10 Facts About Imgur

Imgur is an American online image sharing and image hosting service with a focus on social gossip that was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009.

Imgur was created as a response to the usability problems encountered in similar services.

Imgur used three different hosting providers in the first year before settling on Voxel, then switching to Amazon Web Services in late 2011.

Imgur was profitable at the time, generating revenue from Pro subscriptions and advertising.

Imgur used to have a policy to keep images unless they went three months without receiving any views, at which point they might be removed in response to space needs.

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Public Imgur gallery is a collection of the most viral images from around the web based on an algorithm that computes views, shares and votes based on time.

Since October 2014, Imgur had automatically converted uploaded animated GIF files into WebM and MP4 video files, which are much smaller.

In January 2015, Imgur allowed users to link video URLs to create GIFs directly through the website.

In February 2015 Imgur announced "Topics" which was a way for users to sort and view specific images that belonged to a specific group determined by tags.

In March and June 2015 Imgur introduced official mobile apps for iOS and Android, respectively.