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Retra on Feb 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017)

A cycling animation only tells you that your computer/UI isn't dead, it doesn't tell you that the underlying task isn't frozen.

dingo_bat on Feb 3, 2018 [–]

In the loading animation of windows 98 there was a horizontal bar of moving colors. And if it stopped animating, you can be 100% sure that the computer is frozen. I wonder if we can do similar with cycling animations.

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