I've seen slimgur go down or otherwise be rather slow over the past few days, so at this point it's not wholly practical to go whole ham (tee-hee) and overload it. Also, Voat seems to display thumbnails from imgur on the thread list page, but not when the pictures are hosted anywhere else. I like seeing thumbnails on the list page. Maybe Voat could work something out with slimgur/imageham to get thumbnails to appear.
[–] IndianaPup 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Absolutely. In fact, we should use it outside of fph too, since imgur is with reddit. If enough people see slimgur instead of imgur, they might use it too.
[–] Griddelman ago
I think this would be a good move since I heard they have the same investors as that "other" site
[–] Waveform ago
What's the backstory on Slimgur? Who is running it and where are the server costs coming from? Aside from the staff's fuckery Imgur has a track record of keeping files alive for posterity
[–] technician90 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Hi, I'm the creator of Slimgur, I created it as a response to the censorship of FPH content on imgur. I'm personally fronting all the server costs right now. There is quite a bit of storage space left before we have to worry about running out of space.
Here are some stats on the site's traffic: http://slimgur.com/image/85 Daily, we have been doing about 35 000 unique visitors per day visiting 100 000 pages. With the exception of the first day when a link was on the front page of reddit.
The site has only been around for 4 days so how things are going to be funded going forward is something I haven't really figured out yet. Basically there is advertising and donations, a donation button is going up tonight hopefully and we will see if the site can continue on donations alone.There is a very supportive community here but if the donation route doesn't work out, there is advertising. I would prefer to promote fellow shitlords if they have companies they would like to promote, otherwise google adsense or another third party advertising company works as a final resort.