Deciding Whether to Keep an Upside-Down WebGL 404 PageDeciding Whether to Keep an Upside-Down WebGL 404 Page
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Tomiwa Folorunso
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• 9h
I found a bug on Iteluvia's 404 page and I'm not sure I want to fix it.
While building a new 404 page for Iteluvia, I rendered the digits with a WebGL shader. They glow, drift like smoke, and lean toward your cursor. Then I noticed the whole thing was upside down. A canvas stores pixels top-down, WebGL reads textures bottom-up, and I'd skipped the one line that flips them.
The fix took ten seconds. Deciding whether to keep it is taking a lot longer.
The case for upside down: a 404 means you're lost. A page that's literally flipped says that before you read a single word. And it looks cool.
The case for right side up: it's clean, it reads instantly, and nobody wonders if the site is broken.
A: Upside down B: Right side up
Which would you ship? I'm leaning A, so tell me if I'm wrong.
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Mostafa Moamen
• 5h
A is better because it was dynamic but if you can flip 404 as it is back again that will be better idea ❤️❤️
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Tomiwa Folorunso
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• 5h
That's interesting. Thank you!👍
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