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Originally posted by iwantchixx
I understand that there are only so many hours in a day, but that doesn't mean people can't do their own work. People managed fine long before sponsors started catering to people afraid of work.
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How about worrying less about lazy webmasters and more about the logic that if someone puts time and money into providing a marketing tool, he would usually want it to be as widely used and as effective as possible.
Hosted galleries can appeal on two levels: the chance to earn money and as potentially easier to handle than submissions. Most fail on one or both counts. Now there are getting on for 100,000 hosted galleries available, TGP operators can afford to pick and choose. In fact with 2,000+ new galleries and maybe 1,000 deleted every month, being selective is more a necessity than a luxury.
My "lazy" webmaster wish list:
1. No redirections or popups on the galleries themselves.
2. Delimited text listings ready for bulk importing (don't use commas as delimiters if your referal codes include commas!).
3. Descriptions.
4. Thumbs.
5. Categories.
A large number of galleries are not scannable. If any of 3-5 are not available, users of TGP builder programs have to prepare everything manually before porting the details into their software. Realistically, with so many galleries available, most will just move on to the next sponsor.
With so many galleries being deleted every month, being unable to scan galleries also means that TGP's using hosted galleries are increasingly littered with broken links. The first time you try to check all your links visually, I can almost guarantee you will dump all the sponsors you can't use software to check in future.
Forget about so-called laziness. With as few as 10,000 galleries, I can list 100 "new" galleries a day for 3 months and run decent-sized archives. If I can afford to pick only 1 gallery in 10 from those which are available, which am I going to choose: the appealing ones that are easy to use, or....?