Reddit launches its own image hosting service

For those familiar with Reddit, the website will know that social bookmarking and news aggregator got on very well with Imgur, that platform to share images, because users rose enough material from said support. Well, now that could be in the past, after the team behind the service announced it will launch its own system of accommodation for posts published.

Through a statement, it mentioned that this initiative seeks the community experience more fluid, giving several interesting content to share via this storage options. Among the highlights, detailed images that can upload up to 20 MB and 100 MB gifs direct to Reddit way. So, you can click the hosted image, which will be linked directly to the topic or conversation about this. Yes, the content that go up must be subject to the rules of the site. They will be 16 the subreddits or groups who will benefit in the first instance with this tool, then applied another 50 during the next week. That is to say that this storage platform does not exclude the use of Imgur or other services. Rather, what is sought with this option is to give more traffic to Reddit itself.