will-i-am wrote:Are they in the same vein or am I helplessly confused?
It's basically a really simple image hosting site with embed features geared towards sites like reddit, so you're not really wrong. It's great if you have to upload images quickly and don't want to hassle with an account. You can also package a bulk image upload into one album, which is insanely useful if you often upload in bulk (as opposed to sending 5 million image links to people). They even have browser add-ons for quick image uploads.
I used to use photobucket a lot since imageshack is kind of gross...but imgur is just awesome, whether you have an account or not.