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On your homepage seanmcbeth.com the javascript (or whatever does the animation) is totally choking my Firefox (latest) running on a Mac Pro Desktop (latest). In

by gist 11y ago

On your homepage seanmcbeth.com the javascript (or whatever does the animation) is totally choking my Firefox (latest) running on a Mac Pro Desktop (latest). Infact when I tried to write this comment it was literally like 300 baud until I closed your website page. (All of this is to your point and ironically..) Btw it looks cool but if I can't easily scroll your homepage you have lost me as a potential client.

moron4hire 11y ago
This is indeed a defect, so your criticism wasn't negative or unwarranted :) Filing a defect report is one thing, complaining about the very idea of having an animated background, yelling at me for being a "typical front-end dev, doesn't test in Firefox" or something like that, that's the sort of negative criticism I'm talking about. My point was, even the people who are engaging in dismissive, negative criticism need to at least be a cause for consideration. You might not take them at their word, but it should trigger a process of introspection. People hate animated backgrounds for the reason you just mentioned, it causes a slow experience. But I didn't know it was causing a slow experience for you. You are correct that it is better to not have a slow experience than to have an animated background, but maybe I can have both. I wouldn't have known there was a problem until you complained (not that I don't test my projects, just that particular site is not very high on my priority list because it is not and has never been a source of business for me). So now I get to make the choice of either improving the animation or removing it entirely, just because someone complained and I didn't just dismiss it as "haters gonna hate".
- will_pseudonym 11y ago
  Hi Sean--I sent you an email related to this issue. Thanks for being so open to feedback! It's one of my favorite qualities for someone to have! Thanks for getting Taylor Swift stuck in my head for the next hour, by the way! Not the worst problem to have in my book, though! ;)
- hluska 11y ago
  You've got one heck of a good attitude and I really enjoyed reading your website. Best of luck in all of your projects!! :)
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    Thanks. I don't know if I have a good attitude about it all the time. I do still get upset by it and I do still end up making my own dismissive comments sometimes. It's a daily struggle. I just hope I can learn more lessons than I miss, and not let egotism get in the way of "success". Do what is important, not what you want. Telling the difference between the two can be hard.
js2 11y ago
An iPad mini 2 running iOS 9.2 is similarly unhappy scrolling text against the animated badkground.

by gist 11y ago

moron4hire 11y ago

This is indeed a defect, so your criticism wasn't negative or unwarranted :) Filing a defect report is one thing, complaining about the very idea of having an animated background, yelling at me for being a "typical front-end dev, doesn't test in Firefox" or something like that, that's the sort of negative criticism I'm talking about. My point was, even the people who are engaging in dismissive, negative criticism need to at least be a cause for consideration. You might not take them at their word, but it should trigger a process of introspection. People hate animated backgrounds for the reason you just mentioned, it causes a slow experience. But I didn't know it was causing a slow experience for you. You are correct that it is better to not have a slow experience than to have an animated background, but maybe I can have both. I wouldn't have known there was a problem until you complained (not that I don't test my projects, just that particular site is not very high on my priority list because it is not and has never been a source of business for me). So now I get to make the choice of either improving the animation or removing it entirely, just because someone complained and I didn't just dismiss it as "haters gonna hate".

will_pseudonym 11y ago
Hi Sean--I sent you an email related to this issue. Thanks for being so open to feedback! It's one of my favorite qualities for someone to have! Thanks for getting Taylor Swift stuck in my head for the next hour, by the way! Not the worst problem to have in my book, though! ;)
hluska 11y ago
You've got one heck of a good attitude and I really enjoyed reading your website. Best of luck in all of your projects!! :)
- moron4hire 11y ago
  Thanks. I don't know if I have a good attitude about it all the time. I do still get upset by it and I do still end up making my own dismissive comments sometimes. It's a daily struggle. I just hope I can learn more lessons than I miss, and not let egotism get in the way of "success". Do what is important, not what you want. Telling the difference between the two can be hard.

js2 11y ago

An iPad mini 2 running iOS 9.2 is similarly unhappy scrolling text against the animated badkground.