# How to stop snowing
**URL:** https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [9 December 2019 18:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624 "2019-12-09T18:40:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@sciurius](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/sciurius)
#### Post date: [9 December 2019 18:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/1 "2019-12-09T18:40:49Z")
How to stop the ‘funny’ snowing?
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### Author:  [@AtBios](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/AtBios)
#### Post date: [9 December 2019 20:17 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/2 "2019-12-09T20:17:02Z")
Yes please! It’s quite annyoing.
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### Author:  [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 06:57 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/3 "2019-12-10T06:57:40Z")
This is an admin option and can’t be deactivated by the user. I saw that it was added yesterday. I’ve removed it from the Material Design Theme.
I also noticed that it uses quite some CPU - even on my hexa-core MacBook Pro.
For the other themes, we should wait for @laurent. But since it uses CPU it should be deactivated everywhere.
The problem is that Discourse themes are somewhat limited. If theme A is installed I can’t create 2 entries for the theme with different activated components e.g. `A` and `A - Snow`. Or maybe it is possible. But the creators of Discourse do not believe in documentation thus none exists.
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### Author:  [@sciurius](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/sciurius)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 07:37 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/4 "2019-12-10T07:37:02Z")
Thanks. Switched to the Material Design Theme. Made a mental notice to advise my customers to stop using Discourse.
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### Author:  [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 07:51 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/5 "2019-12-10T07:51:01Z")
Well, Disourse is not so bad. I just wished it had some useful documentation and/or best practices documents.
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### Author:  [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 08:30 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/6 "2019-12-10T08:30:31Z")
I was doing some tests with Christmas related themes yesterday and found that snow script, but it’s true it doesn’t look so good so I’m going to remove it.
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### Author:  [@tessus](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/tessus)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 09:32 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/7 "2019-12-10T09:32:34Z")
I actually like the snow, but the CPU usage is brutal. As long as devs don’t get this right I don’t know why they even make it available.
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### Author:  [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 09:36 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/8 "2019-12-10T09:36:56Z")
ok it’s removed now
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### Author:  [@laurent](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/laurent)
#### Post date: [10 December 2019 09:37 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/how-to-stop-snowing/4624/9 "2019-12-10T09:37:42Z")
> [@tessus](#):
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> I actually like the snow, but the CPU usage is brutal. As long as devs don’t get this right I don’t know why they even make it available.
It's a rather old JS script (from 2007), which I've copied in the header, so maybe there's a more optimised one that exists since then.