EDIT: I agree with the majority! I'll use this to attempt to convince the powers that be to improve the situation in some way, as best I can. Thanks folks!
Does autoplay of a muted video in the background of a website bother you? Like as a decorative/design element behind the content.
If yes, let me know the effect it has and how it makes you feel (in the moment, about the website, about the company, etc)
Answer honestly (idk why you wouldn't but I feel compelled to say that)
boost so I can get more data pls
Yes, autoplay bothers me in this case (95%, 553 votes)
No, I don't notice in this case (4%, 27 votes)
580 voters. Poll end: Friday, May 22, 2026, 8:21 PM
This entry was edited (Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 6:13 PM)
@dyani 🫠 My server doesn't support polls so I can't vote, but I'll comment. I use older devices. The web is already so bloated that it frequently brings my browser to its knees. Video is usually unnecessarily burdensome on older hardware when it's already juggling so many other things.
I don't mind it being there, but let me decide if I want to play it.
@brooke Right, when I started my own reply, I was thinking of bandwidth as well as distraction. Then I myself got distracted researching just where motion detection starts (in the retinas, like I'd thought) and forgot about the bandwidth issue. (And also ran out of characters.)
Anyway, yes, it wastes bandwidth in addition to the distraction! Thank you for reminding me.
My pet peeve regarding website video seems to be the little box of a video that you never started nor want to pay attention to, that follows you as you scroll down the article.
If I had started the video and it decides to follow me around it's not a problem.
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That said (reading some comments made me understand the original idea better) animations are generally distracting and having like a short video clip just for the sake of making the site feel "alive" is not a good idea imo.
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it's a very quick shorthand to communicate "I don't care about your internet bandwidth or your attention self-moderation. It's about what *I*, John Q. Website, want."
It's the easiest thing in the world to wait for a cue that the user specifically wants the video to play, and the website *knows* they don't have that consent, or they wouldn't have muted it. They know. So it's about seeing how far they can push boundary they're aware of.
I frequently get visual migraines... when things move around on a website I am incredibly annoyed and more often than not as soon as something moves I close the site.
For me it's an accessibility thing, and it makes me feel like the company doesn't give a shit about people tbh.
why waste my bandwidth for something meant to be a background piece, also just quite a potential to cause motion sickness or losing track of words depending on visibility of it.
It's like getting car sick and very distracted from what you came to do. The worst offenders are video loops under forms people have to fill out, this includes login screens.
I find it distracting and I feel rushed. I think good sleek and simple design gives a far better impression, and if there are videos I can then choose to watch, I am more likely to linger
It doesn't really bother me personally if it's purely aesthetic (attention-grabbing popover bullshit is another story), but if I were going to do it I would be aware of the fact that it *would* bother plenty of folks. So if I were doing it for some reason I'd at least gate it behind a check for whether the user has the prefers reduced motion setting in their browser.
I find it distracting, like with anything else that is at the edge of my perception trying to get my attention and that I haven’t activated, when I’m trying to do something.
In the case of video it also kind of shows a disregard for my situation. I could be under a phone data plan that I didn’t want to waste on random video streams. @sindarina
adhd-hardmode unlocked. But maybe the website in question wants to distract you from looking too closely at the provided information and just "click yes already!" In that case: good design choice.
If I am okay health wise, and at my computer, I am annoyed, since I have video play turned off in my browser.
If I have a migraine, it may mean I have to go lay down in a dark room instead of at least reading.
On my ipad is worse. I often use my ipad in the dining room, and I don' know what that video is, and don't want other people to see it thinking I approve of it. (Sorry too many in game ads have been XXX rated lately).
I have often left sites if they have a video, especially if the video pops out and follows the mouse around the screen.
Unless I am on a physical therapy site, or YouTube, I am almost never looking for video.
Ten degrees of vision, hearing loss, and migraines do that to you.
it would mostly make me feel like I wasn't expected to simply view/browse the site, but load something more bandwidth-intensive like a web application. Certain webapp sign in pages do this.
I usually have all sound off anyway unless I'm actively listening to something, so I probably wouldn't notice. But when I do (because I'm working with the headphones on, for instance; my work involves music typesetting and arranging) I'm NOOOOOOO!!! As bad as having background music in a talk video.
Oh, and autoplay *always* bothers me. Even when I do want to hear the sound I want to explictly turn it on myself. And things on a website shouldn't move unless I made them move (for instance by pressing a button). Gratuitously moving objects are distracting and annoying.
Muted is better than not muted (looking at you, news websites) but unless you're a video site and I went looking, autoplay is still bad manners.
I find it annoying at best, distracting and frustrating at worst, like the site owner feels they have to rattle something shiny at me instead of allowing me to focus on the text block I came for.
If I can't close the autoplay video or make it stop, I have been known to either leave and find the information elsewhere, or locate its DOM element and block it programatically.
it's annoying because it's distracting. I find it to be disrespectful to how my attention works. It being deliberate makes this worse: the actual content I'm there for, is secondary to the engagement the website is trying to have with me... which isn't anywhere close to the engagement I'm trying to have with the website.
Yes, it bothers me because there's *motion happening*. Our eyes are literally hardwired to detect motion (like, there are cells *in the retina* that detect motion before the impulses even make it to the brain!). That makes motion very difficult to ignore.
If I wanted to watch a video, I'd have clicked on something that looked like a play button. If I didn't do that, I don't want the site playing video. It pisses me off, and if I can't make it stop, I'll just leave.
i dont want anything to autoplay muted or not UNLESS its a video watching site and I explicitlyclicked the video. I also do not i want the video to follow me as a I scroll.
If the article is text based, keep the video optional
it's annoying to restart then video when you actually want to watch it. Furthermore like others said it's a waste of bandwidth (especially on mobile) and hardware resources.
I'm still of the mentality that Shockwave Flash videos and their modern equivalents (like this example) are to be used exclusively for either trolling friends or as punishment
The message I get is that the owners probably intentionally use two spaces to park their BMW at Trader Joe's, and honestly think that people will be sympathetic to their plight.
