Comments on: Why not to use websnapr http://wheresrhys.co.uk/2009/06/why-not-to-use-websnapr/ on the internet Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: matthew http://wheresrhys.co.uk/2009/06/why-not-to-use-websnapr/comment-page-1/#comment-858 matthew Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:43:27 +0000 http://wheresrhys.co.uk/?p=479#comment-858 I totally agree, this has been a real annoyance for ages. It's hard to believe that anyone actually finds it useful. With reference to your last point, have you noticed the steady devaluation of links on the Guardian website? They now seem to have a policy of turning words at random into hyperlinks: take this as a random example: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/25/education-reform-labour-ed-balls In the first sentence we are encouraged to click through to find out more information about 'Labour' and 'schools', whereas all anyone wants to do is read the article. Very distracting. With links, less is more. I totally agree, this has been a real annoyance for ages. It’s hard to believe that anyone actually finds it useful.

With reference to your last point, have you noticed the steady devaluation of links on the Guardian website? They now seem to have a policy of turning words at random into hyperlinks: take this as a random example:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/25/education-reform-labour-ed-balls
In the first sentence we are encouraged to click through to find out more information about ‘Labour’ and ‘schools’, whereas all anyone wants to do is read the article. Very distracting.

With links, less is more.

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