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Cute!

I personally object to loading progress bars that don't actually show progress. They just start over. I'm waiting for the bar to complete, then it repeats and I'm duh, they sure made a fool out of me.

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We had to use such loading animation as well, the only difference is we put a text description of what our app is doing. That makes waiting a less frustrating, at least users know that app is working on something specific.

Right! And if you can enumerate those steps, then they can 'fill in the cupcake' or whatever to show that as progress.

those are infinite loading animations and they used when it's not possible to evaluate the waiting time. Indeed, they create a feeling of uncertainty.

...or too lazy to code it. And it doesn't have to be time - just progress. Even if its not linear, its better than nothing.

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