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When I was new to the integration of threejs and react I found these examples to be just amazing.

https://r3f.docs.pmnd.rs/getting-started/examples

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The screenshots look cool, but (on my iPhone) the 1st one I tried to view was in a code sandbox that threw an error.

The examples here

https://threejs.org/examples/#webgl_animation_keyframes

seem to work great on my phone...

R3F is great but almost all the code sandbox demos have been broken for years at this point

Yeah, they went all in on Codesandbox early on, and at the time that was a good idea.

But very soon after Codesandbox made the switch to containers and started chasing monetization. I saw an interaction between the creators of each on Twitter at the time where Codesandbox promised not to throttle or limit R3Fs examples. But I don't think they fully kept that promise.

Sounds annoying. I have posted several examples on the R3F Discord of broken sandboxes but no one wants to fix them so I stopped bothering.

All the broken ones I saw were weird things like model/asset files just not being there at all.

Changing priorities I guess. I forget the name of the guy who originally created R3F but he is really skilled at making beautiful examples. I think he's much less involved now - the people I see responding to PMNDRS GitHub issues these days are focused on the technical stuff rather than docs and examples.

I'm guessing that Safari on iOS doesn't support any of the necessary webgl here? Every example shows up with a blank component with a question mark emoji at the center.

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