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Re: Brickshelf L.L.C.
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 26 Feb 2002 02:58:18 GMT
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Amy Hughes wrote:
> I, for one, have no patience for pop-up or interstitial ads, and if I can't
> defeat them I abandon the site. Not that I want to cheat a site of potential
> revenue, just that my attention is worth more than the fraction of a penny they
> earned annoying me with crap. I'd rather pay for content and hosting, and I'd
> pay to keep BS around, but I'd only pay if I didn't also have to see ads. And
> if I pay for hosting I don't want people viewing my images to see ads.
I agree, if BrickShelf starts popping up adds, I won't be browsing
BrickShelf very often.
> arstechnica.com went to a voluntary subscription basis and has apparently had
> some success with it. But skipping the ads is not one of the benefits of
> membership, so I haven't given them a penny. Even a $10 donation is much *much*
> more than they'll earn annoying me with ads, so it seems self-defeating to
> advertise to subscribers.
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> A few other observations...
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> 2) Perhaps BS could link to images hosted elsewhere. Instead of uploading
> pictures I'd upload links. BS would create thumbnails and folders and whatnot,
> but the full-size images would be hosted at my site. The downside is you'd get
> a lot of broken links.
BS wouldn't be very useful to me if all it did was collect the images.
> 3) Perhaps a limit on the size of folders would cut down on bandwidth. I often
> encounter folders with 100+ pictures (and I've created at least one such
> folder). In the time it takes me to decide I'm not really interested, BS has
> served a lot of bandwidth just drawing all those thumbnails. Even if I am
> interested, I'm only likely to click on a few of the pictures. The usage stats
> for my own large folder show that this behavior isn't unique to me. Limiting
> folder size might also encourage people to be more selective in their uploads.
Hmm, interesting idea. I would certainly like to see people be more
selective about their pictures. When I've posted pictures from a train
show, I've often ended up only posting one in three or so.
> 4) Picture size guidelines might be useful to people, particularly if space is
> limited or costs money. If images exceed a given byte count for their size,
> perhaps folks would benefit from a notice and some links to some tools to help
> reduce the size of their pictures. Don't prevent them from uploading a 600x400
> picture that's 150K, but tell them it probably shouldn't be much larger than
> 50K. The 150K web-size picture is one of my pet peeves :-)
I would love some picture size guidelines. 1600x1200 pictures are just
silly on BrickShelf, even at home, I have to scroll to see the whole
picture.
I hope a solution for BrickShelf can be found. I have mostly eliminated
hosting pictures on my personal web site after a couple days of hosting
someone's town pictures sucked more than 50% of my monthly bandwidth
allotment. Without BrickShelf, or with BrickShelf charging in some way
for bandwidth, I will have to examine closely my picture hosting
options.
Frank
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