It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by jsheard on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:10AM (#46497845)

I hate to be that guy, but there's some irony in putting a full screen animated snow effect over an article about unnecessary, distracting clutter.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by jakzurr on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:17AM (#46497912)

lol, I really liked this article.

But yeah, maybe it helps that I have the scripting turned off.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by master_crab on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:13AM (#46497876)

True, but you can turn it off with the snowflake icon at the top.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by jsheard on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:14AM (#46497889)

Ah, so you can. I tried that but the particles don't disappear immediately so I thought it was just toggling the colour scheme.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by master_crab on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:16AM (#46497904)

Yeah I thought the same thing too. Takes a few moments. A UX suggestion for the author. If a user wants it off, it doesn’t need to be graceful, just quick.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by hn_acc1 on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:35PM (#46507701)

Yeah, I wasted 60 seconds of my life on that stupidity. Makes me much less inclined to read another article by the same author.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by alejoar on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:14AM (#46497888)

Which also changes the background color to yellow for some reason. And then the "night mode" is.. what is that, a lantern? Jeez.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by serial_dev on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:27AM (#46498002)

Wow, it turns off the snowflakes, but the ones already falling will stay there and keep falling. I thought it only changed the background color to yellow, so assumed it doesn't actually turn off the snowflakes, wanted to come here and comment how ridiculous that is on an article talking about bad icons, then I saw in the comments that it turns off the snow effect... eventually (like a 10s delay).

It's hilarious that it's a great article about clutter, and yet, the post is on a theme that is so badly cluttered it would have been funny... if I could have read the article...

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by moogly on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:23AM (#46497962)

True, but the site owner clearly despises their prospective readers. I found it more prudent to close the tab and flag the submission.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by throwaway270925 on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:40AM (#46500077)

Flagging a submission just because they added a little whimsy for the holidays to their personal website which you dont like? What a sad, sorry, hate-filled way to go through life.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by moogly on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:50AM (#46500219)

"Hate"? For flagging a UX-hostile submission. Who is overreacting here?

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by MattRix on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:18AM (#46497926)

I thought the article was great, but nearing the end I noticed my phone was incredibly hot and realized it must be the snow effect.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by Diggsey on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:21AM (#46497952)

It's also `position: fixed` which breaks all scroll optimizations and makes scrolling feel terrible.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by izacus on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:23AM (#46497963)

If you hate to be that guy, why did you decide to be that guy?

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by d-lisp on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:00AM (#46498279)

So that the role is occupied already

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by Avshalom on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:08AM (#46498361)

Nobody loves to be that guy more than the guy that hates to be that guy.

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by esafak on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:24AM (#46499843)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfg1c8dyZYM

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Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons by diffeomorphism on Monday January 05, 2026 @08:18AM (#46498432)

Nah, the irony is that you think that this was not done on purpose. E.g. look at the hamburger menu on the top right.

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