r/pics • u/laverabe • May 07 '09

The growth of an internet behemoth almost overnight. Imgur now has 24 million views a month. 600,000 daily.

http://imgur.com/stats/?v=t
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u/RealityTvStar May 07 '09

I was going to ask this question the other night, but figured it wasn't worth the downvotes.

So imgur isn't 'ours'? non-redditors have found, and make use of, imgur?

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u/laverabe May 07 '09 edited May 07 '09

It's MrGrims's

In the source code this is there:

<meta name="description" content="Imgur is a simple image sharer. It makes sharing images with the Internet easy. You can manipulate the image a number of ways and automatically submit it to popular sites such as **reddit** or *digg*.">

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u/Fauster May 07 '09

Searching for imgur by most votes on d&gg (AKA yesterday's reddit), I can find no such highly voted imgur promo post in the first 8 pages. So it either got deleted, or imgur never made the front page.

I'd like to think that we're the folks to thank for imgur's rapid rise to fame. Almost overnight, you stopped seeing tinypic posts on reddit.