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As posted earlier in this thread:

@breathe2 - Please post any suggestions to the Suggestions Forum.

I can confirm that @StarDay is correct: the fallback widget already provides a link to your dragon, along with a tooltip that lets you know what you're seeing is a fallback. If you aren't seeing this nicer fallback, you may be using a device that has a WebGL limit that's lower than the one we impose (16 effects per page).

Thanks for the report @HenryTheArcher. It sounds like you might be bumping into the page limit.

From the announcement:

(emphasis added)

If this is happening on pages without multiple effect dragons, there could be a separate limit set by your computer that includes all WebGL instances currently running in all open browser tabs.

For this reason we encourage players not to add too many effect dragons to a single post. It's not a hard rule, but it will cause less disruption - especially for those players that have computers with even lower WebGL limits.

@9fox, our apologies for the misattribution for the winning submission! This has been corrected!

Update: The following bug fix has been added to the initial post in this thread.

@fatui & @dataghosts, are you able to confirm if this fixed the issue in your browsers as well?

@Gene Error Updates The following fixes went in tonight:

• Coatl H - The accent gradient was set to an incorrect blending mode.
• Nocturne F - The back wing was missing an accent gradient.
• Pearlcatcher F - The accent gradient was set to an incorrect blending mode.
• Spiral M - One of the arm wings was missing an accent gradient.
• Wildclaw F - The accent gradient was set to an incorrect blending mode.

@Gene Error Updates

This thread is now closed. If you encounter technical issues, please report them to the respective Modern Gene Error Backlog Thread or Ancient Gene Error Backlog Thread, but further consistency issues will not be accepted for review and will be considered working as intended.

Now that we've narrowed it down to a browser, we will attempt to find a solution that works for everyone. Those pixels may have an invalid color range that various browsers resolve differently - this is just an early guess, though.

It's possible that the bug will not be truly fixed until Firefox itself updates to match the behavior of other browsers. I'll reply here when we find out more.

Thank you for the report @fatui and @dataghosts

I can confirm that on Firefox I get the same results you're seeing. However, on other browsers I'm seeing the expected colors.

If you have access to a different browser, please try it on that as well to see if you also get different results.

Depending on your computer/browser combination, you should be able to save the exported image in one of the following ways:

• Right click the image
• Long press the image
• Save using the "File" menu
• Drag the image from the browser and onto your desktop

In some browsers, the right click or drag options will also work on the actual dragon itself.

Thank you for the report @phantomgirl24.

While this is technically not a bug, we do intend to improve this in a future (not imminent) QoL update.

Update: The following has been added to the initial post in this thread.

@Gene Error Updates The following fixes went in tonight:

Thank you for the report @Yokudl. As mentioned in the initial post:

(emphasis added for clarity)

Thank you for the report @GrimPuppet.

Effects require some behind-the-scenes setup when a page first loads. This makes them incompatible with our modal (AKA "pop-up") system. Since those windows are generated after the page fully loads, this is an unfortunate (but expected) limitation, rather than a bug.

It's possible that something can be done in the future to make effects less weird looking in the preview, but the preview will never be animated or intractable.

@Museless This bug should now be fixed.

I'm so sorry. This has been corrected, though it may take up to an hour for the tooltip cache to catch up.

Thank you for the report. This is corrected!



Whoops! Apologies, this is now corrected.


This is now corrected! Trickmurk is often tricky.

I understand your confusion, @gn0me.

In this case, the subtlety is the animation. On some dragons it’s not immediately obvious that the colors shift. My point is to look carefully at an effect for subtle movement before assuming it’s broken.

As for the rest of your post, feel free to share your concerns in the Suggestions Forum. We want to keep this thread focused on bugs and troubleshooting.

Thank you for the report @Museless

I've confirmed the bug. A fix is in review and should go live very early next week.

Thank you for the reply @KairiDragoness.

Okay, so your Flight Rising Account effects setting flipped on its own. I'm sorry that happened.

I can confirm that none of the bug fixes launched so far are connected to the settings page. They also did not touch the part of the database that stores your setting value.

So, while it's very concerning that a setting changed somehow, I think it's unrelated to the bug fixes.

