I love the snow feature. Where to get something similar year round?
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I love the snow feature WordPress has enabled. I just discovered it and it ends today. Is there another way to add something similar (movement effect) to a WordPress blog? Probably not, but I thought I’d ask.
~Kalliope
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Sorry, but your hunch is correct. The only way to have year-round snow, or something similar, is to self-host your blog and use plug ins.
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And just to note, I have a good laptop and internet connection and I was definitely struggling at times with some snow blogs.
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Hey cool. rain for…when its raining, flowers in spring, maybe some… uhmmm, flowers for summer [hehehe] and leaves for autumn!
yep. love it love it. do ya think if enuf ask for it, enuf times, they’ll add it? -
/nod to carocat.
The snow does take a toll on the machines and though it’s pretty cool, I wouldn’t want to enable it on a blog with a primarily white background because it would only slow things up and wouldn’t even be visible.
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Yeah, and after a while, you’re browser becomes virtually non-responsive. Perhaps they can optimize things a little more and make it more usable. I liked it except for the slowdown.
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My system’s only a couple years old and is remarkably responsive, but when I go to blogs with the snow turned on it sounds like it was getting ready to take off. I don’t even want to think about what would happen if I were on dialup.
Easily something I could do without.
Note: Lorelle had this on her very good list of things she wanted gone from the web last year.
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“Rather see stars then snow lakes”
See stars first and then snow lakes? are there snow lakes?
or did you mean rather see stars thAn snow flakes?
Anyway, this kind of ‘decorations’ take a lot of computer resources, and personally, don’t like them… they’re kinda tacky for me.
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Well, folks, it was offered as an option so you can choose to have them on your blog or not. I hadn’t realised it would slow down some viewers’ reading, so a friendly comment next time ’round might help.
Or WP can make it less of a strain on systems next year?
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The opinions posted here look friendly enough for me…
IMO, making the falling snow script less resources consuming might be somehow tricky since all instances of the snowflake object (I am assuming they are using something like that) and their coordinates are calculated at runtime, which adds memory usage by the browser, especially if the visitor is using Firefox.
One way they could do next time, is reducing the number of snowflakes, that might help.
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It’d be better if there were a way for the reader to turn them off. I’d love that if they were re-introduced again for some reason.
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I agree with pipsqueak, something like snap preview where you can select to have ot off for all sites or something.
I personally thought it was nice for a day, but it got old very quickly and still seeing it on some blogs today, well..
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