After much deliberation, this year’s edition of The Facial Shrine sees a number of massive changes being introduced. First, gone are the blind links and redirects. Sure, it might cost a bit of raw traffic, but I’m getting sick of clicking on a thumb and being redirected to another site. When I click on something, that’s what I want to see, dammit. Blind link trades and “gallery skimming” (sending a percentage of visitors to a site other than what they expected) might have been novel concepts in 2002, but now they’re just annoying.
And I don’t fucking like it. Never did, actually, but for some lame reason that escapes me, I felt I needed to do it to compete. Trying to compete with shit makes me and my site shit as well, so now I’m ending the practice. For those of you who LIKE being bounced around, I’m going to keep a modified version of the original page online somewhere so you can be jerked around till your heart’s content. Everyone else will receive the gallery, movie, or picture they expect.
I currently have my (small) group gathering materials and creating pages. Yearly makeovers here are usually done in late fall, but in 2005 we’re going ahead with it early. Even though we are making all of our pages by hand (and there are 100s), we should be done by the beginning of September.