Imgflip Homepage and UI Discussion

Hello everyone!

As you've seen, Imgflip launched a new homepage and some UI changes for the first time in around 10 years. Believe it or not, one of the first Imgflip homepage designs was somewhat similar to this new design.

Over time, Imgflip has become the #1 tool worldwide for meme creation and templates, with over 100 million total users, and regular usage by the world's top celebrities, politicians, and other personalities (often without the imgflip.com watermark, but scrolling on Twitter/X or Reddit you can sometimes tell which came from Imgflip).

Our mission remains the same: Empower people to create and share awesome images. Our intention with these changes is to refocus Imgflip a little bit on creation and templates, rather than the primary initial thing people see being a "funny image website". In the beginning, Imgflip had targeted this "funny image" concept more, with similarities to Stumbleupon, 9gag, /r/funny and /r/AdviceAnimals, but the world of memes and communication has changed significantly since then. Many people prefer their own personalized experience and memes for their own circles, and less often just a single stream of laughs. Hence, Imgflip is focusing on personalized creation tools and theme-specific meme streams for those who want to participate in the community.

This refocusing meant some obvious changes:
- The default Imgflip homepage should not just be a list of funny images create by users. It should enable people from anywhere in the world to quickly create images and share them whichever way is best for them.
- The Next/Previous/Random image buttons no longer make sense in a global context. It's a little weird and offputting for someone sharing marketing memes to have buttons on the same page which lead to community images with polarized politics or "lol zomg upvote if you agreeee". This flip-style of browsing could still be brought back to Imgflip in some format, but likely at a stream level or in a way that doesn't distract users in the wrong places.
- Imgflip Pro should be more prominent, and advertising should be less prominent. We would love to be able to remove ads entirely because they are generally a detriment to the experience, but from a business standpoint we would need Pro revenue to mostly compensate for it.

DISCUSSION:
We will continue making changes and we want to hear your constructive ideas for evolving Imgflip.

Here's the obvious changes and my thoughts on them:

1. TL;DR: Put more emphasis on the Generators.

Fair enough that you are targeting the outside creator userbase (they use the Generators but don't post them onto Imgflip), they are the majority of the userbase and the professionals are more willing to pay money. But, as I once said, you are "preaching to the choir". While I do think that the Generators should be more prominently featured, Imgflip should also not curtail the streams' visibility for social media users. What is being currently done will have a negligible impact on outside creator growth, and significantly reduce the social media user growth. While outside creators have more revenue potential, social media users are more loyal than outside creators, so having both would help.

2. TL;DR: Remove the next, previous and random image buttons. The new UI makes them obsolete.

While I do agree that they are obsolete now, I don't agree with the UI change, with a design which curtails the user experience. I agree that the next and previous image buttons should go, but I think the 'Flip' button should stay. However, it would be necessary to rework it. It should have a machine-learning algorithm that sends you to a random image that follows your interests, akin to Netflix's 'Play Something'.

3. TL;DR: Make Imgflip Pro more visible, show less ads.

Fair enough. Banner ads are a thing of the past. However, I do suggest you to read up on this:
imgflip.com/i/887j3o#com28876535
It talks about decentralizing Imgflip (i.e. showing other streams by default), and adding a customized machine-learning algorithm that follows the user's interests. In that comment, I bring up about a proposed feature: Sponsored Posts. They would be shown according to users' interests on the website. I brought up the example of a gaming company sponsoring their posts onto a gaming stream. It would boost Imgflip's revenues, as Sponsored Posts would be more expensive than banner ads, controlled in an advertising system controlled by Imgflip themselves (giving more control over ad abuse), while improving the user experience compared to the current outdated ads.

I got an idea for ya imgflip: So, if you have someone memechated, you should be able to see if they are online or offline. and you can choose to appear offline if ur online.

Yes

yes

Yes

Like discord?

yes

Ok

Yessir

IDEA
When users create an account on the site, ask if they are using it for business and personal use or if they are using it to be social and share memes on the site with others. Depending on which option you choose, you either get the new homepage for business or you get the old homepage for the latter option. If you already have an account you can choose if you want your account to be a business/personal account or a social/sharing account.

