Imgur has a rating of 1.8 stars from 80 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Imgur most frequently mention front page, left wing, and toxic community problems. Imgur ranks 97th among Photo Sharing sites.
When photobucket decided to take the whole internet hostage, ruining forum content, etc. with no warning, the internet needed to look elsewhere (seriously, who would pay $399/year?). Where did the internet go? Imgur. Thank you for the great service you provide. We really do appreciate it! Great site, works better than photobucket ever did and it's free!
Imgur does not even pretend anymore, at this point, to be unbiased or considerate of any even keeled or respectful perspectives. The bias is extremely apparent. In an age of extreme partisanship in all corners of the Internet, Imgur manages to do the impossible: it stands out. There really isn't another site that reaches this levels of blatant disregard for objectivity that the platform does. My words really don't matter, though: just look for yourself. Provoking anger, either amongst its supporters or detractors, seems to be the only goal. I suppose, somehow, that this emotional surge is supposed to be positive in the service of some greater cause, but a permanently angry and incensed population seems to be the opposite of helpful to me in attempting to solve the issues in the world, no matter what your perspective is. Imgur is what it tries so hard to tell you that it isn't: an angry, fuming monster spewing rage at the invisible "enemies" it claims to be fighting.
Great image hosting! I've been using it for ages and it doesn't get worse. Some services add paid features and you can't use these services anymore without paying, here it's ok so far. I slightly don't like the starting page with all the rubbish that people upload, but i can cope with that.
Don't expect to go here with any kind of logic or reason with intentions of discussing topics related to $#*! posts. Dubbed a "democratic" community of voting. Bull. If you make any kind of comment that doesn't tow the line of Trump Hate, or hate in general, you will be blocked, muted, and even warned of abuse. Seriously?
Maybe admins are communist dictators shutting down free speech that triggers them?
It's very unfortunate that sometimes if you want to download some interesting picture from the internet, it will take you to this image hosting site.
Now, links to image hosting sites aren't bad per se, but this particular site is a terrible one.
The problem is many people use imgur to host images, so you can't avoid using or going to the site when you want to download a gif or jpg.
And when you go to the site the biggest problem occurs, you are forced to see extreme left wing hate speech and other highly offensive content.
The site is run rampant for pure hate against republicans, trump voters, whites, Christians, basically anything or anyone who isn't part of the extreme far left minority.
Average jane or joe, who just wanted to see an entertaining pic or vid need not apply here. Regular everyday people are treated as worse than hitler on imgur.
Tip for consumers:
Try to avoid reading or viewing about other content, just download that pic or vid you want, and get out of there.
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Easy to use, beautifully designed, very user-friendly. That said, the community is just reddit-lite with the top images being stuff that blew up on reddit and the people being only slightly more mature than 9gag and less angry than reddit.
Wake up and take your daily lexapro with a glass of soy milk? Switch on the t.v to CNN? Wave goodbye to your wife's boyfriend when he leaves in the morning? Humourless and sensitive? Workshy and entitled? Attracted to anime children? Low testosterone?
You might be an imgur user.
These welfare children don't deserve a $#*!ty mud hole in the ground and they have a whole website to share their repulsive opinions. It USED to be memes, I'm talking 2015, but when the woke mind virus hit, it was ground zero for anonymous libtard freaks to start posting cringe.
Tip for consumers:
The most hideous left wing echo chamber disguised as a meme site to brainwash kids.
Even after they implemented the filters, the constant stream of Anti-Trump/Right STILL clutters the Front Page. Going to Usersub is all kinds of crappy anime pictures and game templates, so it's not really an escape from the politics. This used to be a really cool site to get/share memes on, but those days are long gone. The ads are out of control. The mods will ban you for stating a reasonable counterpoint (like if you are a Vet, and correct misinformation about the VA for example). It's a sad little echo-chamber like Reddit and Fark. Deleting my profile sucked, I'd had it since 2011 if memory serves. I'd look to verify but again, I deleted it and their $#*!ty phone app. I'm not into circlejerks.
