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by juancn 2 days ago
You lost me at the annoying trail on mouse movement.

You advocate for good UI and immediately make some crap that makes it hard to read/use your site. It's kind of ironic.

Please stop messing with: selection, mouse cursor, copy/paste, etc.

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Lost me even before I realized what was going on. My computer is too slow to handle the tricks they are pulling. I think you are right, but their "cool" things were too slow and made a mess of my screen without having any relation to what I am doing now (because I did it seconds ago)
Damn what computer are you using, a 2015 Raspberry Pi?
Pinebook. So not much faster. Runs circles around the machines I grew up on.
The words "trail on mouse" instantly reminded me of the Windows mouse trails, that's what I was expecting going into the article.

But honestly, I really liked whatever you call this type of trail. Not sure this was the intent, but I used the trail to trace under the lines as I reading them which helped me pay attention to the text a bit better.

100% agree with you on messing with selection and copy/paste though.

You think this blog post is advocating for good UI?
wow reminds me of the Neopets guild pages