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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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