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Hell is going on with Imgur?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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Have a look, you'll see what I mean. They seem to think the site is dead or dying.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 96 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

From what I've gathered, MediaLab bought imgur years ago. A couple weeks ago MediaLab fired most of people behind imgur, because MediaLab is an AI-first company.

Since then, Imgur has recently started to have lots of outages/glitches/etc. Imgur has also started purging nsfw and political content.

The combination of the firing, problems, and content purge have upset the user base. I'm not sure what Oliver has to do with it.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah MediaLab didn't buy a site they bought a dataset with a site attached to it.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

Note that the nsfw purge has been happening for several years now.