NickHodges0702's comments

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Thanks for this. This is exactly our viewpoint and what we are trying to do.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Thanks for giving it a look.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

We've had people tell us the site is slow. We are looking into it. It seems somewhat hit or miss.....

And do you mean the commenting process, or just the site itself?

[cookiengineer → NickHodges0702]

It seems as the "spotlight effect" causes most of the performance issues. The mousemove event seems to trigger a reflow when you hover some of the sections and/or scroll down. There's also a constantly running CSS animation that uses a lot of CPU time.

I have no idea why you're setting the style property of those elements every time you move the mouse, but I suppose that's what the Astro component you're using does.

Also as a hint: Never use subpixel values in CSS, they'll make everything slow. You could've used the JS "value | 0" or "value.toFixed(0)" trick to make it an integer and to prevent the floating precision from messing up the stylesheets. Some browsers (like Safari) will ignore values when they have more than 4 digits after the dot.

I'm writing this because you're setting the style property to something like this (copied out of the Inspector):

> radial-gradient(500px circle at 325.25px 188.38333129882812px, var(--spotlight-color, rgba(139, 92, 246, 0.18)), transparent 50%)

[NickHodges0702 → cookiengineer]

Thanks for all this. We'll look into it. Perhaps we tried to be too "cool" by half....

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Thanks for this great feedback.

I get where you are coming from. I do -- I have much the same attitude after years of online discussions.

And I get that it wouldn't be for everyone everywhere.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Ouch -- not good. Thanks for letting us know.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Thanks for the feedback! We'll look into this kind of thing -- others have said the same thing, that two sides of the same coin get treated differently.

Thank you.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Hey! Thanks so much for giving a good effort and for letting us know what happened.

This is exactly the kind of thing we need and want to know. I'm grateful.

Glad you would be interested -- appreciate it!

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Yes, that's what we are looking for here! :-)

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Yeah, we have the idea of a "Discussion Arena" for people who have proven that they can be good-faith actors to discuss topics of interest.

On: Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better

[NickHodges0702]

Thanks for the feedback.

One of the ideas we have is a "Discussion Arena" where a small group of informed people who are good-faith actors have a conversation, and the "Audience" can have side conversations that are moderated by Respectify.

There may be sucha thing now, but I'm not aware of it.