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[–] 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

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[–] technician90 0 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.

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[–] damnbiker ago 

How about we start uploading gore images to imgur? De-glovings, traffic accidents, medical images. I don't think it'd be violating TOS, would it? turn it into injur rather than imgur.

I'd use slimgur more if album creation was a possibility.

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[–] RuckedUp ago 

damn right fuck them hams over there

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[–] gino1888 ago 

Fuck imgur.

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[–] rakki ago 

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.

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[–] tblah 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

voat seems to work with hostimag.es (probably because it links straight to the image file)

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[–] nemoid 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Absolutely. I just need Hoverzoom to be updated to support it...

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[–] IndianaPup 0 points 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.

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[–] Griddelman ago 

I think this would be a good move since I heard they have the same investors as that "other" site

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