If Reddit is the font page of the internet, imgur is its image stream.

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Only if those images gained enough traction on these networks, would they be pulled into the imgur gallery feed.

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Will he change that view if imgur takes off as a social network?

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Last week, the outage effected the availability of several popular services, such as Netflix, Reddit, Pinterest, Foursquare and Imgur.

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Imgur started by creating a simple tool that gave people control of the cropping and compression quality of their uploaded images.

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Now, users will be able to share images directly on imgur.

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Originally, users could upload their images to imgur, but they would have to share those images on existing social networks like Reddit, Facebook and Twitter.

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Now, they are creating a home page with many more entry points to draw a wide variety of users to to view imgur as a primary entertainment source.

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But this week, when Reddit led me to a popular imgur gallery titled Hot Tub Project, I found myself completely re-inspired by the possibilities of home improvement.

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And our runners-up: Michael Bonner, a flag writer in the US Navy, went as Instagram in hipster-filter , and shared multiple photos on imgur and Instagram, obviously.

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