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by a2dam 163 days ago
Hard to justify snow falling in front of the text on a blog post about how a redesign isn’t helpful design.
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I had to open the dev tools and pause the code in the debugger before I could tolerate reading the whole article.
On mobile there’s a snowflake toggle button in the top left corner. I only noticed this after reading the whole article in reader mode and wondering why my iPhone was on fire…
There's a toggle button at the top of the page
The irony did not lost on me that an article about superfluous visual elements is overlayed by an unnecessary distraction. But maybe the point is to not be 100% utilitarian but to weave in a "warm" feeling of the season. It did give me that a fuzzy feeling for the first few second. Then I was bored; then annoyed. Which pretty much follow my feeling of using Tahoe: Cool -> Meh -> Uggg!