Snow — TURN IT OFF!!!
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Okay, we get it… One of your programmers had too much time on his hands and created the Javascript snow effect, but it’s really annoying and affects the functionality (in Firefox, anyway). WordPress is great blog software. Why ruin it with needless effects?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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YOU can turn it off if you wish by going to this link while logged in and you will not see it ever again – or until you clear your cookies. You will then NOT see it on any wordpress.COM blog.
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@satijournal, many of us happen to love the snow! It is whimsical. A seasonal treat from WordPress. I haven’t experienced any problems with Firefox, nor have my friends and fans.
Besides, snow is optional. Each blogger has the choice to “allow” or “prevent” the snow on his/her blog. This is clearly explained on Nick’s very popular post “A Little Snow for the Holidays” on the WordPress blog.
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I LOVE THE SNOW AND SO DO MY STUDENTS!!! THANK YOU!! p.s. I’m not yelling – I”m just excited about the snow. We live in Alabama and don’t get to see it very often, so my students love it on my blog.
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@satijournal
I’m with you. Thank GOB it’s an option we can turn off but form your phrasing above I’m guessing you didn’t know that. -
Since people are so excited about the snow overall (just do a forum search) you might get better response by talking to the individual bloggers. Some love it, some hate it, but the ones who love it are like the ones who love Autoplay music; they can’t even imagine someone doesn’t like it.
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It’s off on my blog. It’s just when I’m browsing tags that it becomes annoying. For example:
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@satijournal, as others have said already: click the link here that says Prevent Snow:
You won’t see it on any blogs after that.
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The snow effect on the home page crashed my browser four times in 10 minutes.
It took a while to see the post where thesacredpath mentions the link to turn the effect off.
My computer is a Core 2 Duo T8400 with 8 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA GT9800 running on Windows 7 – 64 bits version.
It wasn’t slow on my computer, it simply crashed after 10 or 15 seconds viewing the snow in Firefox 3.5.5 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5)
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I’m never in my live feel nor experienced on snow. In my country (Indonesia) only rain and sunshine. However I love the snow. Very nice!
Amouz
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I’m the one who shovels it here in the Canadian snow belt, but I like snow anyway.
Even though I hate javascript I would probably keep the snow EXCEPT for the fact that there is an annoying hysterical scroll bar blinking dementedly on and off at the bottom of my blogs when snow is turned on,
(2 different themes; Firefox.)
So off it goes
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The snow makes my computer start ‘revving’ like a car going uphill! I had to turn it off on my blog, and spend very little time on blogs that have it on, because the sound is so scary!
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I turned the snow off my blog but can’t find how to turn it off when I browse. The link offered by thesacredpath and tellyworth just takes me to the top of the article … where the snow is falling. Any other suggestions, please?
We have a real blizzard in NYC today that I’d like to turn off too : )
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@buyathread, look at the bottom of Nick’s post for links to “prevent snow” and “allow snow” throughout WordPress.
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/I’m in NYC, too. it was fun to email friends: “it’s snowing and not just on my blog!”
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Hi. I am having trouble with rss/twitter api. I am looking to simply have a tweet posted to my own twitter account when I post a new blog, as opposed to a twitter widget in my wordpress profile or posting my tweets to my wordpress. Can anyone help me follow with that?
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electricia1 – That’s what I’ve been doing and all that happens when I click on “prevent snow” is that the screen jumps back to the top of that page. What am I missing?
Glad that the real snow stopped and now it looks very holiday-ish.
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well, I’m not tech savvy, but one thing I’ve learned from the snow discussions is these quirks vary depending on one’s browser or computer. The only quirk that I’ve experienced was it stopped snowing for me throughout WP although I hadn’t turned it off. The fix for that was clearing my history, then going back to Nick’s post and clicking on “allow snow.”
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Thanks, electricia1, I like that advice — and will take it — since I’m not tech savvy either. And worst case is that it will snow on other blogs until Jan. 4 and we can worry about it — or not — next winter.
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I personally love it and so does a few of my other WP blg buddies do too, its way cool
so as the song goes “Let it snow let it snow” Some little fuzzy white flakes never hurt anything
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