Shared Mouse Cursors

This cluster revolves around a web demo or site displaying multiple users' mouse cursors, which commenters find distracting, annoying, and poorly implemented, with discussions on jitter, browser settings, cursor replacement, and UI flaws.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Web Development
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MS e.g KDE UX IMO UI I.e OS GPU mouse cursor pointer finger chrome kinda hover moving pressed icon

Sample Comments

benjaminha14 Aug 4, 2021 View on HN

what browser were you on? Your mouse pointer should be replaced by our cursor if there were no bugs.

tugs Jan 17, 2013 View on HN

Check out the jitter if you leave your mouse just to the left of the hand.

uvu Jun 26, 2024 View on HN

Not gonna lie, mouse icon moving around is quite annoying.

edelhans May 16, 2025 View on HN

The cursor being captured when hovering buttons is the worst UI I've seen in a very long time

Kuinox Apr 18, 2024 View on HN

It's other peoples mouse cursor.

uvdiv Jun 4, 2013 View on HN

Chrome users need their settings to "allow sites to disable mouse cursor". Just an observation: this wasn't obvious to me.

neoberg Dec 22, 2023 View on HN

what's that mouse cursor in the demo video?

valarauca1 Oct 15, 2014 View on HN

Its kinda cool, mouse tracking is really broken.

heldrida Oct 2, 2023 View on HN

The mouse cursos ir really annoying, stopped reading for that reason

nomilk Dec 23, 2025 View on HN

Does this site display other users' mouse pointers!?