Talk:Shadertoy

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Inigo.quilez (talk · contribs)

Some proposed changes

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hello, I am not sure what the process is to write an article about Shadertoy. I got a message mentioning conflict of interests.

Shadertoy is not a paid page or a business, is a hobby project of me and Pol that has become one of the industry standard to share rendering tricks and techniques. We have been asked a few times to write about it in Wikipedia so I went ahead and did it. I am unsure how to do this without creating a "conflict of interest" as seen by Wikipedia.

What would be the process to edit without getting this warnings? I can ask some other use to write it for me, but that doesn't solve the problem Wikipedia is trying to avoid I suppose. What should I do?

Thanks a lot for any help! Inigo.quilez (talk) 19:16, 7 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is generally best to wait for a member of the general public to create articles, as they are unlikely to have any pre-existing biases and will thus write the article from a neutral point of view. If you do write other articles about your products, it would be best to submit them through Articles for Creation, a process where experienced Wikipedia editors will review an article for biases before it is published. Since you have already created the article, your best course of action is to identify and remove any promotional phrasings from the article. For example, there used to be a sentence that claimed Shadertoy was the "most advanced shader content creation platforms in the web." This claim is subjective and not verified by an outside source, so I have removed it. Regards, Altamel (talk) 02:17, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The warning about the conflict of interest was added a long time ago. The article has since evolved and I don't think the warning is still needed. I suggest removing it. --LLB (talk) 01:34, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

the diff between the first and last revision shows it hasn't changed much (no major rewrite). would probably be a bad idea. Acrions (talk) 16:15, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great, but freezes browser

Shadertoy is great but when I open the page, it freezes my browser for several minutes. There should be an entry page that doesn't immediately kick off several compilation processes. --217.226.69.183 (talk) 12:36, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Answer: bad luck for you at the time/day you tried. Just as for for any software, some bugs exist, and here several are on the webclient side (either in the driver or some libs in the long stack from browser to hardware), making some particular complex shader occasionally crash on some particular user configurations. Note that you can configurate shadertoy to use images rather than live shaders for icon previews. 2A01:E35:2E4B:8E70:5428:D0E7:D4A6:FE23 (talk) 06:19, 10 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]