Comment by perching_aix
3 months ago
> Back when Reddit embedded everything on Imgur, maybe fifteen years ago, it was genuinely useful.
This is true, and I learned to hate every bit of this fact. It taught me to despise hotlinking with passion.
All of those links are now down the train, and you have to pray that someone not only backed up the specific image you're looking for, but that they did so in a discoverable way.
I guess at the end of the day it was a tradeoff we had to take for the lack of a better alternative back then
That is true. I think (I don't use Reddit anymore) even today, not all subs allow for attaching images to comments. I don't remember if posts ever had this same limitation, but it wouldn't surprise me.