It's hard to justify snowflake animations on your website...
or changing my mouse pointer
It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
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Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#22I hate to be that guy, but there's some irony in putting a full screen animated snow effect over an article about unnecessary, distracting clutter.
It's also `position: fixed` which breaks all scroll optimizations and makes scrolling feel terrible.
Re: It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
#23It's hard to justify snowflake animations on your website...
Yes can people stop doing this, it was cute 20 years ago now it’s just annoying and obnoxious.
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#24It's hard to justify snowflake animations on your website...
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#25Reminder, you can turn off the animated snow effect with the snowflake icon at the top
It's not a "reminder" for people who've never been to the site before. Especially not when the icon isn't even visible on some devices, like my phone in portrait.
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#26I hate to be that guy, but there's some irony in putting a full screen animated snow effect over an article about unnecessary, distracting clutter.
True, but you can turn it off with the snowflake icon at the top.
True, but the site owner clearly despises their prospective readers. I found it more prudent to close the tab and flag the submission.
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#27I hate to be that guy, but there's some irony in putting a full screen animated snow effect over an article about unnecessary, distracting clutter.
If you hate to be that guy, why did you decide to be that guy?
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#28It's hard to justify snowflake animations on your website...
It's very annoying, but you can turn it off (snowflake icon, although then you get a yellow background), and IMO the article content is worth reading.
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#29It's hard to justify snowflake animations on your website...
ah this is why I heard my coolers spin up
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#30It's pretty wild how the best screenshot of a usable menu is from, like, Office 2000. What the hell have we been doing for the past 25 years?
Technology moved from being a tool to an ad delivery vehicle.
Tools' success metric is how much they make your task easier/faster. Ad delivery machines' success metric is how much of your time they waste.
Shitty UI making you spend more time in front of the screen is considered a good thing according to those "designers"' performance metrics.