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20SB Summfly Link Summaries/Previews
Does anyone else find these annoying. They just started showing up for me on all external links on 20SB. When I click links all that happens now is the summary pops up instead of taking me to the linked page. This is kinda frustrating. In general, I don't really like any sites that have link previews. It seems like a waste of processing power, there is little that can be learned from them unless you visit the site anyway. If this is an option that could be turned off, I think that would be great. Anyone else feel this way/have the same problem?
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Permalink Reply by Shayna on -
Have not had the problem, but I right click on links to open them in a new tab, so that may eliminate the issue altogether...
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Permalink Reply by TheStepster on -
I'm with you on this.
If there's an option to disable it, it'd be great. I know some people will like the preview feature, but not all of us do.
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Permalink Reply by DShan on -
Bah, forgot to drop in and mention this; we're testing it as a possible solution to self-linking.
The fact that it prevented clicking through to follow the link is a bug, so I shut it off for the moment. We may give it another shot, we'll see.
I know that Snap gave this type of feature a bad name, but this seems to be one of those things that has a different use profile than it does a public profile. Don't get me wrong; I'm not the biggest fan of this kind of stuff in general but thought it might be a decent specific attempt to tackle some of the nuances that exist in a forum.
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Permalink Reply by TheStepster on
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Unrelated: You transformed! You were Lisa a second ago!
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Permalink Reply by Alex Weisman on -
If there is a link , I don't think that a preview will really help me decide if I want to click it or not. Seems like a useless feature.
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Permalink Reply by DShan on
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I can offer this; this will be a very deliberate test run. The tool was tested against a similar forum I'm a part of and it reduced link follows by quite a significant amount. Since we had a particularly lengthy conversation about the value that 'self-linking' provides these forums, I thought a good median solution was to test something that let you quickly look at a link and move on if you saw something you didn't like. Since blogs are heavy textually, this tool has an easier time offering you a peek.
I tweaked the code, btw, to fix the original problem (of killing the actual link). Sorry about that!
I may be wrong, but I've also found that people 'say' they hate stuff like this and then use it all the time. It's odd.
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Permalink Reply by Alex Weisman on
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Anything that "pops-up" when i am skimming a web page I find annoying. Not just the advertisements. As I am a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts (and two finger scrolling on macbooks) I often times find that my mouse hangs out in random places on the screen, so when hovering over a link pops up a summary, it just gets in the way.
Wordpress.com offers a feature like this built into their free blogs. When I blogged there it was one of the first things that I disabled. It is too much clutter.
Also, the self linking thing, asking bloggers not to self like is like telling a dog not to eat the food you just put in his bowl. It is easier for the reader to ignore links rather than try to stop them, you ultimately are just making more work for your administrative team by trying to curb it.
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