[fao_]

Why would you want a mirror, and especially why would you want a mirror on an ephemeral image hosting site? The XKCD site has been online since '06 and is already archived on archive.is and web.archive.org, imgur has been online for less than that time and certainly can't boast the same amount of uptime.

[frodetb]

The title of the comic also kind of encourages it.

[ur-whale]

Because:

    a) sites go down and disappear
    b) sites get censored / taken down by random acts of god

https://archive.vn/PNckg/c44096661a31c0014373b451c5ee308ecc0...

[fao_]

Yes but surely imgur is more prone to that, given its more lucrative surface area? And either way, wouldn't archive.is or web.archive.org be a better choice, given that both have big infrastructural systems that are very literally designed from the ground up to avoid data loss?

[agustif]

There was an alternative frontend for imgur in show hn the other day too...

like teddit and nitter but for imgur

[vort3]

Imgin?

https://imgin.voidnet.tech/

If using firefox, try Redirector extension to redirect all imgur links to imgmin.

[ASalazarMX]

Maybe they were trying to prevent a HN hug of death? XKCD handles those surprisingly well.