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I was about to complain about it actually (in grand HN tradition). Constantly looping animation beside articles is one of my biggest pet peeves on websites. If

by SCdF 13y ago

I was about to complain about it actually (in grand HN tradition). Constantly looping animation beside articles is one of my biggest pet peeves on websites. If this was the front page of your app or service's website, then fine. But I'm trying to read here. I cannot help but notice the colour change in the corner of my eye. It is endlessly distracting. In the end I used chrome dev tools to delete it so I could actually read the damn content. This is a blog: I came here to read pages of text, not look at pretty lights.

nrivadeneira 13y ago
Was going to say the same thing. I found it pretty distracting. It looks great, but at a detriment to usability.
briandear 13y ago
You actually went into the dev tools? You could have just used Reader in Safari and been done with it. Another option is to just view source and read that. (Only kidding.. I found it a bit distracting as well.)
- SCdF 13y ago
  Some of us aren't using Safari. Or a Mac. I know, it's a crazy world out there ;-) (but yes, I have a plugin for that, but the rest of his site is great and readable, it's just that one thing)
jessepollak 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, this was actually something I was pretty concerned about when I made it, but I decided to go with it anyways. One question: do you think slowing down the color change would make a difference? I started with a 10 second animation through 5 colors, but it's currently a 30 second one. I might experiment with making it 1 or 2 minutes to make it more unobtrusive. thoughts?
- SCdF 13y ago
  So the fact that it's slow helps yeah, so I imagine slowing it down even more would help even more. And I totally get the tension between doing something cool and removing everything that isn't strictly needed. I'd still get rid of it completely (ie make it based on a user action instead of automatic) but that's just me. It is nowhere near as bad as a blog I read where the guy had a rainbow background explode out of his profile picture (that scrolled with you) every few seconds. I couldn't even get one paragraph through that one ;-)
  - jessepollak 13y ago
    I'll mess around with it and see if I can make it better :D. thanks again for the feedback, seriously.
- archagon 13y ago
  I thought it looked great. Then I noticed it was following me around. Easy solution: just make it immobile like an ordinary logo.
- jhh 13y ago
  personally, I think it's distracting and annoying no matter how subtle. It's a beatiful effect though.

by SCdF 13y ago

nrivadeneira 13y ago

Was going to say the same thing. I found it pretty distracting. It looks great, but at a detriment to usability.

briandear 13y ago

You actually went into the dev tools? You could have just used Reader in Safari and been done with it. Another option is to just view source and read that. (Only kidding.. I found it a bit distracting as well.)

SCdF 13y ago
Some of us aren't using Safari. Or a Mac. I know, it's a crazy world out there ;-) (but yes, I have a plugin for that, but the rest of his site is great and readable, it's just that one thing)

jessepollak 13y ago

Thanks for the feedback, this was actually something I was pretty concerned about when I made it, but I decided to go with it anyways. One question: do you think slowing down the color change would make a difference? I started with a 10 second animation through 5 colors, but it's currently a 30 second one. I might experiment with making it 1 or 2 minutes to make it more unobtrusive. thoughts?

SCdF 13y ago
So the fact that it's slow helps yeah, so I imagine slowing it down even more would help even more. And I totally get the tension between doing something cool and removing everything that isn't strictly needed. I'd still get rid of it completely (ie make it based on a user action instead of automatic) but that's just me. It is nowhere near as bad as a blog I read where the guy had a rainbow background explode out of his profile picture (that scrolled with you) every few seconds. I couldn't even get one paragraph through that one ;-)
- jessepollak 13y ago
  I'll mess around with it and see if I can make it better :D. thanks again for the feedback, seriously.
archagon 13y ago
I thought it looked great. Then I noticed it was following me around. Easy solution: just make it immobile like an ordinary logo.
jhh 13y ago
personally, I think it's distracting and annoying no matter how subtle. It's a beatiful effect though.