Feedback on a new (I am assuming) feature - pictures as links....

[Ponypoor]

I like it

It may be a generational thing, with us oldsters having more issues than youngsters.

 

[WingItRanch]

It may be a generational thing, with us oldsters having more issues than youngsters.

Haha well it's a feature that's often used when texting on Android. When you share a link to a news article or whatnot, a view of the web page will show instead of the long www link. I personally like it because I can see what the website will look like BEFORE I click on it. Helps with spam.

 

[notabitail]

Haha well it's a feature that's often used when texting on Android. When you share a link to a news article or whatnot, a view of the web page will show instead of the long www link. I personally like it because I can see what the website will look like BEFORE I click on it. Helps with spam.

iOS does this too. I half-hate it in case it's some kind of weird spam thing that pre-loads.

 

[notabitail]

It may be a generational thing, with us oldsters having more issues than youngsters.

I don't like this new "rich preview" thing. It's super annoying for me.

 

[PLW]

I am sorry but I do have to say that I absolutely detest the links that show as a picture. I just spent a frantic 5 minutes trying to figure out why my post from earlier, on a thread I am on, was concatenated. I even started up my laptop thinking it was something on my Smart Phone (which is actually a dumb name for basically a computer with cellular calling abilities).

Anywho I digress, I have figured out that the link is the photo/picture, which now makes it incredibly difficult for me to distinguish between the 'real' content and a REAL link.

I am sorry but in my humble opinion this is an epic fail on the part of 'improvements' in IT. Why is it that everyone in the IT industry must try to 'improve' something. When I pick up a book I do not have to spent umpteen hours trying to figure out how it works. The IT world has not learnt a cardinal rule obviously - know your audience. Everyone in the whole world knows what to expect when they start their computers, yet still IT companies insist upon changing things up every few years. The amount of frustration this causes in business and the general public should be a wakeup call, but obvious it isn't.

Once I retire I will be chucking my Stupid Phone and Laptop into the river, Oh and FYI - I spent the better part of 15 yrs working in IT as a Programmer Analyst at IBM and Sears... so I know a wee bit about the IT world.

FYI - I also do not find the loading of photos any faster, and I am finding a lag in the time I click on the emoji option and them showing up. I see this on both my Stupid Phone and the Laptop (I have starlink internet so it's reasonably fast BTW).

Sorry to be so whiny but after the week I spent at work fighting my computer and now this.......

I'm going to Google concatenated right now!

 

[notabitail]

Once I retire I will be chucking my Stupid Phone and Laptop into the river, Oh and FYI - I spent the better part of 15 yrs working in IT as a Programmer Analyst at IBM and Sears... so I know a wee bit about the IT world.

You could chuck your Stupid Phone and Laptop down here instead of in the river — better for the environment .

Also, how are you going to BYC if you do that?