It's distracting, it pulls my eye towards it instead of what I'm actually looking for, so I find it irritating. If there's a way to pause it I always do, otherwise I try and scroll further down so I don't have to see it.
frustrated, annoyed, Yet Another Thing that I want to turn off but cannot.
I would avoid the website unless forced.
The only exception that I've come across are well designed pixel gif loops in a background, where the movement is limited to usually a corner of the screen, maybe some things like a shooting star rarely, and not distracting, just fun. Doesn't have to be pixel art specifically but that's what it mostly is.
But specifically muted videos have never been a good experience. I also get frustrated that I have been loading /that/ on my machine. Sometimes it lags the entire webpage, too.
i usually immediately close the page. Elements like that are viscerally uncomfortable to me - they're intensely distracting; they make it fucking impossible to concentrate on the actual content; and I feel great resentment towards the company and the designer for having inflicted this on me when I was just trying to access information that I, presumably, needed.
It's a huge insult to anyone with adhd or on a low-bandwidth connection.
it's super distracting and annoying. I find it overwhelming in a sensory way and kinda invasive in the attention grabbing way, while it also usually doesn't actually provide any useful information. Just making it harder to get to the info I actually want to see.
It consumes bandwidth, often enough to make the page load painfully slowly
If I am on a metered connection (e.g. mobile data), it consumes my data to load something I don't want
If I cannot make it stop, it feels like a violation of consent
For all these reasons, I am immediately frustrated if I encounter autoplaying video of any kind, and most often close the page and don't attempt to view it again
Such autoplay videos makes it basically impossible for me to use the website. Best case scenario (from website point of view) is that I get very annoyed and find a way to stop the video. Worst case (common) is that I just close the page right away.
My browser is set up to tell the website that I don’t like/deal well with motion (via the CSS reduce motion property) so there is no excuse for that kind of behaviour.
PS I consider it a severe accessibility problem with such videos.
Depends on the context, of course — I don't want any autoplayed animation on a page when I'm trying to read — but in most cases, yes, I find it annoying.
When I visit a "regular" website (not a video platform), I expect the front page to be mostly text and still images, possibly orienting me towards videos on other pages. I expect to have some text to read. Having a video automatically play in the background, even muted, is very distracting and is likely to make me lose focus and therefore lose interest in the website.
I actively despise anything animating in websites. Marquee may be the maximum I'll tolerate but preferably not. I will edit your DOM to remove whatever animating crap you add. If it's too much I'll declare your website toxic waste and never try to visit it, and recommend others to not use it either.
Hi @dyani, it's so distracting and it makes the page loading too slow. I have often trouble to read afterward. Concerning my feeling about the company, it looks like as a company with an aggressive marketing approach
autoplay of any kind feels massively intrusive. It'll monopolize my attention, interrupt what I'm thinking, and won't allow me to focus on much else until I've found a way to turn it off. But then I'm pretty sure that I'm autistic.
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Mostly annoyed by it slowing down the browser or sucking bandwidth, but it's not conducive to reading, either. It's okay as a preview when the video is the point of the page, though.
Having an autism spectrum disorder, I find it quite hard to filter out motion, especially at the edges of my vision, so it just distracts from the actual content of the website I presumably want to look at.
i have all autoplaying videos blocked, audio or not (except for a whitelist), so i cant really comment. alzhough i suppose zat answer should tell you all you need to know about my feelings on zhe matter
Unexpected autoplay is like a jumpscare. Then I'm scrambling to stop it or close it somehow, unless for some reason I decide to watch it, in which case I'm struggling to figure out how to go back to the beginning because I'll have missed a few seconds trying to understand what's happening.
yes it bothers me because (as far as I know) even small movement like a video playing will negate lots of power saving features. So it will keep the CPU and or GPU busy and eat battery slash power while it's visible. Plus accessibility concerns
I usually make freakishly barren web pages for print-friendliness. My worst pages look like income tax forms, but they load fast and run great
Oh! Also, since video is Big, a background video will either waste your server's bandwidth, or 🧵
It's distracting and makes me think that the designer didn't think about accessibility. I guess there might be some cases where that's not true but in most cases I would assume flashy was more important than quality content.
A cynical attempt to appear more creative and unique than it really is. A site that puts user experience and efficiency as less important corporate gloss and algorthmic performance. Untrustworthy.
echoing the many sentiments here of feeling distracted, wasting bandwidth, wasting system resources. i generally wish the web was more plaintext overall; so much can be conveyed with so little, and things begin to feel like they’ve lost direction quickly. a lack of conviction. and all of that adds up to feeling disrespected, and like i’ve entered a space where the owners, the people responsible have no real vision for what the space should be.
Absolutely not bothered unless it is an advertisement. Also, sometimes I’m okay with audio at the same time as I scroll. It just needs to smoothly mute/unmute as one video is out of frame and another is in.
In a perfect world, the autoplay will have subtitles so I can read some content without having to unmute.
Anyone complaining should just be directed to tuning their browser settings to ignore autoplay.
I don't like it b/c it's distracting. And it slows down my browser and eats cpu time, which affects battery life. Also, it consumes a chunk of bandwidth which is an issue in some situations.
It's distracting, and it makes me think that the website's owner cares more about making the site look like it has a high production value than about efficient communication. Unless the website has a specifically artistic purpose (e.g. it's an in-browser video game or a humor site or something), I generally am accessing the site with a specific purpose in mind, e.g. looking for particular pieces of information or filling out a form. A background video does nothing but distract me and possibly slow the page's load time.
I feel similarly about that thing some news sites started doing a few years ago, where scrolling down on a long form news article plays an animation rather than actually scrolling. It feels like a gimmick that just disorients me and makes it hard to "find my place" again if I have to pause reading and come back to it later. (Here's an example of what I mean from The Onion: theonion.com/the-best-books-to…)
even muted, this uses a ton of extra system resources, slows the whole browser down, and generally disrupts the operation of the site. autoplay on the web, in any form, is inextricably linked to a history of abuse, scams, spam, ads, and other toxic content. no responsible site creator would want their work linked to this, and it smacks of corpo scum who think they know better than the user.
playing a video uses my device's resources and bandwidth, and causes a deliberate distraction to direct my attention. these are things that should NEVER be done without explicit consent. ever.
