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finnn

imgur converts to the most widely supported formats. This is not a community issue.

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Yeah, but mp4 saves on bandwidth and is buffered vs gifs.

https://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/ gifv is just rebranded mp4 more or less

Actually, .gifv is an html page with a <video> with both webm and mp4 sources.

Right, this let's them repurpose the same mp4 files and give iOS users a better experience

Or at least try to. Imgur's mobile experience is lacking a lot.

Desktop too. The absolute main feature of such a site is the absolute link to the picture. That is the most important thing you need after you uploaded an image. Yet imgur tries to hide it as much as possible, forcing you to use the "show url to image" stuff in browsers.

It's been some time since that was the main feature of imgur.

For example, imgur redirects hotlinked images to its embedded view in some cases. One of those cases is when they decide that your domain is using them as a CDN, which they forbid.

And since then the main purpose of imgur is lost. I rather upload screenshots to my own site.

I don't hope they go down the Imageshack road...

You also can't save the video. At least not in firefox.

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