Yeah, the comments are completely ridiculous. OP, I salute you for great work. There is definitely a use for these animations. I think the occasional animation

Yeah, the comments are completely ridiculous. OP, I salute you for great work. There is definitely a use for these animations. I think the occasional animation can help increase conversion rates by enticing people to click and get further down the funnel. It's no surprise that wycats tweeted yesterday that he hates it when his work gets on HN. The critiques are getting out of control here.