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> You have us completely irrelevant hits. Pinterest is intentionally designed to facilitate rich context around images. That’s kind of the whole idea and value
by joshenders 5y ago
> You have us completely irrelevant hits.
Pinterest is intentionally designed to facilitate rich context around images. That’s kind of the whole idea and value proposition of the service.
Most “Pins” are created with the Pin-it button browser extension or JavaScript embed which associates the website the image is on and other context with that image and retained when “uploaded” to Pinterest.
In the long tail, yes- there are Pins that are void of context because of incorrect user submission (direct image upload) or broken links as a result of the website owner not redirecting when the content is moved. This was a continuous problem that everybody was interested in solving.
- mission_failed 5y agoHow do you facilitate context when every single link takes you to a forced login screen with no context showing of the image link you clicked?
- joshenders 5y agoYou’re mischaracterizing the user experience. As a logged out user the signup nag can be easily closed or ignored and is identical to the logged in user’s. Often times Pinterest has a copy of the image and metadata when the original site may be offline.