appeared under numerous (more than ten) pin names and pinners, but not under Mary Howard. Some pins were entirely missing: either no longer in Pinterest or no longer readily findable (given the time constraints of this project) under the saved pin name, pinner name or board. Pinners randomly changed the locations of boards and pins. For example, the pin on the board by Suneel Sethi was not practically able to be located, “Tree” “Tree” since the board was no longer displayed on Suneel “Tree” Sethi’s gallery. (25 boards, 19,636 pins). Looking through 19, 636 pins for was not viable given “Tree” the time constraints of this study. on tools in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE behave unpredictably in “Find screen” Pinterest. Being able to one word on a screen containing over a thousand “find” scrolling images would aid in searching, but browsers return unreliable results with the FIND tools, missing instances of exact matches while including inexplicable on seemed most powerful, while Internet Explorer items. Chrome “find page” filters 9 had the weakest searching capabilities, in terms of locating text on a page or returning faulty matches. In summary, trying to recapture collected images with their original names after more than 120 days presented the problems of names being changed indiscriminately, names being so common that they returned unviably large search results, images being deleted, users changing locations of images and browser search tools performing inadequately when asked to find within large scrolling Pinterest displays.
appeared under numerous (more than ten) pin names and pinners, but not under Mary Howard. Some pins were entirely missing: either no longer in Pinterest or no longer readily findable (given the time constraints of this project) under the saved pin name, pinner name or board. Pinners randomly changed the locations of boards and pins. For example, the pin “Tree” on the board “Tree” by Suneel Sethi was not practically able to be located, since the board “Tree” was no longer displayed on Suneel Sethi’s gallery. (25 boards, 19,636 pins). Looking through 19, 636 pins for “Tree” was not viable given the time constraints of this study. “Find on screen” tools in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE behave unpredictably in Pinterest. Being able to “find” one word on a screen containing over a thousand scrolling images would aid in searching, but browsers return unreliable results with the FIND tools, missing instances of exact matches while including inexplicable items. Chrome “find on page” filters seemed most powerful, while Internet Explorer 9 had the weakest searching capabilities, in terms of locating text on a page or returning faulty matches. In summary, trying to recapture collected images with their original names after more than 120 days presented the problems of names being changed indiscriminately, names being so common that they returned unviably large search results, images being deleted, users changing locations of images and browser search tools performing inadequately when asked to find within large scrolling Pinterest displays.
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