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by diggan 4691 days ago
Oh, yes, I totally missed that and that seems very reasonable actually. I've now changed (commit 34e3c16 http://git.io/4MeJNg) so the start-method will stop at 95% instead of stopping at 100%.
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One technique that I used when building my own progress indicator is using a maths function which approaches 0 as the progress bar approaches 100% and use the result to increase the progress.

That way, the progress bar appears moving slower and slower but never actually hits 100%. I think that's better than having the progress bar completely stalled at 95%. See code here: https://github.com/buunguyen/rainbow.js/blob/master/src/rain....