I'm the Founder at https://shaders.com. Not frustrating at all, and Basement is an excellent team. Shader Lab looks like a solid tool for exploration and and creating effects, nothing slop about it (although I love the word "slopfork", that's new).

Our platform goes above and beyond that with a large collection of Pro presets and a unique capability in our component-based approach with reactive props, and of course broader framework support. All that, and our new MCP workflow for having your agent prompt effects, and we feel confident in our place in the market.

Would recommend checking out both Shader Lab AND shaders.com to anyone interested in creative shader effects for the web.

There are dozens of DCCs where you have a UI where you stack things (over-compositing, bottom to top).

And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters.

If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter is a 'slopfork' of <insert any DCC that had this pattern and existed before and has whatever anyone may consider 'less sloppy'>.

OTTOMH: AfterEffects, Cavalry, Substance Designer's Layer panel, Tixl's layered textures, ...

Honest question: If my web browser struggles to even render the preview, why in god's name would I put any of these presets on a production webpage?

They look nothing alike except they are both about shaders.

Could you explain why you think this is a slopfork?

"slopfork" nice

Welcome to the world of zero cost software we were promised