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I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

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Re: I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

#31
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For those who want to experiment with different click speed values without clicking, web console code that clicks twice with a set timeout: setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000); setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1200); For those who want to test the limits of your device and your neighbors (100 clicks at once, 1s from now): for (var i = 0; i doc…

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Re: I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

#34

For a Linux user, this seems quite trivial to replicate using any kernel since mid-2023, with lower latency and lower security exposure. Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

> Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

So that the author can get donations while piggybacking off a confetti library that other people wrote.

Re: I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

#36
post #9

For those who want to experiment with different click speed values without clicking, web console code that clicks twice with a set timeout: setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000); setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1200); For those who want to test the limits of your device and your neighbors (100 clicks at once, 1s from now): for (var i = 0; i doc…

100-200 at one worked reasonably well; 10,000 was definitely a problem :)

Re: I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

#40

Flagging it for: - just a website to ask donations - didn't give credit for the open source code that it is required by license This is not a good behavior and should not be on HN

Did it get updated over the last 2 hours? I see credit on the About page and no donation link.
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