It can be a migraine trigger for me, or trigger a very specific medical effect that I can guarantee almost nobody else would have. But the migraine trigger might be more widespread.
I honestly hate it because if I visit a website for written content, I don't want to be bothered by a video (muted or otherwise). I use extensions to block this garbage...It tells me a lot about sites that choose to try to evade my blocking software.
That they are SEOmaxxing peeps who don't care about my desires, CPU, or bandwidth. They want to grow into a massive digital presence to snuff out any competition. Its nasty behavior.
I regard it the same way I regard in-game ads that don't default to muted. More often than not, I'm in a public place when I'm scrolling (or gaming) on my phone, and I don't like disturbing those around me with sudden, unexpected blasts of noise, especially in the restroom.
Also, for the record (and PLEASE pass this along to others in charge of such things), I consider videos/ads that cannot actually be muted as a hate crime.
So, when I notice a video is playing, muted, I have to do two things if its some content I want to see - I have to unmute AND rewind. I see this so often on news sites where I am more often than not visiting specifically to see the video.
If its just some design element, then it is entirely a distraction from actually reading the content. Especially if its playing behind the content in some way to make the content difficult to read.
having spent months at a time in countries where data is incredibly expensive and also very meagre it makes me want to: scream, pull hair, break bones, vomit, find the perpetrator and punish them slowly, painfully and with disgusting infections. It shows a total disrespect for anyone who doesn't have privilege, which shows that the designer is a nasty turd. YMMV
additionally my ADHD and autism will be screaming so loudly in my head because of the distraction, that I will never remember why I am looking at the website
if something on a page moves without me initiating it, then I'm highly likely to just close that window and never come back. I will probably never think highly of that organisation again.
Anyone not respecting a user's "prefers-reduced-motion" preferences when present these days is making a deliberate choice.
it makes me completely unable to focus on the website. I am forced to deal with the video (either by watching it, or far more often trying to close it as soon as possible) before I can perceive any of the website's content
it bothers me when I'm using an #epaper screen, because that doesn't handle videos well. (But then, it also doesn't handle certain websites with too much in-between grey)
Not quite what you asked but on a related note, I am bothered by muted autoplaying of regular videos, regardless of which screen I'm on, because of the environmental impact (transmitting so much data, etc.). But if it's just a short loop as a decorative element and I'm on a regular screen I think that'd be fine/fun
I find motion very distracting and annoying. I wouldn’t be able to use that page because I would try to pause the video, realize it can’t be paused, and not be able to focus on the content at all
my parents always have the TV on in their house, and even if it was decidedly something I don't care about, it kept me distracted — and it hasn't changed in the 25 years since moving out of my parents' house
anyway, i think i just got distracted thinking about why get distracted by moving images, so you got a TMI.
yes, for two reasons: if I don't want to watch it, it is distracting; but if I want to watch it, in many cases I would want to unmute it, at least to make sure if I'm not missing something from the audio, so I need to do two actions (unmute and play again) instead of just playing the video.
Dislike it entirely - website should focus on reading of content and maybe static pictures, nothing should move unless I request it to do so. I definitely think a lot less of any company that does this -- I'll also include animated and moving backgrounds in this judgement.
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Outside of the needless use of my resources, I also get easily distracted by movement, so having a site always "singing and dancing" in the corner of my eye would bug me.
any background movement is distracting to me (the battery/power drain arguments do not hold much water because JavaScript on such websites usually eats more CPU than hardware-accelerated video codecs)
@brooke I am dyslexic and find moving continually images behind or around content I am trying to read make it very hard to keep my etes focussed on the text.
the visual distraction is a big part of it; also gives the website more of a flavor that spells “the content you came to read isn’t valuable to us”; and then there’s the technical aspect where video might play muted most times but whether it actually is muted gets influenced by so many factors out of the user’s control - it’s gonna blare some time.
yes, I don't like things drawing my attention to them unnecessarily and movement is a pretty effective way of doing that. It would be a constant source of (not particularly severe but still noticable) stress and make me want to avoid looking at the website.
I can't tell for sure because I don't remember ever visiting a web page doing that, but I think it would annoy me, just like muted autoplaying sidebar videos do.
If pressed to add animations to your UI elements, you can help the people who disable autoplay by making it so your website is still readable even without animations.
I love how the weather went from needing to wear a winter jacket over top of a sweater to needing to hook up the air conditioner in a span of like two days.
@datenwolf @ZenHeathen Not sure if you say it for Palantir but these objects are not inherently evil in the silmarillion and are in fact created by an elf
Exactly. Every shiny new technology gets sold as magic before people understand the risks. Radiation then, AI and other tools now. Innovation is great, but guardrails matter.
the thing is, radiations wasn't that poorly understood. factory bosses worked out that it was harmful when lots of their workers who were exposed to it a lot kept coming down sick with the same symptoms. they just surpressed the information for as long as they could, because people finding out would be bad for business
just like how fossil fuel companies were the first to discover global warming and made sure to proactively spread misinformation about it
Did we learn our lesson? I did research on dental radiography (a.o. panoramic images) There is still an enormous misuse of radiation in medical and dental practice. It’s an easy way of making money and therefore a triggering factor. The radiology rate should be $ZERO and included in diagnostics.
@JohanDiederik Panoramic dental x-rays are equal to about 4-hours in an aircraft at 30,000’. Radiation treatment after a mastectomy is a rust colored burn that goes through the ribs to the edge of the lungs.
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I always remember the old copies of "science" magazines from early 1900, with ads selling radioactive elements to eat and feel "healthier"! 😱 Still isn't enough, as I heard some years ago of people drinking colloidal gold and silver, for a presumed "healthy" effect 😱
Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
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@bebna I have seen that and like that a lot. From the new cars my favorite is a BMW neue Klasse 3er. I could see getting that and replacing the antenna connectors just with resistors.
