Are “welcome screens” actually welcome? By anybody?
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March 8, 2008 at 9:29 am
Anonymous
Sorry, what do you mean by “welcome screens”?
March 8, 2008 at 9:57 am
kate
Thank you. I’ve been wondering this for years. Does anyone actually sit through the welcome screen (usually a slowly loading flash)? I click on Skip Intro ASAP. Waste of a webpage, and not what I want.
March 8, 2008 at 10:40 am
Nick Booth
No. Give me content. Now. In my feed reader. Make it pithy.
March 8, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Mike Warot
Same here… and I use AdBlock plus to get rid of a lot of visual noise (aka Advertising) as well.
Printer friendly pages are my favorite. I hate the massive waste of space most sites use for navigation that I don’t care about when I’m trying to read.
March 8, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Michael Seaton
As useful as flash intros
March 8, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Cliff Gerrish
Why don’t you have a full text rss feed? I clicked through to your blog for one sentence? I’d rather be reading this on the NewsGang app.
March 9, 2008 at 8:46 am
Doc Searls
Cliff, I thought it was full text. I’ll ask on Monday when I’m back in the company of the geeks who run the tech behind the blog.
March 12, 2008 at 9:22 am
Doc Searls
Anonymous, go to Forbes. What you’ll see first is a “welcome screen” — always an ad for something. There’s a link that says “skip this welcome screen”. But I’d rather never see it.