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by jedberg 1984 days ago
Sort of. The provided a functionality that reddit did not, so they weren't really unbundling anything. They smartly realized that reddit would probably eventually provide that same functionality (which they did) so they started down the path of building their own community before that happened.
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Lucky for them, the reddit implementation is as-of-now still pretty awful.
Yeah but that's the sad part. People still use reddit's built in system because it's there, despite the inferiority.
True, it's the path of least resistance, particularly if you're a new user.
On the contrary, the sad part is that people still use imgur. Going off-site to be bombarded with off-topic pics (all imgur pics are surrounded by random other (sometimes NSFW) pics isn't a great experience.
I dunno, what really do you need to do other than have your pictures uploaded and displayed on the post?

I kinda figure that's all 90% of the userbase actually wants from the feature?