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by Shog9 3680 days ago
To be clear, Stack Exchange buys image hosting from Imgur; images are hosted on a separate domain and don't get any of the cruft folks are complaining about here. This relationship has been in place for years and has been mostly pain-free for a involved.

Source: I work for and use Stack Exchange.
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MichaelGG 3680 days ago
Wow that sounds strange coming from StackExchange. It seems hard to believe imgur would have a cheaper way to host images than what SE could get, and it's not like an image upload page is that difficult right? I suppose it's one less thing to deal with does it make that much sense? (Honest question, not trying to "weekend project" imgur.)
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Shog9 3679 days ago
Images aren't exactly a core requirement; if someone else can handle that without a significant down-side, then why not free up people to work on other things?
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