_primus ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 22:23:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R/subreddit cancer still exists and is stil calling each other cancer.
Aerik ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 19:07:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it is. it was featured on other subreddits mocking these "what about srs" obsessives just the other day.
WearyTunes ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:57:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as SRS, is in fact, SRDBroke, or as I've recently taken to calling it, SRS plus SRDBroke. SRS is not a cancerous blight on reddit unto itself, but rather another SJW component of a fully functioning SRDBroke conspiracy made useful by the SRDBroke moderator cabal, admin assistance, and excellently coded reddit bots, comprising a full conspiracy as defined by the Top-Minds of reddit. Many reddit users are layed low by a version of the SRDBroke conspiracy every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, oppression by SRDBroke, which is widely felt today, is often called SRS, and many of its victims are not aware that it is basically the SRDBroke conspiracy, developed by the SRDBroke mods. There really is an SRS, and these people are being hurt by it, but it is just a part of the system that oppresses them. SRS is the bogeyman: the piece of the conspiracy that directs the butthurt away from the other subs that SRDBroke controls. The bogeyman is an essential part of a cabal, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete conspiracy. SRS is used in combination with the SRDBroke moderator cabal: the whole system is basically SRDBroke with SRS added, or SRDBroke/SRS. All the so-called SRS conspiracy is really a SRDBroke conspiracy!
caesar_primus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:21:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:26:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
that
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:23:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice meme
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:24:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
morning, champ
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 20:28:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know.
That said.
In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.
An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.
My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.
I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).
I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.
Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.
I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.
I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.
I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.
I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.
I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of shit human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.
I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.
The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.
I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.
That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).
I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).
And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.
All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?
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Dude you need to quit fucking snap chatting mckenna. Stop. She doesn't respond with anything meaningful for a reason and she's not interested in you. Who am I? The man whom she is in love with. She already told me not to worry, she's not interested in you. Sorry I bothered you kid. I've dated her since 2 summers ago. If you aren't trying to get at my woman or being inappropriate I don't care if you snap her occasionally. Just don't try anything man. You'll embarrass yourself and anger me. We are in love and we're making love tomorrow. So if you have any ill intentions with my woman you can forget it right now. I'm the biggest and best she's ever had, only man she's ever loved and the only man who could truly satisfy her physically. You will never have her. And she loves me. I don't have any problems with you if you are over my woman and realize you will never be with or touch her again. I apologize for coming off as a dick, just me and kenna are really deep in love and we've been through a lot and I just moved back home and it makes me a little jealous and angry to see a man she used to date before me is snap chatting her.... We don't need any extra bullshit or drama right now, so don't bring us any please is all I ask friend. If you try to talk to her any way but as a brother, or you try to see her at all, if she tells me you do anything inappropriate or anything outside of what a strict brother like friend would do,we are going to have a huge problem. I will leave you alone now dude if you're not trying to get at the woman who I love and whom is in love with me. That entire summer she was with me. She left kyle for me. She's been with me ever since, she even loved me and made love to me before she EVER let anything happen with you. You didn't please her. She didn't have strong feelings for you at all. And she immediately ended shit with you for me once she knew I loved her too. So get any ideas of the past out of your head. None of this truth should bug you if you're over her but I'm just making sure. I hate when my baby's friends have ill intentions and she thinks they are just friends and have no alternative motive. But idk if I trust you at all. If I can trust you to not stress me and my baby or fuck with our love tell me. I will leave you alone and apologize. But if you aren't over her and you're tryna "get some" or you're tryna get back in her life, it's NOT HAPPENING. She said you were nothing to her, and the sex was bad anyway haha. You're small and weak and she said it all felt wrong after being with me. She's been with me ever since. We're in love. And tomorrow me and her will be together in my room making love alll day how we always have together. If you have a problem speak up like a man or tell me our love doesn't bug you and I'll apologize, it's simple. So??? What is it? You are after my woman then huh?! Tell me the fucking truth man. Don't you dare be disrespectful and gross enough to bring it up, but if if you ask her about anything she shared with me about your weak ass, she may be nice and lie to you, or she may not care and tell you the truth. Either way. I'm her soullmate and her boyfriend of the past two years almost. And she tells me everything and NEVER lies to me. I don't care haha. Just stay away from my kenna. I sincerely apologize if you have no ill intentions and aren't trying to make moves with my woman. And i respect you as a guy in the service. I'm sure you're an ok dude. But just as a friend. You're nothing to my kenna but a brother like friend. I just wanna be sure you know it and don't forget it. Find a nice classy woman where you are stationed, marry her.... But back off of mine. You will never even compare to me in her eyes. Not even close haha.I just don't need you interfering with me and kenna's love. It's our lives man. It's really not cool.... Goodbye man, good luck. Respect to you being in the service. Sorry to bring your day down with my crazy bullshit but. Me and kenna are head over heels.... I can't help but be crazy about her. I love her with all of my heart and I will protect her from her untrustworthy fake friends. Not saying you are one. But you're dodging telling me what's going on in your head so I'm questioning a lot right now. Just know I'm never gonna hurt her, I'm always going to have her back, I'd give my life for her without hesitation, and I will protect her from anything, everything, and anyone. She is the love of my life. I fully intend to marry and give kenna my children. And we've talked a lot about it. Just don't make shit harder than it already is. I just moved back and me and her miss eachother so badly and we are FINALLY go to see eachother tomorrow and make love for the first time since halloween.... I hope you don't hate me man. I'm a good dude. Just protective of the woman who holds my heart. And who's heart I hold and must protect. I hope you can understand. She promised me there's nothing at all to worry about with you and that she's not interested:"/ I wish I knew before I embarrassingly went off on you. I'm so sorry man. I'm sorry. Please don't mention this to my baby:/ I'm really embarrassed and while she will understand, I just feel like an ass for attacking you when you have nothing with my kenna and no intention to. Good bye brother. I hope you find your one true love someday. It'll make you crazy, trust me, but you'll find her one day. I found mine when I was really young. And it's my kenna :)
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:32:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.
VAGINA_EMPEROR ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:21:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, I hope you baby boomer assholes are happy. You ignored the intelligence, logic, and unbiased ideals of us millenials. You idiots have been brainwashed for years like a bunch of sheep. You obviously don't have the necessary brainpower to make these difficult decisions.
Instead of voting for the noble and just candidate who could have saved this country, you supported the face of true evil. Well... this country will completely go to shit and it's all your fault! You should have listened to us. We are not going to bail you corrupt assholes out when the economy collapses or famine strikes.
Keep laughing it up. Troll us Bernie folks some more... we will have the last laugh, watching the country completely collapse... it won't be our fault!
You have all betrayed Bernie. You have betrayed my generation. We won't forget this!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 01:32:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gamergate failed because they chose to make their mascot the watamote girl but with red hair and piccolo fucking vegeta in the ass colors and drew a bunch of pictures of her where her feet are the focal point as opposed to the objectively superior in every way choice of making their mascot be a badass looking cartoon alligator and referring to themselves collectively as โgamergatorsโ, they would have won if they did that i would be an anti-sjw right now if they had gone with the gamergator but they had to go with the sexy grumpy little girl with stinky feet instead
the_vizir ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:16:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To all the Hillary gloaters, I'll tell you one thing: r/politics is, and always will be, Bernie territory. OUR territory. The mods of r/politics have formally endorsed Senator Sanders for president. We will continue to control the front page with positive Bernie news. So before you start talking shit and bragging about your bitch's win, I'll have you know that we're well versed in downvote brigades. Say RIP to your karma if you try anything cute. Assholes.
throwaway_350 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:09:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hi fin
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:44:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wat
heterosis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/ShitRedditSays not only is considered extremely offensive by the average redditor, but it also makes us feel unsafe, and they constantly harass people, doxx, and brigade.
They link to our posts, then they vote brigade them, insult us and follow us around the site. If that does not prevent people from having authentic conversation in this site then I don't know what does.
/u/spez should enforce the rules fairly and equally to everybody.
celocanth13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:25:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT
heterosis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:45:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
typical level of discourse from a circlebroke mod
celocanth13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:46:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You got the reply you deserved.
And I'm a CB2 mod, get it right.
heterosis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:47:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
don't you have a cabal to be conspiring with cuck?
celocanth13 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:50:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
>using cuck ironically
Toolbox for reddit is a fun extension
[deleted] ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 16:27:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dunno if this is a woosh moment...
lovdov ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:40:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
whoosh
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:44:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very meta. I like it.
TheRighteousTyrant ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:23:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
. . . for you.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 11:15:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First time you respond to this question, and its a terrible joke?
You know what? Fuck this place.
Zyx750 ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 16:38:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/WhatAboutSRS
terminator3456 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:41:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
we out here
Bardfinn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:28:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
breaks own arms
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:18:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit, bob!
wowy-lied ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 16:25:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you explain this ? You began to implement this the same time you let out the official apps and strangely a lot of apps can't or have trouble loading things with redditupload (alien blue, baconit, readit...). Are you trying to force people to use your official app with this kind of move ?
kakanczu ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have any examples of images uploaded to redditupload that the third party apps have trouble loading?
I just tried a few with Sync for Reddit without any issues.
wowy-lied ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:44:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every single image uploaded on redditupload with readit, it was the same on baconit when before i switch to readit and my brother has random issue with alien blue.
CheySkoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can confirm this with Baconreader as well. I am running the pre-admageddon version.
orlandodad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:45:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit purchased Alien Blue a ways back and when they released their official app they announced no further support for Alien Blue (they also pulled it from the App Store). That included, unfortunately, not adding redditupload as a supported inline image provider. I would say that it could likely be a desire to build the brand as users of Alien Blue know its reddit but if you said Alien Blue to the average man on the street they wouldn't have a clue.
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:22:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This generally happens because the app developer made a bad assumption that no longer holds true, and so you have to wait for them to fix their shit. There's no reason for it not to work in third party apps.
Skjalg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever I click on an image link that has redditupload in the url I immediately press back on my phone now because i know it just wont show me anything. I use baconit for windows phone.
kakanczu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've found your problem. Sorry, mostly kidding. Continue using what works for you but unfortunately Windows phone will never have great developer support and things will break.
Skjalg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:22:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hah yeah, but its an image service. Showing an image. Hardly rocket science :) Should work on all platforms... But this problem is not windows phone specific either, as it also happens on android.
kakanczu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not a developer however I'm assuming as this gets more popular the developers of the apps will have to make a couple changes.
I follow Sync for Reddit pretty closely and implementing image handling is not a cut-and-dry process. There are tons of nuances with making images appear seamlessly on mobile.
Edit: typo
Skjalg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not saying theres not tons of nuances in how to view the image. Like pinch to zoom, then zoom out and snap to full screen etc. Hell, even viewing images (that is not hosted on redditupload) in baconit is sometimes a bit wonky as they appear fully zoomed in when I just flip through posts, but then if I pinch and zoom its suddenly all zoomed out.
But getting the actual png/jpg to appear is pretty cut-and-dry. That has been pretty cut and dry for the last 20 years. Also, seeing as this is a problem that is only when you're hosting an image on redditupload and not on the literally millions of other places makes me pretty sure its a problem on reddits end and not the developer of baconit.
kakanczu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:31:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You might be right. I have no issues on Sync for Reddit, so I just assumed it was more so on the Dev of the app and not so much on reddit. This is all very new though, I'm sure things will iron out as it gets more popular.
Forty7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:09:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is Fun on android doesn't work either
143demdirtybirds ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use flow and i can never see the images uploaded using redditupload
U238Th234Pa234U234 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:53:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Works fine with Relay
Eustace_Savage ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bingo.
Ceroy ยท 44 points ยท Posted at 16:13:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god, now we won't have toxic imgur comments on pictures we upload.
chabanais ยท 67 points ยท Posted at 16:15:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You'll just have them here!
im_not_me_irl ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:30:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm OK with that because this is my home.
chabanais ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:33:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You live in a corporation?
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:35:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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chabanais ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:09:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://m.imgur.com/F636xiP?r
[deleted] ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 16:24:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A ton
flounder19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If reddit hosting takes off, people will just repost those images to imgur the same way that when an Imgur-only post gets popular, someone will post it to reddit
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IsaacEiland-Hall ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:01:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a two-way street, for a start. Much of reddit's content comes from elsewhere, not just imgur; much of most communities' content comes from elsewhere. That's a fact of life.
SuingTheCourts ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:31:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/ignorantimgur
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:35:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't actually have to make your uploaded pictures public. One of the worst things about /r/ignorantimgur is that they hate when imgur commenters complain about unnecessary gallery uploads when it's actually the uploader's fault for sharing it in the first place.
JurijFedorov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually, you have to make sure it's not public per automatic. One of my pics suddenly got a lot of angry comments.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:02:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
You sure? The only way you can make it public is if you press the green 'publish to gallery' button iirc.
JurijFedorov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, but my settings were to make it all public automatically. So I was very surprised by it. I didn't click that green button. It was just added to their imgur albums.
IsaacEiland-Hall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a member and participant in both communities, it's my humble opinion that viewing popular posts on imgur is about the same as defaults on reddit. I view usersubโrising, and although there's a few anti-feminist posts that attract some pretty nasty comments sometimes, for the most part it's fun and friendly โ like most of reddit.
I mostly have good experiences and interactions in both communities; although there's plenty of bad apples in both as well.
sparcos ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:16:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
as someone who's workplace has imgur blocked... nice
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:02:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you realize this just gives them a reason to block reddit under the same policy. lol
pballer2oo7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:55:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't think IT will stand for blocking all of reddit.
PigNamedBenis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:42:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish they would block reddit and other sites like facebook at my work. Tons of lost productivity because of this.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:53 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Agreed.
spgb- ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:41:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
A very big problem I have with reddit image hosting is that some of the URLs are excessively long.
I mean URLs like these: https://i.redditmedia.com/Q0MHUGPgRFeV1I4tvdpwpBLiN2Z47bo4cvdy1DgFcRU.jpg?w=508&s=9a5c5917550179d33113dfd9a777b9a9 -- it requires the entire thing. You can't strip the &s= part. It's impossible to use these in texts or instant messages.
I noticed the image in OP is https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png, but sometimes the only URL I see is the example I gave above and it's very cumbersome.
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:27:55 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most websites don't optimize their image uploads for sharing off-site. You should consider this a tool for sharing images on reddit, rather than a general-purpose image host that happens to be run by reddit, and it will make a lot more sense.
akcaye ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:58:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That still makes it a shitty service.
spgb- ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:41:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, the issue is more that I come across a funny picture or a very interesting image on reddit and I want to share it with a buddy on IRC or a family member on some text or IM program, but the URL is too long and cumbersome. It's not that I want to upload an image to share, it's that there's already an existing image with a fucked URL.
This is why I hope that people will continue to use imgur instead unless reddit fixes their shitty urls. And actually, it's been my experience that most sites will provide a short url exactly for these reasons.
xiongchiamiov ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:32:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sure, so send them the short link to the post.
spgb- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:34:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As I said, sometimes the short-link isn't available.
temporarycreature ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:29:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Can't drag and resize reddit uploaded images in RES. I'm not going to use it until they fix this.
nliausacmmv ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:24:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur mirror for those who want it.
East902 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:28:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Irony.
Sleekery ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:34:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not that it's probably your fault, but the link doesn't show as purple when I look at it in-line with RES.
hanpanai ยท 26 points ยท Posted at 16:57:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are the randomly-generated URLs so long?
For example https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png.
It appears you're using 12 random lower-case characters + numbers in the file name, but do you really need
36 ^ 12(~4.7 * 10 18 ) possibilities? You could add upper-case letters, decrease this to 7 random characters and still maintain62 ^ 7or 3.5 trillion possible combinations.That way the URLs would be shorter, and easier to remember and copy/paste.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 19:30:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nobody will ever need more than 3.5 trillion images.
Typrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:42:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not unlikely that more than a trillion images get posted on the internet in a year or two.
[deleted] ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:59:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry. I forgot the /s.
smog_alado ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 20:02:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might have to do with keeping collisions low? Due to the birthday paradox you expect to start seeing collisions after the O(sqrt N) random URL
TexasWithADollarsign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It should be ridiculously easy to check the generated value against a DB to see if it already exists, then regenerate a value if it does.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 22:04:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And then check that one, retry etc. In complexity theory you end up with O(unbounded) for random and O(n) with the size of the space which starts to matter once it starts getting crowded. Better to use an O(1) algorithm and use a few more characters.
TexasWithADollarsign ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:35:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wrote a link shortener proof-of-concept once where it would keep track of the number of times it tried creating a unique 5-character code. If it couldn't generate a unique code in 10 tries, it would change a setting to make all new codes 6 characters from then on, effectively removing unassigned 5-character codes from being created. A less DB-intensive way could be to always generate 10 5-character codes, see if any of those codes exist in the DB already, then remove the duplicates and take the first remaining code off the top.
bananaskates ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 17:32:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's never a good idea to have case-sensitive URLs. Never.
Also, it's not just about having "enough" possible combinations, when designing a URL shortener (or any other type of link namer, like this). You need to have enough that even collisions become improbable. And because of the birthday problem, that requires an enomous search space.
In other words, reddit has chosen wisely.
Poshul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
bananaskates ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:56:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To make a long story short: Because domains are case insensitive and because URLs are often transferred (or converted, or proxied) through means that may or may not retain the letter case (such as post-it notes).
Poshul ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:08:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:00:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bananaskates ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:09:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Users, yes. Because you have to make that assumption. So, as a user, you should treat URLs that way.
That is not the same as hosts. Hosts, or servers, if you will, need to be more stringent in their thinking and account for many more things than users.
As usual with interoperability, be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept. (The Robustness Principle)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:13:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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bananaskates ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:19:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is what we're talking about. URLs are only case sensitive if the server treats them that way.
Lots of things may mess with the case. I mentioned some already. That causes problems for users if the URLs are case sensitive. In other words, for maximum interoperability, stick to lower case URLs on your site, and convert incoming requests.
JpDeathBlade ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:56:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur.com/cat
imgur.com/Cat
imgur.com/cAt
imgur.com/caT
imgur.com/CaT
imgur.com/cAT
imgur.com/CAT
These would all be different images instead of linking to the same image. It would be like going to Reddit.com and getting a different site than reddit.com.
Phylliida ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 18:52:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about imgur/CAt?
JpDeathBlade ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 19:10:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We don't talk about that one.
Poshul ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:07:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
iCvDpzPQ79fG ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:05:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nobody tries to remember the URLs...stop pretending
iamaquantumcomputer ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:43:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:55:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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smog_alado ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 20:00:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gfycat's random URLs are memorable and some of them ascend to meme status: https://www.reddit.com/r/DelayedArtisticGuppy/
Dunno why someone would like to remember random letters though.
kamaln7 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because they're a quantum computer. computers save and remember things.
balloonosaur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its for when the cats get internet access.
mindbleach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Case-sensitive random URLs suuuck. They're harder to remember. They're harder to read out. They're only good for the sake of machines, and modern machines aren't bothered by an extra couple ASCII characters.
Aardshark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:24:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even better, just copy what gfycat does: gyfcat.com/AdjectiveAdjectiveNoun
zeugma25 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:22:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but that only has a search space of one
zeugma25 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yep, it should be like they do for reddit post shortlinks like http://reddit.com/music, http://www.reddit.com/shaft and so on
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:41:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does it matter? Are people really memorising URL's? Why does it make a difference for copy/pasted URLs?
barbarr ยท 14 points ยท Posted at 16:58:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can Reddit ditch it's scrolling signup window of death? What a terrible idea. https://m.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/4oimdo/scrolling_through_reddit/?sort=confidence&utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true.
iamaquantumcomputer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just hit "dismiss"
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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barbarr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Yup, I posted in the original change log thread about A/B testing. I'm just preemptive because I don't like where it can potentially go. Here's one of the complaints in that thread.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the "continue" button wasn't dismissing the dialog for you (and instead taking you to a login page anyway), /u/Drunken_Economist confirmed that it was a bug here - I think it may have been fixed since then.
dimbojog ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:25:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans for steering wheel support?
FigMcLargeHuge ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:18:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Arrr. It's drivin' me nuts.
balloonosaur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good question, I was wondering this too.
Aflatune ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:24:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone share an ELI5 background on why Imgur is being ditched?
Bardfinn ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:48:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not reddit.
However, I use reddit a lot, and have (under another username) published works of writing to reddit. I chose to do this without expectation of recompense by reddit.
Those works were then plagiarised by other sites. I didn't give my works to these shady fuckers โ and they're profiting off my work.
My attorney outlined to me that I would have to go after these scumbags myself โ I could not, in fact, leverage the collective bargaining power of the reddit juggernaut to get paid, that I would have to go it alone.
So I did. And let me tell you: the enormity of the settlements I got out of two of the five shitbags that stole my writing was enough to fund a vacation to McDonald's PlayPlace for my son โฆ because they don't expect you to buy anything but a $1 hamburger, to use the playground. I threw the burger away. Chik-Fil-A is not an option, either, because I'm not funding political genocide.
-- Why am I telling you this?
Simple.
Reddit has a mission: become profitable. In any way possible. It must happen.
One of the things content creators (sorry, I know some of you hate that phrase) have asked for, repeatedly, is a way for them to protect the works they publish to Reddit from being plagiarised, and to share in the monetisation of those works.
