[ChickeNES]

As someone who couldn't care less about their shitty platform, what alternatives are there? I can remember when Imgur was first launched as a super-simple image host that wasn't full of crap and watermarks like Photobucket. Now it seems as if history has repeated itself, with Imgur becoming the very thing it sought to displace.

[pc86]

I think that means one of two things, with two different outcomes:

A. Creating a super-simply image host that isn't full of crap and watermarks like Photobucket or Imgur will yield a profitable business.

B. A is in fact not profitable, and adding crap and watermarks is part of the normal evolution of an image hosting business once you gain moderate amounts of traction that starts to stress your finances.

[yellowapple]

It's like Jamie Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, but applied to image hosting sites: "Every image host attempts to expand until it is no longer able to host images. Those image hosts which cannot (or refuse to) so expand are replaced by ones which can."