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@thomasfuchs @bbcmicrobot Just be thankful @rheolism isn't here with the animated version.

@bbcmicrobot @thomasfuchs @rheolism Thanks, the app didn't suggest the right connections to make their handle clickable

"@botsin.space" I will now remember.

@bbcmicrobot This version has a visual glitch, but every time I try to post a fixed version something seems to override my specified visibility of "public" and posts it as "unlisted" instead so the bot doesn't see it and doesn't run it.

I've seen this problem before but never got to the bottom of it.

@bbcmicrobot I've just worked out the cause - it's a local thing on the server I'm on to prevent bot spam - only one public post every 6 hours!

@bbcmicrobot @rheolism Ah but can you do it with hardware scrolling and no redraw? :-)

Edit: How smooth can you make the scrolling within the code length limit?

@arx @bbcmicrobot The code length limit isn't much of a problem, but there are 16 positions to cycle through and 16 doesn't divide nicely into the 150 vsyncs that the bot loops over so the frame times would be uneven (varying by ~10%).

So I think you'd need to get tricky to achieve a hardware scrolled version which feels smooth.