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Re: Eye Candy

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My monthly mobile data plan consumed in seconds. I hate html video autoplays, especially on mobile! Unfortunatelly it appears that it is currently not possible to disable it in Kiwi browser... EDIT: someone on Reddit suggested AutoplayStopper extension

There should be a warning in the title, "(website has large data size)" or somethlike that.

Where is the "No Frames" option?? /s

Re: Eye Candy

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How is it that this site hasn't succumbed to the HN Hug of Death, yet text-only pages linked on the HN front page often seem to easily collapse under a lot of traffic?

Re: Eye Candy

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It's a visual technique library for the creative industry. Ad-folk, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Creatives in general. It's a compilation (library) of all the best techniques categorized by type.

That isn’t at all obvious from the frontpage. You probably want to keep the design lean, so just a simple “about” in small font would help to explain. The autoloading is also problematic on mobile/tablet but others already chipped in with solutions.

It was obvious to me. On desktop, the top of the page lists categories. The content below is everything inside that category.

Re: Eye Candy

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Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

Gifs have large file sizes and poor image quality. Replace them with videos and you’ll improve page load, reduce bandwidth costs (for yourself and your users), and have better quality. You can configure HTML video to (by default) show no controls and auto-loop so they’ll be indistinguishable from gifs on a first look, but better in every other way.

One thing they're not great for though is shareability. With gifs, you can generally just drag & drop them between most apps and they'll behave as you expect. Not true with videos.

Re: Eye Candy

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Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

Hi Jacobi. I love the content but the design is too busy for me. I can't concentrate on one clip because the others distract me. How about allowing to switch to a style where only one clip is shown and I can scroll down to see more? I wouldn't want to click to advance (like it is now when I zoom in on a clip), just endless scroll like you did it with one clip on the screen at any time.

Also, is https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnw... actually a trucking / crab shot? For me it's just a pan.

Re: Eye Candy

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post #118
post #51

Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

Gifs have large file sizes and poor image quality. Replace them with videos and you’ll improve page load, reduce bandwidth costs (for yourself and your users), and have better quality. You can configure HTML video to (by default) show no controls and auto-loop so they’ll be indistinguishable from gifs on a first look, but better in every other way.

Gifs have limitations and limitations benefit art.

Re: Eye Candy

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post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gifs have large file sizes and poor image quality. Replace them with videos and you’ll improve page load, reduce bandwidth costs (for yourself and your users), and have better quality. You can configure HTML video to (by default) show no controls and auto-loop so they’ll be indistinguishable from gifs on a first look, but better in every other way.

Gifs have limitations and limitations benefit art.

The site doesn't seem to work with GIF's limitations for artistic purposes. It's just slow.

BTW: https://gif.ski can work around most of the visual limitations of GIF, so only poor compression remains.

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Love this site, how long did it take to build? Would be cool to see clips of behind the scenes showing camera placement and set/crew

Love that idea. I'm starting to roll out pages dedicated to each shot (when you click on it) that go into detail about it. The crew, the story, and eventually BTS and 'how to's' on how to make it. https://eycndy.com/fixed-object-schoolboy-dope-dealer

And for an example of the camera placement examples, check out the subreddit r/praisethecameraman (I think it’s called), sometimes shows the camera crew and rig and how they work their magic to pull off cool effects.

Re: Eye Candy

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post #107

My monthly mobile data plan consumed in seconds. I hate html video autoplays, especially on mobile! Unfortunatelly it appears that it is currently not possible to disable it in Kiwi browser... EDIT: someone on Reddit suggested AutoplayStopper extension

These pages are using gif rather than video. That also contributes to more data consumed, because gif has very basic compression. So in addition to an extension to disable auto play of videos for other pages, you probably need a different extension to disable gifs.

Ublock Origin solves this with an option to block media elements that are larger than a configured threshold: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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