Reddit fundamentally cannot pursue those options in any way, shape, or form whatsoever, if the works are actually hosted on a third-party service.
So this is (as my very educated guess) a step towards Reddit being able to show you a Preferences box that says "Allow Reddit to act on my behalf to protect my legal rights to works I license to Reddit for use." And "Participate in the Reddit Profit Sharing Programme as an independent contractor". โ or however it winds up, in the final form.
ww_crimson ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do you see Reddit spending resources on chasing down people who right-click and save your work, as a way to become profitable?
Bardfinn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:24:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As the user agreement for reddit currently stands, they can't do anything about someone right-click-saving, and then using the picture as wallpaper.
And they shouldn't.
That's personal use, which is explicitly allowed by (for example) the imgur.com Terms of Service, and the Reddit.com User Agreement.
It's not commercial. It doesn't subvert copyright. It exists as an explicitly allowed and explicitly licensed function of the contract entered into by Agreeing With The User Agreement.
The "problem" โ and the opportunity for profitable legal judgements โ comes when someone has a slightly different agreement with reddit than the one that stands today as boilerplate.
If I enter into a contract with reddit for First Publishing Rights to one or more of my works, and for Reddit to manage the rights of those works for me, and they publish those works for the personal, non-commercial use of any arbitrary person,
And it hits the front page,
Boom, I have exposure, I have fans, I have maybe even subscribers and maybe even get paid a part of the Reddit Gold applied to my work. Or adspace exposures sold alongside my work.
Now, let's say a site, call it DJARNGACK.com, rips off my work and publishes it on their website and slaps their fucking watermark on it and sells ad impressions on it and makes fifty bucks profit.
Or Facebook. Or โ whoever.
Reddit then has their attorney walk into a clerk's office, file standardised documents, wait until the shitbags that stole the work offer to settle out of court or don't show up to defend themselves and get a default judgement and sell that to a collection agency.
There's even insurance companies that underwrite this kind of lawsuit, because it's freakin' open-and-shut theft.
So the risk is low, the potential for profit is high, reddit is a champion of user's rights, people build careers out of publishing to reddit, and they get bought out by Alphabet corporation and spun off.
MissLauralot ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:06:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I hope you're right about this.
PirateNinjaa ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:32:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could always get a real job and make content in your spare time so you don't care if your work gets spread around for more to read since you aren't doing it for $$.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:42:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thats what most non-super-popular content creators do (just see youtube)
seventyeightmm ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:38:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That sounds like a doomsday scenario for reddit in my opinion. Why would they ever want to do the work that you, the content creator, rightfully should be doing? And then pay you for it? Insane.
Why would content creators want to hand over their rights to reddit? Also insane.
Bardfinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:47:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You don't currently hand over "your rights" to your work. You still wouldn't hand over your rights to your work.
If you're a YouTuber, and are working with a professional network that exists to manage the rights to your work, then that professional network will have an agreement that you, the content creator, are letting them hold W, X, Y, and Z rights, only in the function they need to manage those rights on your behalf, for a defined and limited time period, after which the agreement must be explicitly re-upped by both parties, or is terminated.
Why would they want to do the work?
As a manager, as someone holding an interest in a portfolio of rights โ
Let's say DJARNGACK.com rips off reddit's front page habitually.
Reddit now has standing to sue them. Into bankruptcy. And seize their assets. And bury their brand. Forever.
And when that happens, they own the watermark. That means every picture with the watermark is something they can issue a DMCA takedown notice against. They bury the brand. Forever.
Kill the competitors.
Reddit is a platform, the way YouTube is a platform. Reddit can manage rights the way (professional, not sleazeball) YouTube networks manage rights.
Video hits the front page and Jimmy Kimmel wants to use it? Everyone gets paid.
Video hits the front page and neoNazis want to use it? They are refused by the content creator, and if the neoNazis use it anyway, everyone gets a piece of them.
Market Share.
seventyeightmm ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:40:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doomsday. There's massive abuse of YouTube's system, as there would be for reddit. You want to take an open platform that is working fine and turn it into a commercial, for-profit-only, lawyer-filled mess in which only big or nefarious players can succeed. The DMCA is heavily rigged in the favor of large companies and can be easily gamed by those who actually want to profit off of stolen content.
If Jimmy wants to use a meme that hits reddit's front page, it is their duty to contact the user who uploaded it. Reddit should have absolutely zero say in the entire process, as well as zero financial gain.
Free and Open Internet.
Bardfinn ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:52:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
True
Demonstrably false. Reddit is overrun with abusive assholes who take delight in abusing and manipulating the system for the sake of exercising power, and abusing and manipulating others for the sake of exercising power. In addition, it is not now and never has been profitable as a business โ it continues to make a loss.
As an option
Nope. Didn't say that. Explicitly stated that commercialisation and profit exploitation would be an option.
Statement not evidenced in fact.
I'm not saying that this would involve the DMCA. YouTube doesn't use the DMCA. The DMCA is one option
So I shouldn't even try to profit off my work? Reddit shouldn't try to be a successful business, because one tactic doesn't currently work particularly well? Hint: the answer is "No".
The role that reddit should or should not have in that process is up to the agreement between reddit and that user, not you, because you are an "uninterested third party" in the eyes of the law in our hypothetical content management scenario.
The_Shaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... wouldn't Reddit be able to do that anyway with written works? Any self post that isn't linked to a third party site has already achieved the "sharing" policy that you've outlined. It doesn't seem like Reddit would pursue something that requires legal action on their behalf (which could end up costing way more than it is worth) to protect images posted on their site. Many of which are reposts or rehosts from other sites. Now I totally understand that there are photographers and artists, as well as comic strip writers who would prefer to have their work protected. It just doesn't seem like this is the right path to go down for Reddit -or- the Reddit user, a mutual sharing of property where people profit... somehow. From what I see, it's generally regarded that things posted on the internet are out of your control unless you host them personally. Reddit adding a new venue for gifs and images doesn't really lead to any content protection that I can clearly see, but I could definitely be wrong.
Bardfinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If there were an existing agreement that allows them to manage what's published on reddit.
There isn't. As it stands right now, there's only a license to exploit it, in a limited fashion, subject to the laws of the jurisdictions and courts that cover San Francisco, and which makes clear that they have no obligation to consideration.
That's how it tends to work right now. That's not because of the law not covering it (it does), but because it's hard and expensive for individuals to use the law and technology to exert that control.
These may not result in adding content protection, but they certainly open the possibility โ whereas if your content is actually hosted offsite, with a third party, there is nothing reddit can begin to offer.
timescrucial ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so reddit can own the rights to content you upload.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:38:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
it sucks
NicotineGumAddict ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 22:28:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit wants to everything in house. They want us exclusively using Resditor products. Problem is so far their new Reddit products suck. I'm staying with Imgur and Alien Blue.
Iainfixie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any word when click+drag to enlarge via RES will be supported? Or do you not give any fucks about that?
adeadhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
Iainfixie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, thanks a ton!
People like you rock!
Lunaa7 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:52:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's pretty cool! I have some questions about privacy:
Are the images hosted directly on reddit, or you can have acess from outside? I've seen some people on imgur accidentally uploading public pictures of personal things (like NSFW things) and getting bashed on imgur for that. Also, I don't know if you could delete your pictures without an account - Are uploaded images now directly attached to your username? (so to delete a photo, you would delete the post) What about reposts?
zzubnik ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a shame I can't click-zoom them with RES like I can with Imgur.
adeadhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:17:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
zzubnik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you!
JerkyChew ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:11:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit images' URLs suck. Where imgur has a nice short URL, Reddit uses this crazy long string. Makes it tough when copying and pasting.
Z0di ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:31:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the point is so you can't embed them elsewhere.
givalina ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:20:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this about that reddituploads shit? They won't load on my phone, I just get a blank page that says "unauthorized". Will you fix that?
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What type of phone OS and which specific App?
givalina ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:27:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's an Android phone using reddit now when I try to open it in app or tell it to use Google chrome to open the image.
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm surprised the issue extends to Chrome as well. If using a different app like reddit is fun or the in browser version doesn't fix it then maybe a firewall is blocking things.
nerdybirdie ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:49:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I tried this with a gif two weeks ago, I noticed that
My gif was absurdly low quality for a while after posting. I mean gigantic clouds of discoloration, 1 frame per second maybe, gigantic blocks of distorted pixels, etc. The quality got better after a while, but I'd rather have it sit through a processing page first and post at top quality than have it posted immediately but look like crap for a while.
You can't drag to resize! I miss that feature.
id000001 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 16:15:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lots of people talking about various little problem / missing feature. All I can say is that we should expect reddit to expends / fix these stuff slowly. Don't expect too much.
Having said that. This is totally a right step. I can't understand why Reddit relying so heavily on 3rd party sites for so long. Overtime, all 3rd party will fall to greed. Not saying Reddit won't, but at least reddit can control its features.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:17:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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id000001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Totally not, but reddit has some of the best record for not bloating the site with ads for a major media / sharing site.
I'm fine with their principle and track record so far. I don't see why I have to worry about them.
Dev__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I submit an Image via URL? Seems silly I have to download an image before uploading it.
id000001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure why you asked me in particular but if it is already online. Why reupload it? You can just point to that image or the page that uses that image.
Dev__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wouldn't consider this a little missing feature. It's literally forcing me to continue to use imgur unless I take this redundant step afaic.
Also hotlinking is generally frowned upon - thats often why I use image hosting services.
id000001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This wording is quite funny. reddit didn't restrict anything. All they did was adding a new feature, but some how introducing this feature is "forcing you"? Could you not, um, simply continues what you been doing all these time?
Hotlinking is not frown upon. Hotlinking when you can directly link to their page that display everything including the image you posted, is. Rehosting is significantly more frown upon than not using original page. If their server can't handle it, it is not your fault. It is like the best problem a webpage can have, being too popular. Pretty much any website owner wants that over someone rehosting their images. Especially if you don't plan on citing credit.
Dev__ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:09:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imgur - sure. I'm going to continue to do so.
Forget it mate. If you're not au fait with why hotlinking is frowned upon a discussion concerning image hosting won't be a fruitful one.
breakwater ยท 13 points ยท Posted at 17:06:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I look forward to reddit finding new and innovative ways to allow users to provide information that will be immediately censored by the mods.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:43:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I too look forward to people finding new and innovative ways to complain about unrelated things in an announcement about a feature being rolled out to everyone.
admiralbfalcon ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:30:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't resize any reddit picture with RES, they all show up as videos and the window cannot be resized.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
Doctor_McKay ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:29:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it be possible to add (fake) image extensions to the URLs? Without an image extension, image-acting extensions like HoverZoom don't act on uploaded image links.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imagus instead, it's a lot better and it works with everything (including this new host).
Doctor_McKay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, it's supported on Firefox? I'll check it out.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep, there's a firefox version too.
Doctor_McKay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:09:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, I found it. Looks nice so far. Thanks!
artformarket ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:53:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Bingo! I CAN'T use Reddit without Hover Zoom+!
qtx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:04:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Use Imagus instead, it's a lot better and it works with everything (including this new host).
pinkbutterfly1 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice to see you go.
Oddworld_Inhabitant ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:19:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure if it's because of something I have/haven't done, but images hosted on i.redd.it don't enlarge with hover-zoom - do you know if there's a fix for this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
you should not be using hoverzoom in the first place
The_Shaker ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:52:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On the Reddit client on my phone (Flow Beta, I've tried the official one but I'm so used to this one it didn't stick), the Reddit hosted images come up as "Unauthorized". When I go to open the link in a browser, the same error occurs. Is there any fix for this, or am I just going to have to miss out on any Reddit-hosted content?
generic_tastes ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:20:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably the developer of Flow Beta needs to add support. Try another mobile app in the mean time. On Android I recommend "Slide", "Sync" and "reddit is fun".
The_Shaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But... opening the link in chrome gives me the same error? I haven't tested it out anywhere else.
generic_tastes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found an explanation http://www.reddit.com/r/redditflow/comments/4m73wi/_/d43kgy8
It says Flow isn't handling certain characters the way that browsers expect Ave is pushing a flawed URL to Chrome. The original dev is the only one who can fix it and they haven't been active on their subreddit for months.
Try another app. This thread had recommendations for similar apps under active support and development.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:42:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:51:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
They need to a link format without "&" or other characters that aren't safe for copy paste.
Admins can't rely on applications being always correct with character handling.
But yeah, they at need a better error page given how many complaints we've seen already.
The_Shaker ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:30:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
PabstyLoudmouth ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:56:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like the fact, that you cannot instantly resize the picture, or make it bigger like you can with imgur posts.
thybag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you are using RES, changing your "Media Previews" settings in https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ to "Don't auto-expand" should fix the issue by letting RES take care of it again.
PabstyLoudmouth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, that worked. Much better now.
phpwriter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:06:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please update Alien Blue to support reddituploads. I always avoid the links because I can't long press them.
86smopuiM ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:26:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Preview by holding on the image in alien blue does not work with reddituploads. Given that the official reddit app still needs a lot of work to be usable, it would be nice if you to fix this.
greebytime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems like with this build, the "Suggest A Title" for linked stories - not images - has disappeared. Is this intended? There are some subs that demand you use the same title as the story, word-for-word. I always liked the "suggest a title" function as a shortcut. Why is it gone?
/u/Amg137
zck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It seems that the "suggest a title" only happens after the browser makes a request to find out what the suggested title is. And that only happens when something is put into the text box. If a user comes in from the "already been submitted. Try again?" page, it doesn't suggest a title.
greebytime ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:54:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, and I was coming in from the browser extension to see if a story has already been submitted. Still not sure why it would disappear in that instance though, but I guess if its not a global problem it's not too bad.
zck ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
From what I'm seeing, the "suggest a title" link only is added to the page by javascript; it isn't there by default.
It's added when something is put into the text box. And if you're coming from the "resubmit this page" link, or apparently the link you came from, the box is created with the text in it. That is, text is never put into the box, so it never triggers the "add the link" action.
goldism ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 17:32:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am unable to click-hold an image and resize it on the fly like we can with imgur and the chrome RES addin. Will that feature be added?
thybag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Changing your "Media Previews" settings in https://www.reddit.com/prefs/ to "Don't auto-expand" will fix the issue (RES will then expando it as normal)
goldism ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:50 on July 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
while this worked for a period of time, it is not working again. "Don't auto-expand" is currently checked within my preferences.
please advise.
ZadocPaet ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really dislike two things about this feature.
GazimoEnthra ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:48:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a reason these images can't be viewed on mobile?
klanny ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:58:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any chance we'll be able to drag to zoom in RES to make it bigger?
And also recently, it doesn't always seem to work in Imgur albums, any reason why?
pmMeYourBoxOfCables ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As soon as reddit introduced its own image hosting, imgur's own drag to resize abilities in RES seem to be hit or miss.
allocater ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 18:00:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you check why reddituploads.com does not work on German mobile networks? Every link just returns a white page with:
"unauthorized"
or
"URI something something failed"
MSG17 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 19:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For images hosted on the i.redd.it domain, HoverZoom+ doesn't work on it, which is strange since it should work for direct links to images, and has for other domains. Does a similar program work with them? If so, which one? If not, is there a problem with the host itself. Maybe the extensions is only for some domains (Imgur, Tumblr, DeviantArt).
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:02:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a problem of HoverZoom+. Maybe the dev will update it but for now you can use Imagus, it works like a charm.
MSG17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! I guess Imagus updated recently for this.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:29:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There goes imugrs traffic
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:00:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I use Reddit frequently and have been linking images and gifs via imgur. I want to quit imgur but I like posting interactive albums with titles and descriptions. Will this feature be available at some point rather than just a single image?
librekom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May I ask why?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:14:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ongoing saga. Here goes. Take my post from yesterday as an example, I published an album to Reddit with 20 actors on it. Reddit users, being the amazing people they are, suggested more names and error corrections and I updated the album as it climbed to the front page. It reached over 60 actors.
As soon as it hits the front page of Reddit then imgur has an auto-publish feature on their own website so that my previously hidden post gets automatically published on theirs. That locks the album and I can't change it anymore. There is one error on the album that's driving me nuts.
It also triggers Imgur comment bots. These are bots that rip top comments from imgur and post them on Reddit..
I have actually requested to be banned from imgur so this doesn't happen. I volunteered to be banned. But it didn't make any difference. It publishes it anyway.
My view is that this is moving very far away indeed from what imgur was supposed to be when it started.
I'd like a simple image host that has the ability to create galleries with titles and descriptions.
librekom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:19:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OK I see, thx for your answer
BmanUltima ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:10:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will a static GIF be allowed up to 100 MB?
ICantBelieveImBack ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:29:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, the complete utf8 character chart?
Madnapali ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:40:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Possible to implement image zooming similar to RES?
I've skipped over closely viewing a number of pics in the past couple weeks after failing to zoom them in.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
Madnapali ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice, thanks! Much better. Now, I won't notice whenever Reddit adds this functionality hahaha.
oonniioonn ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's usually someone helpful in the comments who rehosted the image on imgur so it can be actually viewed properly.
Ansalo ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:25:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit's servers are already infamous for their instability. How will this effect them?
sdubois ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a separate domain.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't necessarily mean it's different servers.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:21:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
like your two different comments?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
like your two different comments?
FigMcLargeHuge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Even when the servers are too busy, they still manage to serve me up a cute picture of a cat playing with a network cable. It calms me down and shows that their image hosting is still running. I think we are good.
Skolanthropy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is my biggest concern. They can barely keep text coming onto my screen... much less images.
Mitchtrades ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you upload on mobile as well using this?
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes, on apps that support it which currently means only the official app.
interiot ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:26:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is hotlinking allowed, both from reddit and from other sites?
tampy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:29:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the redditupload site? I always avoid this because I can't preview it on Alien Blue. Please fix this.
bilabrin ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:46:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which political narratives will be safe from having their memes deleted off the new Reddit image hosting?
OpenGLaDOS ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:48:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be an easy way to reverse image links? For example, from this post's image (https://i.redd.it/lasm5nl33o4x.png) to its comments (https://www.reddit.com/4p5dm9)?
tux_mark_5 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:53:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Won't this degrade Reddit's performance even more? I'm already getting 503s every day. But in the past even when the comments section 503'ed I could still open the link or linked image, because it was hosted somewhere outside Reddit.
generic_tastes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:15:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Image hosting and CDN is pretty easy to put on separate servers in addition to being a separate domain. So no it shouldn't experience performance issues at the same time the comments do.
0000010000000101 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:57:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you directly host .webm up to 100mb (e.g. reddit.com/hosting/user/myfilename.webm) and allow sound files and player controls? Or will put everything in a proprietary webm container and prevent us from using the features of the standard? (e.g. reddit.com/hosting/user/myfilename.gifv) Or will you actually be hosting time synced gif frames up to 100mb and making sure no one ever uses it at all? (in other words will it be good? will it be bad? or will it be useless?)
neutron_ ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:04:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Since reddit self post don't generate karma, will pointing to reddit's own image hosting link generate karma?
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're uploading an image, it won't be a self post.
ImNorwegian ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:06:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will reddit embedded images function as self-posts, thus giving no karma to the user?
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No
PendragonTheNinja ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:06:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this ever be added functionality to mobile?
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's already in the official app, and available to other developers if they want it.
ponytoaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the official app any good yet? I'm still using "now for reddit".
adeadhead ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:28:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not even slightly.
TheBoogerGame ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:09:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only issues I have is its functionality with hover zoom
SlothOfDoom ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:11:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reported day one of beta...still not addressed: Images are not resize-able.
Jakeable ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:15:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be a subreddit setting to prevent image uploads (without the need for CSS/AutoModerator)?
thataccountforporn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:19:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you gonna start marking the links as visited once you open them?
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/_/d4i4lc9
thataccountforporn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:50:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is that relevant?
generic_tastes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry, replied to wrong comment.
CitizenPremier ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:19:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you going to be good to third party apps and allow previews in RIF or pull the same stunt as imgur and charge for API access?
adeadhead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I already have previews in RiF
CitizenPremier ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:03:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But not like the full-size ones you get in subs like /r/meirl. I guess that's what I meant.
The question still applies, though--I hope they aren't going to try to squeeze out third party apps.
inbl ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:23:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
On Alien Blue I can hold down the thumbnail of some images to expand the image without leaving the current subreddit and opening the link. Is there a way to make this possible on Alien Blue for Reddit uploads (currently does not work for me), or are we out of luck since the app isn't supported anymore?
DeithWX ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:36:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm gonna pass
chupacabrando ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:38:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
byebye imgur, you done fucked up!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:44:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to hear it. I'm behind the great firewall of China and Imgur links work less than 50% of the time and often need to be reloaded several times...hopefully this will make a difference.
Tryhard-trollin-name ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:41:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Or you could move to a place that actually values freedom.
inate71 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:45:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about third party apps? Do you guys plan to create an API to allow third party apps to upload to Reddit's image hosting?
mindbleach ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:45:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Swapping the title/URL order is a coin-flip decision. There's no right answer... but screwing with muscle memory is the wrong answer. Don't re-flip coins.
And please stop interfering with shift-tab behavior when the subreddit selection is focused. That's what the arrow keys are for.
bigterry ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
need to implement the drag-to-resize feature.
