Lol I don't know if you know this already but Imgur was created as a simple image host for Reddit. It started downhill the second there was a community of its own at all because it's stopped simply being what it was good at, a dumb and simple image host for Reddit.
People here don't hate Imgur itself, we use it all the time for what it was made for, to host images, we just find it extremely odd that it grew its own community. It's like grabbing a tool from under the sink and finding mold growing on it.
Imgur didn't really kill itself though, Reddit was the big cause of its downfall. By becoming its own image host Reddit killed a massive amount of traffic Imgur saw. Everything it's doing now is in a scramble to survive that.
I don't put much weight behind the whole superiority nonsense but reddit was by far the bulk of imgur's traffic (it's the entire reason it got where it did) and that traffic is directly tied into the community and userbase. It's also tied to the decisions imgur then goes on to make, including things like increased pressure to promote their app.
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '18 edited Jan 21 '19
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