Yeah, when imgur came about reddit was 99% text on the site. Hosting images would have been a huge step up in cost considering the user count. Then of course people realized that if imgur can make money on ads thanks to reddit's traffic, reddit could potentially make even more and it has been all down hill from there.
How much protection do platforms have against user media submissions? If you implement a dcma/illegal report button tbat instantly takes the media down, maybe even logically, is that sufficient?
It might, but then you’ve created a whole new set of problems: if anyone can take down anyone else’s content with one click, they’ll do it against anybody they dislike just for the hell of it (this was the case on Tumblr for a brief period: the Report button almost automatically banned the user, until they immediately realized this was unworkable). So if you don’t want everyone to ban everyone, you need a moderation team anyway to handle false reports, and you’re right back where you started.
Agreed. I was mostly asking about any legal issues.
The problems are like you stated. We even see this happen with invalid dcma complaints in moderation-heavy environments. There are certainly safety rails such as rate limited reports per user, etc., but then you need some moderation anyway.
But if the legal requirement is, "take down media if the fbi comes knocking", maybe it's just easier to deal with it that way if there is no budget for moderation.
It’s probably now a lot easier to detect porn and automatically reject it. Set the filter to lean towards rejection for edge cases. You will lose out on racy bikini pictures, but maybe that is an acceptable compromise.
Reddit was a link aggregator till the recent shitty redesign. So image posts were just a post with a URL. You needed RES if you wanted to open the image inline with the post and comments.
Storage multiplies and becomes more expensive once you're replicating across regions, backing up into an eternally growing corpus, and so on.
But the biggest impediment by far were internet transport costs. I mean, they're still onerous for a lot of media-heavy sites, but it was much worse at the time. Offloading that to third parties made an incredible amount of sense.
It's actually kind of bizarre that there is an Imgur "community". I know the operation ran at a massive money-losing proposition for quite some time.
They made hotlinking increasingly difficult, turned the site into a social network and sold ads against content. It is no longer a "image hosting site" the way it was back then, it was going bankrupt as well.
It still is the same old imgur for making posts. One button to upload, you get served your album link, right click image for direct link. Same as its been for 15 years. Just used it as such last week.
These are fun. I think Kingly would be better if solutions were unique. I was confused at first when I ended up in a situation with ambiguity and realized the puzzle just had multiple solutions (Sunday, June 29)
> I was confused at first when I ended up in a situation with ambiguity and realized the puzzle just had multiple solutions
You're right, Kingly is the newest out of the bunch and the least satisfying to solve because of that. It's getting a big rewrite under the hood this week, so should be much more fun to play to make it more deducable and less random
I was really confused and surprised that Meta was using a commercial product for indexing instead of building in-house...until I realized that they weren't talking about the AI search indexing tool at glean.com
Glean.com? We had an intro meeting with them, pricing only makes sense if you're in a first world country and have 100+ or maybe 150+ employees.
I recall pricing started at 50k USD per year but may be remembering incorrectly. Please take this with a grain of salt as they may have changed their pricing models or whatever - I just get really annoyed at the "contact us" stuff so thought I'd try to help out here.
Yeah this naming is questionable. This definitely introduces confusion in the minds of consumers but I'm not sure if it's actionable. Any lawyers want to give some "I am not your lawyer" opinions?