UnitedDC_kicker ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:52:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
When sports reddits post a gif its often removed by the rights holder (broadcast company i guess). Will reddit by working with content rights holders to take down gifs/images?
bryantohallaron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Of course :)
staffell ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:28:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What will this mean for imgur?
piblicshame ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:30:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's the end of IMGUR! Good! I fucking hate imgur specially those gifv that strip sounds from original videos.
genuinelySurprised ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:45:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can everyone who actually uploads a 100MB GIF be automatically put into /r/naughty_corner ?
idga_chuck ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:13:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great! imgur is blocked by my workplace's domain, but reddituploads is not!
yet...
ColdCocking ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:24:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And reddit says: FUCK IMGUR
Pyehole ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:42:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh thank god, we can finally stop using that piece of shit imgur website and mobile browsing of reddit pics will be fun again.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:42:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally. Goodbye imgur, you were a blessing that eventually became a curse, cats paw and all. You won't be missed.
MMMMorshu ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 19:43:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bye-bye Imgur, you won't be missed.
namelessted ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 21:50:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So it appears that the new image hosting doesn't have any support for RES. Can't minimize or maximize content, or click drag to resize them either. Are these features you can implement on your side? Or does the dev of RES need to update their code?
Also, any timeframe on when we can see image hosting on self posts and comments? The vast majority of images that I view on Reddit are either in comments or in the body of self posts.
I realize that this is just rolling out now, but it really feels like the absolute bare minimum in an effort to keep people on Reddit rather than going out to Imgur for traffic. It seems like if features of RES were built into reddit by default it would solve way more issues than hosting images yourself.
maddkid53 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:25:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How convenient, I like how the Reddit hosted photos dont allow drag-scaling with RES! Awesome functionality, and something I look forward to seeing more of
/s
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:59:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But drag rescaling isn't a click through.
Wrong, do it again! If you don't click through, you can't have enlarged images, how can you have enlarged images if you don't view our ads! You! Yes, you! behind the bikesheds, stand still, laddie!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:42:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks
NeedAGoodUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:01:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You. Unless you can find something that says otherwise in reddit's ToS/User agreement.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:58:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Well Reddit has already used user content in their publications - so it looks like they've given themselves free license to exploit user generated content (while denying anyone else besides the content creator from doing the same)
Also,
"By submitting user content to reddit, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display your user content in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so."
Will we be seeing a revised T&Cs?
NeedAGoodUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:31:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IANAL but don't most of the T&Cs allow reddit to do what you want it to and so reddit can run, at all?
I remember seeing a post or something that described these with examples, so here's my take on them:
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
These seem like pretexts, frankly. Reddit admins have already said they are looking to monetize data better, and it stands to reason that they are doing the same for content. They've done it before and this looks like a way to ramp things up. So users retain ownership of their own content, but reddit reserves the right to have unlimited license to it (and not compensate the original creator, or even necessarilz credit them)
I could be wrong and this million-dollar venture could be solely for the benefit of users.
daveboy2000 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:58:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Isn't this literally what imgur exists for?
CrumpinCorey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 22:59:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think for most RES users, I'm not the only one that constantly resizes the image. This isn't possible with an image uploaded directly, so idk if I'm liking it yet.
Kolecr01 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:04:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What happens to ownership of the uploaded images?
cphoover ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:07:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why? They didn't want to lose the advertising $$$ obvy.
Every time someone leaves Reddit that's potential revenue lost. I'm surprised they are just now figuring this out
UN_M ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:11:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You should also allow NSFW image hosting... you have appropriate mechanisms in place already for tagging & preventing embarrassing content being shown... I hope this isn't the beginning of the Great Sanitising before you hock the site to facebook or something... :/
icansitstill ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:26:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's gonna happen to Imgur?
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:40:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Once it starts to be used more, I imagine they'll lose a lot of traffic. But they've already built their own community. So they'll survive for awhile.
dallabop ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:54:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there plans for albums?
miniature_light ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:01:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Eat shit. This is a move only to control content. Fuck off asshole.
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do you think imgur does? They don't only censor content to protect their image, or whatever reason most companies do it for, they censor stuff just because they don't like it. Even if it's not published.
KurrKurr ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:02:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'll just continue pasting images from the clipboard into imgur. This kind of comfort has not been trumped yet.
Bitcoin_Chief ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:04:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Step 2 require it. Step 3 censorship.
FuckOutTheWhey ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:52:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip imgur
CharlieSheenAids ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:38:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Still using imgur.
Motherfuck this gay ass selfish shit and fuck you
Octan3 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:44:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if reddit gets overloaded as it is and I sometimes are unable to browse reddit, How will adding big pictures to the site help that issue? lol. I mean its really awesome the large file sizes and faster load times for sure but will it cause an increase in being unable to browse?
Im_Freee ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 02:58:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it remove EXIF data?
culmor30 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 03:01:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it strip EXIF tags like imgur does? An important concern for the privacy-conscious.
Shiftclick46 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:20:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
YES! No more damn imgur issues!
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:35:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
Agent_Chroma ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 06:26:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now why would I want to upload images directly and risk unwarranted censorship when sli.mg exists?
dvidsilva ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 08:01:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully this won't get buried but why did you kill alien blue. I'm using your official app now, which I guess is your goal, but I miss a lot of things from alien blue and I'm fucking sad you killed it. When are we getting full functionality back? And what's the point of releasing an official app that sucks compared to the unofficial ones?
CromulentPerson ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 14:24:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any idea of you guys eventually getting rid of shitty and halfbaked features like this, your mobile site, and your mobile app?
Seriously all of these things make browsing reddit worse. There is no reason to increase the number of clicks to instantly see an image.
SunkJunk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:05:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How does this increase the number of clicks to see an image?
arppacket ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:56:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is this feature limited to new link posts? Why can't this be seamlessly incorporated into the regular new post/comment editors somehow??? You do realize that we often need to use multiple images, right?
Please think about different use cases when you implement new features. When you say you support image hosting, support it properly, so that we do not have to still use third party sites for 90% of image hosting anyway.
Just give us a button or something, dialog should upload the image and paste the url at the editor cursor. If you're that concerned about abuse of S3 space, have a deduplication engine that checks hashes at upload time and gives you the existing url.
Reposts should retain the image even if the original post is deleted. Is it really that hard to implement a refcounter for the image link so that you can delete it only when no posts/comments point to it?
VanillaSkyHawk ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 09:51:33 on September 24, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
CAN YOU RELEASE THE API SO THAT THE OTHER APP DEVS CAN USE REDDIT IMAGE UPLOADER?
THX IN ADVANCE
CommanderGumball ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:24:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The biggest (read: only) problem I've had with reddit uploads vs. imgur or other, is that you can't resize the pictures by clicking and dragging. Not sure if this is RES specific (Because I've never used Reddit without) or not, but it's just a little annoying when the images are a bit small.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
aljonez1498 ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:11:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thus beginning the Imgur wars.
FreezeS ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 16:15:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur was created as "An image hosting site that doesn't suck".
Well, now it sucks.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:52:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would their posters stop mirroring?
hammil ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:11:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why only SFW communities, out of curiosity?
duckvimes_ ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 16:13:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Probably safer than worrying about underage porn.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Liability thing for sure, I imagine.
I also wonder if there's any government regulation "stuff" that would change if Reddit officially hosted NSFW image content rather than links to it or embedded videos or whatever.
Sporkicide ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Answer given here
B1GTOBACC0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Most likely to mitigate the risk of hosting illegal content.
SenorArchibald ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:16:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not nsfw pics too?
bsmith0 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:32:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bandwidth/traffic concerns https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i50k7
im_not_me_irl ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:31:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's cuming soon.
TedTheViking ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:28:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Says higher up in the thread that they'll eventually expand to NSFW, but they're just doing SFW for now.
fartinator_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This was answered here.
bamgrinus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:35:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was stated elsewhere that it's purely due to capacity issues. They've been slowly building out capacity, and will eventually expand it to NSFW.
GavinZac ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:43:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Starting with a smaller sample of images before trying to take on the bulk of reddit's content.
lithedreamer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
'Content', is that what the kids are calling it these days?
VAGINA_EMPEROR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's coming soon
...just like u, u dirty little pervert :^)
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can upload NSFW pics. Just not from NSFW subs.
fuzzer37 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:45:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Your pictures don't resize the way normal pictures do with RES. Instead of these hacked together features, why not just buy RES to make vanilla reddit bearable?
kemitche ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like RES just needs to make a few changes to catch up and handle these types of images.
SpaceSteak ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If they wanted to integrate RES features into reddit, it wouldn't be with a browser addon so that wouldn't make much sense. It's already there, at no cost to them, to users who want it.
adeadhead ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:14:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can fix that by disabling media previews in your reddit preferences which will then make it so RES handles all expandos.
[deleted] ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 21:07:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Hey guys we're running in red why don't we try and expand with something that's almost guaranteed to be unprofitable and demand tons of bandwidth on our already overtaxed servers."
Then again with all the censoring and people leaving, I guess bandwidth won't be a problem for much longer.
chinese_farmer ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 17:02:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
pass.
good job guys, you're only like 8 years late. typical reddit.
is search fixed yet?
it only took years to fix several other obvious bugs im sure were reported a million times
indigestible_wad ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:13:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any policing of images uploaded? If somebody uploads NSFW content to a SFW subreddit, or if a subreddit is incorrectly flagged as SFW?
hapaxLegomina ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't look like it. They're just doing this as a slow-rollout, so it looks like it's defined by sub, not by content.
Bardfinn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:34:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
First one is what mods are for.
Second one is what the Report button is for.
charonpdx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have to imagine this works the same as for third-party image hosts - the subreddit's moderation team will figure it out.
ManWithoutModem ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:30:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks for doing this! Imgur has become pretty much the same type of thing that /u/MrGrim disliked when he created it, it is basically being another version of photobucket/imageshack, but at least it has a community. Shoutout to /u/badmonkey0001 for a job at reddit when imgur eventually goes under. Cheers.
PigNamedBenis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:36:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
People start out with great ideas and things to to build trust and userbase. Once that is established, they slowly degrade it and the momentum keeps going what people would never have wanted in the first place. You can watch this cycle happen with most companies.
neiled ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:40:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Search for 'resize'. Upvote all the posts that mention you can't dynamically resize reddit hosted images.
losian ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:32:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't give a fuck then. All this hands-off-the-porn nonsense is pathetic. We're adults. Business are run by adults. The communities are properly over-18-warned and such, just host the shit or don't, instead of putting up all these little "we only host SAFE content" bullshit. It's just like Paypal, credit cards, etc. all being so pissy about adult stuff. It's ridiculous.
fsjdfosjio ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 22:19:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so reddit is one step closer to being just an imageboard. a highly censored, trending content aggregating image board.
Inspect-Her-Gadget ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you make these images compatible with the Reddit Enhancement Suite?
i_killed_hitler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think that would be up to the RES team.
socium ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So when I click on a link of the image in /r/all it takes me to the post instead of the image. Is that only for RES users or also for non-RES users?
If it's for both, is it possible to somehow just go to the image? I think it will also be easier on the resources.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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RenaKunisaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because imgur sucks now.
doryx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:24:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given the amount of reposts, are you guys doing anything to make sure you save the image once? Will that impact an image being deleted when a post is deleted?
Hobotto ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:32:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean I don't know things - right? I'm kind of a dummy about stuff.
But one question I would ask is why would I use this when an alternative that meets my needs already exists?
Syraxx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:34:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What will we do without the cat swiping from imgur
Criss-Istr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:40:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how much this affects imgur's traffic
Fiishbait ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:40:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope it is clear which are gifs, especially 100s of megs.
Screw those lol.
twists ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for allowing me to stop using imgur. Jesus that site is bloated now.
Ideal_Jerk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is Reddit pulling a Facebook and will retain full rights to use uploaded images anyway it likes to?
Kuzy92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:52:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, imgur staff is shitting their pants is what you're saying
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:10:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, just designing more paws to swipe across the screen.
coldevil123 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I open images with the Res button the links stay "unclicked" what's up with that?
nickert0n ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur HQ be like:
http://thetangential.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Homer-Simpson-the-End-is-Near.gif
koproller ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:54:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
for people who fear they'll miss imgur
turikk ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:55:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you click on images hosted by reddit on the front page, the link actually goes to the comments section.
This is actually a pretty cool feature since it allows expando to work, helps with automod rules and other automated actions, and still lets mobile apps/API driven feeds show the image appropriately.
Any plans to allow this functionality to work for other types of posts? Perhaps let moderators apply it via flair templates?
ajrc0re ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:57:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't preview them by holding down the thumbnail in alien blue. 100% useless.
mrstinton ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THANK YOU! I curse the low-quality tyranny of imgur's image compression.
flyinggoatcheese ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:59:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
This change has caused my subreddit to automacally replace every first letter of a word to a capital. How do I fix this?
/r/QualityYouTube is the subreddit. I have Unintalled all extensions to make sure if that was it. I use the theme /r/naut.
Edit: can we get an option to turn this feature off?
Edit2: Seems to be caused when mixing the update and theme together.
dee_c ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:02:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I assume gold members will eventually be paying for the ability to post larger files and total bandwidth use.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And... unlike IMGUR, these ones are not blocked by the office's firewall ! :D
TekAzurik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean we won't see inline gif support for imgur links on the native reddit app. This is the only thing keeping me from switching from Alien Blue (though I do like the peek feature). If you don't get people using your image hosting, or if even some non-trivial percentage of gifs on reddit remain imgur links it would make the reddit app still unusable.
heysully ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:03:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jesus Christ you must have doubled your server space to be able to do this. I assume keeping everything on the one site will up ad revenue and that's how it's supposed to pay off maybe? Pretty cool, though.
coreyisthename ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you add a feature that shows the view count of pics like imgur has? I like that.
smokeTO ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's your stance on hotlinking?
Elliotastic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:05:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't preview images on alien blue ):
duniyadnd ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:06:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just more annoyed that I had to hear that this was being put in place via a techcrunch tweet linking to their article than reddit itself.
Tryhard-trollin-name ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:40:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How is that anyone elseโs problem. you could have checked reddit first.
wah wah. Blocked lol
Cmarr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:08:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If only this was supported in Alien Blue's press to hold option
EchoRadius ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will the option be available to third party apps?
kamicc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:13:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it support .webP ?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:14:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could we increase the number of images a subreddit can upload?
Currently limited to 50 kinda sucks. 500 would be better.
Minerva89 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:16:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So long as RES supports it like it does imgur, fine.
NeoStarSky97 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
4500 upvotes. That was fast
thisisdexter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I recently read somewhere about this announcement. It said why should reddit generate so much free traffic for imgur. Hence they came up with their own image hosting service.
beancounter2885 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:17:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Two problems I have with reddit hosting images. First, videos and images have the same icon, unlike RES. Second, and this one is a bigger problem, opening reddit-hosted images will not turn a link purple. This has been true of videos forever, but now it's like I have no idea what I've looked at on reddit.
politicalGuitarist ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:19:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur should start embracing the sweet release of death.
Nitraus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:20:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is now a new porn site
theplannacleman ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and imgur dies
onlyusemepickaxe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So rip imgur?
barre_chord_reality ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Question. Why not embed all images in the post, instead of just the first image in the thread?
immoralcombat ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:21:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a bad idea...I mean do you really have that resources to monitor every image 24/7?
grohlier ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:22:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this change Reddit to be something I can't view at work because it will be deemed a image-sharing site?
Imgur/google drive/any file sharing site is banned from where I work. Currently I can browse the news-y feeds and save the image links I want to see later.
generic_tastes ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The image hosting is done through a separate domain name so they should just be able to block that specific domain and leave the rest of reddit alone. All dependent on your jobs IT admin obviously.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:24:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is not blocked in China, Imgur is. One of two things will happen: Reddit will get blocked, or images will be visible. Any idea which?
Tryhard-trollin-name ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:38:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Literally who cares.
Anyone who complacently allows some third party to allow/block information from reaching them has no right to complain when the third party blocks something they like.
(If you still donโt see it go ahead and join the idiots who stick around in China and content themselves with workarounds to the blocking, just try not to act too surprised when you realize you were an idiot for staying under their thumb if and when they kick down your door)
Super_C_Complex ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is your plan for handling Copyrighted material that is uploaded without permission?
Are you going to be proactive about it, or are you going to wait for the DMCA takedown notice first?
alifeaboutnothing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck your native app. Alien Blue for life.
GweedoWeedo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:25:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is what Reddit image hosting looks Like to me most of the time
BrianLemur ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:26:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One issue I've had: for all the problems that imgur has, one thing that it supports is horizontal view of an image. This is particularly important since a vertical view of a wider image can make reading text hard. Since the native app (and thus any pictures viewed through it) doesn't support horizontal mode, it's not possible to see some of these images in their ideal format. Any plans to add horizontal support? Even if just for images?
grapechicken26 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:28:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, I can't even view this image on my android..
manateerealtor ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the same problem. :(
thoeni ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awww pleaso no, redditupload doesnt work on flow.
ajw827 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:31:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does someone have an example of a gif? Just curious, because imgur gifs don't auto play when I link them to Facebook and I was wondering if reddit gifs will auto play.
tilluminati ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why can you not save an image to device on mobile? I have been mildly pissed ever since people started using reddit uploads because of this.
Tunalic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This only works if I open it to a separate tab. It's broken in Reddit.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:39:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a planned retention policy?
mcscrotumballs ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will it run on Pied Piper?
Orkished ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's great! Thank you! Is this the downfall of imgur, or does this just mean more content for them haha :D either way yay
falconfoxbear ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:40:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wouldn't open automatically on sync for Reddit. Didn't read
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:41:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Until I can click and drag and enlarge like I do with imgur links on RES I will avoid clicking on these links. Also, when I click view all images it does not work either.
theWildMooshroom ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:42:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur 2009-2016
frankreddit5 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wow, this is a pretty huge step, and I'm sure a massive undertaking. nice job
DanielShaww ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:43:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the imgur.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:45:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Loving the improved communication from reddit admins these past few months. Keep it up guys and gals.
Dizzystyle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:46:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good job i dont need to upload my dickpics to imgur anymore
CashFrags ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Please stop giving imgur ad money we want the traffic and ad money instead"
MinerLeagueGamer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:47:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will viewing/ posting work on Alien Blue?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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WoodTrophy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:36:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds like there's an issue with the code for one of the lifecycle methods. Personally, I use Reddit is Fun on android. The official reddit app definitely looks much, much better, but the functionality is not as great.
YourHomicidalApe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:48:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur. Literally the only reason it was alive was because of Reddit
homelessscootaloo ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:49:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about being able to save the pic while on mobile? That is the most important feature.
GeorgeMichealScott ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:50:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just like the official reddit app.....it works like fucking shit.
k9thebeast ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to have a separate action to view a NSFW image? For example maybe clicking on the image itself (when you click on it originally it is covered and you must click it again to see it). Would help a lot of "missclicks" :)
Fig_Newton_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:51:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This shit's hell on mobile
root_su ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:52:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally free from own bitch
mcrookedy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will it support gfycat and play gifs natively from the Reddit iOS app without having to go to the link?
hmagah ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I AM OUTRAGED!
But can somebody tell me why?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:53:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The mobile site is garage with the images its worse.
I want my images in a new tab, full size like imgur.
Regis_DeVallis ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:54:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the original image size kept? I want to be able to download the original image from subs like /r/earthporn for wallpaper, even if the image is 12k wide.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:55:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stick to what you guys do best... don't get into image hosting/serving. Just so not worth the added cost.
StockmanBaxter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sure all the people who have imgur blocked but not reddit will thank you.
I know at my old job I would have been so freakin happy to see this.
Ginjedai ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:58:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about primarily mobile users? Any image uploading capabilities for us?
eightNote ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what image types are supported?
Dizneymagic ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans to allow video to gif editing directly on Reddit?
DorkSidedStuff ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur be all like ...
Poop-a-saurus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:00:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would gifs please load faster as compared to imgur.com ? It is sometimes faster to load a full video than a small gift unfortunately for us peasants .
crazygamelover ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the redditor that posts the image going to have the ability to delete the image at any time?
and if so,
Will that propagate to x-posts and links?
Radioactive-Sloth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will you allow me to post an image, but still be able to type text and not a paragraph of a title (sometimes I have to explain the image in greater detail)
kittensmittens69 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:01:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes this is very nice and all but can we please fix the issue where reddituploads won't open w long presses in Alien Blue. Since Alien Blue is no longer in development, this seems like an issue that we'll encounter a lot more now that you guys are making this official.
IcefrogIsDead ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
now we have all your info and most of what you share stays on reddit too!
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't even visit the website a lot of the time without it being overloaded...how the hell do you expect to host images but the millions now?
BedtimeBandits ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur :[ you had a good run.
existentialpenguin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:11:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does clicking on a Reddit-hosted image take you to the comments instead of the actual image? This is unexpected behavior, and given the "comments" link right below the image link, it's also unnecessary.
jylehr ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be too late to ask, but I'm curious. How will this effect imgur? Like will they go out of business since they're largest provider of Web traffic no longer needs them?
zaaaaz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You need to get the /r/pizza subreddit in on this. It's a default (I believe) but removes anything non-Imgur right now. Just tested and it killed my upload.
Also: awesome job. I've been waiting for this! So much faster and easier.
