DAMN IT, KINJA DEVS.

"scoob" (scoobsti) 01/28/2016 at 11:00 • Filed to: Oppositelock, Kinja, Kinja'd

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YOU GOT RID OF TEXT ANNOTATIONS, AND NOW PICTURE ANNOTATIONS? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU DOING IT? WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:03

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Kinja gives no shits

Nibby > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:08

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McMike > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:09

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Annotation is working for me

scoob > McMike 01/28/2016 at 11:14

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Dafuq. I just saw annotations on one FP article yesterday, but none since. Now anytime I click on a picture it just opens the full-size version.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:14

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It was the only thing that reliably worked.

scoob > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/28/2016 at 11:15

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Reliable? What’s that?

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:16

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Compared to the rest of Kinja, yes.

Wheelerguy > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:17

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Denton. Show me Denton.

ttyymmnn > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:23

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You do realize that McMike could also be called McPhotoshop....

McMike > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:27

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I was just messing with you. That wasn’t an annotation, just a screenshot.

It’s broken for everyone.

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > scoob 01/28/2016 at 11:45

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Here’s the real question - did they get rid of picture annotations or did they break it?

pjhusa > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/28/2016 at 12:43

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NOT SO RELIABLE ANYMORE

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > pjhusa 01/28/2016 at 12:54

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Yeah because its dead

pjhusa > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 01/28/2016 at 12:55

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Like Kinja every day.

Lauren Bertolini > scoob 01/29/2016 at 10:14

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Hi, Oppo. We did remove image annotations - it was a feature that was more often triggered by mistake than with intention. Looking at the numbers in 2015, something like 90% of people who activated the annotation editor did not submit anything back to us.

scoob > Lauren Bertolini 01/29/2016 at 11:11

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Interesting, was this the same case for text annotations? These were pretty useful.

Lauren Bertolini > scoob 01/29/2016 at 11:27

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We never actually fully released text annotations, so I don’t have any comparable data. We, unfortunately, never prioritized the text annotations project enough to get it where it needed to be.

Claire Neveu > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 02/09/2016 at 13:29

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Lies. I have had to fix text annotations on multiple occasions.

Keith > Lauren Bertolini 02/13/2016 at 18:09

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Are you counting how many people continue to click pictures, hoping they’ll zoom in? It seems like you found a correlation and deemed causation, just because you got a “strong” sounding number (90%).

I bet better packaging of the feature (cross-hair pointer, not hyper-link pointer), would reduce that, or better yet, mandating a double click for annotations. Additionally, when the mouse overlays the inlayed picture, the magnifying glass overlay should be much higher visibility (it’s about as low contrast as a watermark, no wonder people didn’t find it).

Making a desirable feature impossible because people were accidentally using it is shooting yourself in your foot because you tripped over it. Understand WHY people were accidentally using it, and solve the PROBLEM. This is reactionary to poor interpretation of data at its best.

Sean > Lauren Bertolini 02/13/2016 at 19:52

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The picture notation were the fun feature of kinja. You could pun, snark or just make an observation and it was more likely to get read.

If you were greyed it was a way to get noticed and maybe blacked as a result. Now it’s harder (nay almost impossible) to be ungreyed.