Imgur: Funny Memes & GIF Maker 12+

For several years now, the app has been progressively getting wide and worse. It’s too the point bias that regardless of the device I’m on, I have maybe 5 minutes before the app stutters and crashes. That entire time it’s making my devices burning hot and draining battery like nothing else I’ve ever used. That’s when I’m not getting punted to external sites or the App Store by increasing intrusive ads. The app is simply unusable, and over the course of YEARS it’s clear Imgur is either incapable or unwilling to provide its users (and their ad revenue) with a usable app experience. Even using their website, it’s nothing but crashes and hangs and failures to load, when ad loading doesn’t jerk the page location around almost continually. I’m not sure what Imgur’s aversion is to not tormenting their monetary base, but it’s ridiculous and a wholly broken model. And now they want us to buy paid subscriptions? Why should anyone pay a single penny for something you can’t even access without hours of frustration and a dead battery in an hour? This is simply a complete failure of an app, and a complete failure of a company to provide any kind of reasonable user experience.

For over a year now, both the app and website have been completely unusable/unreachable with any browser Imgur link as well as just trying to open the app itself. In fact, at this point, I am just flat out unable to access Imgur’s services. Imgur’s app was actually quite nice (for browsing), and the occasional notifications you’d get felt quite kind. Unfortunately, with this overcapacity thing going on for so long, Imgur being the world’s largest database for accessible and shareable digital media is just a myth at this point (and I imagine no longer even possible with the unregistered user change). I do not know if this is a case of IP banning or targeted device exclusion, as this happens about 75% of the time on pc and 100% on iOS, regardless of whether I am connected to internet through mobile (3/4/5g) or a wide variety of static internet access points like routers in different locations. No VPN, tried with at least 3 different ISP’s. Also, this is the web version of the error: {"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403} .
TL;DR: Imgur App and website forever inaccessible, not worth downloading or using an app for a service that basically doesn’t exist.

I look at imgur for images not for comments. If I want comments I’ll look at reddit. The problem with the mobile app is that each post is cluttered with other annoying and unwanted information such as comments, links, and tags and there is an unwanted toolbar persistent at the bottom of the screen. The result is that only 50% of the screen is dedicated to the actual image. Also, on the website, if you click the ‘view more’ button, it expands the the additional posts inline. The app takes you to a different page, requiring going back and forth a lot. Personally I hate this and much prefer the contiguous browsing experience of the website.
All in the app provides an very unpleasant image viewing experience.

As an aside, that you can no longer hide the ‘view in app’ button on the mobile website is pretty effing obnoxious. How bout this- make the app better than the website, catering to my and I assume others desire to view images more fluidly.