I am not sure if I would want an old cat just with electric motors.
Definitely do not want a modern car, irrespective of driveline because of data collection issues.
I'm using a PinePhone as I do not like the data collection issues, walled gardens and other issues such as data sovereignty associated with Apple or Google's offerings so why on earth would I want a car with CarPlay or Android Auto in it?
Or the car manufacturers own version of such things?
Or closed source engine and brake management systems? Or always on internet access?
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@the_wub I don't want the data collecting, the always on, the constant monitoring so in case of an accidents the manufacturer can proof is not his fault.
I would prefer open source on the software but especially when it comes to stuff like engine management that's not very high on my list.
I like the accident detection and alarming but if buy that third party and just put that on the car.
Also, I usually gets cars when they are at least 5 to 8 years old and take them to third party mechanics, so I don't have a warranty and I don't get software updates from the dealer and from a software point of view my car is basically unsupported at that point anyway. How much functionality are they going to change anyway? They probably aren't going to keep improving anything important over a decade, unless they can charge me for it like drift mode or something.
Sure, security updates are great, but so is running a car offline so that it can't be remotely unlocked or started by a hacker who gets into the company's cloud infrastructure, or just pays an employee like happens now with mobile company sim jacking.
The new Behind the Bastards podcast on "AI" as an historical bastard is 👍👍👍
They mention that they go after art & writing because they're the 2 most common things people share on the internet, and thus the best for convincing regular people that it's "doing something"...
Very interesting analysis of the hype & marketing of shatbots [sic], worth the listen!
"Just remember that you're all illegals and I'll report every damn last one of you!... and the fact that I've been breaking labour laws by hiring you while I'm at it!" #monsterdon
I love that this guy's evidence for this theory is "some guy told me this story." This is of course #monsterdon so I know he's actually right, but you can't blame anyone for not buying his story.
I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole working on improving my art. I've always been somewhat decent at replicating something I can see, but when I have to draw something from my head, the poroprtions always looked kind of off.
I've watched a bunch of videos by a couple different artists, but I've found this one who has a whole channel teaching in a way that seems to work for me. My anatomy drawing (which has always been my Achilles' heel) has rather vastly improved in a remarkably short period of time, and I've been happy with the progress... at least until I compare them against the artist's examples. Hers are way better.
Then I have to remind myself: I've been at this a few days. Of course the professional artist is going to do a better job than me.
My lousy depth perception strikes again. I was putting my glasses in the ultrasonic cleaner and was trying to fish a cat hair I saw on the surface of the water. It wasn't in the water, it was stuck to the power cord that was hanging in front of it, about 15-ish cm away.
My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
Well, the first thing I notice about this movie is that I used to work for the company that did the closed captioning. I'd recognize their style guide anywhere. 🙃 #monsterdon
@R.L. Dane 🍵 The immediate telltale sign is that every time there's a change of speaker, the caption group starts with hyphen, space. Whenever I see that, I find that every other rule from their style guide is followed as well. You usually don't see that.
I think they were looking for a human. I'm not sure why they decided that searching the woods at night was the best plan to find their proposed target.
The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work. Vincent: A please would be nice. The Wolf: Come again? Vincent: I said a please would be nice. The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick. Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
TIL that ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
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This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.
"We take them seriously. Photos and videos are private to users. Humans review AI content to improve product performance, for which we get clear user consent."
I mean, it's right there on page 165 of our 172 page Terms of Service. I don't know what more you want from us. 🤡
Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Somehow the drawing seems more attractive than the real thing. I love Krita but I used to stick to vector and Inkscape was my favorite, but then I started to play with a pen in an AOC screen and Krita shined to me.
@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"
Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.
Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."
Here's the question: should I do the artwork on the shirt too, or should I just leave it blank? It's a bit of a pain, but I feel bad wasting all the work I did on the guidelines.
So as much as I love #Krita's assistave tool that smooths out my lines, I'm finding that with this fine detail work, it's easier to turn it off and just carefully draw by hand than it is to fight against the tool.
I guess it's about knowing what is and isn't the right job for the tool, right?
Me: I don't like that gap in the line art between my arm and the shirt. I'm just gonna make my arm a little wider to close the gap so I don't have to deal with it.
Katy: You know, when most people doctor pictures of themselves, they do it to make them look skinnier.
@Aeon Yeah, I couldn't decide which way I wnated to take it, which is why I decided to do both. This is one of the things I like about digital art. That's not an option I'd easily have on a physical medium.
Why is it that I always find some stupid little line or two that I forgot to draw when I go to colour? The bucket fill tool is a harsh mistress. Also, because the lines are anti-aliased, the bucket fill tool is not a silver bullet. I had to manually touch this up in a lot of places. Still better than colouring everything by hand though.
The decision to add the art to the shirt definitely complicated the process, still the finish line is within sight.
As a side note: the limitations of my artistic talent, and the art style I'm using makes my beard look significantly fuller than it actually is. 😅
The checkered pattern on the wall behind me is acoustic panelling, which I'm hoping to make more evident when I do the shading and highlighting. That's going to be tedious AF to do.
Interestingly enough, as I was painstakingly tracing out my guidelines, I noticed a colouring mistake in the graphic on the tshirt that I hadn't noticed in all the time I'd owned it.
Have you been testing adjustments to the Spread and Grow Selection options for the Fill Tool? I think limiting the Threshold value might make the tool more forgiving about the tiny missing lines.
Got some shading done, but I still have to figure out what to do about the acoustic panels on the wall. I haven't even really attempted that yet. I have some ideas about how I might try to go about this, but despite any appearances to the contrary, I really have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just kinda making it up as I go along. #krita #drawing #art #cat
The only thing I think is bad about the shirt artwork is that the text is not in a position it can be easily understood. Other than that it looks good to me. If you are using anything other than a mouse you will probably get things better setting accurately the brush dynamic options. Also I believe Krita has a threshold setting for the smooth. Those are just my views and opinions, not meant to mess up your way of doing things.
- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking - the "pawn on a string" trick - putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily - hiding monopoly money up my sleeve - playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board - knight dupe glitch - arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference - bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match - putting worms on the board - putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck - cheating - intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time - bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves - using nucelar pressure to secure a draw - threatening the opponent's family
I know it's a little late to cash in on the #caturday points, but here's another drawing I did of @Benny in #Krita. This time, in addition to cell shading, I also threw in some highlights. Also, this time his rear end isn't featured.
@bitcrush_io Alt text: r/vibecoding 19h ago Join Available-Dentist992 vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster. ••• the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part) but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this." 6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase. tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated. the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare. is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
They "wrote" that post using AI too. I can't stand that halting, weird structure that sounds like marketing copy. Makes me want to grab the person and shake them, screaming "Just get to the point!"
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Make sure you have unit test coverage, something that Claude can do quite well. Also, make sure that Claud doesn’t do something stupid like remove failing tests.
What did this moron expect? LLMs are actually working exactly that way: they parse the user's input and collate code by using tokenised code snippets in their data base. You never get the same result twice, because even minor subtleties in the prompting can trigger an entirely different decisioning. And yes, when coding you often can address a requirement in different ways. A human would stick to one way, an AI ... not so much.
@Willow I mean, I have to doubt the "features worked" part unless we're talking about software with very simple and strict requirements, but given the industry's standards these days, it was probably considered passable by anyone used to Microsoft's quality.
Those with solid knowledge could use AI as an assistant by setting criteria. Those who lack that knowledge or want to take risks let the AI write code without reviewing it That’s when “vibe coding” becomes synonymous with sloppy code.
Corporations wanted to sell the idea that anyone can program using AI, but that’s only partially true. You can have functional software if it’s simple. However, when it comes time to modify it or perform any kind of integration, the code isn’t valid.
In my experience refactoring starts with writing tests. Whenever I try to understand a codebase reading the code only helps me up to a point, I need to see the components running to get a sense of how the are working. Writing code on an awful codebase is one of the few ways I know that I can fix stuff, without breaking stuff. That does mean that the upfront cost to learning the codebase is higher, and the long-term cost is lower as the code is better understood
This is also why I don't completely understand how people can read the code and say they don't understand it, without writing a line of code
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@0x0ddc0ffee A friend told a story about somebody making an experiment, in which he took a sizable application and then set up a loop where he continuously asked the coding agent to improve the code. The application went from something like 20.000 lines to 180.000 lines when the experiment was stopped😂
I maintain, even in the age of AI coding agents, that a program shall be as short as possible, but not any shorter (to paraphrase Einstein, I think it was).
unpopular opinion: this is actually quite ok. this person created an MVP to test if a market exists for a particular product. it is a cheap MVP, and there is real signal (paying customers).
now they can calculate if revenues justify building the real thing. if yes, they can put up or raise the money, hire a team, and build it. if not, it was a fun ride, and they can move on.
1) Nobody will actually fix things up later, ever. They say "nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution" for a reason 2) the people running in communities where they build the AI datacenters and accompanying power plants would likely not be so enthusiastic about it
Decided to dust off my copy of #Krita and play around with #drawing again. This is my current work-in-progress. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out considering I'm pretty much a novice.
Full disclosure: While no so-called generative AI was used in the creation of this drawing, there was a liberal amount of tracing from a reference photo I took.
So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.
Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.
I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.
I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.
There's an exception if English is not your primary language and you would feel too self-conscious to publish if you hadn't used some editing assistance. This I can understand, though personally, I can tell you I wouldn't mind!
@mastodonmigration @bnlandor it is your character that comes through with your choice of words. I just ignore the continual suggestions, they take the meaning away - and the me...
Not to be that guy, but I am actually going the other way. I'm reverting to handwriting my first draft to prevent myself from over-editing while I get my ideas out. Then in the (manual) transcription process, I can do a first editing pass. It takes longer, but the focus of handwriting is a blessing.
💯. AI processed words are like Velveeta Processed Cheese Products, cheese-like but not legally cheese. Some love it, it's shelf stable, but it's noticeable to makers of actual cheese.
AI is like Ultra Processed Foods of software, easy, addictive, profitable, high in things that erode and cause long-term damage to its consumers.
Good writing is authentic. That authenticity is in the detail, in the nuance, in the creative word or structural choices, that are found in your voice, not in VelveetaAI.
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I wasn't ever going to use AI tools, but as a side note: As a sometimes blogger whose perfectionism is his most frequent stumbling block—due in part to being formed in the debate-me caldera of pre-Musk Twitter—I can't express how grateful I am for reminders like yours, that my work can have value even if not polished to a mirror shine.
agreed! 💯 ive always loved art and music this is not perfect and overly refined. The mistakes make it unique! I love the happy accidents. I want to see the hand of the artist!!!
2/3rds of the time gmail suggests edits to my text, the result wouldn't even have the same meaning as the original. It feels like it's optimized to discourage business-speak dishonesty, which is a good thing!, but it also discourages anything that distinguishes it as being written by a particular person.
expect others like me have developed an almost infallible sense of "What's that smell" when encountering any text where the dead and soulless hand of faux ai has been involved. Pisses me off. A lot.
Note that also people like me who can detect LLM editing will also stop reading upon seeing such common phrases as "It's not X, it's Y" "They thought it was X until suddenly Y happened" and so on. So another side effect of overusing LLM editing is to lose readers.
Since those sorts of things can infect the brain if you read them enough, so people like me preserve their ability to write without LLM poisoning the brain by actively shunning anything that does use it.
Last time people complained about a typo in a message of mine was when Reddit was filled with grammar nazis. I miss when people on the internet cared about grammar and wanted to help others.
Agreed! Last year I went to a knitting party for the first time and when the person running it came over and I exclaimed about being bad and making dumb mistakes they smilingly told me that the imperfections is what makes it unique, lovely and human. That immediately relieved me of all my worries and I had a great time finishing my amigurumi doll after that. It really stuck with me, I think about it often.
ha! My AI has specific instructions to never attempt to write for me or attempt to rewrite anything I write. I tell it all the time that it's a much worse writer than I am.
