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[–]m68k 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nay. I totally dislike anything animating on a web page, though I'm pretty old school. I element-blocked the image background yesterday, as I did on reddit back then since it does what I don't like, animate.

I meant to start a topic on this, but I see one was already started. Regardless, it doesn't affect me much as it would seem, I simply block what I don't like. :)

[–]Mnemonic 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

BIG NAY! It's way too process heavy, not cool for laptops on battery power.

It's even heavier than Mastodon with animated-pngs/Gifs enabled.

An off switch in preferences would be cool too, I can see it's nice of a 4K screen or something.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good points

[–]Otacon 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It looks a bit disorienting currently, especially on mobile.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for your vote. I agree a bit, I'm starting to think I'll disable it but I'll wait for more people to voice their opinion

[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

yea

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I love it - but keep it a very slow crawl.

I also love the parallax.

[–]SierraKiloBravo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

+1 for keeping it, but at a slow crawl

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Alright I just slowed it down, it's 4x as slow now. It takes 2 hours now to do the whole animation cycle

[–]SierraKiloBravo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think you have it spot on now!

[–]macadoum 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I like it too. Maybe let the final choice to enable it or not to the user.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

PERFECT!

[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think keep it, but maybe slow the crawl down a bit?

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Cool. How much more slowly? Twice as slow? Or like 10x as slow?

[–]SierraKiloBravo 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I reckon how you have it now is perfect. Looks like a pic and then you're like "oooh its moving"

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it is so glacially slow now, it's almost not noticeable. It's kind of cool, I'll try it like this for a while

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Nay, but only because it almost gave my PC a coronary - otherwise its beautiful

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Ahh is it really that bad computationally? Dang it. We may just have to go back to the vertical parallax scrolling, which is still cool, but uses much less CPU

[–]Vigte 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah but I'm on an 8 year old PC, running 2 monitors on an old video card while using 4GB for firefox and 4GB for Conan Exiles, so it's not like I'm on a supercomputer.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Still, the fact you noticed a difference is a big sign. The vertical parallax scrolling only happens when you scroll instead of 24/7, so it's better for the CPU. We'll probably end up changing back to that

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Sorry to be a spoilsport :( It was beautiful, once it unfroze :D

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ha no it's not just you, it seems about 60% against it and 40% for it... slowing it way down helped make it more tolerable, but the CPU problems are just too much, when we can get the scroll parallax effect for 1/100th the CPU cost. Shame though, I built a whole special html div so I could do sub-pixel translations on the banner... ah well.

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

RIP banner-bro :(

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Haha he will live on, through the vertical parallax scroll effect. I'll leave it this way for another 12 hours or so just for fun

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    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Okay I will probably change the vote buttons in the next day or two, so wait for that

    [–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    I want shiny gifs or java animations :-)
    How else am I gonna get Nyan Cat running into the Saidit logo, which then explodes into burning pieces?

    [–]SierraKiloBravo 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

    +1 for Nyan Cat yehooo

    [–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

    Also if you have any other CSS or saidit design suggestions, now is the time, I'm listening. Please vote in the comments if you support an idea, so I can see what people prefer the most, then I'll do those things.

    [–]macadoum 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Yes, look at this image : https://i.imgur.com/kZ1wO4r.jpg

    The 380px chat sidebar is causing this. 300px is fine. Something has to be done here.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Thanks for the report. It's just for that sub, so I updated that sub's css. Try it now, let me know if it's still broken

    [–]macadoum 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thanks for the fix, it's fine now. I have now posted there my idea for SaidIt as you ask for design ideas : https://saidit.net/s/IdeasForSaidIt/comments/1iwy/comments_preview/

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    The viewing buttons are ugly (hot, new etc.). The blue color on top of dark theme is hard enough to read but I also use f.lux.

    [–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I lightened it up a bit more, it's a very light blue now. If you're still seeing dark blue, try a hard refresh with ctrl+shift+R or hold down your click on the refresh button on your browser for a couple seconds. Or clear your cache. I use f.lux too so hopefully we can make it comfortable to read for all viewports

    [–]macadoum 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    The same thing happen in the wiki revision tree : https://i.imgur.com/2uM4WmZ.jpg

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Thanks for the bug report and the image. I just fixed the width along with the colors that make the text hard to read. Thanks for finding that!

    [–]macadoum 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    And the same width problem happen with the stylesheet editor.

    [–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Actually that's just your custom sub CSS causing that problem. I fixed it for you

    [–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    the username / sub / domain is a bit hard to read in night mode (dark blue on dark grey)

    [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    I agree, good comment. I've just changed the text to be brighter. How does it look now?

    [–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    oh yeah, looking great. my eyes are thankful 8-)

    [–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Great, no problem :)

    [–]FormosaOolong 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Big nay from me, but like the suggestion for user choice button if possible. ETA: Late to the party and see that it's super slow which is totally fine (and kinda cool.)

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Not a fan

    [–]Drewski 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Nay, the rest of the design changes look great though especially dark mode.

    [–]RatherSmallPotato 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It doesn't add anything IMO. We're here to read, not look at moving images.