you know what I could do without?
I could do without aggregator sites that don’t link DIRECTLY to the item in question. I go to Popurls.com a lot to see what the kids are looking at on teh internets these days. Sites like Digg and Reddit provide links to internet memes, and popurls.com provides links to the most popular links from all the various sites out there like Digg and Reddit.
The problem that you sometimes run into is that some sites will display a headline that is sure to suck you in. For example, if I see a headline or a link that says “Naked Sword-wielding Goddess on Bike Bakes Cookies in Her Own Brewery While Playing Guitar[NSFW]“, uhhhh, well, I think I’d like to see pictures of that. But when you click the link, you get routed to a site that has a bunch of other links on it (including said link) and you have to click again. Or maybe it takes you to a site that is basically a forum with everybody’s responses and then you have to sift through all those responses to find the link you were looking for.
Folks, one rule of website design, ESPECIALLY if you are selling a product, dictates that nothing should be more than 3 clicks deep into a site. The reason I’m going to an aggregating site in the first place, is that I’m too lazy and I want all of the internets’s's’ss awesome to be right in front of my stupid face! RIGHT STUPID NOW!
Funny thing about the links above is that Teh Internets has been saying that Reddit is causing the demise of Digg. I don’t know why, because Reddit is one of those forum-type sites that you have to go searching for the link in question, and I find it to be a little tedious. I know that part of the appeal is the comment section, because there are some hilarious comments left by funny people, but if I want that as an entertainment stye, I’ll go to Fark.com, as they seem to be the king of that style.
Okay, I’m done.
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