irelandwhispers said:
For a brief time when I joined Interference, as a nonPremium member I could view attachments. It takes a LOT more time to click on each individual link than to just view them as pictures in the threads.
Yes, that's how it was when I was nonpremium for a month, and it's how it was for months before the premium memberships started. You had to click on the link, then it would go to a viewer where you had to click again, then click yet again to get back. It took several minutes and was very inconvenient, especially for those with a slow computer. Most times, I didn't click at all because it was just too much trouble! That's why I think having it like that for non-premiums is a good compromise, they can see it if they want to bad enough, but to not be able to see it at all is sad.
The links are probably a better thing for those using dial-up, though. Snapfish might seem really fast compared to the links,
Noooo, at least not with mine! As long as it takes posted pics to load, it was faster than clicking on those attachment links. A whole page of slow snapfish pics could load in the time it took me to triple click on those attachment links!
When you have a slow connection and slow computer, sadly, too many pics in a thread can lock it up
but snapfish will probably go the way of all the other online picture services and start charging for remote linking (I hope nobody uses snapfish as a replacement for saving photos on their local machines).
Right, good point!
I have said this before, and I want to use this opportunity to bring it up again. Please, everybody, don't EVER think your pics are safe with any service and delete them from your computer! My family was telling me to do that, but I said no way, I had seen sites go down and disappear. It's a good thing I didn't. True, I have lost lots of pics in lots of hosting services, but I still had them on the computer to start over. Time consuming and frustrating as that is, it's better than losing all your pics as I have seen happen to some of you. Of course there is always the threat of a crashed hard drive, which worries me daily
*knocks on wood*
Well, good luck everybody!