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Absolutely, 100% in agreement.

It took me less than 5 seconds to upload this image and get my hands on a unique, neat URL leading to said image: http://i.imgur.com/1o3iJe1.gif

The process:

* Type: imgur.com & hit enter

* Drag image from desktop and drop

* Hit enter

* Click (optional)

* Done.

No prompts to log in or create an account. No need to navigate to an 'upload' button. No prompts to share on various social media sites. No intrusive adverts.

The sheer simplicity and convenience is immense.




With great power comes great responsibility.

Probably not worth worrying too much, but it is important to keep in mind the terms of the site. Your cute or clever meme may end up on a T-shirt.

> With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Imgur a non-exclusive, royalty- free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content. To the extent that you delete a such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Imgur pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Imgur has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense. Also, of course, anything you post to a public portion of our site may be used by the public pursuant to the following paragraph even after you delete it.

http://imgur.com/tos


Yeah, I'm really not concerned about that. Honestly, it's about what I would expect. Especially since they're totally fine with breaking off the agreement for anything you choose to delete, if they haven't already used it.


So what you're saying is, Imgur needs to partner with a clothing and accessories company and REALLY make some money.


They already have a store, but I don't see them trying to sell anything based on user uploaded content although it seems to be within their rights if they wanted to.

http://store.imgur.com/


That's just the standard disclaimer anyone would use if they allow user submitted content. If you change your service in the future, then you need to protect yourself from litigious users.


Wow. I'm an amateur photographer who's uploaded some of my best photos on imgur to show to people. Never again.


Do you know hosting sites with different terms?


I wrote a simple temporary image hosting service that is very similar.

http://img42.com


In some WM is not possible to "drag&drop" files. I use i3 without an X file manager.


If you double click the background it should prompt up a file picker, I'm not really sure if that solves your problem though.




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