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Comment by soneca | Hacker News Reader

I spent some time confused by the animated running horse and how it was supposed to be related with the other icons. Until I found out that it was the loading gif.

I would change there for something more standard.

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I found the running horse to be an adoring touch. The author's site is also worth checking out: http://linkdot.link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop

I believe if it would be both adorable and more easily understandable if it was a smaller image, giving a visual hint that is fulfills the role of an icon, not a featured image

It was the other way for me, I linked it to the duckduckgo icon svg and the horse started. I thought it was a loading animation (and took more than a few seconds) so I threw it to another monitor and continued reading HN.

...30 minutes later the horse is still running and I'm like 'wtf? what does a horse have to do with the DDG logo?' close tab. read comments...

It turns out the app doesn't handle svg (it is actually in the to do list) and returned a 500, but the failure was never presented to the user.

Ouch. Sorry to have put you through that :/ I will fix it asap. And I agree with the parent too. Maybe some text below the horse that says fetching results... would make things clearer.

haha, no bother, we all know whats up here; I'm just busy bikeshedding.

Massive kudos for delivering; I like it a lot :D

Thank you! Fixed it :)

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