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Some people love Snap; others hate it. Of course you can disable it, either for the current site or for all sites, but I wanted to share some of the new options and discuss how we should implement it at BBB (or if we should remove it altogether).
First, there is a number of new options that allow you to preview someone’s Flickr photostream, or get the the Wikipedia entry or even watch a YouTube video in the Snap window (rather than just getting a tiny screenshot). This is pretty cool, and could tend to keep people at the site.
Second, it’s possible to control which links use the Snap preview or not. Right now, I have it configured to display the preview with any external link, but I’ve seen cases where the forums are doing a redirect and Snap doesn’t detect those. It is possible to control the preview on a link-by-link basis or within a DIV or SPAN to include all links within a block of HTML.
Third, there is now an option to include a small icon next to links that use the Snap preview. We can configure that in one of two ways. Either the icon and the link open the preview, or only clicking the icon opens the preview. I think setting it so that only the icon opens the preview could be the easiest way to make everyone happy.
Here is the Snap FAQ with all the details on configuration options.
One problem I’ve had is that it shows snaps for internal links which is kinda annoying :S
other than that, its good for outgoing links
I personally can’t stand it. It doesn’t have a place on a site such as this. Possibly on like Digg, or a place like that, but not here.
I have it turned off anyway, but it was an annoying as hell when I did hover over it. I’d vote to kill it.
Ok, I’m in the minority here. I’m not even going to bother bringing this up with the membership, I’m just going to remove it.
I don’t know if its because of the way it is displayed or how it looks or what, but the concept isn’t so bad, just the implementation.
Could we change how it is displayed, so it doesn’t look so “tacky”? Maybe integrated with our design somehow? And an easier/better way to disable it–since it took me a long time to actually get it disabled, clicking “all sites” didn’t do anything, it still came up until I restarted my browser.
Well, yes. There are options to change the color scheme and to brand it with your own logo. And you can even have it turned OFF by default, with a button you can put on your site for those who WANT to enable it.
I still have it in use on my blog, and I’ll play around with it a bit more over there. Having it turned off here in the meantime just eliminates a lot of grief.
David wrote:I don’t know if its because of the way it is displayed or how it looks or what, but the concept isn’t so bad, just the implementation. [snip] And an easier/better way to disable it–since it took me a long time to actually get it disabled, clicking “all sites” didn’t do anything, it still came up until I restarted my browser.I had the same thoughts about snap… I think it’s a good idea, just not “here”…? The same problem happened with me, I tried clicking “just this site” and “all sites” and it still kept showing up, even when I restarted my browser(Firefox).
Jeff wrote:Done. I’ve removed the Snap Shots thumbnail previews entirely. [snip] I still have it in use on my blog, and I’ll play around with it a bit more over there. Having it turned off here in the meantime just eliminates a lot of grief.Thank you, Jeff. 🙂 I think snap is not a bad idea in a blog…But there is just way too many links here on BBB…And it was just a little “too much” to have snap previews here. A good idea for snap, I think, is for online photo album sites or some sort. “Hey, check out my Vacation photos! Roll over to see…”, that wouldn’t be so bad.
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