Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic time zone detection.
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#2That's genius. Nicely done!
Re: Show HN: Real time updating gif countdown with automatic time zone detection.
#3This will help us a lot at deviantART in the Community Relations team, we organise many chat events etc. for a global community and if we can embed this in our announcements that would be extremely helpful. I'll share it with the rest of the team, thank you!
Small question about your UI, why is the image link so tiny? Isn't it the main point of the page to get that link?
It might also be easier for many people to get direct image HTML instead of the URL that they'll have to figure out to use.
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#4The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'.
Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
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#5The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'. Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
Yup! bandwidth is a major issue.
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#6The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'. Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
Yup! bandwidth is a major issue.
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#7The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'. Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
It's completely unusable given the size. In 30 seconds it streamed 120kb and it probably never stops streaming (until the countdown ends)
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#8The only issue is that the gif is streaming, which means the page is never 'ready'. Also I didn't look into it, but wouldn't bandwidth be an issue if people left these running in backgrounded tabs?
That will also never work in mobile safari since it doesn't play gifs until they finish downloading.
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#9I am confused, what is the actual advantage of having the countdown be a gif compared to HTML+JavaScript?
For video and remote desktop there might be use for the kinds of gifs, but for a numeral countdown?
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#10So if I wanted to count down to the release of Arrested Development I could...wait nvm.