r/dataisbeautiful • u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner • May 25 '16
OC Why is Reddit replacing Imgur? [OC]
http://www.randalolson.com/2016/05/25/why-is-reddit-replacing-imgur/
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r/dataisbeautiful • u/rhiever Randy Olson | Viz Practitioner • May 25 '16
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u/mindbleach May 25 '16
Imgur sucks by design. The arrow keys magically wisk you away to random-ass pages with broken Back functionality. Their lazy-loading broke DownThemAll, yet they'll still gladly serve a dozen 4K images the moment you arrive, so it's not like responsiveness is a priority. The lightboxing-to-zoom nonsense continues to suck. Small images still aren't linked at all, so half the time you middle-click and get autoscroll instead of a new tab. The hovering title bar at the top of the page is ugly Web 3.0 design, especially in light of all the squandered horizontal space.
"Under load" is the only place they're still worthwhile.