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I dislike that this website replaces my cursor with a circle. Is there any good reason to do that?

cmrdporcupine 4y ago
It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely (Chrome on MacOS). It's like they built it only for touchscreens? I expect I'll never go back and use it now. Jeez, who signed off on this?
- entropie 4y ago
  > It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely Same. Brave on Windows
- culi 4y ago
  Do you have javascript disabled? Some design heavy sites like to replace the default cursor. The CSS standard[0] still only really supports the few custom cursors that we've had for decades now and provides no way to style them so the only way to achieve this is through javascript currently [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
  - cmrdporcupine 4y ago
    No, but it might uBlock origin blocking something, I dunno. I went into devtools and modified the CSS attribute and was able to get past it. Dumb.
- lukefischer 4y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. We may go back. I signed off on it
Finnucane 4y ago
Ok my iPad it makes a dot where I touch the screen. It does seem like an irrelevant distraction. Also, it would be nice to be able to search for available images without the app.
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stefan_ 4y ago
I like how it goes from full black to full white background. Anything to blast my eyes.
lukefischer 4y ago
It’s all opinions but good feedback. The cursor was a design choice. We may go back
- virgulino 4y ago
  Firefox 109.0 on Windows 10 shows no cursor at all. It is not possible to use the site.
- cjensen 4y ago
  Be aware that MacOS/Safari still has occasional bugs where the cursor shape gets stuck on whatever the web page switched it to. I know how to deal with that, but it's an annoyance when it happens.
- agolio 4y ago
  I like it FWIW :) maybe removing it on information pages like for pricing and keeping it on the landing page with the interactive glove is a good compromise
- alberth 4y ago
  Luke, any chance you could resell Maxar 15cm imagery? (Or if something is better, that) Dealing with their sales process is horrible. I’d love to buy it from you given how easy you make it. https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2020/introducing-15-cm-hd-the-highest-clarity-from-commercial-satellite-imagery https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2020/introducing-1...
  - lukefischer 4y ago
    That's the goal...we have some interesting partnerships and a partner of ours is Albedo- 10cm resolution. A lot of our work deals with negotations to get them to believe the mission. Most have incentive to keep selling to the Govt, which I totally understand.
    - alberth 4y ago
      Two follow up questions. 1. Isn’t Albedo fake “10cm”. Meaning aren’t they using 50cm imagery and apply computations to it to “simulate” 10cm. The image on this blog post, when zoomed in is actually quite bad https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery 2. Can you explain why you mean when you say “most have incentivizes to keep selling to govt”. Are you implying they can’t work with you?
lukefischer 4y ago
just submitted the design change to go back to the regular cursor...thought we were being cool, guess not lol
- jebarker 4y ago
  Kudos on being so responsive to that feedback!
- CapsAdmin 4y ago
  I didn't notice initially but now that I do I thought it was mildly cool. How many complaints have you actually gotten?

It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely (Chrome on MacOS). It's like they built it only for touchscreens? I expect I'll never go back and use it now. Jeez, who signed off on this?

entropie 4y ago
> It actually is making my mouse cursor disappear entirely Same. Brave on Windows
culi 4y ago
Do you have javascript disabled? Some design heavy sites like to replace the default cursor. The CSS standard[0] still only really supports the few custom cursors that we've had for decades now and provides no way to style them so the only way to achieve this is through javascript currently [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
- cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  No, but it might uBlock origin blocking something, I dunno. I went into devtools and modified the CSS attribute and was able to get past it. Dumb.
lukefischer 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We may go back. I signed off on it

Finnucane 4y ago

Ok my iPad it makes a dot where I touch the screen. It does seem like an irrelevant distraction. Also, it would be nice to be able to search for available images without the app.

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stefan_ 4y ago

I like how it goes from full black to full white background. Anything to blast my eyes.

lukefischer 4y ago

It’s all opinions but good feedback. The cursor was a design choice. We may go back

virgulino 4y ago
Firefox 109.0 on Windows 10 shows no cursor at all. It is not possible to use the site.
cjensen 4y ago
Be aware that MacOS/Safari still has occasional bugs where the cursor shape gets stuck on whatever the web page switched it to. I know how to deal with that, but it's an annoyance when it happens.
agolio 4y ago
I like it FWIW :) maybe removing it on information pages like for pricing and keeping it on the landing page with the interactive glove is a good compromise
alberth 4y ago
Luke, any chance you could resell Maxar 15cm imagery? (Or if something is better, that) Dealing with their sales process is horrible. I’d love to buy it from you given how easy you make it. https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2020/introducing-15-cm-hd-the-highest-clarity-from-commercial-satellite-imagery https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2020/introducing-1...
- lukefischer 4y ago
  That's the goal...we have some interesting partnerships and a partner of ours is Albedo- 10cm resolution. A lot of our work deals with negotations to get them to believe the mission. Most have incentive to keep selling to the Govt, which I totally understand.
  - alberth 4y ago
    Two follow up questions. 1. Isn’t Albedo fake “10cm”. Meaning aren’t they using 50cm imagery and apply computations to it to “simulate” 10cm. The image on this blog post, when zoomed in is actually quite bad https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery 2. Can you explain why you mean when you say “most have incentivizes to keep selling to govt”. Are you implying they can’t work with you?

lukefischer 4y ago

just submitted the design change to go back to the regular cursor...thought we were being cool, guess not lol

jebarker 4y ago
Kudos on being so responsive to that feedback!
CapsAdmin 4y ago
I didn't notice initially but now that I do I thought it was mildly cool. How many complaints have you actually gotten?