I love your idea, but one question that is left unaddressed is about the new users. What should new, unregistered users see when they first find the website? A good first impression is indispensable for website growth.

Personally, I would have an uniform UI that balances between the three user types. But that is easier said than done.

You bring up a good point.
Perhaps a welcome and then a screen that allows you to choose which account type you would have? Maybe comparisons between the two that highlights and helps you decide what you are using the site for as well.

Yessir

I like that too

this actually seems like a good idea!

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

its a cool idea but how do you make a meme site buisness

Yeah, just like Google does

You got rid of the Flip button, so it's just "Img"

Fr

Get rid of the Porn Streams

Porn streams is a nuh uh, I agree with you too

Dylan and all other website administrators,

The imgflip community understands that it takes a lot to run a website like this. But we also have asked for things that we haven't gotten several times. Customizable icons is great, but where is the profile picture type of update? Where is the "mark all as read" button? Where is the group chat feature in memechat that has been asked for practically since memechat was released? We still need a report button for users that we can click on their profiles instead of writing a lengthy essay on why a user's account should be deleted.

You're acknowledging that this website is getting the most traffic out of any meme generator designed websites. But what you're not acknowledging is that we are a large community. People from all over the world come here. What leads them to stay most times isn't "oh this is funny," it's that we built a home out of very little.

For example: MS_memer_group and even MEMES_OVERLOAD
These two are the largest user-built streams that community has say in.

We are less worried about the visual appeal of the main page. Sure, we lost nostalgia but we can get pver that. We're not worried about less traffic. It's that we as a community have to figure out how to navigate imgflip all over again. We're all hurt. We feel like our home is falling apart.

Best regards,
Spire (stream creator of MS_memer_group)

Yeah this decline is probably from the last 48 hours

How the f**k did you go there without being tortured with personal ass questions

Hey, imgflip could you also post more rules because there's alot of inappropriate images and gifs on here and you want the community healthy and cool but there is images and gifs and even streams filled with that type of stuff just trying to let you know please get back to me soon as you can.

Can u change the title of my happy new year image in the fun stream to “I got an air horn lol”

I would really really appreciate a reply to this. This has been copied and pasted to another one of my comments.

Why was the ability to see points in the top right corner removed? It makes it easier for me rather than having to go to my profile and look.
Also, here's my idea.

Reverse the change and make the real homepage the default option. However, give an option for users to switch to the new one if they like it. If a slim majority of the site is happy with the new homepage, but the majority (including me) isn't, then you guys should try to accomodate to the majority as well, especially since imgflip is already on the decline sadly.
The new homepage has also made it harder to navigate to things. Especially the frontpage of fun. This new change is inevitably going to kill the entire fun stream because people either don't know how to find it, are annoyed, or are just going to leave the site altogether.

As I stated in one of my most recent posts
"This new homepage is actually gonna kill streams like the fun stream, and especially the most popular memes on the followed streams page. It's much harder to navigate, and newer users (all of who which use the fun stream) won't know how to get to the REAL homepage that was replaced with this garbage. Thus, this will negatively affect imgflip and will likely lead to an even worse decline in users than that we have already been seeing over the past couple of months. Idk why the devs thought this was a good idea, as the original homepage is iconic and it should be the first thing that you see when you log in."

All in all, you guys really need to give an option for people to choose which layout they want. And please....I want to be able to see my points without having to go to my profile. I'm willing to have a conversation about this.

Like I said, most users on here including me use it to post and share memes to the site, a slim majority of the people that use this site use it for business. The homepage should go back to how it was and it should be the default option. However, in order to cater to both memers and marketers on here, the marketers (and memers if they like it) should have the option to switch between UI's freely. I know for me, the old UI made it extremely simple to check my weekly ranking, as well as letting me get to streams fast like the fun stream. Made a lot more sense tbh. This new UI feels unbalanced and jumbled, and I don't really like it.

Once again two different UI's, but make it so that you can use which one suits you the best.
(And please bring back the points next to your username at the top right hand corner, I hate having to go to my profile to see how many points I have!)

yes i love the points next to username, love the old ui, love the idea of having an optional O.G. homepage or new homepage.

