New updates in a nutshell

So much trash talking, and yet I think I've seen only 2 or 3 legitimate suggestions for improvement.

Imgflip's homepage is moving in a new direction more focused on creation, because that's what 95% of Imgflip users do. The social component of Imgflip represents maybe 5% of the total users, maximum. It's a loud minority type of thing, since the minority are the ones who use the social and comment system.

We haven't deleted any of the main community functionality though, and we don't plan to (random flips were a relatively low-use feature, and they may come back in a different form in the future). We've just rearranged the navigation to make creation faster and easier.

We'd like suggestions about things to change and add to the new homepage. Memechat? Image sharing? Font or sticker uploading? Top 8 Followed Stream images at all times? Links to Followed Users (does anyone actually like that functionality?)

Put on your creative hats.

If legit 10% of the entire world of humans, every single country in the world, comes to Imgflip every so often to make memes and gifs of their ideas to share with other people, what would the best homescreen look like?

I know the lazy ones will still just say "bring the old one back", but hear this: the old homepage was tested with many feature iterations of the course of more than a decade, and has only resulted in a relatively tiny community. Despite some of you hating this particular iteration, there are actually some signals that this may improve the quality and size of the community. Stream follows are up 100% since the update, and the quality of views and votes is probably higher which may result in a better critical mass.

The stream follow stats are very interesting. This happens because the option to view all streams is much more visible now than previously. To further enhance these stats, Imgflip could sunset the fun stream and show Imgflip's top streams by default. Then, when new users pick their streams to follow, these streams appear in the 'Meme Streams' page. It would encourage Imgflip's decentralization and improve discoverability. Sunsetting the fun stream also means that you and other mods could focus more time on sitewide moderation than just moderating the fun stream.

good ideas

we certainly want to maintain all of the meme creation and templates imgflip is known for, but expanding into more quick creative tools sounds like a good project

We've definitely thought about all these options many times. The most obvious thing is that new innovations and change are needed to the home and community aspects. The 5% is indeed more active, but there's also extremely low desire for social users to pay for things, and high expense and brand damage due to all the things that come with running a social network like moderation. According to users, our mods are simultaneously both leftists and rightists trying to silence people or whatever.

These are all very good points.

I just like making memes for others and sharing photos while being able to interact with people that I've met.
Also, I think I'm a pretty good moderator and I don't show any bias for the most part.

Add like a 4 options about what you plan on using this service for
Social media, The community on Imgflip, Professional and All
For social media, you can post but can also link your social media profile so you can post it to your social media from Imgflip
For the community on Imgflip, it's the same as it is now
For professionals, you have access for the meme generator, but also the image generator which has a vast majority of options, including the ability to make slideshows, add charts to said slideshows, can pay for Imgflip Pro for Businesses to remove the watermark and the watermark can say "slideshow made on imgflip.com". We can also add the ability to make the slideshow with AI with the watermark saying "slideshow made with AI on imgflip.com based on the prefix "[insert prefix]."" with Imgflip Pro for Businesses.
For all, it's all of those options combined

Oh thank you for keeping nsfw off nsfw is for 18+

Whar

it’s depressing going to this menu

Agreed.

legit

got get that devs address

Ikr