Snap preview is spreading like wildfire, they are up to 700,000 users all in a few months.  It also drove  people  nuts, including yours truly, for being intrusive, too much “in the face“, often  popping  up unwanted.  The conclusion was loud and clear: remove it.

But Snap persisted…and in the meantime reworked it’s system.  The new solution has been tested by TechCrunch and Emily Chang’s blog, and today it’ s released to the public.  As you can see on this blog, too, hovering over the URL-s no longer triggers the preview bubble; you have to hover over the little icon next to the URLs.  I think this is a very good compromise, we can have snap functionality yet it’s no longer agressive – so I am giving it a try.  I need to fine-tune it, for now there are icons on all links, including those in the sidebars – that’s not the way it should behave. 

I’m looking for your feedback; is the newly “civilized” snap preview useful, or is it still annoying? (please click through to the article if the poll is not visible in your feed)

 Update (2/20)  Not that it’s a very decisive vote, but I’m removing it anyway…