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520 points omnibrain | 3 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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donatj ◴[30 Mar 24 18:05 UTC] No.39877123[source]▶
That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.
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101008 ◴[30 Mar 24 18:13 UTC] No.39877210[source]▶
I opened the link first and I kept a few seconds trying to remember what we had to use to open JPEGs and GIFs back then. Then I read your comment. Right, IE for images. What a fun world we lived on!
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integricho ◴[30 Mar 24 19:15 UTC] No.39877718[source]▶
ACDSee 2.4 and 3.1 were similarly legendary and fast in both startup time and overall performance of image loading.
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1. omnibrain ◴[30 Mar 24 20:05 UTC] No.39878132[source]▶
When ACDsee got bloated (and the shareware screen to nagging) I switched to IrfanView.
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2. DrSiemer ◴[31 Mar 24 12:11 UTC] No.39883540[source]▶
ACDsee just kept getting worse until it just became unbearable. I did miss the image sorting abilities until I found PhotoSift.
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3. integricho ◴[31 Mar 24 18:31 UTC] No.39886733[source]▶
sadly it did, the 3.1 version was the last one that I remember as still not bloated, 4.x was already bad. But up until that, 1.x, 2.x, ..., they were great.