I thought the article was great, but nearing the end I noticed my phone was incredibly hot and realized it must be the snow effect.

True, but you can turn it off with the snowflake icon at the top.

Ah, so you can. I tried that but the particles don't disappear immediately so I thought it was just toggling the colour scheme.

Yeah I thought the same thing too. Takes a few moments. A UX suggestion for the author. If a user wants it off, it doesn’t need to be graceful, just quick.

Yeah, I wasted 60 seconds of my life on that stupidity. Makes me much less inclined to read another article by the same author.

Wow, it turns off the snowflakes, but the ones already falling will stay there and keep falling. I thought it only changed the background color to yellow, so assumed it doesn't actually turn off the snowflakes, wanted to come here and comment how ridiculous that is on an article talking about bad icons, then I saw in the comments that it turns off the snow effect... eventually (like a 10s delay).

It's hilarious that it's a great article about clutter, and yet, the post is on a theme that is so badly cluttered it would have been funny... if I could have read the article...

Which also changes the background color to yellow for some reason. And then the "night mode" is.. what is that, a lantern? Jeez.

True, but the site owner clearly despises their prospective readers. I found it more prudent to close the tab and flag the submission.

Flagging a submission just because they added a little whimsy for the holidays to their personal website which you dont like? What a sad, sorry, hate-filled way to go through life.

"Hate"? For flagging a UX-hostile submission. Who is overreacting here?

Nah, the irony is that you think that this was not done on purpose. E.g. look at the hamburger menu on the top right.

lol, I really liked this article.

But yeah, maybe it helps that I have the scripting turned off.

If you hate to be that guy, why did you decide to be that guy?

So that the role is occupied already

Nobody loves to be that guy more than the guy that hates to be that guy.

It's also `position: fixed` which breaks all scroll optimizations and makes scrolling feel terrible.