mandie

Image hosting is easy, if you don't care about losing money. As long as you provide direct links to images, you're better than everybody else.

Video hosting? You need a good player (nothing will ever top YouTube's) and a good CDN. That's a tough nut to crack. Especially for a company with no money.

Main project is a sinking ship (cf. % of usage), most of their big projects have failed and closed in the last years (mobile, email client, persona, etc), they are caught in a major rewrite of their main project that may never end. It's a matter of time they stop getting funded.

This is my opinion; it is what I believe will happen, based on past and current events. Of course I might be wrong, or not.

Written in a blog that does not work with javascript off.

You're charging people for a service, you're in no position to treat anybody like that.

Translation: please don't be a dumbass.

They removed that possibility some time ago. Now if you disable your Facebook account, it's reactivated as soon as you log into Messenger. Tried it just a few days ago.