Browsing imgur used to be a daily activity to pass time. It was a place of sharing images covering a wide range of topics. Sure, there were opinions on current events, but they covered the gamut. Once prized for it's community, imgur has devolved into a circlejerk where concepts of social justice are selectively applied. I honestly can't tell at this point whether the current community is stupid enough to believe its hubris, or if most the comments just come from bots. Come for the memes, stay for the for the doublethink and self congratulatory hivemind at this point.
Thought this app was great for posting cute cat pics until the left loonies Nazi camp guards bully all users not 100% insane as them just to ban the non conformist since they will recieve complaints from the Hive. Too bad for imgur,. This could be a great site if it wasn't for the toxic users.
Tip for consumers:
Get out! Run far and fast.
BEST site next to reddit! Not only is it an immaculate image hosting site, due to the large number of images from reddit hosted there, you can actually browse just images from a particular sub reddit. Also, the community is amazing!
Imgur is filled with a bunch of pathetic fat losers. I literally get mass downvoted because I was asking why fox news counted as Fascist propaganda. Then I say that all fascists and republicans should be imprisoned and Liberals/Socialists are the best people ever and I get mass upvoted. Mfs are literal losers. Everyone that actually enjoys this app probably has a sad life
I've been on the imgur site and app, and it's my first time too. I been noticing a lot of silly pictures, and I think it's fine when I see stuff like that.
However, I also noticed that there are posts and pictures always pointing to how much of a "problem" that the republican party is, let alone posts disregarding Trump. This is coming from someone who was once a supporter of Trump, and having been on the democratic side in the past (Now I'm Independent), the site had turned into an anti-trump and anti-republican webpage which doesn't really help. Soon as I posted a meme pointing out how both parties are bunk, or even leave comments pointing out how both parties are nothing but controlled oppositions or two sides of the same coin, I get downvotes. Not that I have a problem with it, but it does speak in regards to how people think and what that site has become.
I love this sharing service! This is great social. Everybody all over the world can comment, like and dislike your posts. Its great tool for people. Who are interested, if their ideas, posts are actually cool or not cool at all. Every day thousands of people view your content and you can find funny, useful and hilarious information. One guy posted his selfie before visiting the dentist with crooked teeth and then with beautiful smile. This is decision in his life he made and Imgur Community was very supportive. This is just amazing, how cool this is. In Instagram (sorry for compering it with Imgur) you can share your own photos and photos of your pets only with your friends. And if your friends are busy, you will not get any feedback :(. In Imgur everybody will see it!
I was having the site glitch and not show me all the images I had uploaded. I took a screen shot of the error page and tweeted their official twitter. Not only did they respond right away (with a picture of a cat) but they also fixed the problem just as quickly. I have never had such fast service with an online service, especially for an individual user's problem. 10/10
Imgur is plagued by liberal users that cannot tolerate any viewpoints that they do not share. Take any political post and look for the "bad replies" link and you will see that all of the liberal users "down vote" any conservative comments; thus hiding said replies from normal view which is in effect a form of user controlled censorship. Case in point. Someone posted a meme to "tax billionaires" and many replies pointing out how dumb that is got down voted/hidden from the comments section. Anyone who has 1/2 a brain will know that when you "tax the rich" consumers end up paying said tax as billionaires will only incorporate that tax hike into the MSRP of their product, in more simple terms... pass that tax onto their customers in the form of price markups. Even if you tried to educate the liberal userbase, all of your messages will get down voted and hidden from anyone not willing to look at those bad replies to get a more balanced consensus of any particular topic.
Went for the means, left for the bootlicking of the American DNC. The mods do nothing to stop the spread of misinformation and propaganda. I'm no Republican, but any comment against narrative of imgur's toxic community is met with insults and accusations of being a Trump worshipping fascist. Meanwhile, they worship corrupt corporate polticians. Beyond that, it's rife with trauma dumpers dying to be pittied and gofundme scammers with loose sob stories that the gullible idiot masses eat up like cake. Rational people should avoid this app/site like the plague that it is.
