Reminder, you can turn off the animated snow effect with the snowflake icon at t...

anymouse123456 · 2026-01-05T12:20:19 1767615619

Sure, if you don't mind having your eyeballs seared by the brightest orange on record.

loloquwowndueo · 2026-01-05T13:21:03 1767619263

At least he didn’t use the trick to make the background HDR bright.

Semiapies · 2026-01-05T12:22:53 1767615773

It's not a "reminder" for people who've never been to the site before. Especially not when the icon isn't even visible on some devices, like my phone in portrait.

afandian · 2026-01-05T12:24:43 1767615883

No you can't, it just turns the background yellow.

EDIT: the snow stops _but after a few seconds_. I toggled it to find out if it would turn off the snow, and the immediate feedback was that it doesn't. That's really _really_ bad UX.

aylmao · 2026-01-05T12:50:25 1767617425

It's a fun little winter feature. People need to give it a break.

fwiw I went through the whole article with the snow effect on and found it just fine too.

afandian · 2026-01-05T12:59:38 1767617978

I get the site has a frivolous feel, which I do like. And there's no problem with snow if you can turn it off. But it _seems_ like you can't turn the snow off, at which point it does become annoying.

And it's actually making a serious point about something I care about, so I actually wanted to read the article (which I did through the snow).