Note for Firefox users, the "cat video" section is not working, and you will not be able to experience the rest of the app. You are supposed to break the player in a Google Gravity[1] like fashion, but it's broken. They should not "highly" recommend using chrome, but just say it does not work on other browsers.
(In Firefox) I opened the terminal, then deleted an overlay and I COULD "break" the video like you are describing, which lead me to believe it was a "mess with the DOM" kind of pseudo-game, which seems like it was def not the case when I deleted more things and everything broke.
Should they also specify if it works in QQ Browser? What about Safari? Baidu Browser?
I argue that specifying where it doesn't work is pretty stupid. Just specify what you tested it on. It works on those and may or may not work on others. If you'd like it to work on other browsers you can see if you can contact the author to help them with financial support to get the other ones working.
Hey guys! Creator of the non-website here. Thank you all very much for the feedback.
This thing that is clearly NOT a website was initially done for a hackathon and I never expected it to get more than 5-6 users.
It's so amazing and a bit stressful, because I want to offer a great experience at the same time!! Today I tried to make it compatible on phone too mobile users. Hadn't too much time to test it out but I'm on the lookout for bugs.
I also found this post randomly, I was trying to find out why did Vercel sent me an email at 4 AM that I am using 100% of the free plan data LOL. I had to upgrade to pro.
Thanks to everyone for trying out this scuffed thing (which is NOT a website!!) haha. I had a deadline and only 26h left to create it, never knew it will get this many users!
Ah, yes, the web: Infinitely cross platform and portable, except "this website will only work if you run the js with this specific js interpreter, and also we dont know how to do css so we used very platform specific css, and also our html is not complaint but Chrome doesn't care, and also... but its cross platform. Its the web, it runs anywhere!"
This isn’t a very scathing point when it comes to hobby projects where someone has limited time to test in multiple configurations, so they recommend the one they use when they developed it.
They chose to publicize their hobby project and put it in front of a bunch of people it doesn't work for, they can expect criticism from people doesn't work for.
Yeah, exactly. They're not being assholes they're making minor suggestions. They requesting minor wording changes and how the thing says it doesn't work outside a chrome. If people aren't allowed to say that then people just aren't really allowed to say anything.
I would rather everything people make that runs in a browser work in every browser but I get that there have to be limits and that I'm not entitled to someone else's labor.
They didn’t publicize it, someone else posted it. They didn’t even know about it until they got a notification from Vercel from all the traffic. Check out the creator’s top level comment. It was just a hackathon project that got some unexpected attention.
But who is to blame? I, the one who has amount x of time and wants to reach the maximum amount of people? Or the browser vendors for just doing the bare minimum to be compatible with each other but nothing more. The browser vendors do have a lot more manpower (and money) than me…
Firefox is the libre alternative struggling to compete with the Google behemoth which adds things to its browser even faster than they appear in the standard. Safari is the underfunded child of a corporation as wealthy as Google. It is mainly the first that motivates web developer solidarity.
Firefox isn't really making enough in donations to maintain a major piece of web infrastructure. So it gets search revenue from Google, which people complain about (and may not be long term sustainable). So they go make other paid for things looking for revenue, which people complain about.
If the user donations aren’t enough, surely their main revenue source—the 100s of millions of dollars they get from Google—is? Or do they need billions just to maintain a competent browser?
How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major browser engines? I have done some web development before and when I'm on linux, I just test my site with chromium, firefox, and epiphany.
I think the onus is on the developer to use standards that are well supported and to try to avoid standards like webUSB that are niche. To use semantic HTML and such so that the website fails in a more useful way to the end user when the standards aren't supported.
> How difficult is it to test your site on the 3 major browser engines?
Given that one of those 3 requires sending thousands of dollars a year to Apple, I'd say "very".
Also, given that Google is a monopoly, I do place the onus on them to at minimum warn developers that they are deviating from well supported standards.
I read this as "I had time to test it in Chrome so I can confirm it works in Chrome, but I don't have time or money to test on other browsers so I haven't specifically recommended those." Sounds totally reasonable.
I'm just seeing ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS on Chrome & Brave on Android 14 -
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
That's quite funny! I opened it on Brave for Android, switched to desktop view & got to the portion with the sword where it says "xO" on the screen & I can't proceed any further. Touching the screen has no noticeable effect & it doesn't prompt me to bring up the keyboard.
Bitdefender also popped up and warned me the site is risky, presumably due to what the code is doing. I scanned it on Virustotal & URLVoid and nothing was showing up there. It allowed me to proceed, however.
Web Protection by Bitdefender
Untrusted page blocked for your protection http://thereisnoweb.site
Untrusted pages exhibit suspicious behavior or particularities we deem risky, therefore you should avoid accessing them to keep your data unharmed,.
We had to compress assets and optimize the code so I stop using so much File Transfer Data. In about 36 hours I used 1.77TB of this data and when I saw the bill I almost got a heart attack.
But Lee saved me! He is working for Vercel and emailed me exactly when I needed him to assist me. I'll be grateful to him forever.
So yeah, this was the reason it was down. Not sure why Bitdefender deems the website risky. Maybe it's temporary..
Not only that, something which did work as a five minute gimmick! I remember playing the original "There is no game" on Kongregate back in high school.
Cool, it works on Firefox but not on Safari for iPhone. The volume change of the Rick Roll song at the end is predefined. I thought for a second it was automatic once the narrator spoke, which would be cool!
[1] https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...