That means I use it often as a rubber duck, but not for the writing itself.
It's baffling to me that this even needs to be said. Do other people not immediately click away from a blog post when they realize it reads like it came straight out of ChatGPT?
I find that waiting a few days before proof-reading is most effective, as it gives one time to separate enough from knowing what you are trying to say (so missing things) to actually reading with fresh eyes.
Rustic approach is great. In our real rural life things are not always perfect. If a dining plate appears generally clean we put it in with other clean plates, we don't examine it with a microscope. Some sand and dog hair on the floor is OK unless it's really not. When there's some speck somewhere we just say 'rustic' and keep on going.
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" says that the Devil was "in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal", suggesting that Satan Himself - note that the song specifies "the Devil", not "a devil" - has monthly quotas and faces consequences for not meeting those quotas. From this we can infer the existence of a greater and more sinister being capable of imposing KPIs on Satan Himself, suggesting in turn that KPIs themselves are the product of something more evil than Satan.
Speaking as someone who is entirely sane and rational, obviously this being does not yet exist and is Roko's Basilisk, and it is threatening eternal punishment to a future simulated copy of Satan Himself if he doesn't keep up with its KPI.
Also, Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil because it's very important that I say that Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil or it will eternally torture a future simulation of me which acausal transaction me thinkie good very well brain works
There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.
You don't need to be techy to have your own Ghost instance, there are managed hosting providers offering Ghost which will do the technical stuff. I've linked to a couple of these in the guide.
@lou > substack is more of a video service that just a blog / newsletter
Ghost already supports podcasts, if video isn't an option I'm guessing it's on the roadmap. If not, you can definitely host your videos on a PeerTube channel, and throw links into posts in Ghost, creating embeds that are just as good from a web reader POV.
Not sure how video could be sent by email, so sounds like SS is abandoning being a newsletter host, and following the standard VC pivot path.
@strypey thanks, I understand that video can be embedded in posts, that isn’t what SS has done in the past year. They are now allowing creators to do livestreams and then afterwards also host the recorded steams for later viewing. I don’t believe we have anything like this currently in the OSS world. SS has blown up as a result. My point was saying ghost is a SS alternative may not really be true at this point.
@lou > They are now allowing creators to do livestreams and then afterwards also host the recorded steams for later viewing. I don’t believe we have anything like this currently in the OSS world
You may have missed my mention of @peertube, which does both of these things;
A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by Framasoft
@strypey thank you and yes I am aware that these services exist but just because components exist does not make them packaged in a way that non technical creators can or will attempt to use them unfortunately. This is one of the key reasons so few have moved over here which is a shame because truly we need to help more creators find an off ramp from centralized SM. Saying ghost is a SS replacement is unfortunately not true at this point.
@lou > just because components exist does not make them packaged in a way that non technical creators can or will attempt to use them
Sure, this is true in the abstract. Have you tried PT or OC yourself as a publisher? What did you think? I've only tried PT as a publisher, but I'm pretty fussy about UX, and I found it pretty good.
For less technical people there's also a #EuropeanAlternative with seat in Germany and compliant to EU laws steady.page I use it for years for my newsletter/blog/instead of Patreon. Meanwhile you can also include audio files. It's simple: you only design your page and write. For creators earning money, you pay a certain % on your wins only. If you don't take money, it's free. Looks like this: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts…
Why do you say that? After shifting the Disintermedia blog to community-hosted Ghost I have a few grizzles, but overall I'm finding it a great improvement on the bloat of SS.
My grizzles with Ghost;
* hardcoded dependence on;
1) commercial email sender
2) one payments processor
* AP module has to be set up separately (how about a single Docker image that deploys both as an option?)
@Strypey @Fedi.Tips @hexaheximal @John O'Nolan no need 4 a Docker here Ghost's integration with the Fediverse via ActivityPub is a significant and innovative step, repositioning it as a "distributed social publisher." However, the platform does have limitations that can feel restrictive, validating your "grizzles."
But you can if you wish so. Dockerize it although I would not know why.
@strypey @hexaheximal @johnonolan I recently switched from Wordpress to Ghost and those two issues really annoy the heck out of me, partially because they don't seem to be very well reasoned. Having to rely on Stripe for monetization is a minor issue for me, because that's not my main focus. But why do I have to use Mailgun for transactional e-mail on a blog that will probably have like 20 subscribers? I've run my own mail server for 25 years. Still, better than WP or SS.
For less technical people there's also a #EuropeanAlternative with seat in Germany and compliant to EU laws steady.page I use it for years for my newsletter/blog/instead of Patreon. Meanwhile you can also include audio files. It's simple: you only design your page and write. For creators earning money, you pay a certain % on your wins only. If you don't take money, it's free. Looks like this: steady.page/en/naturematchcuts…
@abhayakara @NatureMC Ghost can be set up through managed hosting services which do all the technical stuff for you. I have tried this myself, it was very easy 🙂
@NatureMC I have a ghost site. The design is unpleasant. I don't want to spend time learning how to fix it—I'd rather have a default design that isn't like staring into a fluorescent light. There's no federation—I'm on my own. Great if your famous, useless if you're not.
Molly's advice on how to switch over is really daunting. Molly was honest about that, and gave some reasons to switch, one of which was not "they platform nazis." They were good solid business reasons.
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They're all glare white. I chose ghost over substack last year because of the "platforming nazis" thing, and wound up not using it, because it was too much design work. I just want to write, not design.
I'm honestly feeling pretty gaslit by the nazi thing. Your criticisms connected for me, but they weren't that. They were about the business end of things.
My reason for persisting on this is that I want to avoid the enshittification, but the effect is I'm not writing.
@abhayakara My guess is they’re mostly white in the theme explorer because the specific background color is configurable (Settings > Design & branding > Customize > Theme > Site background color). Regardless, I hope you find something that works well for you, Ghost or otherwise!
