it's not just grumpy old fartness, i swear

[sophiaserpentia]

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.

[Poll #1081038]

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[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

The comments here are telling. LiveJournal, using typical "due to positive response to our announcement!" corporatebabble, claims people were clamoring for this. No one can find any instance of positive user response. So someone else must have been responding positively. Users be damned. Anyway, here's the official way to disable them:

Go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/
UNCLICK Graphic Previews - seems to be the default personal journal setting thankfully, though it seems to default to ON in community posts.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

CONFIRMED - communities default to ON. Maintainers have to go in and change this. I disabled them in the communities i own, kyriarchy and the_pain_sutras.