Hey, imgflip and acuity12 I would like the idea of emojis in our names that'd be cool like if your whole deal was like Christmas your could name yourself something like "❄️christmas_user❄️" I Made a post on it before.

I agree with you too

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All I want is light mode notifications back when using light mode

I agree with you

It's so much harder to navigate now

Heres a suggestion, remove andrews mod, he just destroyed one of our streams dude for literally no reason.

Dylan bring back flip NOW!!
If you remove flip it just becomes img

YES!!!

bro finally commented after 2 years

I think that Dylan doesn't care about the community anymore, he cares more about businesses using the website rather than the people who actually keep the site alive in the first place.

holy shit imgflip commented :0

sorry to break it to you guys but no one likes the UI update

OMG IMGFLIP POSTET FOT FIRST TIME SINCE 2021!

There was an update since 2021

agreed

give me owner in msmg and i’ll cashapp u 20 dollars

1. Selecting GIF templates in the GIF maker

Usually, you can search for GIF templates in the meme generator, but it's a great idea if you could pick GIF templates in the gif maker itself. This way, you don't have to search gif templates in the meme generator, but look at the gifs seen in the gif maker.

2. Comment Pinning

Let's say you think no one understood your meme, so you wanna explain the meme. But you can't pin comments (make it always the top comment, even when it has less up votes than another comment), so people have to scroll down through the comment section to find the explanation. Pinning is great so they can immediately find the comments.

3. Comment/Memechat message editing

It is a nice feature Imgflip should add because if you made a typo in a comment, you don't have to delete the comment and rewrite it with the corrected typo. If it's edited, it should have "edited" after the reply count like YouTube.

Hey

Yo.

wsg

Make an option where you can change to the old one, like gmail.

My ideas for Imgflip are as follows:

- Allow for Imgflip users to upload and post text-based, audio-based, and short-length video-based multimedia onto Imgflip as long as the file-size is under 30 MB (100 MB for Imgflip Pro users).

- Create a dual messaging system for Imgflip that allows users to send short text-based messages a là email that are no more than 2,000 characters in length to other users alongside the usual memechat.

- Increase the Imgflip-profile tagline text-limit to 750 characters long at maximum.

- Create a basic on-site A.I.-chatbot to help Imgflip users come up with ideas for memes, GIF's and other content, as well as to serve as a sort of assistance-bot to help new users learn the ropes of Imgflip and the like.

- Allow Imgflip Pro users to advertise on-site and monetize their Imgflip profile and adjacent web-content, provided they are a verified account and first achieve the 1-million-points milestone before doing so.

Your thoughts, comments, and concerns?

you do know one ai is SUPER expensive to run the servers for, and programming but 3?!
imgflip llc would go bankrupt in a month just paying for the extra electricity required to run additional servers

Oh okay, maybe else off the extra A.I.'s, then .v."

same here

Okay a genuine suggestion, if you don't have a password set up to your account since you used a google sign up, you should be able to add one. That would be how I lost my old account.

imgflip.com/i/8amomb
Link to it

Considering ser.don has memes literally saying the n-word and a pedophilia meme

imgflip.com/i/22w6

in the first person of drugging a 12 year old boy and having sex (raping) the boys 17 year old underage sister, abd somehow this meme with numbers much like the f.b.i. Stats he calls racist, and this is coming from ser whi basically run off community mods, with his censorship Olympian Product along side many political users my advice is get rid of him and get Olympian as Global mod in his place.

That's it.

Don't need a response.

if u want imgflip pro to be prominent, and ads to be removed; make it free
i understand this is something u dont wanna do or else u aren't able to generate revenue
but just a thought
teenagers are using this, they either can't pay(no money or physical money only) or they don't want to
also this is off topic but get GyattSkibidiToiletIsTheRIZZZ
he has ruined this website
he's asking for everyone to post skibidi toilet, bullies people for disagreeing with him, mocks user's late relatives, says Batim's fox character is stupid, Glitchy_thememer should go to hell along with other stuff.
investigate please. find a way for him to be kicked out
he is also an underaged f**k so he isn't old enough to use anyways

Yes

ok i get your point but it makes it a lot harder to get points for people with that in mind.

no one likes the update anyway

Most people hate this.
It would probably be better if you make the new homepage moved to another page and you get to it though a big button or something. Just keep the last homepage please

IDEAS:
1. Pinned comments, similar to YouTube, Pinned comments can be right next to the flag and reply button so when you hit pin. It will bring the comment to the top of the meme and at the top it will say “Pinned by [whoever pinned the comment]”. Whether it could be on how to do information or a sponsor, it could be whatever.

