Comments on: WordPress.com Snaps to it

By: Snap me if you can… « That’s all, folks!

Snap me if you can… « That’s all, folks! — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:24:44 +0000

[...] Jan 16, 2007 in Blogging When I went through my usual feeds today, I saw that David Krug posted something about WordPress’ latest “snappy” idea. This just reinforced my overall skepticism of anything Web two-dot-ohey. Even more so since they’ve decided, “after the overwhelming response to [their] last entry about Snap”, to enforce it upon every blogger using their system as a default for all links. Completely overwhelmed myself, I was able to disable it, though. [...]

By: kazana

kazana — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:13:08 +0000

Oh, Snap.

Thanks for the warning, I just turned it off. Web 2.0, thou art a puny hell-hated boar-pig!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:11:14 +0000

Maybe so Ashley, but on the whole it’s bloody annoying, particularly at TechCrunch.

By: Ashley Cecil

Ashley Cecil — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:14:45 +0000

95% of the time I would agree, although, for a small handful the thumbnails are brilliant. For visually rich blogs linking to other sites with content that is carried by their design, it’s a great feature. Of course this is coming from an artist/blogger.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:18:52 +0000

Yup, It appears to be clutter to me. Although I guess some folks really dig em.

By: Jaro

Jaro — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:06:56 +0000

I never understood the whole snap thing. What information value do they give to the visitors?

Same with del.icio.us. What’s the purpose of the little thumbnails next to the most popular links? More clutter?