SirVer51 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:12:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would it be possible to have the app report the size of a pic or GIF along with the thumbnail if it exceeds a certain size? That 20/100 MB limit is making my data plan whimper.
KayakBassFisher ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:15:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you imgur for making our website possible, now please kindly fuck off. Thanks.
Dwight--Schrute ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:20:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
a big fuck you to imgur, lol.
sir_fancypants ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:21:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ironically, by putting this information in an image, it's basically unsearchable.
Sardonnicus ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:29:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm... seems like a golden chance to buy up some IMGUR stock on the cheap.
JuSiPa ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP in peace Imgur.
brokenstep ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:33:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP my setup.
I use hoverzoom to watch the video without having to visit the page for the gif/image/youtube link. This seems to not work. Every other website works
hungbandit007 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took me so long to figure out that there wasn't some underlying humour I was missing in this post.
sidneyl ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:36:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The main feature that I use constantly with Imgur/RES, is the dynamic re-sizing of the image/gif.
That clic-and-drag is not only very satisfying when browsing content here, it's also very useful, because image sizes vary a lot depending on the subreddit.
I've found myself being fustrated when I can't resize an image hosted by Reddit uploads.
Will this be added to the Reddit Media system? Please?
snowlovesnow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:40:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One huge problem with reddit hosted images is that I am unable to resize them on the front page like I can with all other images. Click and drag on them does nothing. I think this might be a RES feature, I don't remember, but anyway either it's a problem on reddit end or a problem with the RES image resizing feature, I don't know.
vivvav ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's working at /r/comicbooks.
no_username_for_me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:43:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills imgur
ArchDucky ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:44:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No titties? Is reddit going christian or something?
danielthetwin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
DarkBlueMullet ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:49:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought you guys and Imgur were in cahoots? Will this not be potentially fatal for Imgur?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:50:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip imgur
SoTotallyToby ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:51:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.I.P Imgur
hypesurf ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:58:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip imgur
sakutaro_is_alive ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:59:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death to imgur?
americangame ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:59:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
cometparty ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:01:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Die, imgur, die!
spaceghost_n_moltar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:03:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:04:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bye imgur
bmcelroy ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:05:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how soon do we realize they delete or hide images of dissenting opinions.
Metabog ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:08:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur.
DrScabhands ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:09:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god, I hated Imgur
JustinBrower ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:11:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you! I hated using third party image hosting.
S-a_m ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:17:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor imgur is about to lose a lot of users..
oboewan42 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:18:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I clicked on the link to get the comments on this announcement, this is what I got.
My issues with this rollout should be self-explanatory.
addama ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:20:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you revised the Privacy Policy to account for this? Or at least some kind of legal wording outlining the retention policy, privacy settings/expectations, etc. Imgur owns every image you upload to them, for example, and images can't be deleted unless you get ahold of them and ask specifically for an image to be removed. Is Reddit's hosting the same? Do you have rights to our images? Do they decay over time to preserve space? Are there privacy settings, such as "Viewable only on Reddit", "Viewable only by sharing the link" (as in Youtube private videos) or even just "Only I can see it"? Can images be reported as offensive? Are our images aggregated in any way (as in Imgur's front page, random images, etc), and can we opt out of that? Are the images queryable by external sources, or in any other way shared with third party companies?
Without this stuff laid out, I'm sure you know, you'll run into some legal trouble pretty quickly. Privacy and content management is serious business. What I'm hoping is that it's already there, and I am just speaking too quickly.
NeedAGoodUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:59:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have a source for that? I believe that Imgur's terms would be written like Facebook's where you keep all the rights, but by uploading you give the host some rights to be able to do what you want them to do.
addama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:16:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/tos
Meaning that, no, they don't technically "own" the image. My bad. But you give them permanent and perpetual right to use it, replicate it, repurpose it, maybe even change it (depending on how you interpret "derivative works"), etc, without your knowledge or consent beyond the implicit consent you didn't know you were giving because no one reads the Terms:
We'd like to interpret the above as "we have image modification services to manipulate your images, and you give us the right to make those modifications at your request", but the wording is much much broader than that. They can do those things whether you want them to or not.
There'd be a good market for a monetized /r/gonewild app, and you've agreed that they can to do that. There'd be a good market in partnering with an advertising agency to use your images in advertising, and you've agreed that they can do that.
You can ask for your images to be deleted, but even for that you have to give a "detailed" reason why, along with an itemized list of every image you want deleted. There is no Terms or Privacy text concerning image deletion, except that you must ask for your images to be deleted. There is nothing saying that they have to honor or even respond to your request, either.
For the record, I don't consider Imgur an evil company, and this is all normal T&C stuff to protect the company in as many cases as possible. That's fine. But let's be honest, this stuff isn't written for your benefit, and it's not written with your everyday use-case in mind.
NeedAGoodUsername ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:44:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right, but isn't there law(s) that say that websites with user content need these in order to do what you want the site to do? I wrote an example here of my take on what these could mean. Currently trying to look for the source of where I got it from.
But doesn't that include things like rescaling, stripping the exif data, turning gifs into gifv's and so on.
I think the image deletion form would be to just weed out nonsense requests and so trolls can't flood the queue and expect a reply.
I agree, it is often oddly worded and not well understood. Trying to find that article or post that explained it.
addama ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:40:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's what I'm saying, though. We can assume "It's just to do those things," but if legal action were to occur, do you think a lawyer would look at the wording in that TOS and say "Yep, it says they have free range to do what they want, but we know it really only means these specific but somehow unmentioned things"? Legalese thrives on exactness. If it's not mentioned, not restricted, it doesn't exist.
I would be interested to hear if there was a ruling or governing body whose job it is to overrule Terms and Privacy agreements. I believe that you've seen something somewhere, but I highly doubt there's anything nearly as friendly as you want there to be. The company made an agreement that isn't outside of reason, and you agreed. The law abides.
True. I think more likely that was a function of their database architecture that they never upgraded as they grew. It smells of old code that was never updated because it's "too complicated." It would be very inefficient to have to review thousands of delete requests with your human eyes, no? Especially when you can easily have different paths for "I want to delete my images" and "I want someone else's images deleted." Since the majority are probably going to be the former, you check the logged in user, make sure they are the uploader, and delete the images (and do any cascading things, yada yada). Or, you know, let the user delete their own images without having to beg to do it.
Anyway, what I don't want is A) Reddit not updating their Terms/Privacy to cover this new functionality at all, and B) Reddit adopting a legally ambiguous and overreaching TOS like Imgur's that will invite hella
legal troublebad press and ruin a good thing.Clear, precise language that doesn't evaluate to "we can do whatever whenever, and you can't sue us about it." That's all I want.
manr0e ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:22:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
GodleyX ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:26:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
the only thing I don't like about it, is it doesn't work with RES, unless I need to update it or something. Clicking view images doesn't make them load, and when I load them manually, I can't click and drag to resize. other than that, no complaints.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:13:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES will be updated soon to fix any problems.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:27:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't like it, i now have to click twice to get to the image, i prefer imgur or direct image address
petcson ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so imgur just shat itself
ScroogeMcDuckII ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:32:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
reddit hosted images never seem to work with HoverSee
TheIndependantVote ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:38:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I advise people to still use imgur as well as reddits platform in the interest of both beneficial competitiveness as well as concerning the issues regarding Reddit and censorship, specially in the wake of the Orlando Islamic Terrorist incident with /r/news et. al.
IncredibleBert ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:40:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the imgur
Saiing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You seem to struggle serving up text during peak hours. How are images going to be handled better?
LetsEatTrashAndDie ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:41:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
if reddit can make this change now, then why can't the US switch to metric?
Jelman21 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:43:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
tinacat933 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:02:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But now I can't just hover and see the image (using the alien blue app) I actually have to click into it .... Boo :(
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:03:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If imagur was on the stock market though
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:07:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please open this up to NSFW communities.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:11:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you going to do when the weird ass imgur users follow their top posters to Reddit?
DugtrioTheFinest ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:27:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why only SFW subreddits?
painlessDawg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:35:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't reddit already have huge refinance problems? Hosting images will need shit loads of more server space right?
Tommymair ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:57:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is the alien wearing a german jersey?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:38:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good because imgur fucking sucks these days.
auliyaa33 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:39:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And this is how imgur died
thedoodnz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:44:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now, how about a very basic WYSIWYG editor ffs?
skepticscorner ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:44:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you ever plan to let ireddituploads work on android mobile? Your app sucks compared to mobile or other apps
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:44:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is the easy DMCA takedown notice or email that we can use with the inevitable rampant infringement that is going to happen?
Might as well save yourself some effort and make an easy web interface now.
aristocrat_user ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:45:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur!
sjdr92 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:05:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am subscribed to /r/civbattleroyale, where the main point is to read albums of narrated pictures from an AI (artificial intelligence) only game. Currently Imgur is used, due to it having very good album options. Will this ever expand to cover albums, with captions/text, and different viewing formats?
Morawka ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:38:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you guys are so strapped for cash why would you make a needless feature that will cost you money when plenty of good alternatives already exist.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:48:45 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Native hosting means Reddit gets revenue that would otherwise go to imgur. It's a ballsy move to be sure, but I can see how it will pay off.
Of course, the super skeptical viewpoint is that Reddit-controlled images can be censored/monkeyed with more easily than images on a 3rd party host. Why look bad to business partners because all your dirty laundry is on sli.mg or imgur when you can host that shit in-house and yank it when things go wrong? I wonder if archive.is will start picking up larger images now?
BoonesFarmGrape ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:44:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks for this, imgur has become a tire fire
PheePhooPhil ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:48:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow this is seriously going to fuck imgur lol
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 22:56:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who gives an admin gold? Why? I don't trust Reddit with my images.
mirror_1 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:19:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, a feature on Reddit that works just fine! Let's fix that.
cr_wdc_ntr_l ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:28:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
finally all these <insulttogiveitundeniablynegativesound> involved imgurians will see what their community is worth
Professah_Farnsworth ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:35:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Exciting! I've been wanting an upload feature for a while, so I'm very happy about this. Good moves Reddit, proud of you.
KingOfKingsOfKings01 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:40:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
how tha fuck is this possible when every 3rd page I look at on reddit I get a servers are overloaded error msg..
you can afford some fancy ass image hosting.. but the normal reddit page is famous for micro stops (overloads)
confused
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit doesn't really go down that much anymore. But the images are hosted by a third party. So it's not their servers taking the load.
NeedAGoodUsername ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:41:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a moderator of /r/Videos, is it possible to disable it?
Not that I don't like it, but /r/Videos is for....videos...not pictures or gifs. The same applies for other video only subreddits like /r/UnknownVideos.
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:36:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not yet.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/4kukc3/moderators_help_us_beta_test_image_hosting/d3hyrsn?context=3
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:08:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And thus Imgur dies.
xDinomode ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:20:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I feel like Reddit already does a good job grabbing the image from a post. All I see coming from this is clickbait on steroids.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:25:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a Mac version? Hehehe
retnemmoc ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:32:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So when Reddit posts are censored or removed by Mods or Admins at the behest of their corporate partners, are the images removed as well?
InMySafeSpace ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well duh
This is just a ploy to better control images posted. Why bug imgur to re ml over an image, when you can just do the removing yourself
SeeYouSpaceCorgi ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:38:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm not sure where this originates from (Be it imgur, RES or Reddit) but whenever an image is hosted on the Reddit server, I can't click and drag to resize, which is a feature that's often really handy. It solves scrolling to see all of an image and it lets you resize an image way too big instantly.
Is there any way/intention of implementing this feature onto the Reddit image hosting service?
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a RES friendly link in the sticky comment. But it works really well in imagus.
KeytapTheProgrammer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:01:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I swear to god if any of you motherfuckers try and upload a 100MB gif.
ThatFag ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:04:56 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In RES when I see a post from subreddit x that has used reddit to host its image, I click on the expand thing to view the image. However, I can't click and drag the image to resize it like I can for images that are hosted elsewhere. Is this something you can fix or is this an issue I have to take up with the guys at RES?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There goes most of Imgurs traffic
space_ninja_ ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Layoffs at IMGUR in 3, 2...
Dog_does_a_jig ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:10:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whats wrong with imgur?
HungryMoblin ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:11:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you removing copywritten content?
sexy_bethany ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:20:21 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
sli.mg is still better
KevMar ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:29:04 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you guys deduping the images? I imagine you could set the name of the file to its own sha1 hash. Then every repost of that exact image would only take up the space once. It would cache well too.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:17:33 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Actually a generally excellent idea for web image hosts in general
sil0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:31:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit equivalent of the Clippie
LeCrushinator ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 01:38:31 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet! Now I'll finally go and download the Reddit app for my iPad.
Just kidding, there isn't one. I guess I'll stick with AlienBlue and see no benefit from this.
dinosquirrel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:00:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So if you use baconreader you're fucked?
StickNoob117 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:27:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't work with HoverZoom 2/10
KevinDidNothingWrong ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 02:58:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's stopping me from changing a >20MB image to a .gif to bypass your limit?
Warlezzz ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:30:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here comes more censorship for people with different opinions.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:26:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damnit. I can't view Reddit pictures on my phone. Only imgur :(
dontmesswithabeer ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:34:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what is the point of this? Seems like a waste of money on reddits part?
Get_Bent_Brent ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 04:55:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No thanks!
Emerald_Triangle ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 05:20:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yep - http://i.imgur.com/jrlKMSp.jpg
ineedhelpcoding ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:11:13 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The death of imgur is upon us.
j8ngt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:51:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and so the cold war between Reddit and Imgur begins !
fullonavocado ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 08:54:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I DONT LIKE IT
Dont-quote-me ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 10:48:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super late to this but, I use the RSS feed on imgur for different image subs. For example I can use /r/earthporn as a slide show on my computer. Is that a feature that you might be able address?
Vulvastix ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:36:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the redditupload something bullshit? Fuck that, everytime I see a post using it I do not click on it. Does not work properly on my ipad and Android phone.
shifty_coder ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 15:43:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How will this affect server load?
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:39:10 on August 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ok so I'm starting to get violently angry about these Reddit supported images crashing every other time on me.
stians ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:12:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We imgur now
jdpatric ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:14:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great; now 2016 is trying to kill imgur too.
DJ_HoCake ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 16:36:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is doing that itself. Their mobile browsing decisions are garbage. I can't view a direct link properly as it forces me to their landing page, and all the while I get their app thrown in my face each time I do. Compound that with the fact that their Android app is awful and doesn't have the same abilities as their mobile site.
jdpatric ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:37:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh man...that stupid cat paw thing is insane.
RenaKunisaki ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:34:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imgur killed imgur, this is just a nail in the coffin.
cuteintern ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:38:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh, 2016 is trying to kill you, too. 2016 is comin' for everybody.
devperez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:45:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fuck2016
cigar1975 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:54:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How are the images you don't agree with, political in nature, gonna be handled? Imgur's method of deleted or removing stuff that doesn't fall into their view?
Not trying to be standoffish, I just know sli.mg is more hands off, post what you want.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:19:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gonna be the same as reddit content right now is being handled, i think. would be the only reasonable decision.
cigar1975 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:30:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good deal, thanks for the response :)
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:59:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
uhh, just so you know, this is only a guess. i am not an admin.
greendepths ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:14:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good. Imgur turned to shit, only half the images worked on mobile, the rest wanted me to download their app.
spaghetticatt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great changes! Only suggestion would be that "use suggested title" option needs to be redone. Image for reference.
I'm guessing the overlap is due to RES, but I think that the link itself is too small. It's one of my favorite features, please keep it prominently featured! Thanks.
RyanBlack ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:36:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its funny how these things come full circle.
I remember when the Redditor created Imgur as the contemporary image hosting sites of that time were piss poor.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:42:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DV_shitty_music ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't forget to get the app!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope whoever had the cat paw idea was fired for cause.
ShitPoster24601 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 23:55:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should make censoring posts that contradict you political agenda even easier, so that's nice. Now when you delete a post, you take any incriminating images with it. Good thinking fascist Internet overlords.
[deleted] ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 16:51:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll stick with SLiMG - https://sli.mg/
burninmonkey343 ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:13:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GG RIP imgur
veggiesama ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:12:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well shit, I thought I had a reaction GIF for this.
chabanais ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/QptAl.jpg
mattkrueg ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:26:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Keep using sli.mg to protest the censorship. The /r/news fiasco will not be forgotten for quite a while.
"A few."
temp104881 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:12:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, sli.mg has nothing to do with /r/news, it's older than the /r/news thing. It's a website for making fun of fat people. Did you really never wonder about the name?
mattkrueg ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:22:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I know why it was brought about and I know what forced the name and url change.
Bardfinn ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 16:36:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
See, I'm downvoting your comment, not because you are wrong, or because I disagree with you, but because your comment is offtopic, and does not belong in this discussion.
If you find yourself believing the downvotes on this comment are because you're being censored, you should seek professional psychological treatment.
[deleted] ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:13:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Bardfinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:28:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hneaah I'm upblocking your username, see
InMySafeSpace ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:40:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Internet equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling "lalalalala I can't hear you"
Bardfinn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:46:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
^^^^ Internet equivalent of mouthbreathing.
InMySafeSpace ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 04:48:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You're supposed to get all whiny and tell me how you blocked me because you can't handle dissenting opinions
mattkrueg ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:41:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't give a single fuck about my internet points. I'm not here for validation, I'm here to participate in the social aspect and the whole "free speech" thing that Reddit used to stand for. Fortunately, there are still places within Reddit that I can experience that freedom - for now. If it's offtopic and that constitutes being downvoted, so be it.
Bardfinn ยท -17 points ยท Posted at 16:51:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, censortard. Seek professional psychological treatment.
gymleader_brock ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 17:06:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have downvoted you, because your comment is offtopic and does not belong in this discussion. Lets get back to talking about imagehosting. Now our friend mattkrueg was pointing out that images uploaded to reddit's image hosting will most certainly be censored to remove things that the admins disagree with.
Why don't you think that is an appropriate topic for discussion when announcing the service? What is your problem?
mattkrueg ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 16:58:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You seem upset. Calm down.
gymleader_brock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:21:35 on June 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, why didnt you ever respond to me with this comment?
[deleted] ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:49:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Bardfinn ยท -8 points ยท Posted at 16:50:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the illiterate.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Bardfinn ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:57:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"LAWLLAWLLAWLLAWL LOOK AT ME MY WORDS ARE IMPORTANT"
block user
gymleader_brock ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:08:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
block user? what happened here was someone presented evidence contrary to what your simple world view allows for. instead of changing your viewpoint you just doubled down on retard. good job.
InMySafeSpace ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 04:41:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welcome to the left
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Bardfinn ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:51:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Noise
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 22:22:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Found the autist. Check his history; he's suffering from autismal rage.
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:16:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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mattkrueg ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 17:21:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We all remember that Pao was a scapegoat to implement the shitty policies that were rolled back and then re-implemented by /u/spez, but it was okay because he did it.
Reddit is going to go the way of Digg, just watch.
316nuts ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:11:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
when will this be rolled over into mobile functionality via uploading/hosting through the official reddit app?
Drunken_Economist ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:17:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The official apps have had uploading to native reddit hosting since launch!
316nuts ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:20:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i know you're not the app dev, but any chance of having the reddit app being one of the "share" options when i click that little magic android share icon?
Drunken_Economist ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:22:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, I actually just poked our Android guy about it the other day. It's a quick fix, expect it soon :)
asdfasdf123456789 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:26:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will reddit remove any uploaded images it disagrees with?
TheRighteousTyrant ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 19:15:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope so.
Heylookaguy ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 18:57:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No, gonna stick with https://sli.mg/
Get your house in order and I'll think about letting you make ad/link revenue off of me.
HoundDogs ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:54:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you be censoring "offensive" content and, if so, what are the standards by which "offensive" is defined and decided upon?
piratedicecream ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:12:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But do you still get link karma?
Kongo204 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:05:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You are still posting a link.
Cyrekt_Stattrak ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:12:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool
D4nnyp3ligr0 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:16:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't wait to hear the conspiracy theories about this.
[deleted] ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:23:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
just a few posts below yours lol
screen317 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..
Sprudelpudel ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:40:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wohoooo germaneeeeeeey
CaptainCruiser ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:04:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I did this on /r/mildlyinteresting and their spam filter immediately canned my post. Hope that doesn't become a common problem.
Mr_Harvey_Specter ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:37:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm sorry but from a business perspective why would you do this? Hosting content is a needless expense you weren't paying for because your users were already fine with using imgur/giphy/gyfcat/etc.
It seems like if you wanted to make a more seamless experience, you could have just integrated a plug-in or an add-on that will use reddit's front end to upload to imgur or whatever.
But now you have to deal with storage costs, availability, and the legalities of hosting content.
exg ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There are tons of things Reddit could be doing to improve the experience before wading into image hosting for sure. Interesting move.
Kurt_blowbrain ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:24:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shady business at its finest I will never use this
TheAdmiralCrunch ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:44:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur must've really pissed you guys off since you used to game the site to force imgur to be the only game in town
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 20:17:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yoohoo more censorship
DoxKing ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:03:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who the fuck gilded an admin?
Empire_Lifts_Back ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wish when I clicked on it through RES, it would turn purple. /r/firstworldproblems also /r/SubredditHashtags
Bruncvik ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:21:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Came to say the same. Also, RES is using the video icon for Reddit images, instead of the photo icon, so I usually ignore them when I just quickly scroll through the first few pages.
