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Potentially unpopular opinion: Good. I am tired of people just putting large images into their websites where the main image is barely relevant to the rest of
by preommr 6y ago
Potentially unpopular opinion: Good.
I am tired of people just putting large images into their websites where the main image is barely relevant to the rest of the page. It was sloppy and lazy, like modern day clip art.
And if someone really wants images, there are paid services like envato that are at least somewhat sustainable. These solutions are really affordable now and they've got very decent licensing terms.
- rriepe 6y agoIt's always been weird to me that people are so averse to adding an extra 20kb of CSS, but they'll drop megabytes and megabytes of javascript and images into their site.
- seanosaur 6y ago> And if someone really wants images, there are paid services like envato that are at least somewhat sustainable. These solutions are really affordable now and they've got very decent licensing terms. Or, more likely, they'll just revert back to rips from Google Images. Maybe that's just the cynic in me, though.
- rchaud 6y agoThis acquisition isn't going to change that. Getty isn't going to slap a watermark on every Unsplash image overnight. And even if they do, people will continue using meaningless images as thumbnails for their Medium posts from some other source like Pexels.
- StavrosK 6y agoYou prefer walls of text, with nothing else?
- dingaling 6y agoInvert the scenario: imagine a blog post with photos by the author, but text pasted in from Wikipedia just to space the photos out a bit. It's essentially the same thing.
- StavrosK 6y agoIf it's a photography blog and I came for the photos but there is some text just to break the monotony, I'm fine with that.