Schaaf first posted about Imgur on Digg, and when it didn't gain traction there he posted it on Reddit. It was disingenuous of him to call it a "Gift to Reddit" in that post.
In what way is imgur not a gift "to" reddit? It might not have been "exclusively for reddit", but I'm willing to be a huge sum of money that most top subreddits, including the first 4 pages of the frontpage are dominated by imgur links.
imgur was the first image host (before minus) that didn't suck, wasn't anti-user, freely allowed hotlinking and had a minimal page when they didn't hotlink.
It's almost never down and the links don't magically fail or expire after they get lots of traffic like many other hosts.
imgur was the first image host (before minus) that didn't suck, wasn't anti-user, freely allowed hotlinking and had a minimal page when they didn't hotlink.
It's almost never down and the links don't magically fail or expire after they get lots of traffic like many other hosts.