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Apr 27, 2026 2 days ago
Roswell
is a fossil
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Really, really, do not enjoy the new 3-click method, as someone playing on a laptop with a touchpad. Also not a fan of being forced to accept the little buggers running away from me all over the screen (they were much easier to ignore while pinned to the corner). The moving/bouncing/click-hold-click is making me far less likely to engage with the holiday even for the sake of collecting items to sell immediately.

I, personally, don't care about Vesnali, or Fireside for that matter, which are holidays that feature floating items (and I've already collected all the Morostide pumpkins), so they're mostly just in my way and leaving me refreshing the page (sometimes multiple times) to get rid of them.

Annoyed the CSS no longer pins the things to a corner, and I don't really want to fully avoid the site for the duration of these floating item holidays.

I wonder if there's any chance of getting an opt-out option/toggle for those of us who don't care to participate or be annoyed by these things? I need to test to see if I can just hide them entirely via CSS, but that's hard to do when they already aren't guaranteed on every page....

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Apr 28, 2026 2 days ago
Silverfox
is a hoot!
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Silverfox

I'm quite fond of the current version. The reason I originally pinned my floating items to the top was because I would lose them if they appeared far down the page, or they would pop up under other elements making it difficult to spot them. (I'll be honest, I have had that CSS in place for so long that I don't even know if those issues eventually got fixed. It's been a seriously long time.)

The fact that they move around and stay in my field of view fixes those problems for me. My eye is attracted to the movement, it doesn't hide behind anything else, and the click and hold is fairly quick.

The only real annoyance is when I have multiple tabs open and a flower is jumping around but already expired. I don't know if there's a solution to that, though. That's kind of on me for opening multiple tabs and not checking them.

This comes from my experience using a browser on desktop. I don't visit the site on mobile often.

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Apr 28, 2026 2 days ago
Saturnine
wants to believe
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Fearleading

I like the click and hold mechanic.

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Apr 28, 2026 1 day ago
Frost
is frosty
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This should hide all floating items that use the .floating-item class: /hides all floating items/ .floating-item { display:none!important; }

For those who don't mind them moving, but want them to stop wiggling when they're standing still, there's this code: /disables wiggling animation for floating items/ .floating-item { animation:none!important; }

And one more customCSS for those who want them bigger, bolder, and with a thick ol' red border: /increases the size of floating items and gives them a border/ .floating-item img { height:128px!important; width:128px!important; border:12px double Red; }

The customCSS can be pasted here (go to your Dashboard - then click customCSS), and the last two can be combined - you can have big floating items that move, but don't wiggle.

Note for those on mobile: the floaters seem to have a fixed position specifically for mobile/tablet users. This is intentional, but the position itself may end up being tweaked.

Whew! Customization aside, I'm enjoying the click-and-hold mechanic, especially now that I've made the floaters bigger. Also liking the fact that they actually float above all the other stuff on the page and don't appear on the bottom of the page any more! That's fantastic and it makes me way less paranoid about missing a flower because it showed up somewhere I couldn't see it.

Apr 28, 2026 1 day ago
Eivor
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MacLachlan

It's cute but it's a little long of a hold, imho.

My mind keeps hitting the klaxon of accessibility on this specifically because it is such a long hold, some might not be able to do that and I'm going here specifically because the grip strength thing has been a forefront thing with my mother the past several weeks with her manuscript. Her holding to select pieces of said manuscript have become something of a challenge due to problems with her hands, arthritis at the very least.

This one, unlike the impromptu vending revamp, has promise to be cute though and I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of it in the future.

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Apr 28, 2026 1 day ago
Trees
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Didn't like clicking, bringing up a window, holding, then clicking to exit the window.

Holding the item and it automatically bringing up a message saying you got it and not even having to click to exit is a big improvement.

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Apr 28, 2026 1 day ago
NEVER feed
BoaConstrictor
after midnight!!
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SapphireSeasGoddess

I just went along with all of the previous stages. Now I really enjoy the last one with holding a tad longer than clicking and the flower spiraling away. Cute. And as long as the floating items stay within view this is perfect (I also had the CSS since beginning, because the items would have a tendency of sitting faaar down, outside screen on any page).

However, on some pages, they won't react at all or need at least a second click (right now happened on the achievements page again)

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