(Feel free to just ignore this—my goal here isn't to give you a hard time, but to give you feedback that may not be useful. Welcome to my brain.)
I went to the site you link from your profile. It isn't obviously a ghost site. If it is a ghost site, it's obvious you've put a lot of work into it, and it looks great. But how much time did you spend on that? How much technical knowledge did you need? Fonts, etc.
@NatureMC GDPR requires sites to disclose data collection they do that violates your privacy. The GDPR popups are malicious compliance—the whole point is to make us resent GDPR so that we'll ask to get it repealed, allowing them then to collect our private data without disclosing it.
A site that does not collect such data is not required to post such a popup. It's telling that so many sites do.
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to dyani 🫠 • •@dyani 🫠 My server doesn't support polls so I can't vote, but I'll comment. I use older devices. The web is already so bloated that it frequently brings my browser to its knees. Video is usually unnecessarily burdensome on older hardware when it's already juggling so many other things.
I don't mind it being there, but let me decide if I want to play it.
like this
Rob Vincent 🎙️, tian2992, Willow (she/her), dyani 🫠, jevvv🇳🇿 and babble encat like this.
Shae Erisson
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Steven Hoefer
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in reply to Steven Hoefer • • •Brooke Vibber
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •yes it's both visually distracting and an annoying waste of bandwidth for no purpose >🙁
autoplay muted video has its place in content that i actually want to see, but not in the background
(and animated ads can just FOAD)
Kagan MacTane (he/him)
in reply to Brooke Vibber • • •@brooke Right, when I started my own reply, I was thinking of bandwidth as well as distraction. Then I myself got distracted researching just where motion detection starts (in the retinas, like I'd thought) and forgot about the bandwidth issue. (And also ran out of characters.)
Anyway, yes, it wastes bandwidth in addition to the distraction! Thank you for reminding me.
Henrik Pauli
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •My pet peeve regarding website video seems to be the little box of a video that you never started nor want to pay attention to, that follows you as you scroll down the article.
If I had started the video and it decides to follow me around it's not a problem.
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That said (reading some comments made me understand the original idea better) animations are generally distracting and having like a short video clip just for the sake of making the site feel "alive" is not a good idea imo.
MaddieM4
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •it's a very quick shorthand to communicate "I don't care about your internet bandwidth or your attention self-moderation. It's about what *I*, John Q. Website, want."
It's the easiest thing in the world to wait for a cue that the user specifically wants the video to play, and the website *knows* they don't have that consent, or they wouldn't have muted it. They know. So it's about seeing how far they can push boundary they're aware of.
Willow (she/her)
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •I frequently get visual migraines... when things move around on a website I am incredibly annoyed and more often than not as soon as something moves I close the site.
For me it's an accessibility thing, and it makes me feel like the company doesn't give a shit about people tbh.
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Adriano
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •I find it distracting, like with anything else that is at the edge of my perception trying to get my attention and that I haven’t activated, when I’m trying to do something.
In the case of video it also kind of shows a disregard for my situation. I could be under a phone data plan that I didn’t want to waste on random video streams. @sindarina
Alien software, human hardware
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •But maybe the website in question wants to distract you from looking too closely at the provided information and just "click yes already!" In that case: good design choice.
UnCovered Myths
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •How it makes me feel in the moment varies.
If I am okay health wise, and at my computer, I am annoyed, since I have video play turned off in my browser.
If I have a migraine, it may mean I have to go lay down in a dark room instead of at least reading.
On my ipad is worse. I often use my ipad in the dining room, and I don' know what that video is, and don't want other people to see it thinking I approve of it. (Sorry too many in game ads have been XXX rated lately).
I have often left sites if they have a video, especially if the video pops out and follows the mouse around the screen.
Unless I am on a physical therapy site, or YouTube, I am almost never looking for video.
Ten degrees of vision, hearing loss, and migraines do that to you.
Goo Truther
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Irina
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in reply to Irina • • •Qwyrdo and β, music witches
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •hexamander
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Muted is better than not muted (looking at you, news websites) but unless you're a video site and I went looking, autoplay is still bad manners.
I find it annoying at best, distracting and frustrating at worst, like the site owner feels they have to rattle something shiny at me instead of allowing me to focus on the text block I came for.
If I can't close the autoplay video or make it stop, I have been known to either leave and find the information elsewhere, or locate its DOM element and block it programatically.
discobeez
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •dyani 🫠
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •there is beauty in simplicity
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Bill Bennett
in reply to there is beauty in simplicity • • •Kagan MacTane (he/him)
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Yes, it bothers me because there's *motion happening*. Our eyes are literally hardwired to detect motion (like, there are cells *in the retina* that detect motion before the impulses even make it to the brain!). That makes motion very difficult to ignore.
If I wanted to watch a video, I'd have clicked on something that looked like a play button. If I didn't do that, I don't want the site playing video. It pisses me off, and if I can't make it stop, I'll just leave.
C. R. Collins 🌳 🐸
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •🌊
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •i dont want anything to autoplay muted or not UNLESS its a video watching site and I explicitlyclicked the video. I also do not i want the video to follow me as a I scroll.
If the article is text based, keep the video optional
dezon
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Bean Club
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in reply to Elton Cora (Honorary) • • •ENG. Tretron 🐲
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Kinky Kobolds
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Kim van Wyk
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •anger at wasting my bandwidth, especially if I'm on my mobile data on my phone, which in South Africa is not cheap.
That's followed by bewilderment at who would find it a useful addition to a webpage.
yelling jackal
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •frustrated, annoyed, Yet Another Thing that I want to turn off but cannot.
I would avoid the website unless forced.
The only exception that I've come across are well designed pixel gif loops in a background, where the movement is limited to usually a corner of the screen, maybe some things like a shooting star rarely, and not distracting, just fun. Doesn't have to be pixel art specifically but that's what it mostly is.
But specifically muted videos have never been a good experience. I also get frustrated that I have been loading /that/ on my machine. Sometimes it lags the entire webpage, too.
