Snow a drag
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Yeah, I noticed it after a couple days, and took it off. I wanted it to work though, cuz I personally think it’s a great novelty.
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It seems less processor intensive than last year, but still it slows things down considerably.
As bee says, it’s a personal choice. If you have a couple tabs with falling snow in your browser, other tabs will slow down. If you don’t use tabs and only keep one active window open, then you might be alright unless like some of my friends, you have older slower computers.
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How does one turn off the snow???
Curious.Lorna
Theme is “DePo.”
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Go to appearance > extras and you can turn it off there. It should be off by default unless you turned it on. With DePo being basically all white, the snow won’t really even show up.
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Visitors are always my concern too, and I know a lot of my friends are running 3 or 4 year old XP machines with IE 6 which can choke on pure HTML. If you throw in javascript, they are in real trouble.
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I haven’t noticed an issue on my ancient laptop (you need an iron lap for that heavy thing!).
I also haven’t noticed an issue on my iPhone.
I can only guess that it is either in peoples minds, in their computers set up, or a coincidence. If it doesn’t slow down an iPhone or iron age laptop, then I find it hard to imagine it slowing much else down (I’m not saying people are wrong – I’m just saying I can’t imagine it happening myself).
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Well right now, for arguments sake, I have 5 tabs open on my site viewing the home page in FF3 . . I have Safari open with 4 “windows” open at the site right now . . and if it’s slowed down, it’s marginal at best. So that would be judging it as a reader would times 9, yet running on the one computer.
I then turned on my iPod touch, and went to the site, and it works fine . . . no slower than normal, and it’s wirelessly connected to the same router bringing in the computer signals . . .
So as it’s been pointed out, it’s not blanket thing, but more a persona thing, and those that visit ‘our’ site usually have decent comps (gaming) and almost all have passed favourable comments about the small, added feature, and it certainly doesn’t stop anyone ‘reading text’, that’s for sure. Unless of course you have a screen the size of a mouse . .but then, the iPod screen manages it just fine as it’s scaled anyway.
So yes, it is a personal thing, and yes, it ‘could’ affect some readers. But it’s not a blanket experiences, and for us, it certainly doesn’t affect any of our readers . . . if it did, we certainly hear about it, that’s for sure. Gamers complain about the smallest thing, trust me on that one.
We get an average of 2.5k unique views per day and a higher pages viewed, with a monthly average of 60k at the moment and growing. So if it was a problem for the readers, we’d certainly hear about it. We just keep getting PM’s saying how nice it is and how “christmassy it is . . which I think is the main thing, making your readers feel “in the spirit of things” . . even though we have NO SNOW here in Oz hehehehe.
Yes, it certainly may well affect some comps, and some systems, but not all, and certainly not a HUGE % of them, otherwise WP wouldn’t even bother with the feature. NOt trying to cause a rift, just pointing out the ‘other side’ of things – that’s all.
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Yes, but what’s the point of running a SNOW script on a blog that is basically WHITE? I’m just saying that if WordPress.COM wants us to read the posts about the new dashboard on the WordPress.COM blog, why make some people suffer. It’s not like WP.COM is running the script in the forums or support areas. (Thank goodness.)
Just sayin’…
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