houstonlively
The folks responding in this thread must be blind. I guess I'm the only one that sees a problem with clicking on a thumbnail that is supposed to link to a site, but instead being redirected to an incredibly ugly white and yellow page on shrinktheweb.com.

Let's just call this for what it is. The shrinktheweb guy wants to make sure that every single person that clicks a thumbnail on a dolphin site, knows that stw made that thumbnail by redirecting them to stw, before the link that the thumbnail see more is representing. Andrew, if you actually believe this is a good idea, you need to get some outside opinions. Sure, stw is providing a free service.... good for them. STW should have some sort of attribution. HOWEVER... my site visitors being unexpectedly redirected to a page on stw every-single-time-they-click-a-thumbnail, is simply over the top. It's stw's tactic to get a captive audience to upgrade to the paid service.

A simple, watermark on the provided thumbnail, or attribution link on every page that a free thumbnail is used, would be acceptable attribution for just about everyone in the internet world, and it should be here as well.
If houston is correct in that the webshots are linked to a STW page and not to the actual site it is a thumbnail for then it's a clear shortcoming and will have your users fooled and irritated.
Then the current empty pics are replaced with pics that are linked "wrong". Improvement but a dissapointment and not good.
There will be new threads on "How to solve the problem with..."
AlexT
Yes, there is link to STW site when free account is used. But there are some options:
- you can disable STW and use manual upload
- you can get paid account from STW it is about $5 per month
- when user is redirected to STW website, there is an option to skip preview in the future, then, upon click, user is redirected to the site immediately, without seeing yellow STW website
houstonlively
Who are you trying to convince that this is a good idea..... me... or yourself?
houstonlively
How much of that $5/month goes to Boonex for the referral?
houstonlively
That's unfortunate. For the hundreds of thousands of clicks stw will get from Dolphin based websites, I would have thought you guys would have got something out of it. However, I'm glad to hear Boonex has no incentive to keep this as-is. None of these people here will like this, once they actually figure out what I'm talking about, or their members see it in action and complain. By then, it'll be too late to change anything.
christraeger
Why is STW used when dolphin can obviously handle this itself. It makes thumbnails for groups and events...why not sites?
paansystems
do you really know what you are talking about?
houstonlively
The idea is not as far fetched as it sounds. It is possible to generate an in-browser screen capture using javascript and a flash helper app.
 
 
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