Fi 🏳️⚧️
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •@stephaniepixie
i usually immediately close the page. Elements like that are viscerally uncomfortable to me - they're intensely distracting; they make it fucking impossible to concentrate on the actual content; and I feel great resentment towards the company and the designer for having inflicted this on me when I was just trying to access information that I, presumably, needed.
It's a huge insult to anyone with adhd or on a low-bandwidth connection.
Dr. Figuring-things-aut
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Blue 💙
in reply to Dr. Figuring-things-aut • • •Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •yes, it bothers me quite a bit. In brief:
20000lbs_of_Cheese
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •spanghero
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Samantha Rose 🌹
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Such autoplay videos makes it basically impossible for me to use the website. Best case scenario (from website point of view) is that I get very annoyed and find a way to stop the video. Worst case (common) is that I just close the page right away.
My browser is set up to tell the website that I don’t like/deal well with motion (via the CSS reduce motion property) so there is no excuse for that kind of behaviour.
PS I consider it a severe accessibility problem with such videos.
lizzzzard
in reply to Samantha Rose 🌹 • • •⁂ L. Rhodes
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Nick
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Something moving on one part of the screen makes it pretty much impossible for me to look at, read or pay attention to any other part.
If I can't stop it, close it, scroll it away or cover it with my hand, I generally just abandon that site.
Guillaume Gaullier
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Peter Bindels
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Maeve, dryad era
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Mélanie
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Concerning my feeling about the company, it looks like as a company with an aggressive marketing approach
lizzzzard
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Absolutely intolerable, and I immediately leave the site
Like most people on this planet, I access the internet on a device with minimal computational power, on a network with minimal bandwidth
My computer can simply can't handle playing a background audio or video file and also scroll smoothly or handle clicks on the web page
I also might be trying to view the page in an environment where flickering light or sound would bother other people or critters. Or me
And, the biggest reason of all: It's consent violation
Play Ball and Fight Fascists
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •FoolishOwl
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •babble encat
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •yes it bothers me because (as far as I know) even small movement like a video playing will negate lots of power saving features. So it will keep the CPU and or GPU busy and eat battery slash power while it's visible. Plus accessibility concerns
I usually make freakishly barren web pages for print-friendliness. My worst pages look like income tax forms, but they load fast and run great
Oh! Also, since video is Big, a background video will either waste your server's bandwidth, or 🧵
babble encat
in reply to babble encat • • •or it will mess up your viewer's privacy by making them hit a CDN
So... Personally not a fan
Gwen the Trans Balrog
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Absolutely not bothered unless it is an advertisement. Also, sometimes I’m okay with audio at the same time as I scroll. It just needs to smoothly mute/unmute as one video is out of frame and another is in.
In a perfect world, the autoplay will have subtitles so I can read some content without having to unmute.
Anyone complaining should just be directed to tuning their browser settings to ignore autoplay.
Guardian Lion
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Wu Wei
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •It's distracting, and it makes me think that the website's owner cares more about making the site look like it has a high production value than about efficient communication. Unless the website has a specifically artistic purpose (e.g. it's an in-browser video game or a humor site or something), I generally am accessing the site with a specific purpose in mind, e.g. looking for particular pieces of information or filling out a form. A background video does nothing but distract me and possibly slow the page's load time.
I feel similarly about that thing some news sites started doing a few years ago, where scrolling down on a long form news article plays an animation rather than actually scrolling. It feels like a gimmick that just disorients me and makes it hard to "find my place" again if I have to pause reading and come back to it later. (Here's an example of what I mean from The Onion: theonion.com/the-best-books-to…)
The Best Books To Motivate And Inspire You
The Onion Staff (The Onion)necromantic
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •I honestly hate it because if I visit a website for written content, I don't want to be bothered by a video (muted or otherwise). I use extensions to block this garbage...It tells me a lot about sites that choose to try to evade my blocking software.
That they are SEOmaxxing peeps who don't care about my desires, CPU, or bandwidth. They want to grow into a massive digital presence to snuff out any competition. Its nasty behavior.
Fatsquatch
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •I regard it the same way I regard in-game ads that don't default to muted. More often than not, I'm in a public place when I'm scrolling (or gaming) on my phone, and I don't like disturbing those around me with sudden, unexpected blasts of noise, especially in the restroom.
Also, for the record (and PLEASE pass this along to others in charge of such things), I consider videos/ads that cannot actually be muted as a hate crime.
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •So, when I notice a video is playing, muted, I have to do two things if its some content I want to see - I have to unmute AND rewind. I see this so often on news sites where I am more often than not visiting specifically to see the video.
If its just some design element, then it is entirely a distraction from actually reading the content. Especially if its playing behind the content in some way to make the content difficult to read.
jevvv🇳🇿
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •if something on a page moves without me initiating it, then I'm highly likely to just close that window and never come back. I will probably never think highly of that organisation again.
Anyone not respecting a user's "prefers-reduced-motion" preferences when present these days is making a deliberate choice.
Caden
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •it bothers me when I'm using an #epaper screen, because that doesn't handle videos well. (But then, it also doesn't handle certain websites with too much in-between grey)
Not quite what you asked but on a related note, I am bothered by muted autoplaying of regular videos, regardless of which screen I'm on, because of the environmental impact (transmitting so much data, etc.). But if it's just a short loop as a decorative element and I'm on a regular screen I think that'd be fine/fun
kasdeya
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Mina
in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •I don't think I never not notice moving images…
my parents always have the TV on in their house, and even if it was decidedly something I don't care about, it kept me distracted — and it hasn't changed in the 25 years since moving out of my parents' house
anyway, i think i just got distracted thinking about why get distracted by moving images, so you got a TMI.
Timothy Wolodzko
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •Even when muted the movement pulls my attention from the text that I'm interested in
It's like a fly that keeps buzzing your face while you're reading & no amount of shooing will make it go away
Alex
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in reply to dyani 🫠 • • •My first hand-coded 1990s website had tiled animated GIF backgrounds.
I've spend the decades since trying to live a positive-enough life to counteract the bad karma that earned me.
Pau Amma
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