[alykhalid]

Reminder, you can turn off the animated snow effect with the snowflake icon at the top

[anymouse123456]

Sure, if you don't mind having your eyeballs seared by the brightest orange on record.

[loloquwowndueo]

At least he didn’t use the trick to make the background HDR bright.

[Semiapies]

It's not a "reminder" for people who've never been to the site before. Especially not when the icon isn't even visible on some devices, like my phone in portrait.

[afandian]

No you can't, it just turns the background yellow.

EDIT: the snow stops _but after a few seconds_. I toggled it to find out if it would turn off the snow, and the immediate feedback was that it doesn't. That's really _really_ bad UX.

[aylmao]

It's a fun little winter feature. People need to give it a break.

fwiw I went through the whole article with the snow effect on and found it just fine too.

[afandian]

I get the site has a frivolous feel, which I do like. And there's no problem with snow if you can turn it off. But it _seems_ like you can't turn the snow off, at which point it does become annoying.

And it's actually making a serious point about something I care about, so I actually wanted to read the article (which I did through the snow).