[–] 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.
[–] angry_shitlord ago
Was slimgur created by some shitlords from FPH?
[–] ivegotaqueso ago (edited ago)
Yes. It was a direct response when Imgur started to remove/delete pics hosted on Imgur that were posted to r/FPH. So people were looking for alternative image hosting sites and someone made Slimgur.
I think that for a short while, Reddit even began to bot block Slimgur from showing up on Reddit but IDK much about the drama that went along with that.
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.
[–] cuntsack_eww ago
imageham seems appropriate for the content posted here. After all the Imgur shit, I wouldn't want to use it.
[–] 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.
[–] CheekyMonkey ago (edited ago)
Absolutely, I deleted all my imgur stuff when they started deleting the FPH images. The imgur community sucks too!