wtfqrcodes: Why ruin a perfectly good e-mail with a link when a QR Code will do just fine? Submitter’s Comment: “Got this as an email but I JUST WANT THE LINK!” I really like the look of QR codes. The concept appeals to me too. I think QR codes have great potential, and are already being used effectively in proper context. However, the idea behind QR codes is to facilitate flow of information, not to build a technological barrier as a ring fence around it! For example, I don’t even have a smart phone (or separate QR code scanner). This is a wretchedly mis-used QR code, “embedded” in email, and without including the corresponding URL. Two possibilities Y-Combinator, presumably the sponsors of this Melbourne Code-a-thon, only wants attendees who are willing to go to the trouble of fishing out the URL from the QR code? or This was not done intentionally. Whomever drafted the email made a mistake, forgot to include the URL after checking that the QR code was included correctly, centered properly… maybe?

wtfqrcodes:

Why ruin a perfectly good e-mail with a link when a QR Code will do just fine?

Submitter’s Comment: “Got this as an email but I JUST WANT THE LINK!”

I really like the look of QR codes. The concept appeals to me too. I think QR codes have great potential, and are already being used effectively in proper context.

However, the idea behind QR codes is to facilitate flow of information, not to build a technological barrier as a ring fence around it! For example, I don’t even have a smart phone (or separate QR code scanner).

This is a wretchedly mis-used QR code, “embedded” in email, and without including the corresponding URL.

Two possibilities

Y-Combinator, presumably the sponsors of this Melbourne Code-a-thon, only wants attendees who are willing to go to the trouble of fishing out the URL from the QR code?

or

This was not done intentionally. Whomever drafted the email made a mistake, forgot to include the URL after checking that the QR code was included correctly, centered properly… maybe?