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.
[–] uberdoober 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Seeing as imgur is run by censorship loving fatties I would say HELL YES. Viva la Slimgur!
[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] 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.
[–] teeheeh8r 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I would like to see more adds on voat and on slimgur. Ideally, we would get a sustainable and symbiotic relationship similar to that of reddit and imgur.