On: Monopoly Man – the same image uploaded to Imgur 3....

[shmerl]

Do they have some kind of data deduplication by the way?

[astrodust → shmerl]

Given how an image can be hashed with something like SHA256, it's kind of surprising that uploading the same image twice doesn't result in the same URL.

[morcheeba → astrodust]

Well, the image title would be different, and that's a significant difference. "Smiling guy" and "Justin Bieber at my sister's birthday party" are very different :-)

Also, the "author" and comments wouldn't want to be merged -- different comment streams for different audiences.

[shmerl → morcheeba]

The entry for the image can be different in the database, but there is no need to actually store the file twice, isn't it?

[astrodust → morcheeba]

Good point. I hadn't considered the social angle because I usually avoid reading comments on sites like that.

[shmerl → astrodust]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.