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0 pointsalykhalid2mo ago0 comments

Reminder, you can turn off the animated snow effect with the snowflake icon at the top

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Sure, if you don't mind having your eyeballs seared by the brightest orange on record.

At least he didn’t use the trick to make the background HDR bright.

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.

afandian2mo ago

No you can't, it just turns the background yellow.

EDIT: the snow stops _but after a few seconds_. I toggled it to find out if it would turn off the snow, and the immediate feedback was that it doesn't. That's really _really_ bad UX.

aylmao2mo ago

It's a fun little winter feature. People need to give it a break.

fwiw I went through the whole article with the snow effect on and found it just fine too.

afandian2mo ago

I get the site has a frivolous feel, which I do like. And there's no problem with snow if you can turn it off. But it _seems_ like you can't turn the snow off, at which point it does become annoying.

And it's actually making a serious point about something I care about, so I actually wanted to read the article (which I did through the snow).

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anymouse1234562mo ago

Sure, if you don't mind having your eyeballs seared by the brightest orange on record.

loloquwowndueo2mo ago

At least he didn’t use the trick to make the background HDR bright.

Semiapies2mo ago

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.

afandian2mo ago

No you can't, it just turns the background yellow.

EDIT: the snow stops _but after a few seconds_. I toggled it to find out if it would turn off the snow, and the immediate feedback was that it doesn't. That's really _really_ bad UX.

aylmao2mo ago

It's a fun little winter feature. People need to give it a break.

fwiw I went through the whole article with the snow effect on and found it just fine too.

afandian2mo ago

I get the site has a frivolous feel, which I do like. And there's no problem with snow if you can turn it off. But it _seems_ like you can't turn the snow off, at which point it does become annoying.

And it's actually making a serious point about something I care about, so I actually wanted to read the article (which I did through the snow).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse