I really hate Imgur these days. It's yet another site that treats landscape mode as some alien thing that no one uses.
More importantly, whoever bought them is so focused on "showing the next thing" that the wrong swipe in the wrong area just obliterated whatever you're looking at or trying to read. It's just a giant bag of dicks in terms of poor interface programming and testing.
Seriously wish the author published this story as a GitHub readme or Wordpress blog. At least it would be readable without fighting the website to view the current damned content I'm trying to look at.
If I recall correctly Imgur was initially the de-facto image host for Reddit, if you wanted to post an image on Reddit, you had to post it on Imgur and share the link. It had a great interface for that, super easy, and you could get links that go straight to the image, no in-between bullshit.
I'm not sure how they made money though. And I think there was some drama between Imgur and Reddit, with Reddit going off doing their own thing in terms of image hosting. I think they went as far as breaking Imgur links in Reddit as well?
This left Imgur in the lurch a bit, scrambling to find a reason to exist. It's like asking the pass-the-butter-robot from Rick&Morty to find something else to justify it's existence with. They just tried to become another social media site a-la 9gag et al and the weird part for me is there are people that actually use it non ironically.
More importantly, whoever bought them is so focused on "showing the next thing" that the wrong swipe in the wrong area just obliterated whatever you're looking at or trying to read. It's just a giant bag of dicks in terms of poor interface programming and testing.
Seriously wish the author published this story as a GitHub readme or Wordpress blog. At least it would be readable without fighting the website to view the current damned content I'm trying to look at.