The user base is also incredibly toxic. Anytime you post a public picture you get ridiculed for using it to host pictures. Which is the entire point of it yeah? Sure you can also treat it like social media, but without the basis of posting pictures, it wouldn’t exist.
Imgur is a shadow of the brightness it once was. After all the weird UI and ad changes. Plus the NSFW purge, among other issues.
The user base is also incredibly toxic. Anytime you post a public picture you get ridiculed for using it to host pictures. Which is the entire point of it yeah? Sure you can also treat it like social media, but without the basis of posting pictures, it wouldn’t exist.
That’s been the case for years now. It’s no longer an image hosting site, it’s an image-based social media site.
All of their marketing says image hosting. Users don’t even understand their own walled garden.
Imgur now defaults to private images, but those didn’t exist at a time, and when they introduced them they defaulted to public.
Have you checked out pixelfed?
Yeah imgur was literally made to host pictures on Reddit, because they didn’t have an image hosting service