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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It’s not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It’s totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, so it is, hadn’t noticed it at first.

      And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

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      • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There is also a 3D spinning globe, so that too.

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  • southclaws@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i added a dumb globe thingy and some useless effects in a mania of creative chaos, not felt a spark of creativity in ages and hate the current site, but you’re right this was stupid, i removed the useless webgl stuff and made it simpler, thanks for the feedback!

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks!

      It’s not so much about wholly removing webgl contrasted to at least having some sort of fallback that allows the site to be experienced, but thanks again for at least tackling the change.

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      • southclaws@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah I’m usually disciplined with progressive enhancement but not this time, should have been a .webm or .gif lol

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