2. Editing comments, if you make a mistake on your comment or posted it way too early you can just edit your comment and boom your good

3. Longer GIF templates (for imgflip pro), ok, in my eyes I see imgflip pro as a big fat scam because it doesn’t have that many features nowadays, but this feature makes the GIF template time extend to 10 seconds instead of the plain old 5 seconds

4. Reaching a certain amount of points for sound, like if you reach 10,000 points then you get 2 uses per month and when you reach 20,000 points you get 4 uses per month, so topic is that when you get twice as points starting at 10,000 then 20,000 then 40,000 then multiplying by 2, the amount of points will multiply by 2 as well (me as an example is that I have 172,000 points I would have 32 uses per month and ICEU would have a whopping 32,768 uses per month, I know it’s a lot but it’s true it’s because he almost has 80.5 Million points)

5. Front page time and streak

Front page time, so there’s a stopwatch on the banner of the meme which represents the time in which how long the meme has been on the front page, once the meme is no longer on the front page

Front page streak, so on a user page there’s a little thing that says FPS (Front Page Streak) and a little number beside it which indicates how many memes have been on the front page before.

And those are my ideas

No, 24 seconds, not just friggin' 10

I'm talking about the amount of time for GIF's to become a template

I agree with you

Suggestion: I’m sure you’ve heard this thousands of times, but please add group memechats. Not only would it be a great social outlet, I think it would clear a lot of the less meme-like images from popular streams such as msmg and memes_overload.

next time, can you please use an update bar for joining users so we can know what is changed

heyy how can you get site mod my sweet little pookie <3

hi Dylan

Are you my long lost dad

Add memechat groups

Just change it back what the hell is this we don't have PhD's in computer science holy shit

you can’t even flip through images anymore, which defeats half the purpose of imgflip, at least add that back

Idea: put in a thing where you can animate text and images on stationary memes

I like that

Cool thanks

Where is the weekly leaderboard

same place as before, on the Fun stream and the Followed Streams pages, you just need to visit the explicit URL to access them now: imgflip.com/m/fun and imgflip.com/followed

* imgflip.com/m/fun and imgflip.com/followed

oh i'm used to it my man

Imgflip hey we should add a total view count on your meme page, not just individually for memes but like a total on the page

bring the old imgflip back

You can literally go back to the old homepage by clicking followed streams

i know but its annoying to have to do that every time

Wow!keep on going great👍

Hello! You wont see this, but thanks for many years of joy, Imgflip!

I'm gonna touch you

oh yes please do

Who are the moderators of the fun stream?

the sitemods
apparently not the global mods since the last one went in active a month ago

just make it to where you can choose to use the OG home page or the new one lmao

What’s the purple “M” for?

global mod

What about the green "M"?

it means site mod

the grey "M"?

mod from a stream

I do mod some streams-

I have used the new AI tool and i have gotten many errors and that counts as my monthly uses for it I think this is completely wrong since I never gotten my image

actually, some of the ads aren't that half-bad, like the elsword one

ok hear me out
change the UI like this
the 2 crossed arrows thingy is flip through images

𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓮'𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓰𝓰𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼
1. 𝙿𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚃𝚞𝚋𝚎, 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚞𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖
2. 𝕃𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 𝔾𝕀𝔽 𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕚𝕥 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 24 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕤, 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝔾𝕀𝔽 𝕥𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 24 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕓𝕖 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕚𝕟 ℙ𝕣𝕠
3. 𝕮𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖘𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓
4. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭
5. 𝑨𝑰 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒃𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈

ai costs alot so they would lose have their money
curse words are already censored in the image description
"Group chats will make imgflip a social website" - a site mod

Yes, only the F word & the N word in the image description is censored
F**k N**ga
You can see it's censored

whoops
no slurs

p**is
va**na
c**t
bl***ob
i can go on with censored words

half*

Skibidi Toilet