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sophiaserpentia ([personal profile] sophiaserpentia) wrote2007-11-01 10:23 am
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it's not just grumpy old fartness, i swear

So i'm seeing more and more links on LJ which include Snap Shots. These serve no discernible purpose other than bling. It's not like the preview you get of the page in question is readable, or is going to make any difference in whether or not you click the link. In fact, i find they slow me down, because they make me pause before clicking a link i was going to use.

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[identity profile] qilora.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
oh is *that* what that is called??.... i had wondered what the heck was happening with those little thingies, and wondered how it was supposed to help me at all (in desperate need of glasses!) when i couldn't really read what i was seeing anyway...

Jules & Co.

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently, these things are really unpopular. Glad to know it's not just me being a fuddy-duddy. Found a link for a set of instructions that purportedly disable them permanently:

http://spacecowb0y.livejournal.com/281574.html

[identity profile] kyeli-unlikely.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't mind them, but they got annoying after a while, so I managed to turn them off. Don't remember how, though. (:

I don't think you're a fuddy-duddy. (:

[identity profile] legolastn.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen this um, feature, on other web sites and kind of liked it, and only recently have seen it here and there on LJ, but didn't realize why. I can see why it might be annoying to some, but I've decided to give it a fair shake and see if I really think it enhances my web browsing experience.

[identity profile] cowgrrl.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I was wondering what the heck those things were.

[identity profile] sarahmichigan.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
My husband and I both hate them and have turned them off in our settings.

[identity profile] pangaia93.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
They would be more useful if they included the link and maybe the page title, but the picture is unnecessary.

[identity profile] pooperman.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking they might be a way to pre-screen NSFW links, but I suppose the pop-up might well be just as NSFW as the link itself.

They don't bug me so much, but I can understand why some might get irritated.

[identity profile] argentla.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I find them very occasionally useful. A lot of times people post links with no clear suggestion of what they may be. Sometimes you can figure it out by looking at the URL when rolling over it (if it's a YouTube link or something like that), but if the URL is not familiar, it's handy. Actually USING the damned things is a little cumbersome because they may take a second or three to load, at which point you might as well click and click back.

I'm not opposed in principle (I like Windows Vista's conceptually similar rollover concept, where you can see a miniature version of a different application window by rolling over it on the task bar), but in execution I'm leaning towards "useless bling."

[identity profile] kellcrow7.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm too lazy to scroll down your pazillion comments to see if this was already posted *lol*, but LJ has at least given us an option in user pref's that will turn off the horribly annoying, beastly little things.
I don't know if it shuts them off for everybody or just the viewer, but I don't see them anymore on anybody's journals.

[identity profile] nationelectric.livejournal.com 2007-11-01 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I despise them. I think they're a usability nightmare -- they mess with my expectations of how links work, they slow my responses, they slow my browser, and they're inconsistently applied (default to off for journals vs. on for comms) so they *doubly* mess with my expectations. And, of course, they're virtually useless. What a stupid, stupid, stupid fucking thing.

But if sixapart is so absolutely hellbent on using them, give me an option in my settings that ensures that I never see them *anywhere*. Oh, sure, I can deactive them. On a per-browser basis. That's just great. I work on several different computers, with several different OS's, and several different browsers, and guess what? I keep coming across those fucking things. I told you assholes that I never want to see them again, so that means that I never want to see them again. If I'm logged in to my account, I should never see one. Not ever.

Seriously, learning that this kind of shit isn't good is the whole reason we had the late 90's.

God, those things piss me off...
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