Pokechu22 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then RES will probably need to update itself to fix it...
geezerforhire ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:36:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Im not really sure where to ask this but ill give it a shot.
I used to be able to remove the (m) extension on the m.reddit url on my phone in order to use the browser interface. This no longer works and simply redirects me to m.reddit.
Is there a fix for this it is a very negative use experience for me.
Marzhall ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:16:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Saying this from memory, but if you hit the preferences bar in the top right, you should see a 'desktop site' button. I also prefer the desktop site on mobile, and have been frustrated with the attempts to force the mobile site.
geezerforhire ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:18:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks, i will look for that
Dnar_Semaj ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:24:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rest in pieces imgur, I will not miss you.
[deleted] ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:57:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW content just strikes me as a way for reddit to censor more content. Sure, you can still link to imgur (which does this kind of thing correctly), but this hosting will be integrated and in theory should be more user friendly. I see many problems down the road with reddit removing content and then arguing it was nsfw.
Hencenomore ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:19:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit doesn't want to become the internet's go to porn guide.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:21:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NSFW doesn't automatically equal porn. Also, reddit is already there as a go to porn site for many.
Who decides what is nsfw? If a post is wrongly removed what is the appellate process?
Hencenomore ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 18:26:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
In my last comment I was being a dick. But now I'll be more serious:
Reddit the Corporation may have to comply with laws regarding sexual images that it is hosting which is different from just providing links and wiping their hands clean.
Also, Reddit the Corporation may have business interests for not becoming a predominantly porn image hosting site.
Similar logic could seem to apply to other NSFW material.
atmosphere620 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 19:14:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey Reddit fuck you and blow me for your censorship
squeeeeenis ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Maybe you guys could focus on the servers not crashing, instead of taxing them more with something that imgur already accomplished?
Maybe?
Please?
rsquared117 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:14:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yesss, yesss...
NomadicDolphin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:15:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:^)
TheZixion ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any limitations to know about other than file size?
EbolaShiva ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you worried that the picture size limit will not be large enough for some types of pictures?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:16:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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IdRatherBeTweeting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur becoming reddit was part of their plan. This puts a stop to it before it happens.
x_minus_one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:23:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, are NSFW images allowed to be uploaded on Reddit if they're posted to a subreddit that isn't full-NSFW?
thechaseofspade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:24:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the imgur
WingZ_of_Silence ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Make Reddit great again
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thread theme
nekt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:25:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why?
NAN001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn the IT department at my company are fast at blocking domains.
jonnismash ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:27:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm going INLINE to post on imgur, thanks tho
ChiefEagle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a setting where I can set it to send me to the image first instead of the comments?
fiah84 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will we be able to link to the images from other sites?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there an api for this? sorry if it was already answered. I was playing around with making an app using the Imgur api for pulling images for reddit posts. Seems like this is the future of reddit.
mugshot369 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only app this doesnt work for is Sync, all of the rest work fine.
maximalx5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:29:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stupid question, what is the Snoo holding? A shovel?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can already do this on a lot of Reddit apps though...
Manacock ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I see an example of an image uploaded to reddit and shared? - either directly or linked
CobaltFrost ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:31:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
T-REXX3000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will there ever be some kind of ''gif generator'' on here?
hashn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:32:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
..it has begun
ShaneH7646 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could you make an API (or release it) so other mobile apps can use it? Currently reddit is fun uses imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:34:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I still like imgur because I can free up my memory. It's pretty good way to organise pictures as well. I think youtube could take some points from them
Dojoson ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:35:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any idea if / when RES will implement auto-expand for reddit images? I know it's not the best place to ask, but I thought I'd give it a shot in this thread before going to /r/Enhancement.
thelosermonster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur will not stand for this!
iamcorrupt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Webm support in the pipeline?
Notmyrealname ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be a static link to just the image for people who want to repost the image on non-reddit sites and not send someone to the full reddit thread?
sub-t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:36:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to go without porn. Bold move.
tojoso ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a good way to cheapskate out of 90% of the content on Reddit, not to mention censor the content by giving preferential treatment to approved images.
-spaceborne- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope this is a good thing. Imgur can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
thisguyfu_ks ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:37:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
huge blow for imgur I guess
dizzi800 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can we get drag-to-zoom on desktop? It's really useful on imgur and really annoying for reddit hosting
anon_jEffP8TZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, hopefully reddit is a more reliable host than imgshit >_<
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Super dope, cuz this isn't blocked at work!
abc03833 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(yet)
JR-Dubs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does uploading images to Reddit compromise the intellectual property rights of the image in any way?
GnarledBark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will they work on the flow app?
Eat_The_Muffin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What am I supposed to do with my 250MB gifs?
ani625 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:39:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about gifv/html video support?
Tizaki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Amg137
Does this also mean that since Reddit has built an infrastructure to better support images, we can soon upload more/bigger images to our stylesheet pages?
DJScozz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hi,
I'm not really used to involving myself with this stuff...but I noticed that RES does not allow for click+pull image expansion with Reddit hosted images. Sorry for not being technical enough to figure this out myself, but is this a RES issue?
Kaibakura ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Will these be reddituploads or i.redd.it?
I ask because the app I use (Rhombus) can't display the former, but it's able to show the latter.
Rhombus isn't on the App Store anymore, so it's not going to get a fix for this issue (or others that may arise).
superkrups20056 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
One suggestion that I have is that you extend image uploading to making comments in the official Reddit app too. My mom just joined /r/photocritique and they have a contest sticky that you have to post your photos in the comments for. She can't figure out how to upload to imgur first from her phone for this...it's too complicating.
EGOP ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:41:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It mentions that official apps will support this. Does that mean unofficial apps will not be able to load or post these images? Or will it be made part of the API so unofficial apps can implement this feature as well?
knotty_pretzel_thief ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just how bad is this anticipated to kill Imgur's normal web traffic? My guess is a lot.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:43:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope that this will work out well. I like browsing Reddit on mobile but imgur sucks on mobile while reddituploads have always worked flawlessly for me.
thiagovscoelho ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:44:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can I save a picture I have as a non-animated GIF in order to get more MBs out of it?
ThePokeX17 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Is gif viewing coming to the Reddit iOS app? I've noticed I cannot view gifs uploaded directly to Reddit at all. Edit: works totally fine now! Cool!
inmatarian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there any plans to make this work with Firefox 47?
xXI_KiLLJoY_IXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:45:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
kimwim42 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well exactly how do I? I don't see a way to do it here......
austin101123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you plan to extend this feature to NSFW in the future? What about to text posts and comments?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
RapidLeaf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:46:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Poor Imgur
Ribbonz3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm just here fishing for gold.
whistle_tips ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:47:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't wait to hear about all of the censoring that's bound to happen...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rest in piece Imgur
fylex ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:48:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the only Reddit hosted image that opened inline with relay did you change something?
_The-Big-Giant-Head_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:49:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hosting on imgur does bring viewers and traffic to reddit.
Wouldn't this new feature just kill that or are you planning to have all the hosted pic on redddit viewable on some site.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
1 year later *
C:\ Drives on Reddit's Storage Drive get full.
AnotherDawkins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:50:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great. There will be more posts to down vote then.
I_KeepsItReal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GF Imgur
mutatedferret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:51:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
no. thanks though!
demonstar55 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate that clicking on an I.redd.it hosted image acts differently than any other host.
TheGoodRobot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:52:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But where's the annoying cat paw?!
1luckyduckrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's still super slow, would prefer to keep imgur as the norm.
Tananar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Technical details?
postman_pat ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would I want to see the conversation.
Just give me funny pictures of kittens and let me get on with my life.
brownix001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will scaling come? And how do albums look?
Key_nine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this change as Imgur never works for me usually or is too bogged down. i.reddit.it always works and it is nice not having to switch over to a new website when it can just be displayed at the top of the thread.
umbassa ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It would be really cool if it worked with hoover zoom
vit05 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:55:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, Imgur has really fucked up their site.
MyroIII ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No. These take forever to load on mobile
lyla2398 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:56:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TBH I've liked Imgur less and less recently. It feels too intrusive.
LikeWatsom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You WILL NOT BECOME FUCKING IMGUR REDDIT.
ChewbaccaMomSucksAss ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! /r/pics shit content will finally make Reddit some money ! \o/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Quit using IMGUR so that we can sell more advertising on our platform!
scandalousmambo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well I guess Imgur just got rogered good.
konrain ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:58:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But will I get my sweet Karma?
T900Kassem ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally, no more imgur shit.
flyinggoatcheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This change has caused my subreddit to automacally replace every first letter of a word to a capital. How do I fix this?
/r/QualityYouTube is the subreddit. I have Unintalled all extensions to make sure if that was it. I use the theme /r/naut.
madlee ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:04:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is from the /r/naut theme. I'm fairly certain it was already like that though.
flyinggoatcheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:44:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm 99% sure it wasn't. I think it might have done it when submitting an image but not when submitting links or self posts. I mostly post from my pc and it's not been an issue since I started to use the theme until today. I'll look into changing the theme or ask other on /r/naut. Have the best day ever. Be safe ๐
wipeout4wh ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:30:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no way that was caused by this change. Are you using your phone? It's probably your phone keyboard that's doing that.
flyinggoatcheese ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:47:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope, my PC.
Google Chrome, Opera and Firefox all have the issue. Worked fine last night from what I remember. Also I have no extensions. Tried on a newly formatted PC as well.
Archontes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:59:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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CMDanaher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:00:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.I.P. Imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any chance of this being added to the mobile app API, so that third party apps can use it?
toe_riffic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A huge problem I have with Imgur lately is, aside from the ads, they seem to downgrade image quality for mobile users. If someone posts a screenshot of a Reddit thread (or anything with small text really) it becomes impossible to read. Will the Reddit image hosting do this too?
Diegobyte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:02:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip imgur
catscratch182 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That snoo wears a nice shirt
wetonred24 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so... rip imgur?
rollntoke ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Every reddit hosted link ive tried to view hasnt worked. I use reddit is fun. What up?
manateerealtor ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:09:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I have the same problem. :(
GringoWedding ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the Imgur.
GoldenGonzo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.I.P. Imgur.
AltoidNerd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But muh alien blue!
HotFudge2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
isuckatgrammar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
eldritchdawn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:04:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's very good feature. Thanks!
PM2032 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:05:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GG Imgur...
Moist_Brown ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it ironic that this image isn't loading up?
Asoxus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:06:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean the I.reddituploads files that aren't accessible through third party apps will be more commonplace now?
pyro90333 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur 2009-2016.
pro_broon_o ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:07:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But why aren't they re-sizeable?
Poebatfire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will these pictures be auto deleted?
snakespm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You mentioned that you are expanding it to all SFW reddits, will you eventually allow NSFW reddits to us it? Or is that a line that you can't cross due to advertisement and other external factors?
edit: N/M I saw in another thread that you are planning to roll it out eventually.
zdrav0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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1978Throwaway12 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You making any millions on your native advertising posts? ๐
watchpleasetv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I guess imgur is going out of business.
NickoKush ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
goodbye imgur my old friend...
capnpac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:08:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool
Fa7Tony ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate that you can't re-scale reddit uploads in RES
Marsroverr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can finally stop having to put up with that fucking annoying cat's paw.
BalanceCoil ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nope not generating anymore revenue for this censoring shitbox Digg 2.0
PavelDatsyuk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:09:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So when reddit goes down, like it does every once in awhile, where will I go? At least with imgur I can still see most of the top reddit pics.
spookendeklopgeesten ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:11:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
imagine all the reposts...
i_mormon_stuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you make the links smaller like imgur does? I can't share images on reddit in Minecraft anymore because the links are too long so I end up just right clicking the image and rehosting it to imgur using a browser plugin.
There are many places where the long links are just too long to be shared and are an annoyance. Especially in a chat environment like IRC where the huge link takes up a ton of space in the chat.
Thanks.
itsfoine ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is going to lose a lot of traffic if this picks up popularity and user start to soley upload directly to Reddit
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think I'm speaking for everyone when I say this.
Fuck Imgur, this change is very welcome.
Drudicta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:12:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about server issues? When before image hosting the servers would frequently be too busy for me to load anything.
crispychoc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Funny thing is, imgur was made by a redditor for Reddit because everybody was using shitty photobucket like websites for hosting their content which usually ran out of bandwidth after three views.
Imgur was born on Reddit, and grown into it's own subculture, when people will start using Reddit's own hosting, imgur will probably decrease its bandwidth by half or more.
Source : http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting
phrozen_one ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The CEO at imgur is going to have a rough day
ineverreadit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip imgur
ScalaZen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So what's the difference between instantly uploading it to imgur when using the reddit app? Besides taking considerably longer to load than imgur.
Hitlerchicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:14:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Doesn't reddit already have trouble handling the load of its servers already?
aeclasik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wish I could upload images in the comments as well...
Hitlerchicken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We already have imgur. Fixing the search function would be a lot more useful.
Dank_Skeletons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's pretty annoying to have to go to a separate site to upload images.
Also imgur on mobile does some shitty stuff with zooming and redirecting.
I like this change.
Hitlerchicken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:22:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yea, that's true I guess.
Imgur traffic is really going to take a hit now I would imagine.
Dank_Skeletons ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well you still have to use it for albums (for now)
Hitlerchicken ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:35:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was kinda wondering about that.
nejaahalcyon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Snoo has a Michigan oar??
wheeldog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:17:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TEST POST PLEASE IGNORE
Acid_Braindrops ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why only SFW?
ItsBOOM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whoa? Announcement post that is more then 85% upvoted?
hstarnaud ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:18:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip imgur
sadshark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Good, fuck imgur.
Randomwoegeek ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easy dank memes
Nitraus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Rip IMGUR
cards_dot_dll ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:20:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are cat pictures allowed?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this the FUCK IMGUR upvote party?
CMYK-KILLA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP
imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you add the ability to add an image to replies in the future? Or purely submissions?
JJDude ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is this why the IOS reddit app takes two clicks to open an image from Imgur? To discourage people from using it? Imgur is for NSFW stuff in the future?
mlhuhta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:22:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Michigan men's crew oar?
Lord-Lannister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Love this, imgur was always pain in the ass and slow for me to upload at.
v4n1sh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this why .gifs aren't loading for me anymore?
oonniioonn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please make it work with RES. I can't zoom these damn reddituploads.com images.
GoinFerARipEh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
IMGUR right now
baubaugo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone know if imgur is publicly traded... I think I'd like to short a stock.
CreamyMarmalade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:24:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Could some sort of subreddit album function be made in the feature? So you can browse uploaded images with a nice UI. Maybe with categories and other sorting functions.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cant wait!!!!
DANNYonPC ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is the order changed?
Now its link first, then title
PM_ME_2LEARNHOW2CODE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:25:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is a major F U to Imgur which is a good thing.
Jammintk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will these reddit hosted images work in third party reddit apps?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is way for them to let us upload images to them without the stripping of XFID ?
sweatyredbull ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this guy like piper?
timescrucial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:31:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is so that you guys can own all the content and the rights forever, correct?
Victor346 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
May the force be with you. http://imgur.com/7DMMVYg
Victor346 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ooh. It does work.
Askmeiwontsaynot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:32:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This kills the imgur
erock0546 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:33:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is this reddit's response to all the takedown requests and dealing with copyright?
Bodygoals ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:34:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
Rsym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will it still give you link karma?
petersmartypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Meh, it's not neccessary we have better image providers already.
IHaveBigPlansForYou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:36:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So can we directly upload webm or mp4s? Can we by chance have an option to not have it reencode images and videos if they're are under a file size limit (EXIF data should always be stripped).
edbLings- ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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natufian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we talk about how now when you go to middle-click on a thumbnail it's sometimes a legit link to the content and other times it's an empty thing that just says "java;"
steadyfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:37:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't view these images with third party readers like baconit. Whereas I can view images on Imgur. Is reddit intentionally blocking third party readers?
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Which apps or mobile browsers besides baconit have you tested? At least one other app (Flow) is known to have issues with the age the developer of Bacon it probably just needs to add support for these links.
steadyfan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I haven't tried other apps. I just assumed reddit was blocking 3rd party viewers. For example if I "shell out" to the browser I get the message "unauthorized" for the link.
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:44:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Understood and it's a plausible assumption. I don't have access to a Windows phone to check but I bet it's the same problem Relay is having.
http://www.reddit.com/r/redditflow/comments/4bpnr8/_/
The mobile client isn't handling certain characters in the URL properly and then sending the malformed URL to the browser and getting the same error.
Looks like baconit is open source so hopefully a developer will fix it.
Erazai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there some sort of album system where I can see all the images I've uploaded in the past?
Vaginal_Decimation ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:38:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So reddit makes more money by cutting out imgur. I think I'd rather upload whatever I want to imgur. I'm sure a dedicated image host is better anyway.
theacorneater ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:39:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This does not work with HoverZoom?
Heavy_Industries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:40:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Kongo204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not yet.
Devar0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:41:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100MB gifs? Please god no, my internet cannae take any more!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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Devar0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is why we have, you know, 'video'.
Nundahl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thus begins the segregation of Imgurians and Redditors.
kittyburritto ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:42:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so far your image hosting doesn't work well with RES. also it seems to try and be a direct competition with imgur which was created specifically for reddit
joevsyou ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:43:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What a time to be alive on reddit!
hackint0sh96 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:44:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope they implement Reddit's image service in Slide. Slide is such a great Reddit client.
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uploading images I presume? Viewing the reddit hosted images works in Side but it probably won't get the ability to upload till it's put in the generally available API.
I also like Slide a lot.
hackint0sh96 ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:54:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yup, that's what I mean. Slide is my primary means of viewing Reddit, so that'll be nice to have that integration in there, I know it already supports Imgur, but it's nice to have access to first-party services.
anlar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:46:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I bet that most of the time it will be showing all-of-our-servers-are-busy-right-now.png
jesperbj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:48:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally.
scottswan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:49:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay. Imgur can eat crow with their slow loading, often crashing and making it harder to direct link images.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta take business away from imgur, don't ya?
i_quit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as it doesn't suck as badly as imgur
thehugejackedman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:51:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well isn't that neat
lawnpuppies ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice. This seemed like the next logical step, thought it would happen sooner.
BestBagelNA ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there plans to implement the same feature to the comments section?
dontcareitsonlyreddi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
repost
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:52:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woo! Thank you guys so much for always making Reddit better and better! I'll totally be using this!
toddx318 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:53:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it expandable via RES by clicking and dragging the mouse?
Nope?
I hope no one uses this image hosting feature until that becomes possible.
uss1701jb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll keep having fun with imgur and slimgur, thanks.
HufftyPuffty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GOODBYE IMGUR!! :DDDD
DatGrag ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:54:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow get fucked Imgur
sardu1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"upload an image on desktop"? Do you mean "from your desktop"?
Whatswiththelights ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:55:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only images that don't always load in the Alien Blue preview (long press on the image) are refit upload images.
greeddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
GQManOfTheYear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:56:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What took so long? When I wanted to upload images, I had to go to imgur. This should've been one of the first tools you implemented.
crafty09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you supporting albums?
onlo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It was nice to know you Imgur, you will be missed :'(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hOORAY!
P15U92N7K19 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:57:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how imgur feel about this.
b0v1n3r3x ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
We are going to build an imagewall and make the reposters pay for it.
kakarothasgoneinsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:58:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This may have already been answered elsewhere, but is there a plan as to how Reddit Enhancement Suite runs these types of images? Currently, I'm not able to toggle the size of the image within the the page. Perhaps this is something RES will have to fix themselves...
generic_tastes ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:07:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RES is has a fix but they are slow at pushing updates through the Chrome and Firefox extension stores.
kiplinght ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't open any reddituploads links inside my old copy of baconreader (v4 - the best version). I get "unauthorised" on every image
TheSteakCalledSir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Toasting in epic bread.
Cosmic_Bard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:59:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Well, goodbye imgur, it was a good run
TheDJBuntin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:00:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Allow them to be resized with RES or imma have to stop using the site, they always appear too small and I need to drag-resize images each time with RES, impossible with reddit images.
SeeonX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What is wrong with imgur?
BrolestBrolin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the most cancerous image ever created.
autobahn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this kills the imgur
createdforPOElink ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Its stuck on submitting.
SeeonX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I mean imgur thanks!
CrazyPieGuy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is the goal to leave only NSFW content on imgur so that their users stop using imgur and come here?
heffman11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bye imgur.
Steellonewolf77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:02:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
HStark ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:04:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
caseyd1020 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
and just like that imgur is out of business.
adamkw94 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
RIP Imgur
SwedishSanta ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:05:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
lagspike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh god, why
reddit barely can stay up without the servers exploding without an image server...why not just use imgur?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur is so pissed rn
ericluster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
Sudden_Relapse ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will meta-data be kept intact on the original or will it be removed to help prevent Doxing?
Overflooow ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:14:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i4lc9?context=1
Sudden_Relapse ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:24:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks! Looks like they remove all the additional data.
Skullpuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any chance of webm's with sound in the future?
fusionx13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/BLECbPj Test
turkeypants ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was interested to see this and went to use it in one of the pilot communities and realized it only works for link posts, not just as a general image host if you want to link an image in a comment. So it's not exactly an imgur replacement. Any plans to expand to hosting images for use in comments? I'm guessing you don't want to be a general image host for the internet, but maybe it could be restricted to only working via reddit.
noisyturtle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as you don't make it mandatory and give people an option to use it. Looking at you Livememe. Reddit Mobile. Windows 10... wait, that's not you guys.
Spydirmonki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about subs that tag spoiler content as NSFW? I'm hazy on how this feature will work for that content?
tcookie88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can we upload pictures in comments?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I do like this new feature, since Imgur is blocked on my work computer.
DiceBreakerSteve ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you (or will you in the future) support 360 content?
freebluespike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:11:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good fucki imgur or whatever. there are the steps I have to go through just to look at img on Reddit on my iPhone. click on the post, click on top corner, go to browser, go to "expand full website", click on the tiny download link, and wait for it to load to fucking see the gif. wtf
clarret ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:13:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does it support html5 video?
CeeJayDK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:15:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will submitted images be recompressed - and if so, losslessly or lossy?
BlamBitchPudding ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp. Bye bye imgur.
acoustic4meplz88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:16:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please make it work for image preview in Alien Blue?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DAE downvoted?
essen23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur 20xx-2016
Thrannn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
thanks god. lets pls NEVER use imgur ever again.. worst site ever. the mobile site just hurts my brain
MrDyl4n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:17:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am sure this has been mentioned before, but the new types of links work very poorly with RES
canipaybycheck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:18:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/pic exists if y'all didn't know! We've been testing this for a while
MarinoNY ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:19:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
IAmaBoredIntern ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
BoltActionPiano ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a recognition algorithm that doesn't host two versions of images, one being slightly more compressed? Thatd be neat.
Choro-ni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:22:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No it wont... once the uploader removes the original post the link to that image will break i.reddit.com
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
itshappening.jpg
image_linker_bot ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
itshappening.jpg
Feedback welcome at /r/image_linker_bot | Disable with "ignore me" via reply or PM
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank god. Imgur and their "community" gave me cancer.
Choro-ni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:23:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please design a policy where if reddit was to close it's doors, public data would be contributed to the internet archive.
pewv ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone know why reddit hosted images refuse to work for me? I'm using bacon reader for android. I've been avoiding a good chunk of content on reddit just because it never works :(
East902 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:29:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They work on Sync.
pewv ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:31:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might have to get that, thanks!
Jeff-Stelling ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:24:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Relay pro user here, will it open in the app? If I have to go to a different screen we need to have words
Ranzera ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You also got rid of your mobile opt out option after you promised not to like a week ago. Just so you know, you doubled your bandwidth used on me because I manually request desktop page, every single page. I hope you like overhead costs.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love it that you dressed up Snoo with the German football team uniform.
That's all.
spaghettibeans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:25:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur right now http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/4/47738/1631280-doc_brown_full.jpg
Renegade__ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you facilitating the ongoing existence of the abomination that is GIF?
Why are you encouraging people to convert entire videos to GIF and to bog down the Internet with 100 MB GIFs instead of a tiny WEBM?
FuckYouDumbass123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:26:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's a trojan horse. Don't switch. It will just give Reddit more power to censor content. They've proven themselves untrustworthy. sli.mg ftw
Xellith ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:27:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ITS A TRAP!
VictusFrey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:28:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I always get an "unauthorized access" screen any time there's a reddit upload link. Must be because I'm on my phone using Bacon Reader. Hopefully that can be fixed.
bluesox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please add album support!
scrubskeet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:31:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How about you guys host these nuts.
nuwansound ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I see blue hatchet man has been making mustard at the sports center again.
Kaspanova ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:32:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP IMGUR
SagdiyevOfficial ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip in peace imgur
FormerGameDev ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:33:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Should have ability to Copy-Paste image?
MyNameIsTrue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Allow the click and drag to resize thing that RES does
kalitarios ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:34:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this help with reposts and stolen content?
MrMoustachio ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This does not display images when using Baconit.
horriblePersoniAm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about censorship. ๐
PolskiChlop ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:35:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does anyone know who the Snoo on the picture is supposed to represent? It kind of looks like a polish football player, since the color scheme and the eagle!
Kiefyking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish there were more webm file uploads. Short auto loading clips with sound.
iTellUeveryting ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For those of us who have employers who block imgur but not reddit, this seems like great news.
CakeNStuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:38:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
deleted What is this?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:39:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a way to upload images to a subreddit's wiki? Or does this only work with link posts?
Thanks in advance!
n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW only? :/
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A simple question: Do we have to use the direct upload to reddit feature, or can we still add images to reddit using other services like imgur?
JediCoffee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL Reddit is Facebook. RIP TimeHop & Imgur
gadget_uk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:41:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What's to stop someone creating their own private sub then using a script to upload their entire photo collection?
captj2113 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyone able to tell me what soccer kit Snoo is wearing or one similar to it? I really like it.
Ventorpoe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bad news for imgur.com
SeeThenBuild8 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:42:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's simpler. On step more convenient. I love it.
GrigoriTheDragon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is horrible and broken for readit users. ๐
DrSuperZeco ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur.
eksorXx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
good, I was wondering why the servers were so readily available recently, glad to know I can look forward to them being busy again
Zellough ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:43:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this coming to comment sections as well?
rpguig ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When you expand links on RES they don't change from blue to purple, if you could change that I would be very grateful.
relatable_user_name ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope RES makes it so that links become purple when using the preview button on these types of images.
It drives me CRAZY having no idea whether or not I've looked at a certain link before or not on a subreddit.
fdagpigj ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:45:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we haz for comments plx?
3D_Grunge ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hate when I cannot resize images by dragging on it.
anonymau5 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean we're going to get a wave of people going through old link submissions with IMGUR content, downloading them, rehosting them through Reddit and then resubmitting a new link (but actually old/used content)? If so is there any way to limit this?
irocgts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:46:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you fix your moble site? Almost every page has to be refreshed to see content.
aWssrfsdfsegf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
.gifs are shit
what about webms?
counterstreik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't see on windows phone
Ignotus190 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:47:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome. Been waiting for something like this to come up.
pullupman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:48:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great, they add image hosting yet they can't even handle high traffic -.-
wtf_ffs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:50:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Announcement in an image with no alt text. No alt text on anything. Not very ADA friendly are we?
NewKetoAc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I welcome the change. Imgur often crashes my RIF app and my browser for whatever reason.
SlippingStar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was new! I've been using it on the iOS mobile app and am really loving it - I'm sure communities like /r/popping and /r/whatbugisthis will really appreciate it, since they're almost completely picture based.
SlippingStar ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I thought this was new! I've been using it on the iOS mobile app and am really loving it - I'm sure communities like /r/popping and /r/whatbugisthis will really appreciate it, since they're almost completely picture based.
Damie904 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:53:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this only work when creating a thread or can we upload images in posts as well?
maybe_awake ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is the least controversial thing in announcements in recent history. Must feel great!
Good job! I like it.
Amberink69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will try this and comment but sounds complicated to me already
Lil_Caprice ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just in, imgur stock has plummeted by 90%
hery41 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way to foster a 30 fucking year old image format. How about we let technology advance instead of catering to smartphone troglodytes.
SebastianKrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:56:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great idea - one less site to go through (imgur).
I found it by accident - posted something in /r/PBSOD after I had already uploaded to imgur, and then found I could upload here directly.
w00t! :)
g_squidman ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:57:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Might be a dumb question, but why is the file size limit different for gifs? Gif is just an image type that supports multiple frames right? So I could just translate a large jpg into a single frame gif and then I'd be able to upload it.
ChezMere ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:58:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
GIFs are on their way out. Any plans for something gfycat-like?nvm, you answered thisPCScrubLord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
great feature
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:59:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any squinty eyed moderation to be concerned?
krum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:00:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cool now I can use reddit as a cloud backup.
bas2b2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a specific policy/license applicable, i.e. which license do I have to grant on my uploaded images?
Docjback ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this running off a Pied Piper platform?
HalenXalleth ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:02:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to cut imgur out, huh?
Ebadd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u/Amg137
Can I be part of r/picsandgifsofreddit ?
daJamestein ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:04:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
Thetravelingboy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:05:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's annoying that they don't zoom like imgur links.
fuzzypeter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I only see broken links when I try the i.redd.it links :(
brazilliandanny ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:06:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will I be able to see the view count and bandwidth like I can on imgur?
someidiottyping ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
bout time
miki77miki ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What advantage does this give over alternate image upload sites like imgur or sli.mg?
jaynus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:03:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit makes the money instead of imgur.
MauPow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:07:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The thing that keeps me using Alien blue is the hold-to-view feature on images and gigs. Until this is implemented into the Reddit app I won't be using it, as it takes like 3 more clicks and 5-10 more seconds to view my dank memes.
bobpaul ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"Clicking on a Reddit-hosted image will take you directly to the conversation about that image"
Wut? So I have some reddit hosted image. that I open in my browser. It's just an image. Clicking it does nothing. What are you trying to say here?
agtrndafire ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Let the Reposts..... continue.
Y_Y_why ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nottheonion cross?
IdBetterNotAsk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I cannot resize images in the same way I can drag-resize imgur previews :(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:11:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
inline
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey, completely off topic but since there are admins around:
Has the Reddit's "front page algorithm" changed? Because the posts on my front page change every time I refresh the page. It doesn't matter how long I wait, even 1 second is enough.
jetmcleod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:12:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Don't know if it has been said, but these images don't seem to work on the "reddit in motion" app. Says "Unauthorized" or just plain crashes.
KBibbler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is Snoo dressed as Marco Reus?
nuesuh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Seems like it's easy to upload and view.
How's the censorship on this? Maybe Chairman Spez could give us an update on that.
moby323 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I don't believe you.
tortus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:13:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you guys convert gifs to an HTML5 video format, ala gifv?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:14:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redd.it links don't work on Reddit sync :'(
Spikey59 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:15:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you planning to add this feature to comments?
omgsus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:17:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you eventually support each image to have it's own comment section later so the hosted image system that was made for reddit can spawn it's own community and forget that it was originally made for reddit and and owes everything it is today to reddit?
ShoveDemPotatos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:21:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Now, reddituploads has been having issues where it can't be previewed by holding down the thumbnail on an ex app some may remember as Alien Blue :^) Any reason for this?
Chell_the_assassin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:22:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Damn I don't like this, images hosted on Reddit don't change size when opened through RES :/
OpusMioda ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Stick with your ols sites to show them support.
Lunatcharsky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:26:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
somehow my adblock has trouble with it.
darichtt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:27:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So I can't post dem glorious Overwatch screens with 17k x 9k resolution :(
On a serious note, I wonder if there even is a site which would allow to upload and then not compress 650MB screens.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:15:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any cloud service would do that. Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive, Mega should all be lossless.
1leggeddog ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you automatically take ownership of pictures uploaded as per some weird obscure TOS ?
_martin_n ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Couldn't see it posted before, will this carry over to third party apps? I hope it's in the plans in that case ๐
NathanKreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:30:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome
linusaccount ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:31:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
finally dont have to see toxic imgur users complaining on every single picture.
self_arrested ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This seems like a massive waste of server capacity, especially with all the take downs that are going to occur.
KronoakSCG ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
yay, reddit won't be the main reason imgur crashes /s
Geralt-of_Rivia ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/fellowkids material.
scaboodle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:32:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this the end of imgur as we know it?
NathanKreddit ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:33:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
with inbuilt images, we can easily reply with memes
CynicalSir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:34:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur.
superfudge73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have this set up so it wont work on third party mobile apps?
mellowfish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:35:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur for life.
claudia_cucoolee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've been browsing reddit via TOR for a long time and only very recently I've noticed that most gifv animated gifs don't load for me. For example, these two don't play: http://i.imgur.com/el8MGDb.gifv http://i.imgur.com/pNyZu0g.gifv. Could this have something to do with these changes you're announcing?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:38:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is this reddit's way of trying to separate itself from imgur?
120z8t ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a reason why I can not click and drag the photos to resize then using RES?
enesbbb ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wish images uploaded directly to reddit could be expanded in RES. It was possible with imgur. Hope you can do something about this!
Harleyquincey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:44:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But.. I don't really want to empower reddit. I like the current practice of using imgur, especially since it means less control over content via reddit itself. I get why Reddit wants to do this (eliminating a service that has grown more into a competitor than a sort-of-subsidiary) but since competition is always good for the consumer... I'll stick with imgur for the time being.
aktiwari158 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Gotta say, it's really smoother than the imgur thing I hated.
shamoni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:45:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you discriminating against porn!?
whoneedsmeme ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bye imgur.
puffykilled2pac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:53:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
After Imgur made it so that their pictures couldn't be linked to bbcode forums, ruining a lot of threads, I'm glad there are now options like sli.mg and others.
tomorsomthing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This doesn't work with the ".compact" version of the mobile site, I know that isn't exactly high on the list of priorities, but since nothing better exists, not having that functionality is a little dissapointing. I really hate reddit's normal mobile site, and the app is even worse, I really don't want to have to constantly be forced into a visual style that isn't really appealing and I didn't ask for every time I open an image.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hell yeh. You brought this on yourself imgur
ThyBlastoise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:55:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THANK THE GOLDEN SHENRON ON THE MOON
murphysclaw1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I enjoyed viewing imgur links directly but if I wanted to know the source for it I could just remove the extension and it took me to the actual page with comments/source. With reddit images I feel as though if you get the direct link there is no way to go back to the post if you come from an external source.
Ji_2001 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIPImgur
who_ate_the_cookie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This explains a lot. One less thing contributing to the 'going crazy'
SplodingDuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:58:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so beautiful
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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andre_300 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:59:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FINALLY!
FearedGinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
TomFooligans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yes please and thank you.
AccidntlyFkdYoSister ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:02:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was just thinking about this 2 days ago, like why reddit doesn't have its own image hosting services and here we go.
Nice job. Imgur is gonna have some hard times now.
HiimCaysE ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:05:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you consider changing the behavior that strips all EXIF data from images? This is a particular nuisance to photographers, or anybody using EXIF or other headers to record copyright, location, and other information.
nah13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome! By the way are we ever gonna get polls integrated into Reddit?
RuneKatashima ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:06:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about webm's?
Ekrow ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will you censor content you don't agree with it?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It sure would be nice if we could re-size i.reddit images in-browser via drag functionality.
RotaryJihad ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:07:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100MB gif.... thats a lot of gif.
salma86q ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:08:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here is what it looks like in action in reliance on the phone.
RedEyePedo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome! Imgur is blocked at my work
SirLionhearted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:09:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who on earth uploads a 100 MB gif?!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:25:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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SirLionhearted ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:35:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I would have personally gone with 'She's so fat, she can only fit in a massive gif' but you tried tho <3
Knight-of-Black ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:11:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as it all works with RES, i'll use it.
KarthusWins ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur.
_S_A ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really hope you guys expand on this, like letting me post images in comments.
Dr_Rosen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why can't RES resize an image hosted on this service?
sooriginaluser ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:13:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope everyone starts using this. Imgur is banned in my country and its making reddit browsing so hard.
Grimsterr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:15:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, I can't see imgur at work, unless the sub supports the preview option but I can see this. So cool.
-PM-ME-YOUR-BOOBIES ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:17:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you guys fix the inbox notifications on mobile? they won't go away properly even after viewing them. I have to close, open and re close them multiple times to even get 1 to go away. Not to mention dozens at a time.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like this feature a lot, does this work for videos or is it just for pictures? Also what sub-reddits are going to use this feature, is it going to be universal or just certain sub-reddits?
hikaru_ai ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
last time I tried it in desktop my browser frozen 3 times
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I used it on /r/mildlyinfuriating and got this message.
L73 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Redditchan
shifat1993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
REally good work .:)
darkbarf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:25:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the part where you can't drag resize
queenx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I understand that you want to showcase the feature in the announcement using an image, but please, give us also a text version if possible (or alt text). It would be very helpful for a lot of people with some kind of visual disability.
Also, it would be nice if you could provide a way to add alt text to images. Thanks.
Sunbeamdreaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dat Good
xzbobzx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet! Just please don't let every image 404/not load like imgur's currently doing.
Regal_Bear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:29:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this hurt websites like imgur?
analcontractions ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO MORE IMGUR!
THANK GOD!
KarenShepard ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:33:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a planned retention policy? Or is it an "as long as reddit has the money to maintain the servers the images will stay forever" kind of deal?
fv1svzzl65 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Took you long enough.
BarbaRuiva ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:36:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You guys are doing an amazing job, thanks! Can you please add the click and drag to resize feature?
ArminIsBae ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
rip imgur
B00TYMASTER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:48:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So is that Mรผller or Schweinsteiger?
Tashre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:49:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If an original gets removed, will the entire thread of a repost get deleted as well?
If reposts of the same url are all tied back to the original, is it possible to have karma gains on said reposts get tied back to the original poster as well?
Fedexico ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think question 1 was already answered here: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i5wnj?context=1
hoseja ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
THis is shit, Reddit is Fun won't work with those.
fddfgs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it possible to reduce the filesize limit for .gif? Maybe around 30MB, with a note that pops up for higher filesizes suggesting that people just link to the youtube video instead?
Living in a country with bandwidth caps and mediocre speeds means that those giant gifs freeze up my browser and even when they dont they wind up taking half an hour to download.
dnsfdz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:51:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
VonKrogh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:54:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is he wearing a german soccer jersey??
SentinelSpec ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:56:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet! When does this take effect?
Matyrs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:00:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/u/Amg137 Please click and drag to resize feature!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:02:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How do I open an image without the underlying website on my phone's browser for better viewing/zooming support?
ponytoaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
It's probably already been mentioned, but how do you anticipate being able to serve up images when we frequently get the "busy" page for serving up text?
Edit: this isn't a dig. I'm genuinely interested. Have you upped your servers?
Also: any plans to support galleries. I like reading DIY posts with lots of photos and a nice inline swipeyness would be nice.
3agl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:12:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will this work and be rescalable in res?
techlifeandstuff ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:13:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sweet!!! thanks been forward to this feature for a long time!!! Thanks Reddit!
kestik ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:18:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100mb gif limit is just stupidly large.
ArmyOfAnnoyingDogs ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:19:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
"/dremuur"
GSgtReaver ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:20:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like the reddit bot german soccer kit. Smexy.
Killa-Byte ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:22:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please make it so the title box is on top of the link box that we're all used to?
Logun0 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:26:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are there any plans that Imgur will be forbidden at any point in time?
Type-21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:28:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
is the 100 MB limit only for multi frame gifs or even gifs that are still images?
plotenox ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:29:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think it first heard about it in the GIFS subreddit.
Fudzy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you using Pied Piper technology?
Chili1179 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:34:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Easier to filter images to better fit your agenda this way, isn't it?
ShockinglyPale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why not just straight out buy Imgur and incorporate it into the website? After all Imgur is a fan created website.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:35:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not on mobile ?
UsernameAlrTaken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Imgur is about to die I suppose...
Orthodox-Waffle ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:37:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Won't this make servers more expensive to maintain with the increase in storage needs brought on by images and GIFs (Pronounced /สaษชf/)?
thisiscotty ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:38:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wont this make more error messages from server load =/
uk35 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:39:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not uploading my existing images from my gallery
vomitous_rectum ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:40:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When they work the bugs out of this, will that be the end of imgur?
PM_ME_YOUR_LIBTARDS ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
10 FEET HIGHER!
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SyntheticValkyrur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:41:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You can make better Reddit a better place by enabling us to upload more and bigger images to design our subreddits. 500kb * 50 is not enough
CriminalMacabre ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.I.P. imgur
JohnRubens-Bradyl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:44:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who's the idiot giving reddit Gold to a reddit admin?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Admins can give themselves gold to increase the visibility of a post. It's not a big deal.
invaderzoom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:47:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great! Because work seems to block imgur during different times of the day (when we should be working!) but reddit never gets blocked! Stoked for this :D
whale_kale ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:48:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I miss the RES drag and resize image feature that is available for imgur uploads.
der_zipfelklatscher ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:49:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how he's wearing the 2014 German jersey...
Verkans ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:51:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is Thomas Muller delivering that message? And what is he holding?
srsbsns ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:53:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can someone please make it so viewed reddit-uploaded images show up as purple links? And are resizeable through RES?
CuddlyDudley101 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My only problem is that programs like hover zoom doesn't work with any of it, if you could get that fixed it would be great
TheJack38 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:58:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope RES makes sure that clicking those links make them purple. I hate the i.reddit links because they stay blue after I click on them, which makes me reclick them multiple times if I don't actually open them up... and I installed RES to avoid that shit.
DirkEnglish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:59:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like how the alien looks like marco reus
laaabaseball ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:01:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is no easy way to upload an image for use as a comment on the site other than creating a post somewhere and then copying the link to the image. That's where this subreddit comes in! /r/uploader ONLY allows uploads from the desktop and mobile site and will automatically message you with the link to the image after you've uploaded it.
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:05:17 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you please enable the use of image previews with extensions like Imagus? Most image hosting sites enable Imagus to just grab the image and preview the full thing by just mousing over the thumbnail. i.redd.it links are the worst for me because instead of previewing the actual image, it just pops up the thumbnail. So for whatever reason, Imagus IS grabbing an image from the page properly, but it's only the thumbnail.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:55:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works fine with Imagus. Maybe you haven't updated the extension in a while?
