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Reflektor is doing some great & innovative WebGL work.

Shameless plug: this was using canvas-sketch[1] to build out some of the sketches.

[1] https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch/

I did notice the name and logo were awfully familiar, though.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/MMOg-_aR48tAdBU-crlM...

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

It's not the exact same, but it's really uncanny.

They appear to be Canadian judging by some of the clients, so maybe it was intentional?

Why do contemporary designers fall for the following trends over and over:

- Magenta/Purple colors - Gradients - Large Typography - Animations - Hijacking scroll - Excessive use of white space

This seems the trend these days.

Sadly, some of those shot my GPU (not exactly the newest one), requiring a full restart.

(The dilemma of WebGL & Co: either we need better bound checking, which somewhat neglects the point of having fast graphics, or we're living dangerously.)

> Pleased visit on the desktop.

Moves into another Website.

I agree that nowadays everything should be responsive, however I feel discarding someone else's effort when they are mentioning that the site is for desktop, is inconsiderate.

Also, if you're browsing sites which reach the front page of HN, the same way you visit other social sites, I think you're already in the wrong company.

Except that it means I have to look for a desktop computer to be able to see what the site was all about, not even switching mobile chrome into desktop mode helped to see what it was all about.

Given the amount of people whose main device is a tablet/mobile, a bit more of attention would be welcomed on a Website which is supposed to promote the Web design capabilities of the authors.

You didn't notice the behavior of the site. It doesn't allow you to browse it from a mobile device, not even when requesting desktop version. Perhaps faking agent would work, but I wouldn't be surprised if you'd have to spoof resolution/window size as well.

I got the message on my desktop. Because my monitor is configured portrait, not landscape.

When I stretched the browser into a second monitor, it came to life.

So it's the browser window dimensions, apparently. But it was still unnecessarily restrictive.

Same for me with the browser occupying the right half of my screen.

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