If 60 seconds is long enough for Nicolas Cage to steal a car, what will you do with 60 seconds? 60 second video upload — with audio! — is now…
Engineering
This post first appeared on Medium, by Amber Morey-Wu. Women have increased their numbers in many professions previously dominated by men, including law, business, medicine, and other STEM fields in…
This blog first appeared on Medium on February 12, 2018, written by Muts Inayama, VP Engineering at Imgur. Back in April 2017, our CEO/CTO Alan Schaaf, our Engineering Leadership team,…
Written by Dan P., full stack developer at Imgur Recently I was asked to give some insight to potential Imgur employees into what my role is and what sort of…
Whether it’s through a quick laugh or a moment of true human connection, Imgur lifts millions of people’s spirits every single day. Increasingly, more of those moments are happening on…
Making mobile web apps is hard. Browser performance, tooling, and APIs are still a long way from catching up with native mobile apps. Imgur has long had a mobile website,…
Imgur is a heavy user of MySQL. It has been a part of our stack since our beginning. However, with our scale it has become increasingly difficult to throw more…
Imgur started in 2009 as an image host, and over the years we have become the goto image host for many sites across the internet. We did this so well…
If you thought that Imgur looked a bit different today, you’re right! We launched some exciting new updates to our gallery, including a sprucing up in our general design as…
If you want to convert GIFs to video or display a GIF frame by frame (thanks iOS!), you’ll run into a fundamental problem: GIFs don’t have a constant frame rate,…