Snow on webpages ? Are we back in 2005?
Show HN: Add Snow to Your Website
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#12https://s_news_ycombinator_com.p.eager.works/eagerProxySrc=w...
This doesn't work, it reports: This may not be the page you're expecting (request failed security checks).
Works for me! Maybe you have your browser locked down more than I do! (I'm running out-of-the-box Safari, as Tim Cook provisioned it.)
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#13Snow on webpages ? Are we back in 2005?
Hey, we're not using asterisks anymore. Now it's css animation and no semantic clutter. PROGRESS!
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#14I loved the preview on my site, but why on earth do I have to signup, and install something else called Eager and then install Snow? How many scripts does it take to let flakes fall down? Isn't this easily done through CSS and keyframes? EDIT: Yes it is, there's a CSS only solution here, no trackers whatsover: http://codepen.io/NickyCDK/pen/AIonk
Sorry for the confusion, virtually everything on Eager is open-source. You can find the code here:
https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro
Eager is an app-store for installing things onto your website, if you are interested in it, you can see more apps here:
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#15Aren't there a lot of scripts out there to add snow to your website? Most of which don't require registration, don't have silly 'pro' versions and don't seem like an excuse to sell people something for maybe a couple of weeks of the year? Why would I use this when I can find a free script that doesn't require any sign up and does the exact same thing with more options? P.S. The snow graphics are blocked by UBlock, if…
You can get the pro version for free with a tweet. You can also find the source of both plugins here:
Eager itself is a platform to allow non-technical website owners to install the all of the open-source and SaaS tools which technical people already have access to. If you already know how to add JavaScript to your page, Eager is more about convenience, not necessity.
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#16There is zero reason to do something like this (if you're doing it at all) with a chunk of javascript hosted by a another party.
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#17> Add Snow to Your Website Sadly, I immediately translate this to "add trackers to your website", whether it is true or not.
I don't know why you were downvoted, they literally state in their terms of service they will do this: """ Apps installed with Eager may, for example: Add cookies to your domain to track visitors. """
Just to clarify, Snow and Snow Pro don't to anything of the kind. You can view the source here:
https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro
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#18There is zero reason to do something like this (if you're doing it at all) with a chunk of javascript hosted by a another party.
Eager is to give all of the non-technical website owners access to the JavaScript tools we use every day. If you do know how to install a script manually, there is certainly less of a reason to use it.
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#19Aren't there a lot of scripts out there to add snow to your website? Most of which don't require registration, don't have silly 'pro' versions and don't seem like an excuse to sell people something for maybe a couple of weeks of the year? Why would I use this when I can find a free script that doesn't require any sign up and does the exact same thing with more options? P.S. The snow graphics are blocked by UBlock, if…
You can get the pro version for free with a tweet. You can also find the source of both plugins here: https://github.com/EagerApps Eager itself is a platform to allow non-technical website owners to install the all of the open-source and SaaS tools which technical people already have access to. If you already know how to add JavaScript to your page, Eager is more about convenience, not necessity.
So where's the use case for that? Sites offering tools like forums, guestbooks and counters worked because you couldn't host those things on 90s era free hosting where access to any form of server side programming was impossible.
Javascript snow (and other visual gimmicks like this) are client side; even Geocities would have let you host it yourself. Most hosted services let you add some form of Javascript/HTML code somewhere.
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#20There is zero reason to do something like this (if you're doing it at all) with a chunk of javascript hosted by a another party.
Eager is to give all of the non-technical website owners access to the JavaScript tools we use every day. If you do know how to install a script manually, there is certainly less of a reason to use it.
If you don't know how to install a script manually you definitely don't have any business to install remotely hosted javascript, especially not from a source that has terms and conditions that all but guarantee abuse of the fact that you installed their scripts.
I'd also advise anybody installing such scripts (even locally) to read them to make sure that they only do what they say they do.