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Comment by alpb | Hacker News Reader

Unsolicited feedback: use fewer text-appear animations, and allow people to skip through stuff. I've spent a full minute clicking next next and still haven't seen a visualization aside from text slides loading slowly with animations. It's like a long YouTube ad that you cannot skip.

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Author here. Yeah, I think I'll go with actual video for future visualizations. I made this visualization about 10 years ago and going back to it I feel the same way about the slowness. At least with video you can run it at 2x. :)

What did you guys run this on? I have had zero issues with it and the animations and progression felt guided and informative.

...for you. You may love the speed, but it's not right for everyone. When designing interactive interfaces like this, it's important to cede control to the user so that they can choose the rate at which they consume content. Otherwise, half your users won't like it and bail.

I didn't even make it past the introduction.

Arrow keys worked for me, but sadly back-arrow did go to the previous animation (Firefox, mac).

Agreed!

I really like this, but not being able to go slightly faster with arrow keys was aggravating.

Cool explanation though!

yep, basically no animation just explanation

I like the animation because it shows the dynamic behavior.

But the slow nature of the introduction to the elements on each incremental click is a bit irritating.

I'd recommend static image(s) with legend/highlights for each node and message, etc. And animations for each relevant scenario illustrated.

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