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What I've recently realized:
For those of who don't have the .Net framework installed, SnapFiles
will utterly waste a lot of your time and attention.
SnapFiles fails to list the .Net requirement /anywhere/ in their
descriptions.
This crucial item should put tagged within the main listing pages
they have for each category, so one can scan the list for what is
installable. If not there, then they should at least note the req
in the dedicated page they have for each program. They do none of
this.
When I am interested in a download, I retrieve the SnapFiles info,
including saving the screenshot, and also working on getting the
download URL. Usually I do go to the author's site, too, and look
for further product info there, which I also save to disk. It all
adds up for me to an average of about 20+ minutes of web activity,
for each download I pursue.
Somewhere in a later stage of this, loading pages from the author's
site, I might catch a note where he discloses the .Net dependency.
Sometimes not, and I don't find out until very much later, offline,
when readying to start an install.
In SnapFiles's policy to not mention the .Net req, they have sent me
down the wrong path many times, where I am saving useless info, and
wasting a lot of my time and attention, for what ends up being a
dead-end.
This pattern is increasing. SnapFiles is listing more and more .Net-
dependent software. Their listing such software, I certainly have no
complaint on that. I might even install .Net eventually.
As now, however, I am part of a significantly large population of software
users who has not taken this action. It's certainly not as if the .Net
thing has not reached the saturation level of eg VB runtimes; and it's
furthermore a far heavier matter.
A decently useful download site would include a tag on .Net dependency
in its listings.
SnapFiles (WebAttack) was once one of my very favorite freeware sites.
But as now, it's removed off my list.
For those of who don't have the .Net framework installed, SnapFiles
will utterly waste a lot of your time and attention.
SnapFiles fails to list the .Net requirement /anywhere/ in their
descriptions.
This crucial item should put tagged within the main listing pages
they have for each category, so one can scan the list for what is
installable. If not there, then they should at least note the req
in the dedicated page they have for each program. They do none of
this.
When I am interested in a download, I retrieve the SnapFiles info,
including saving the screenshot, and also working on getting the
download URL. Usually I do go to the author's site, too, and look
for further product info there, which I also save to disk. It all
adds up for me to an average of about 20+ minutes of web activity,
for each download I pursue.
Somewhere in a later stage of this, loading pages from the author's
site, I might catch a note where he discloses the .Net dependency.
Sometimes not, and I don't find out until very much later, offline,
when readying to start an install.
In SnapFiles's policy to not mention the .Net req, they have sent me
down the wrong path many times, where I am saving useless info, and
wasting a lot of my time and attention, for what ends up being a
dead-end.
This pattern is increasing. SnapFiles is listing more and more .Net-
dependent software. Their listing such software, I certainly have no
complaint on that. I might even install .Net eventually.
As now, however, I am part of a significantly large population of software
users who has not taken this action. It's certainly not as if the .Net
thing has not reached the saturation level of eg VB runtimes; and it's
furthermore a far heavier matter.
A decently useful download site would include a tag on .Net dependency
in its listings.
SnapFiles (WebAttack) was once one of my very favorite freeware sites.
But as now, it's removed off my list.