I’ve Left the Building
You may or may not remember a little link I had on my sidebar that said, “I also blog here” because I had joined a blog that had different groups around the continent. I was part of the toronto.metblogs group.
Well yesterday I left the group. I was getting really pissed off that these people would put up pictures all the time and never optimize them, so the site would literally take minutes to load, and I started to feel like, ‘who the hell would visit here when I’m waiting and waiting for this page to load?’. The only reason that I was willing to wait that long was because I was posting there. I couldn’t imagine a normal person not “x”ing the page.
So I did what I could. I offered to optimize pictures for people in case they didn’t have that capability. I talked to them about load times, since they had banner ads, and flickr pics, and their own unoptimized pics uploaded.
That didn’t make one stinking bit of difference to anyone. Not to mention that some of the pictures that some put up were too big for the blog – you’d be scrolling across the page because the pictures were over 400px wide.
It was a ridiculous concept that they seemed to have no guidelines in place and they told me when I was leaving that:
if you’d talked to us earlier you would have known that there are many authors who do not have any kind of image editing / optimizing software and we are actually working on a plugin that will auto optimize anything that is loaded to the site
Due to all these free blog set up programs, like blogger, or blogspot, or xanga, or multiply, it seems that most people on the net, in the new blogging craze, have no clue about what constitutes good web design, most especially one of the basic rules about minimizing load times.
I figured it was better that I leave the group than end up being pissed off all the time that I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for the site to load (and I’m on cable!!).
In my final email to them, I also asked them to remove my Flickr pictures that I shared while I was part of the group – I removed the sharing when I decided to leave. I was then told that:
per your agreement when you originally signed up, you’ve granted us a lifetime license to anything you posted to the site so we won’t be removing your images or posts
However, I didn’t post my images to their site – I posted them to my Flickr account and they’re all copyrighted to me, so I told them that if they didn’t want to remove them, they needed to place attribution to me on their site. I haven’t heard back from the guy on this one but since the pictures were only shared with the group and I’ve removed sharing, I can’t understand why they’re trying to steal my pictures.
So that’s my latest news. At least it’s not about my job.
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