Despite it giving me problems when I first started out, I think the thing about vidding today that annoys me the most is the fact that people don't have personal webpages for their vids anymore. They just post them to Youtube or Imeem, and so, so many don't even offer a download link anymore, or if they do, they're often hosted on temporary sites such as sendspace or megaupload.

I totally agree with this, and it's one of the main reasons we changed our policy on Kawoosh! and The Impala and don't allow temp/streaming links - we want our archive links to be available for as long as possible.

Also, I think vidders who don't collate all thier vids onto a webpage are disadvantaging themselves - so often I've gone to watch one vid and ended up watching more of that smae vidders stuff cos it's all their and something caught my interest - that isn't going to happen if all the vids aren't in one place.

Not very articulate, sorry about that, but basically I'm saying I agree =)