We're going to take a closer look at the settings page (in fact it's already going through review for an unrelated improvement) to try to figure out any reason a setting would changing on its own.

If it reverts again on you, or you hear about that setting automatically switching for anyone else, we would want to know about it.

Please also keep a look out for that setting whenever you happen to be on the settings page... there may be some sort of alignment issue on that specific setting that's causing a missclick.

This last part is completely optional, but if you want to be maximally safe, you can use your system's "reduce motion" settings to act as a backup. You will still be able to see a static preview of the effects and have an option to play them when desired, but any sort of bug would have to work past two separate systems to cause a repeat of this problem.

Thank you for the report @MoonRevenge1

Does Flecks o' Foil work correctly when you go to the Game Database entry for the item?

I suspect that it may be broken on the page you posted because that page currently has 14 effects running at the same time. This is less than our official cut-off (16), but still more that some devices will accept.

When a device's limit is passed, the first effects processed are thrown out to free up processing space for the newer ones.

Thank you @Dottler, but please post any recommendations for improvements (not bugs) to the Suggestions forum. That is where our team is most likely to find it when discussing feature improvements.

This thread is focused on parts of the feature that are actually malfunctioning.

Thank you for your response @KairiDragoness.

Can you provide more detail about what happened, including your system motion settings, FR effect setting, where it happened (forum/dragon profile/Game Database/ other), and what specifically was displayed (which effect and was the movement you saw the standard animation or some other sort of bugged movement)?

If your operating system is set to reduce motion, the bug fix should NOT have automatically played an animated effect. If it did, that is a serious new bug and we absolutely want to track it down wherever and however it happened.

Hello everyone! Thank you for your constructive feedback regarding Effects. We're working on many of concerns brought up, working out where they didn't land or work as expected in the live environment, and pushed several updates since launch. Your feedback's been invaluable and we appreciate the time you've taken to share your thoughts with us.

With that said, this thread's gone off-topic from Effects-focused feedback. We're going to go ahead and lock it now before it goes any further off-topic. As always, you can share your feedback and suggestions for the new feature either in the Suggestions forum or directly through Contact Us.

I see some of you are concerned about work on other features being pushed aside. Our earlier response addressing this (that's quite a ways back at this point) may be helpful for those concerned.

Thank you again and have a great weekend!

Thanks for the report @Mayali, but this is the planned behavior.

Forum pages may contain as many as 16 effects. This is both an accessibility concern and a potential strain on your computer. To mitigate both issues, these effects run just long enough to generate a static preview image and then pause.

This is also why an effect that is already playing will pause when you tell a second effect to play.

I'm sorry about that @SnakeJobs.

While your system does support WebGL to some extent, it does look like Windows XP on that hardware is hitting the limits of what's possible without extreme measures.

We want the site to function for everyone. But unless another solution is found, we may need to rely on the fallback images.

Thank you for the report @Yokudl

This actually is a bit of progress.

Please make sure that your browser is set to "Use hardware acceleration when available". You can find this under Settings when you search for "Performance". You may need to uncheck "Use recommended performance settings" before this becomes an option.

Thank you for the update @skrapple. While we hoped the compatibility update would fix many of the issues people were experiencing, there was no easy way to tell how well it would work. Based on your response, I'm more confident that it was pretty successful.


During testing we found that most devices were able to support at least 16 simultaneous effects. So we hardcoded a forum limit to match (see the quote from the announcement below).


I suspect your phone is one of those cases where there's an even lower limit. As a result, your phone tosses out the effects it already processed as it picks up more effects past that limit.

I can only say that posts containing so many effects will be quite rare, so I don't expect this to pop up often. We may find a way around that limit in the future. But for now, that's likely the cause. Sorry about that!

Sorry about that @XShadowStrikerX - We launched 6 bug fixes all at once and one of them completely overwrote the Reflection Scroll bug. It's working now (although old forum posts will take a bit to catch up).



Please note that the line breaking aspect of the effect above is expected. That's an issue with effects that make use of a breed's standard shadow and lineart. We're keeping that in mind as we develop additional effects, so this might not be a problem in the future.