Snap preview is spreading like wildfire, they are up to 700,000 users all in a few months. It also drove people nuts, including yours truly, for being intrusive, too much “in the face“, often popping up unwanted. The conclusion was loud and clear: remove it.
But Snap persisted…and in the meantime reworked it’s system. The new solution has been tested by TechCrunch and Emily Chang’s blog, and today it’ s released to the public. As you can see on this blog, too, hovering over the URL-s no longer triggers the preview bubble; you have to hover over the little icon next to the URLs. I think this is a very good compromise, we can have snap functionality yet it’s no longer agressive – so I am giving it a try. I need to fine-tune it, for now there are icons on all links, including those in the sidebars – that’s not the way it should behave.
I’m looking for your feedback; is the newly “civilized” snap preview useful, or is it still annoying? (please click through to the article if the poll is not visible in your feed)
Update (2/20) Not that it’s a very decisive vote, but I’m removing it anyway…
This is an improvement Zoli but I’d prefer it onclick as opposed to onmouseover