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This is really cool! I'm honestly sad DDG doesn't use this, because i really like them, but i had no inherent "feature" (personally) that i felt was better than

This is really cool! I'm honestly sad DDG doesn't use this, because i really like them, but i had no inherent "feature" (personally) that i felt was better than Google Search. This, seems to be better (assuming the search results are even halfway decent). I could definitely stand for a "no animation mode", though. Ie, screw the css animations. They may be nice to make your site pretty, but when i am trying to ingest lots of results to find the correct one, i want things fast. The animations feel far too slow and cumbersome.

fivesigma 10y ago
There is a low graphics mode in the settings. May I ask what browser/OS you are using? I've tested most combinations and even with the CSS blur it should be snappy.
- notheguyouthink 10y ago
  OSX Sierra, Chrome, Macbook Pro Retina (.. 2013? can't remember haha). It's fairly snappy, it's just that any animation just bothers me when i'm trying to click from link to link to link, you know? Ie, if i'm using Google, i open tab after tab in the background for any sites i need to research. That has near instant feedback, no delay. I know it's different, because i'm not actively looking at the background tab, but effectively for my use case that is the UX you are trying to replace by viewing the content in real time, inside your site. So i need to be able to click, and then click away, with as little delay as possible (instant, preferably). An animation just gets in the way for that, to me at least. Note that i am more than willing to wait for the page to load. I'm not trying to be unrealistic. I just don't want to wait, any time, to popup already loaded content. I suspect the animation also gives the content time to load the higher res version, so that i can't say much about. If it needs to be, it needs to be :) I'll check out the low graphics mode, thanks!

fivesigma 10y ago

There is a low graphics mode in the settings. May I ask what browser/OS you are using? I've tested most combinations and even with the CSS blur it should be snappy.

notheguyouthink 10y ago
OSX Sierra, Chrome, Macbook Pro Retina (.. 2013? can't remember haha). It's fairly snappy, it's just that any animation just bothers me when i'm trying to click from link to link to link, you know? Ie, if i'm using Google, i open tab after tab in the background for any sites i need to research. That has near instant feedback, no delay. I know it's different, because i'm not actively looking at the background tab, but effectively for my use case that is the UX you are trying to replace by viewing the content in real time, inside your site. So i need to be able to click, and then click away, with as little delay as possible (instant, preferably). An animation just gets in the way for that, to me at least. Note that i am more than willing to wait for the page to load. I'm not trying to be unrealistic. I just don't want to wait, any time, to popup already loaded content. I suspect the animation also gives the content time to load the higher res version, so that i can't say much about. If it needs to be, it needs to be :) I'll check out the low graphics mode, thanks!