When comparing Imgur vs Cloudup, the Slant community recommends Imgur for most people. In the question“What are the best websites for image hosting?” Imgur is ranked 1st while Cloudup is ranked 5th.
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Pros
Pro Fast upload times
Pro Media can viewed instantly
When uploading videos, photos or audio, CloudUp will transcode a version of the media so that it can be viewed right from within the app without requiring a download.
Pro Easy to use
After dragging & dropping files, a link for sharing will be in your clipboard. You can also paste from your clipboard into the web view. When you share a stream with someone they can start viewing it even before all files have been uploaded. All this makes it easy and straightforward to use.
Pro Password-protected files and streams
You can choose to put up a password for certain files and streams.
Pro Works on every platform
CloudUp is a web-based HTML5 app and website meaning it can be viewed from any modern browser form any device. There's a native desktop Mac and Windows app available and native iPhone and Android apps being worked on.
Pro Free
Each user can upload 1000 items that are not bigger than 200MB for free.
Cons
Con Horrible bloated mess
It was originally made by a redditor because reddit's own image hosting was too cumbersome and slow. It was fast and lightweight. Drag an image, get a link to the image, there was nothing else no comments no cats popping up on the screen. Now it's basically its own social platform.