Imgur was a nice quiet place to visit in 2011 when you just wanted to see cat photos, memes and wholesome content... unfortunately Reddit liked the way they image hosted and it became the go-to after photobucket destroyed itself... now its nothing but a reflection of Reddit and the posters there hold the same beliefs. The staff themselves who used to be more involved in the community have gone dark and stopped making self-posts, and the company moved from Ohio to California in 2011 like most other tech companies so that should tell you everything about where they may stand.
You have that sort of backwards. Imgur was created solely to be a photo hosting site for reddit. Over time, it's creators started adding features and it became half reddit image hosting, half self contained social media site. The social part grew so much that many users didn't even know reddit existed, see ignorantimgur.
Imgur was a nice quiet place to visit in 2011 when you just wanted to see cat photos, memes and wholesome content... unfortunately Reddit liked the way they image hosted and it became the go-to after photobucket destroyed itself... now its nothing but a reflection of Reddit and the posters there hold the same beliefs. The staff themselves who used to be more involved in the community have gone dark and stopped making self-posts, and the company moved from Ohio to California in 2011 like most other tech companies so that should tell you everything about where they may stand.
You have that sort of backwards. Imgur was created solely to be a photo hosting site for reddit. Over time, it's creators started adding features and it became half reddit image hosting, half self contained social media site. The social part grew so much that many users didn't even know reddit existed, see ignorantimgur.