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:35:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It shows that I have the latest version, and my settings are fine as far as I can tell. If I'm here on the page looking at the comment context, I can mouseover and see the full image just fine, but if I'm on the main subscription feed, mousing over the thumbnail just pops up a slightly bigger thumbnail. It looks like mousing over the title actually opens the image properly.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:02:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmm, have you updated Imagus? When I hover over a thumbnail I get the full sized image, and not just a slightly bigger thumbnail.
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:43:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm on the latest version, I'm pretty sure. There's no update button on the extension's store page and it looks like the version number is up to date. I think Chrome auto-updates extensions anyway, unless you specify otherwise.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:46:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Very odd. Here's how it looks when I hover over a thumbnail, https://i.imgur.com/dp2KZPB.png
Bitcoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:57:09 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It works on thumbnails on the main page, except on i.redd.it images. On the submission page like you linked, mousing over the thumbnail also works. I can mouseover the title bar and get the preview on the main page, too. It's just on main page thumbnails where it's loading wrong.
musicman21 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:09:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I love this because imgur is blocked at my work.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sfw only? Fuck off idiots.
SANPres09 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:10:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I wonder how Imgur's site visits will decrease from this change.
lil_icebear ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
inline
rileyrulesu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:11:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
can you please allow sound when uploading an mp4 or webm? I know the formats support them.
SuperC142 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not sure if I missed (or misunderstood) something, but is it possible to upload an image outside of a post? 9 times out of 10, when I'm uploading an image to imgur, my intention is to link to that image from within a comment (rather than a post). Can I use reddit's image host for this scenario?
btw: Thank you for taking actions that will save us from imgur!
qtx ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 23:01:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You could, just make your own private subreddit and use that as your 'private stash'.
SuperC142 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great idea!
mindbleach ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I click on an image link, I want to go to the image, not the comments page about the image. There's a reddit setting for this. I disabled it. Please stop treating your image host different.
brimful-of-asha ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bye bye imgur
indyslimshady ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:18:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will it be available to NSFW subreddits?
ForceBlade ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:19:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you guys PLEASE employ something from this generation for viewing them?
I'm talking video.. like the uploading of video files or the conversion on your side of them for people with very.. very limited bandwidth [imgur's gif / gifv option] ?
mazo4033 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:20:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FINALLY! Thank you!
forbiddenway ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank Jesus.
mrpopenfresh ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Feels like this should've existed since the birth of reddit. I'm sure every new user coming to this site goes through the stage where they ask themselves why in the hell everything is just a link to imgur.
RanndyMann ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oh fantastic. host all the SFW images and let IMGUR take the sloppy seconds. that's what a friend does.
drake02412 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is fun still has imgur as the default option for images.
EgonAllanon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:27:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't drag to resize images in RES.
wingatewhite ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
2 questions:
Does this open the door to limiting content being reposted?
Is there a vision to combine threads in some fashion to see the different discussions that can revolve around a single image? (think a photo of a Trump/Clinton/Sanders protestor and the different viewpoints you would get from r/politics, r/news, r/protectandserve, r/funny, etc.)
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Check out http://karmadecay.com/ if you haven't already.
Someone else in this thread suggested using the hash of each image for its filename. I agree that it's gonna be interesting when political or drama-licious images get posted to subs with radically different agendas. It will be a good test to see what Reddit decides to delete and what stays up. A bot that re-hosts on some other site might not be a bad idea, just to make sure everybody is on the up and up.
FreeMan4096 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:30:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imigur blocked in work, but not reddit.
awesome!
Stuck_In_the_Matrix ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:35:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be any API interface to the images?
sathergate ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
go bears
Chilli_Axe ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:36:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With regards to feedback, I'd love to be able to resize images by dragging them, like how RES works with imgur
willpatersondesign ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:37:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yay! Just what I wanted :P
leadwind ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:24 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Early days?
slelham ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:40:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it going to tell us to download the mobile app every time?
anon_smithsonian ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but any word on when (if?) the API for this will be made available for third party reddit clients?
drkrelic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:42:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So..so no more imgur? :'(
thadtheking ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:43:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we upload more than one image? Also, can we have the ability to upload images for comments?
Luk3Master ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:51:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
freakofnatur ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:53:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OH BOY 100MB GIFS !!!I CAN'T WAIT TO BURN THROUGH DATA LIKE NEVER BEFORE!!!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:54:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A good announcement for once.
GetSomm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:57:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why only SFW?
Fallenfaery ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Would you put a setting in the mobile app to stop videos from autoplaying please?
web993 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:58:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Plot twist: this is an Imgur hosted image
Ncrpts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be a way to upload images directly to a comment ? 4chan style way ?
ChiliManiac ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:08:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP my Data plan lol
that being said, this is long over due.
Narwhalbaconguy ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:10:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hopefully it'll be better than imgur on mobile.
CHERNO-B1LL ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:14:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Anyway we could get this for comments? As in uploading an image or gif straight to a comment/reply text box.
varunrayen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:17:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do the same option will be available for the text posts too in the future?
Ted_Nugent_ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:20:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Buh bye imgur.
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Maoman1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:29:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I may be too late for this but I have a question/request. All imgur gifs, even ones uploaded before this functionality existed, now support automatic conversion to .webm or .mp4 files simply by changing the .gif extension in the link into .gifv. This is superior to normal animated gifs for a variety of reasons, but primarily because gifv links are like one tenth the bandwidth of normal gifs.
Will similar functionality be coming to reddit's image hosting, or must it be uploaded as a webm or mp4 file from the start? If it's the latter, I want to formally request this functionality be added, as I will continue using imgur as my primary source for image hosting if it is not.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:46:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh you want to know how to make reddit better? Perhaps don't ban and censor people for not sharing the popular opinion.
CountryMacLives ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:50:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that the German team?
arindustries ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:51:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is that supposed to be like Toni Kroos
wildgreengirl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:57:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Soooo thats desktop example but there is no difference when trying to post .gifs directly to reddit through RIF..it still only does images, not .gifs
devperez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:33:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That's a third party app and they haven't opened it up to devs yet. Try it in redditmobile.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:08:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
I don't want to see gifs on mobile version. It was better before. If I want to see it I tap. If not I don't. Frantically moving cats are very distracting when scrolling and kinda disorienting :( maybe give the option in settings?
KoningKoen ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome, thanks team!
paulledesmajr ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:18:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, i can finally view images here in our office. Image hosting sites, streaming and social networks are blocked here btw.
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:31:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can this be used for comments? Or can it in the future? Looks like you can only upload images with posts.
Redditburd ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:32:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I can't add an image to a reply?
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:50:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It doesn't work in comments at the moment as far as I know.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:33:34 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Everybody upload 100mb gifs :D
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:41:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:47:23 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a RES friendly version in the sitcky comment. But it works really well in imagus.
GroMicroBloom ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:43:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it only limited to SFW subs?
Is it staying that way permanently or is it just being rolled out to SFW subs first and then NSFW later?
devperez ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 00:46:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i50k7
MrSagarBedi ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:55:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice and Thanks
transcendReality ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about women who like looking at women?
Always_Taken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:58:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The only thing I dislike about the images uploaded to Reddit is when using RES I cannot click and drag on an open image in order to zoom in. If the image were uploaded on imgur I would be able to zoom in by clicking and dragging. Unless there's a fix that I don't know of.
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:02:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's a RES friendly link in the sticky comment.
bridge_view ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:27:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah. I like this program. Thanks, Reddit.
b0red ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:55:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
(ใฅ๏ฝกโโฟโฟโ๏ฝก)ใฅ
wtf_is_taken ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:02:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about NSFW?
dredmorbius ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:13:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this or will this support ability to self-host on Reddit inline images within self-posts?
I moderate a few subs which are 1) self-post only 2) somewhat bloggy and 3) make use of inline images. These don't currently display except when using RES (and individually or globally expanding images). But I find the capability useful.
The inability to have images and text all-in-one incorporated on Reddit, and display those images inline, has been frustrating. Ello or blogging engines are possible alternatives, though they also have some downsides.
(I've highlighted what I like and find missing from Reddit.)
DreadKnight666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:21:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.i.P. imgur.
cptsir ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:24:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When I expand reddit uploads, the link remains blue. When I expand links to a site such as imgur, the links turn purple. Is this a fault of RES, or is it working as intended?
sandmmaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:41:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Death to Imgur!
dm18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:43:06 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have you considered any filtering? There are many places where NSFW or adult content has to be filtered out due to legal responsibilities.
Most web filters allow for all or none of a website. Usually the key is IP address and or domain name. IE block amazon.com.
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thoughts on image albums? Adding captions to images?
flying_fuck ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:54:22 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thoughts on accessibility?
HenryKushinger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:56:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What, you don't want to host boobs?
dirtieottie ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:12:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Booo! #SaveImgur
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:23:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Personally, I think this change is great.
What would be interesting, however, would be to support a variety of different file-types.
It would be interesting to see Reddit if you could post .pdf's!
AbortedChickenFetus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:07:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Because they want to fuck Imgur
extremeDecay ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This just in. Imgur dead.
jcrabb13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:15:53 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Beautiful. This is perfect because my work just blocked imgur!
Mikeman3561 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:17:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Representing Drexel Rowing? Thanks Snoo!
jinniu ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
For someone in China who often has problems loading images because of external sites being blocked this will make browsing Reddit far more enjoyable. Excellent addition to the site!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:03:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there any possibility that we could get embedded images in text posts?
harsh183 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:07:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP imgur
rebelrebel2013 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:18:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Id like to know who that sexy snoo with the soccer ball is
aji23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:20:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Currently, I can instantly resize imgur links, but not these. Can we add that functionality? I use it constantly.
lordjagman1969 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:30:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
hhhhhmmmm ukay
vegasgal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:32:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for this wonderfully easy way to add images without using an external hosting site. xoxox
Mahakali923 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:38:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Imgur just got rekt
pokepokePOK ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:41:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Just seeing these kind of numbers freak me out and make me feel old. I remember when Newgrounds.com challenged animators to make full movies 100kb or less.
V2Blast ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:47:36 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Glad to see this feature go public to everyone! :)
chuttney1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:48:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100MB gifs. Breathing InTenSiFIES
datagod ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:56:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
A 100MB GIF? WTF
Mecdemort ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:57:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you add the ability to drag to resize?
Thehulk666 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:03:33 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thank you for giving me your pics -reddit money making department.
vegasgal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:09:52 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did NOT work for me. Dang it.
MasterMirage ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:19:20 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This will probably get lost but is there any changes planned for selecting our own thumbnail?
Sometimes the generator grabs a really random image which doesn't relate to the content on the page and there's no way to change it :(
roboticon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
TIL that gifs are not images.
Actually though... what? We can only upload 20MB jpegs but get 100MB for gifs? So I should just throw my original into a gif and probably get better quality?
anduin1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:30:57 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i spend so much time on this website but im totally out of the loop of anything that actually goes on it when i stick to certain subs
tmyusuf ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 06:54:08 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
My friends saying to me, Reddit aren't publishing video.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:01:40 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Who gave the admin gold for this? he probably gets gold for free anyway
Mayooonaise ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:20:26 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How will this work for cross posting content? If I upload an image to one subreddit and someone copies the image link and cross posts it to another and then I delete my original post will the image be deleted and break their link also?
Otadiz ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:29:37 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please stop, you are messing up RES.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:00:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
so kuul, all that remains now for me is to share something useful
VileTouch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:50:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
gifs? are those real gifs or they are converted to webm/mp4/ogg like imgur does?
the difference in loading times is huge so it's important to know
gladbmo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:51:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Image Censorship on Reddit, YAY!
PriusProblems ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:19:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I just get a "Your connection is not private" error when trying to access i.reddit.it links on mobile (both Chrome and RiF).
RaccoNooB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can't seem to access it on my Windows Phone. It says the page cannot load.
bean-lord ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:24:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will it be possible at some point to extend this functionality to private messages/the modmail system? Thanks :)
The_Keijhanator ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:34:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Add downloads on mobile
aswan-2012 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:57:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This message gets a 10/10 for #a11y /s
DubiousVirtue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:07:12 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Using RES I am unable to resize images hosted on i.reddit.
I can on other image hosts. If I can't read the content or see the joke or whatever - the image is useless.
masonw87 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:10:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO
constantlm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:40:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So Imgur is now pretty much a porn site?
LondonTiger ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:46:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
niggas putting imgur out of business
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:52:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow. SFW communities only. Way to perpetuate sex negativity. Good job Reddit.
Frequenter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 11:54:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome. No more blocking filter at work for Imgur!
ThatguyfromWork11 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:33:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nah, we'll keep on using imgur-thanks
CausticInt ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:38:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There's also a large community of file uploaders that usually hosts static content indefinitely for free.
A_Hozer ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:39:50 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Skate 4!
TyneyTymey ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:06:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But what about the poor starving people at Imgur...?
Whatever will they do when you take their job away?
left_write ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:44 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why does clicking on the post for one of these images take me to the comments rather than directly to the image now?
I've it takes two clicks to be able to see a full page image, this is not an improvement for users!
enoctis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:52:28 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They should make a user setting that allows you to decide if you want image links to point at comments or direct image.
Ankle_Fetish ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:12:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
When will nsfw be available?
IronedSandwich ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:17 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I read that as "all SJW communities" for a minute, that was confusing
erry1Wants2BLikeMike ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:36:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Idk if this has been said, but I think the ability to grab the direct link to the pic or gif or the ability to copy and paste it would be a nice feature to have instead of sending the link to the Reddit post.
Edit: This is in regards to the iOS app, I'm not sure if it applies to other platforms.
deadaselvis ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:07:27 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
awesome I never got a imgur thingy
TailSpinBowler ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100 meg gifs? Some of have quotas. (and dont have time for that).
ichris701 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:10:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Awesome
DreamerDeciever88 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And there goes imgur.
Pickles12321 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:17:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is it available on mobile?
handfulofchickens ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:54:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I am on the reddit app Flow, and whenever I try to view an image from i.reddituploads I get sent to a page that says unauthorized. It's that intended? Will I need to switch apps?
puripurihakase ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:08:01 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is something different so I don't like it.
Also, switching the position of the title and the link now makes it look like posting on VOAT.
pseud0nym ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:28:35 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, why does drag to resize images simply no longer work when they are hosted from Reddit? Seems to work in a comment, but not in the main post or on the main page where it needs to work.
aph1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:09:42 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
would be nice to post more than one
CharlesChrist ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:22:07 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hope you can extend this feature to attachments and videos as well in the future
ZuchinniOne ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:31:28 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I really dislike the fact that the images cannot be easily size adjusted the way that RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) normally allows.
Honestly unless you fix that there is really no point in me using your image hosting service and it makes reddit harder to navigate and enjoy as a whole.
0/5 - Would not use.
peyton_montana ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:18:55 on June 25, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Need image WITH text post - instead of only "text post" and "link post."
Chelsp77 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:33:00 on June 26, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
wzeilel sw
abigfatphoney ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:47:34 on June 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
So links posted this way don't turn purple when I "expand" them in RES. I have to actually open them in a new tab to get the link to turn purple. Any chance this will be fixed? It's only a minor annoyance, but man does it get to me when I go to the next page and end up expanding a pic I've already seen just because the link was blue.
EDIT: Also, I can't click and drag to make these photos larger.
OmegaER ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:07:15 on July 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I actually had some troubles with uploading images, but I don't remember if these problems were present also after this post. I'll give it a try when I can, anyway!
BlackBeltSurvival ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:40:12 on July 1, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow, this is a really good change. I will test it out tomorrow!
QuantumElectron ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:52:13 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you also upload video natively to Reddit, or just pictures and gifs.
LloydChristmas1 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:25:35 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit Enhancement Suite breaks with Reddit image uploads.
Attempting to 'expand' the image in chat breaks and doesn't load, and 'expanding' the image at the top of the page (if a pic post, for example) you are unable to click + drag to scale up or down
lirannl ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:43:55 on July 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Then it will only have 50% adoption rates at the very most :P
ajmer98 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:16 on July 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wow thanks reddit!
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:52:26 on July 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ym78yDctM
Deshea420 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:28:00 on July 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Deathdiscussionclub/about/stylesheet/ Need mods for my very first sub!! Plz help & Ty.
Pleroo ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:19:59 on July 5, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Shots fired.
arijjan ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:15:59 on July 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ik 8* * Item * Item*
thinkforaminute ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:11:58 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cyberwolf247 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:23:06 on July 15, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Jacksepticeye, Markiplier and PewDiePie React to Def Espurr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQjS7QP-UQY&a
imtryingnewthings18 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:22:27 on July 18, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice
umbreon120 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:39:42 on July 20, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Patriots took
SuperiorNicky ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:31:00 on July 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I need advice from someone please anyone. It is the first post on my page
justice626 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:09:23 on July 29, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this image hosting is bullshit... I try and post images using the reddit image hosting and when submitting all I get is a submitting..... and the link will not post... pointless using reddit image hosting if it wont allow you to post your images
twocatskissing ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:28:09 on August 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
BC
TheMoonstar74 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:21:53 on August 2, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Recently updated the app, gifs no longer work
CoosForester ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:54:53 on August 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any way to post an image when replying to a post or by editing the OP post?
petesimon2 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:35:00 on August 7, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
please add this feature, if not already, too /r/ANormalDayiinRussia
rr14rr14 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 13:01:30 on August 11, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is broken, going to the comments does not make the link visited, everything now needs to be clicked twice
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:40:22 on August 17, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SFW Only? Aww.
Nanubrithwal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 10:56:47 on August 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://www.thehacky.com/defend-bluetooth-pin-cracking/
Ohsin ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:54:45 on September 6, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey I recently bumped into this image on /r/woodworking
https://i.redd.it/sd8v68jgzdjx.jpg
It is doing something strange when being loaded for me. I see black and white version of image at first and then color fills in line by line from top to bottom and slowly enough to be noticed. Here is a screeny while it was loading
https://imgur.com/a/boAHh
Helixsilent ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 15:03:15 on September 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
cool, i love how easy this has gotten over the years
bibilik4u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:54:50 on October 3, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
funny
Rabbyk ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:06:12 on October 13, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yy uhhuytYyuyt)
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:19:19 on October 27, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This should have been a self post you fucking karmawhores
DawnBlue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:10:18 on December 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Uh, I know your comment is a month old, but didn't the post karma merge happen before that?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:44:05 on December 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
shh bb is ok
DawnBlue ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 03:08:33 on December 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:D
zavtra13 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 03:05:59 on October 30, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can images be posted using the mobile app? My desktop, and its internet connection are garbage.
bayusachannel ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:01:38 on November 4, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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DawnBlue ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:12:27 on December 16, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So... what if a subreddit doesn't allow link posts?
How do I upload without posting?
I guess that's impossible then...
Duderino732 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:33:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this be censored also?
pitaenigma ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
OP is karma whoring posted a link when he could have posted a text post
polishhottie69 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:10:32 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Goodbye imgur and your silly offshoot sli.mg. You all can go do your own thing now #byefelicia
gattagofaster ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:56:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alecferretti ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:18:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur
DweadPiwateWoberts ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you have a cat swipe, we're done.
rocketparrotlet ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:26 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Reddit is overwhelmed with traffic very frequently. How will you be able to provide adequate server space for image hosting as well?
HaydenB ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Golly...I can't even imagine uploading a 100mb gif with my internet...
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP Imgur lol
hateexchange ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:20:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So will we get a removal link if we want to delete the image for some reason?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way overdue. imgur is terrible these days.
fatty5000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:21:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can we get shorter urls?
Synsane ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:13 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Woah. Shots fired at Imgur?
NobblyNobody ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Are you Likely to expand this to images in comments too? (I'm thinking /r/photoshopbattles etc)
eaglebtc ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Welp, this is going to be another nail in the coffin for Alien Blue. As more and more people start using i.reddituploads.com and move away from imgur.com, those "tap-and-hold" previews will no longer work.
Zwitterioni ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I might be dumb and it isn't caused by the image being hosted on reddit. But I can't click and drag the photo to enlarge or shrink it like I normally do with RES
ViennaKP ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 16:31:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've had this problem too
TiDoBos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:38:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What do the folks at Imgur think of this? This has to be a massive hit on their users, right? Do reddit and imgur have beef?
shadows1123 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:54:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
will this be using Richard's middle-out compression algorithm to improve speed and space from HBO's Silicon Valley?
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:13:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
but imgur is so much better
MrAppolon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:21:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
RIP IMGUR
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Whenever reddit posts any update, new feature, or basically anything, the community really comes down unreasonably hard.
Not having to be directed to a third party site with images is a great new feature. I'm glad it is finally being implemented. Can we all for once say, good job reddit!
JonasBM ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:23:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As an Imgurian I have waited a long time for this. Now tons of shitty Redidt posts wont hit Imgur frontpage.. Just kidding love you :D
B-Knight ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:30:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Guys, for the love of god, make it sp when I hold my finger over a thumbnail on iOS apps that it opens the image automatically as it would do for Imgur links. I'm so lazy and can't be arsed clicking it.
LostArt_999 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:36:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
How can we trust you to share our images when in the same week you openly alter algorithms to censor content you don't agree with? Give me a break ๐
FinalMantasyX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:37:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
SERIOUS FEEDBACK: LET US CATEGORIZE SUBREDDITS.
