Extremely large and annoying cursor while reading

[Prometheus0000]

For some reason the cursor has changed from the normal windows one to some kind of gigantic one that is extremely annoying. I'm guessing you updated something on the website, but this is not fun to have, and is distracting me from my reading. I generally leave the cursor in the middle and use the mouse keys to go forward/backward, but now I have this gigantic black cursor in the middle instead of the normal one I can ignore, so it's very distracting.

Please add an option to disable it.

[Geezer Weasalopes]

@Prometheus0000 said in Extremely large and annoying cursor while reading:

For some reason the cursor has changed from the normal windows one to some kind of gigantic one that is extremely annoying. I'm guessing you updated something on the website, but this is not fun to have, and is distracting me from my reading. I generally leave the cursor in the middle and use the mouse keys to go forward/backward, but now I have this gigantic black cursor in the middle instead of the normal one I can ignore, so it's very distracting.

Please add an option to disable it.

Dunno what you are experiencing, as I've seem no such thing on my PC.

Have you tried a hard refresh?
Have you tried another browser?
If you have another equivalent device, have you checked to see if the same thing occurs there?
What OS & browser are you using? [I'm using Windows 10 Professional with the latest version of the Chrome browser.]

Given it not occurring on my setup, it's somewhat less likely that it's a problem with J-Novel's web site unless you have a different setup on your end than I do.

[jpwong]

@Geezer-Weasalopes I think they mean how when you hover over the reader (except when you're on the End card page) it flips to a different cursor set, the one when you're hovering over the reader is a black cursor with what looks like a menu under it.

It appears to be in the reader's common.scss file

[Prometheus0000]

@jpwong That is indeed the cursor, but now it's stopped appearing. I had restarted my computer before, so I dunno why it stopped appearing now.

I'm using win10+firefox browser. It appears when I use the tor browser, but it also just loads the text endlessly without displaying any forgot to turn on scripts.

Temporarily turning all scripts on and adblock off didn't make it reappear in my main browser BTW. Hopefully it stays away.

[Geezer Weasalopes]

@jpwong said in Extremely large and annoying cursor while reading:

@Geezer-Weasalopes I think they mean how when you hover over the reader (except when you're on the End card page) it flips to a different cursor set, the one when you're hovering over the reader is a black cursor with what looks like a menu under it.

It appears to be in the reader's common.scss file

Oh, that!
Actually, I'm not sure its presence had sunk in, as I normally keep the cursor off to the sides; no matter where I park the curser in an area with text, it'll end up obscuring text as I flip pages with the arrow keys [doesn't matter what reading app ], so I keep the curser off of screen while reading. With more than one monitor that's an easy thing to do...

There've been folks posting about ways to customize that file if you want to modify how things display locally, iirc?
custom css stuff; it's all Greek to me...no, I have a better grasp of Greek.
Anyway, I suspect this would be an instance where modifying the local display options, if they were up to it, would be worth looking into.
I can't for the life of me remember who was posting concerning custom display files.
A quick search confirms scss being a variant upon css...and while I have some basic knowledge of HTML, I've never looked into how css works. Despite how clearly useful it is.

Ah!
If you click upon your profile and select settings, custom css is a box at the lower left of everything where you can enter code to modify the css for your login.
Knowing where doesn't help concerning how.
But it should be possible to override the default behavior if you knew how to tweak it properly.

Having it be an easy thing to disable as a checkbox is, I agree, a much better solution than doing custom css.

ETA: And I'm very much on the edge of falling asleep, so I've no doubt this makes even less sense than I suspect it does.

[jpwong]

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Extremely large and annoying cursor while reading:

If you click upon your profile and select settings, custom css is a box at the lower left of everything where you can enter code to modify the css for your login.
Knowing where doesn't help concerning how.
But it should be possible to override the default behavior if you knew how to tweak it properly.

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure that stuff only impacts the forums, not the reader.

If you're using ublock or something you can add this to your filters and it will disable all the cursor events on the reader, but this also disables the arrows switching to the back and forward (though the pages will still move if you click the appropriate spots)

labs.j-novel.club##*:style(cursor:auto !important)

[chocolatkey]

@Prometheus0000 I'm surprised you've only just now noticed the cursor, it's been there for many months. Maybe a browser update added support for the CSS styles used to add it?

Yes, the cursor is a custom cursor, due in part to the fact that OSes like Windows don't have left/right arrow cursors (they support e.g. north-pointing cursor but it still shows as a cursor with arrow on both ends of the line). The largeness of the cursor mimics the size of the cursor in other sites' readers, which I personally feel isn't "gigantic", but of course it's personal preference.

I'll consider adding a setting to the reader to disable custom cursors when some other higher priority issues have been taking care of. In the meantime, you apply an override using a browser extension like @jpwong suggested, or if you use the keyboard to navigate, the cursor will hide itself.

[Prometheus0000]

@chocolatkey Well, as I mentioned it already stopped appearing, and only showed up for 1 day. It never showed up before or after that.

I'd definitely appreciate the option once you've gotten those other issues handled, should it turn up again.

I'll investigate the custom css stuff if it shows up again before that.