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TZubiri | on: Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator
This is useless, I can't make the glasses come from below, in addition to coming from above.

Also, glasses can only be black? We demand a color palette for glass colour.

EDIT: wait, I managed to make the glasses come from below

blob:https://emoji.build/50c07035-efb9-4341-9205-30adfd6b088e

I retract my indignation on the one half of my requests, but transfer it doubly so for the request of a colour palette

klimeryk | parent | next
Glasses can now be set to any color you want. Only applies to the "Classic" style, though. Unless I find the other glasses in SVG format as well. As a nice side-effect, the glasses can now also be set as semi-transparent!

All thanks to some clever (mis)use of SVG and canvas, see https://github.com/klimeryk/dealwithit/commit/d8f280b5f2e4bd.... Enjoy!

barryrandall | parent | next
That feature was removed because half the people who want black frames were offended that the app offered options that they didn't want to use.
TZubiri | root | parent | next
What's interesting is that the moment that you introduce a feature that allows for sharing of the images, and you need a backend to host the images. You enter a world of pain where you inevitably will end up hosting illegal material, and it turns from a fun project to a serious project.
klimeryk | root | parent
Yeah, that's why I'm keeping everything client-side. There's no backend. This is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, everything on the backend is static. Definitely not looking to host any generated images.
mnutt | root | parent
On Mobile Safari at least, you can press and hold the image to share. I imagine there's probably an equivalent gesture on Mobile Chrome. I spent considerable time many years ago trying to figure out how to indicate to users that they could do this. ("press and hold to share", with a progress indicator) Results were mixed.

Fortunately, these days if you wanted to make it more obvious you could hook up a regular Share button to navigator.share() API and pass it your image blob.

cheschire | root | parent
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.
klimeryk | parent | next
> We demand a color palette for glass colour.

You can choose different styles of glasses. But, yeah, they're all black-ish. Definitely open to different colors/styles! I've created a new issue with some possible solutions and will look into it: https://github.com/klimeryk/dealwithit/issues/33 (but PRs are welcome too!)

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