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I spent some time confused by the animated running horse and how it was supposed to be related with the other icons. Until I found out that it was the loading g
by soneca 8y ago
I spent some time confused by the animated running horse and how it was supposed to be related with the other icons. Until I found out that it was the loading gif.
I would change there for something more standard.
- dessant 8y agoI found the running horse to be an adoring touch. The author's site is also worth checking out: http://linkdot.link http://linkdot.link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop
- soneca 8y agoI believe if it would be both adorable and more easily understandable if it was a smaller image, giving a visual hint that is fulfills the role of an icon, not a featured image
- Normal_gaussian 8y agoIt was the other way for me, I linked it to the duckduckgo icon svg and the horse started. I thought it was a loading animation (and took more than a few seconds) so I threw it to another monitor and continued reading HN. ...30 minutes later the horse is still running and I'm like 'wtf? what does a horse have to do with the DDG logo?' close tab. read comments... It turns out the app doesn't handle svg (it is actually in the to do list) and returned a 500, but the failure was never presented to the user.
- yantrams 8y agoOuch. Sorry to have put you through that :/ I will fix it asap. And I agree with the parent too. Maybe some text below the horse that says fetching results... would make things clearer.
- Normal_gaussian 8y agohaha, no bother, we all know whats up here; I'm just busy bikeshedding. Massive kudos for delivering; I like it a lot :D
- yantrams 8y agoThank you! Fixed it :)