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Comment by jvanderbot | Hacker News Reader

IMHO: The rotating rhino, meteor impact, and animated flowchart is totally unnecessary cruft that makes it look almost satirical. If this keeps up, in time, this "AAA effects" stuff is going to look like the 90s "under construction" banner gifs.

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The effects are comically bad. I see the inspiration in scrolling effects that the New York Times put together, but the NYT was never dumb enough to obscure the copy text. Form follows function, and the function of a web page is to be read, not to obscure what is to be read with some stupid effect that's supposed to remind one (I suppose) of a volcano's cloud obscuring one's vision. At least "under construction" banners didn't obtrude upon the copy text.

I quite liked the effects...I found that they didn't actually impede my reading because it only covers a small, moving portion of the text at any given time. Also, I think this was written for a more general audience, including kids. This isn't presented as a journal submission so I think the added flare is fine, personally

What's wrong with the 90s, we had great fun.

It was fun - until it was cringey, then it became fun again due to retro-fandom

Just calling the progression while we're on it.

Maybe. But for now, for me, I find them amusing.

I loved it and it brought me joy.

I say we bring back this kind of whimsy like we had with early GeoCities where things could be "bad" but fun instead of "quality" but formal.

I mostly agree, I still read and enjoyed it but part of me kept snagging on the fx and wishing it was way way turned down.

Also all the fonts, its quite unreadable in general somehow even before the 'effects'

> going to look like the 90s "under construction" banner gifs

exactly why I love it...

I didn't read it beyond few fragments about meteorite. But I enjoyed the rhino.

The distance between an idea and the manifestation of said idea is now nearly zero. That goes for both the good and bad varieties. That’s pretty cool, but also pretty terrible.

Except for the rhino, I must admit I liked the effects.

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