The recent changes to reddit have resulted in a fresher /r/all (although posts do still stick around for 20+ hours, which is nonsense), but it also means that posts from unpopular or less active subs get a lot of prevalence...and this includes NSFW subreddits.
As a gay man who clicksto expand images with RES before reading titles, let me tell you, this is fucking awful.
As someone with a job, it's also not very good.
I don't want to turn off NSFW content. Just specific NSFW content. If all the various millions of super specific naked women subreddits could be categorized "Female NSFW" and I could say "Don't show me Female NSFW, Sports, or MOBA related content", I would be soooo happy
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:59:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But you can categorize subreddits? It's called multireddits. https://www.reddit.com/r/multibeta/wiki/index
FinalMantasyX ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:01:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you even read a single word of my comment beyond the first line?
Serialtoon ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:16:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ugh. I'd have to use the official reddit client? Nah I'm good.
D4rK_Bl4eZ ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:23:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Has imgur reacted to this decision?
ithoughtsobitch ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 19:57:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks but no thanks. IMGUR works just fine.
Mathiasb4u ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:12:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this that i.redditupload BS that i can't see on my phone with no way to view the content?
stovinchilton ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:21:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are you competing with imgur?
matthew102000 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:35:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I hate reddituploads. Doesn't even load on windows phone. Ruins reddit on mobile for me. Fuck you reddit. Hosting an image is easy as fuck. How you can fuck up displaying it is beyond me.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:07:45 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's not that I don't completely trust reddit to host images, but how exactly does this benefit reddit from a business perspective?
Keeping our images on imgur or sl.img reduces the risk of something fucky happening when the Powers That Be decide they don't like a particular image, plus reddit doesn't have to pay for the bandwidth.
Empigee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 21:15:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why limit it to SFW subs?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:39:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It limits liability and keeps Reddit looking "clean" to business partners. IMHO it's reasonable for them to draw the line at NSFW images.
well_golly ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:04:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Given the trends at Reddit, I have (edit:) three questions:
1) Are you going to buy Imgur and then abruptly shut it down?
2) Are you eventually going to mandate Reddit hosting for pretty much all non-NSFW content?
3) Are you going to make it so that the hosted images don't work well with AlienBlue?
dclaw ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:08:20 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Way to fuck imgur..... that's shady to screw over a user-created project....
ademnus ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:17:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No offense but imgur aint broke I dont see why this needs fixing. All I keep hearing is "imgur dared to want profit" but I buy reddit gold in the hopes of offsetting reddit's costs so I still don't see the crime. To me, it looks like a lot of changes for nothing.
Schminimal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:25:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It's so reddit has more control over content if it's hosted with them
NicotineGumAddict ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:26:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm still not abandoning Alien Blue. Don't care what you do until the new app looks and does what AB does.... fix the new app dammit. and support AB, we like it. staying here. I'll continue to use Imgur or not upload at all.
GodOfEnnui ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:29:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'll still use imgur, and hope others do aswell. RES allows me to drag and englarge / decrease the size of the picture for imgur, i.redd.it does not. Also this only allows for 1 picture to be uploaded and not albums, and the cap is at 20mb and 100mb. So guess I'll be using imgur for a while.
BiggiePorn ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:33:59 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It is to get rid of RES?
Axemic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 04:56:19 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like that loved Reddualien has a German shirt on. Go GER!!!! (football)
iplayguitarbackwards ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:43:08 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will these be censored like the news?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:06:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
With all the censorship going on in Reddit... I'll pass
[deleted] ยท -11 points ยท Posted at 18:31:34 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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AnSq ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 23:49:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go to voat.
iEATu23 ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:58 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I almost forgot, imgur is no different.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4ir788?context=3
[deleted] ยท -13 points ยท Posted at 16:19:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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Encrypted_Curse ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:26:28 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
lol
i hope
qwerzt ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 18:10:31 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
:'(
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:20:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm getting error message "file size to big". I was trying to upload a pic of my dick.
anthony1203 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 17:02:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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wvsfezter ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:15:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
kys
pyrocrastinator ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:54:18 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Finally no more imgur!
Capitan_Amazing ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:17:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Neat.
gurthbrooks ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Great Idea ! While I don't mind Imgur or anything like that i'm hoping this will increase upload speeds but it will block out ads that are unnecessary from sketchy places, i'm excited!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:44 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is awesome because Imgur was blocked at work many months ago and I'm sick of their mobile page(s). Much better.
ProjectManagerAMA ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:19:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will this work on i.reddit.com?
banter_claus_69 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:20:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Can you name it work inline with other apps as well? eg baconreader.
notquite20characters ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:20:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you mean an image from your desktop?
_SaidNoOneEver_ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:21:12 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love how clicking the image brings me to the comments section first, instead of the image.
rbevans ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:21:36 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be a front end UI to manage the photos we upload?
ilovemintykarma ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:24:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Looks like reddit is trying to kill of imgur and keep all of their traffic. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:25:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Makes sense that you're putting in the "SFW" rule - what system do you think will be used to enforce it? I imagine people might try uploaded NSFW stuff a fair amount due to ignorance or deliberate attempts to break the rule - and I'd imagine it might be a lot of work to monitor (at least it seems like it is for other sites that host images or videos like YouTube)
charonpdx ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:52:25 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not affiliated with Reddit, but it's pretty simple - they only enabled it on "SFW" subreddits. Yes, it's possible that people will upload NSFW content to a "SFW" sub, but that happens already, and is handled with the standard moderation.
Same as with using a third-party image host.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Sounds simple enough and yeah makes sense that in SFW subreddits it'll fall on the mods like it does already with external links etc.
oedno ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:28:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you chose to exclude NSFW subs from this feature?
edrini ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:29:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this for posts only, or will comments be able to include uploading images? If not, do you have any plans to add this option in the future?
Katten_elvis ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:30:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why is it only for SFW subreddits?
RareHotdogEnthusiast ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:30:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does this mean I will no longer need to press on a gif 3 times, taking me to 3 different pages, before it begins to play? (ios app)
raidersofthelostbark ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:34:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will the same features that comes with RES be available as standard on images uploaded through Reddits own hosting in the future?
Thanks
rddt1983 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:36:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Pass.
Tastygroove ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:38:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Trying to keep imgur "community" from hijacking posts by proxy. It's like a parasite... Ironic considering it's a "host."
eqleriq ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:39:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wonder how many shitposting karma spammers will fall off now because their affiliation / profit via imgur go bye-bye. If this prevents one decontextualized, decrediting repost it's a success!
terminator3456 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:42:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah but BRING BACK VERONICAAA!!1!!
Kongo204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:01:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Yeah, this is done and gone. You're just screaming into the wind.
terminator3456 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:06 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I think your sarcasm detector is malfunctioning, captain.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:43:14 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I was actually wondering, would it be possible to start embedding images in comments down the road? I think that would help the spreading of memes.
EDIT: And by that I mean upload an image within the comment box.
Hazachu ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:45:55 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any plans for the ability to upload pictures with different methods, like by copying in an image's location or taking a snapshot of your computer?
iHeartCandicePatton ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:52:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Wait... why is it only for SFW subreddits? Kinda pointless.
Justos ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:53:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
No moderation in place yet . That will come soon I assume
Iamabioticgod ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:58:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've heard people are upset we don't have profile pictures, when will I be able to have a dank pepe as my profile picture?
HentMas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 16:59:18 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
And now the site begins charging for space in their hard drive to subreddits, and then they stop support and ban people from using imgur, and then everyone needs to buy their product, and then reddit dies
welcome to the final years of reddit!
slver6 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:00:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
nah
Wraeyth ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:05:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Please update to allow dragging resizing that imgur has. It's a great feature and makes the hosting a pain for items that need to be zoomed in on.
Fuckoff_CPS ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
R.I.P fatasses and their fat ass dog at IMGUR.
Geofferic ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:06:52 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If you're not even converting the files to a modern format, I don't see the point.
SpruxHD ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:09:27 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
because fuck imgur
OldNigsen ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:09:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
NO ONE CARES
Fira_Wolf ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:10:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As long as viewed pics don't get marked as "VISITED", that's a big no for me.
Upvote_To_The_Left ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:12:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Oh great, reddit's own image hosting where they are free to control all content and only host what they deem is suitable or "correct"
Get fucked reddit. You lost your way years ago.
flounder19 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:16:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Nice strategy only pushing it out to SFW subs. Siphoning the public-friendly images away from imgur while leaving them with all the headaches of hosting NSFW content.
How's your relationship with Imgur? Do the companies communicate?
AnSq ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:55:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4p5dm9/image_hosting_on_reddit/d4i50k7
StoppedLurking_ZoeQ ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I'm assuming there will be a scandal in the near future that will involve reddit deleting a bunch of images since it was hosted on them when it would be harder to get imgur to delete them.
DeathSludge ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:27:57 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bring back the ability to view total upvotes and downvotes for comments.
edbLings- ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 17:30:43 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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rnaka530 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:01:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What about imgur
Rhed0x ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 18:05:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
As a German, I enjoy that Snoo more than anything else about this announcement.
reiw-ya ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:20:48 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
i will keep the image as long as
titations ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, is this going to be the end of imgur? That site survives because of Reddit.
titations ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:41 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, is this going to be the end of imgur? That site survives because of Reddit.
titations ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:22:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So, is this going to be the end of imgur? That site survives because of Reddit.
WhoresIsland ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 19:58:33 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I love this. Specifically because if people use it, I can see images again! IT at my job has recently blocked Imgur and i want to die!
Umutuku ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:09:00 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If I can't resize them easily like RES then what's the point?
When surfing reddit I usually just click on the image and expand or contract it as needed to fit or fill the screen so I can see things in better detail or more appropriate resolution on large images or blow up small images. With RES this works with most things. With these links though it's just sort of stuck there.
Now when I see i.reddit.uploads.com on a link I'm more likely than not to just skip it.
aryeh95 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:09:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I like seeing the stats/analytics on imgur for my OC front page posts. Is there any way to do that with reddit hosted images?
eadochas ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:15:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Not wild about companies using their platform position to force competitors out of the marketplace. You should work with your partners (who frankly already do what you're trying to do better than you do) rather than stealing than market share.
arthrax ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:21:23 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
It will be slower than the alternatives always
Om_ShantiShanti ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:28:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Thanks, but I'll stick with Imgur--I don't want to give reddit anymore funding than they need to just run the website.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:28:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Dear Reddit,
Only after you pry Imgur from cold dead hands.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 20:57:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why don't most reddit-hosted images allow inline image resizing with RES? That's been one of the most frustrating parts of this rollout.
mathyouhunt ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:10:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is there a plan for dealing with, what I'm assuming to be, issues with RES? The reddit images frequently won't load for me, and when they do, I'm unable to drag to resize.
Spore2012 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:14:09 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
this is a bas idea and dumb. will continue ro use imgur
SurvivalDave ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 21:24:19 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Here's some feedback re: ireddituploads
It doesn't work on the Android app "Flow".
Been pissing me off for weeks now.
SunosUnix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:30:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Broken on Reddit is fun. WTF? He reddit mobile app sucks!
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:39:51 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The reddit mobile apps works really well actually. They've made a lot strides to add in requested features and it's really close to being feature "enough" complete.
SunosUnix ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 05:04:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Using it now.. a lot better. Still looks like something out of the Windows store though...
NarWhatGaming ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:37:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Prepare for reddit lag and disconnects...
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:38:32 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The images are hosted by a third party. So it's not their servers taking the load.
NarWhatGaming ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 05:11:03 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Ah, didn't know that
austin6598 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:48:10 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Have it automatically convert .gif to .gifv files!
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 23:49:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
/r/100mbgifs
daveime ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:16:24 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
100MB GIFs? What a waste of storage space. Seriously, it's 2016 already.
You should have dropped GIFs but allowed GIFV (which is actually an MP4). About 100 times more efficient for animations than it's counterpart.
[deleted] ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:35:15 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:49:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The title of the post is the description. This is reddit. Not imgur.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:54:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
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devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:01:29 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
If the description can't fit in the title, it shouldn't really be a link post then. I imagine they'll roll out the image upload feature to text posts and comments eventually.
Gratstya ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 00:37:00 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
uh oh. Imgur and Sl.img bans incoming. I give it 3 months before default subs only allow images hosted by reddit.
RemindMe! three months. "told em so?"
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 00:48:49 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why would you think that reddit as a whole would ban third parties? They've specifically said third parties are still fine. But that's not to say individual subs won't ban imgur.
iEATu23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:41:14 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He said subreddits will. You're saying the same thing.
devperez ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:43:25 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
He generalized at first and then mentioned defaults next. Implying that it's a reddit decision and not the decision on the volunteer mods.
iEATu23 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:50:39 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
oic. I mean, it could happen without us knowing about it, but it would be suspicious in that way.
xerxes431 ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 01:49:43 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why are the file names so long? On imgur, I only need to remember 6 characters if I want to remember the link to an image.
Baldwana ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:41:47 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hmmm, I work at SmugMug and our users have told us for years that removing EXIF data is evil.
[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 12:14:49 on June 23, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
ha. hahahahah
GodOfAtheism ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:16:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
There is a distinct lack of thanks to /r/circlejerk for their part in the testing.
I hope that was a mistake.
CrustyCouch ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 18:09:50 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Bring back Coontown.
stealthboy ยท -19 points ยท Posted at 16:16:11 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Another way to censor and control content. Perfect!
TheRighteousTyrant ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 16:20:21 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Lol, these kids...
Kongo204 ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 18:10:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Right? All the way back to when /r/jailbait was removed, people have been crying about censorship.
whats8 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 16:32:56 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What the fuck are you talking about?
adeadhead ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:17:29 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Any word on addressing the population that can't view reddit hosted images?
[deleted] ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:22:22 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
This is great news. Blood flow incoming, be back soon.
Wollowwoll ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 16:28:07 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Beautiful, been waiting for this for a long time. The jackasses at Imgur have been increasingly getting to a point of needing their attitudes checked. I hope the sharp decline in traffic to their site teaches them to shut up.
topredditbot ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 17:03:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Hey /u/Amg137,
This is now the top post on reddit. It will be recorded at /r/topofreddit with all the other top posts.
aazav ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 18:44:47 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do. Not. Want.
N6TJA ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 20:14:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Will there be a feature to upload SVG images like Slimg has?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท -1 points ยท Posted at 21:50:40 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Making a fresh top level post because this hasn't been answered.
/u/madlee, you said that "we" don't store any EXIF data. Do any third parties store EXIF data? Can you please add a canary specifically for 3rd party EXIF archival, assuming you're not already under an NSL specifically for this?
If reddit doesn't answer this, it's safe to assume they're already under an NSL.
RemindMe! 1 week.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:07:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
EXIF data isn't really NSL worthy.
Anyone worth a damn will have gps exif data turned off on their phone/camera, and everything else that's stored in exif data isn't anything worthwhile.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:16:04 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)*
Sure it is. The surveillance state inhales all the metadata it can and then some.
If I were the NSA I'd certainly be interested in scraping EXIF data from a site as huge as reddit.
Edit: are you downvoting me? A default mod, downvoting because they disagree with someone? Really?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:18:38 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I dunno, unless the NSA desperately wants to know what shutter speed, aperture and at what focal length I took the photo then by all means, they can have it.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 23:21:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Timestamps and GPS data wouldn't interest you? How about the unique ID of the phone or camera used?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 07:53:38 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Like I said, any sensible person disables GPS EXIF on their phone/camera the moment they get a new one, which removes most personal info regarding phone ID and location.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:12:10 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
But fuck people who don't know that, amirite?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:17:16 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Did you ask the same question to imgur? Or any other image hosting site?
And what was their reply?
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:28:46 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Do you have even an ounce of compassion for regular folks who are at risk of getting thrown in jail, made un-persons, tortured or killed in drone strikes because of reddit's collusion with unconstitutional surveillance programs?
Before you attempt to derail the discussion any further, I'm curious, what is YOUR reply? As a mega-moderator you've clearly got a lot invested in Reddit. Since the /r/news debacle, people like you are on thin ice. Don't slip.
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:38:02 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I asked about this long before this service was made public, https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/4drl3j/moderators_ireddituploadscom_is_legitimate_you/d1tq5zr
So yes, I am concerned about this, but you seem to ask for impossible things just to pretend to be a privacy advocate.
You still haven't answered my question if you have asked this of all image hosts, cause we have and image hosts that don't reply with answers we like we disallow.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:46:48 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What impossible things? If we're dealing with National Security Letters, the only way to be certain is to keep digging until the only reply is the sound of crickets. Even /u/madlee's reply "we don't send data to any 3rd parties" is weasely, because any colocated NSA hardware is going to sniff traffic before it reaches reddit's own servers.
What does my asking imgur have to do with reddit, exactly? Whats the purpose of this misdirection? First you threw out red herrings about F-stops and exposure settings when the real risk is metadata, like GPS coordinates and unique device ID's. Clearly you're not ignorant, but you do clearly appear to be trying your darndest to derail the conversation.
Is this fun for you? Are you a fed in real life, or do you just pretend to lick boots on the Internet?
qtx ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 08:56:05 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Cause it's obvious you won't be satisfied with any answer anyone will ever give you. You will keep pushing and pushing even when there is nothing going on at all. You need to have a bad guy somewhere.
Sometimes, you know, there just isn't one.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 09:01:30 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Does Reddit still have a canary? NO. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0WX2YF
You are a damn fool if you don't think there is NSA hardware parked next to every US-based reddit server.
madlee ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 01:35:54 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
I've answered this question several times over. No.
Zebba_Odirnapal ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 02:14:11 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
The ol' shotgun approach never hurts when you're getting the silent treatment.
However in this case, you HAVE answered well. Thank you for that.
The only outstanding concern I have is whether you have a non-https loopback for incoming traffic. This is the cleanest way to share data with government surveillance entities. I honestly don't expect a reply, but on the off chance that the NSL(s) you've already received don't cover this, feel free to clarify who sniffs your encrypted traffic after it's been unencrypted.
[deleted] ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:41:03 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
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JohnKimble111 ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:48:51 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Only if it is the wrong sort of politics.
morefish42 ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:12:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
what did imgur do to you, not support one of your censorious policies?
JoebobGoldstein ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 17:35:05 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Is this so you can more effectively censor imagery that doesn't conform to the populist Reddit narrative? Like when you culled the right leaning hate and brigading subs but not the left leaning ones?
Because that's how you end up with Voat and slimgur.
smackpacks ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 18:48:42 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
FUCKING BITCH ASS REDDIT.. ALLOW IT FOR ALL COMMUNITIES.. NOT JUST SFW.. NSFW IS WHAT MAKES REDDIT LEGIT AND COOL.. FUCK YALL NIGGAS... white guy takes over Ahem, exucse me. But, I do believe that it should be applied to all communities, regardless of ability to be safe for work viewing or not. I do understand that it may overload reddit with obscene, indecent and morally objective content. In that respect, I believe its that same content that makes reddit what it is, unique, mysterious and edgy. We're not 4chan, we're not children, but, I think a certain sense of dark mystery is always appreciated and sometimes needed to maintain legitimacy on the internet. :)
learntouseapostrophe ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 23:34:53 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
u/amg137 just a reminder: most workplaces don't tolerate full-blown racism or other forms of bigotry. it would be nice if reddit would actually try to clean up its act for once without prompting. you know, without requiring CNN to be like "wtf"
devperez ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 00:39:07 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
What are you talking about?
[deleted] ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 16:39:49 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Go away. Lol
brownPoopsicle ยท -3 points ยท Posted at 17:22:39 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why do you censor r/the_donald?
lyspr ยท -4 points ยท Posted at 16:22:02 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Why should we use this when Imgur already exists?
Kongo204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:12:37 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say that it should be faster and more streamline when using reddit. Also, a lot of people are having issues with imgur on mobile making popups about using their app.
fa_throwa ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:39:54 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
So how long till you will remove and censor images deamed "offensive"? Would advise /r/the_Donald DO NOT USE THIS HOSTING METHOD!
secludedhotdog ยท -2 points ยท Posted at 16:40:01 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Fuck spez
NEStendog ยท -5 points ยท Posted at 20:07:30 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
here's a script example: http://imgur.com/TFpvQAE
TeamLGBT
peterlcole ยท -6 points ยท Posted at 16:22:59 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/rXUWMQi.gifv
Seriously, though, I do not understand the point of this.
xJRWR ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:40:46 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
To keep users on site. A ton of people just browse imgur now, I know a ton more people that use Imgur then reddit. It turned into its own social media platform, and its taking taffice (Ad views) away from reddit
peterlcole ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 17:19:35 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
That makes sense. I knew Imgur had some kind of comments feature but I never looked into it. I did not realize that it became its own community.
Kongo204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:09:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They say speed, and it has been a heavily requested feature in a lot of the comments.
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LittleBigMax ยท 5 points ยท Posted at 17:19:16 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
They will expand it to NSFW content but are not doing so yet because of bandwidth.
Kongo204 ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:08:15 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You realize that 2 of the primary founders still work at reddit, and its first CEO is again its current CEO?
InMySafeSpace ยท 0 points ยท Posted at 04:59:41 on June 22, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
You realize that doesn't really go against what he said right
Ionlyreplytomorons ยท -12 points ยท Posted at 16:35:58 on June 21, 2016 ยท (Permalink)
Typo there. SFW should be SJW.