If you're left winged, anti republican, anti Christian, then Imgur is the place for you. If you're right winged, Christian, anti democrat, you get banned. Hundreds of memes bashing Republicans, Trump, Christians, etc. Those are all fine. If you dare post a meme or a comment defending Rupublicans, Trump, Christians, or if you dare to bash democrats or biden, then you get banned very quickly. Try to email support to get some clarification as to why you get banned, and they will not respond to you.
Imgur is run by a couple of amateurs that are unable to understand even the most simple sustomer experience. Everytime I try to post, sonething goes wrong. Occasionnaly the entire post + the entire text disappears. It does not give you an error or anything it just $#*!s with you and leaves you there.
Their advertising is the worst. Their service is non existent. You won't get a reply if you're question is more complex then Hey how was your day.
The users are also terrible. Every post that has something of a LGBTQ remark in it automatically makes the front page. Everybody tries to be some kind of moral knight while in real life they're mostly nobodies that won't do anything. Except crying about how life is difficult and how supporting the imgur community is.
If I'm ever to return to this site it would be because literally every other site on the internet is offline.
I can not trust the company to host images, that have any remote negative view on American left poltics think, publicly or not shared. I am not in the usa butt if I upload images for my own use and it is not viewed as correct I fully belave it will be removed. For example an image of a boxing group meet, or my boys doing boy things. That may be taken as wrong activity and removed. Best avoid it happing.
I was okay with uploading images on this website. I found out about the gallery and decided to uploaded pictures of my best beans. I was followed with downvotes to the underworld. I don't think children these days remember the good old days with beans.
My updates:
There are a lot of toxic people on imgur for some reason. They will be quick to downvote even basic pictures from new users. They will also post inappropriate comments quite often. The interface itself is a bit clunky as well.
My original review:
I cannot add anything special that wasn't posted on the previous review. However, I can concur with a lot of it. Imgur is a very simple site that allows you to either register or sign in using Twitter, Facebook, Google, or Yahoo credentials. Everything about the design of the site is sleek and simple.
It is yet another thumbs up / thumbs down site that will allow you to browse a boatload of images from users across the world.
REASONS TO USE:
[1] Fun to browse vast library of images
[2] Ad free
REASONS TO LOSE:
[1] You prefer another image browser site
Most folks on the front page don't appear to have any life experience or tolerance for subjective viewpoints. They call it an online "community" (as if that's possible) whule denigrating anyone that isnt a radical liberal.
When you post just for you. You get downvoted just because it isn't for others to be idk happy or laugh? Like idk, but besides that it's okay and alot better than photobucket. If you're a private person just change your settings to unlisted
If there's a way to get downvoted on a site, I am going to get downvoted. A lot. More than pretty much any other user who contributes to said site. Any site that allows downvotes or negative ratings to be publicly displayed, and you'll find me with a negative reputation on comments that, if they were posted by any other user, would get a positive score.
Imgur is worse than most others about this. They are quick and fierece about downvoting content that doesn't fit into their narrow 4chanesque world view.
The site itself is cool though and you can find interesting images. Shame about the losers that use it.
Constantly glitches and refuses to upload or restricts access to your own images randomly with no reason or warning for either, ultimately useless given it's purpose.
Look I am not very much a political man and when I am I am civil about it. I used to frequent this site on a daily basis but the political commentary infecting every single feed with comments is offputting in every regard, race and justification for violence against political opponents (generally republicans and right wingers here) is used in most single front page posting with top comments regularly calling for outright violence. I just wanted to see animal pictures and the occasional info graphics. Here is a quick example from my experience today (7 March, 2022), for reference I don't give crap about some truck convoy to DC but when I see people posting and upvoting comments on how an A-10, a close air support assault aircraft, should be used on these truckers on the road (thus implying using these aircraft to brutally murder truckers and destroy their vehicles), I find this rhetoric deeply disturbing. I will not be visiting this site again and I hope the government regulates and shuts down this cesspool of lunacy and disinformation.
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