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Strikingly beautiful design. Incredibly simple and interesting premise. This site has done a GREAT job of letting the user do one simple thing before enticing them to get more involved. Very well done. One of the best new sites i've seen in a while.

Oh, if you are the site creator, there is a bit of a bug in chrome&FF. the 'ok i'm game' button is placed over the 'x hours ago' line which I suspect is supposed to be above.

I hate to say it, but you loose some points by not supporting IE at all. Not supporting IE6 i can appreciate. But it doesn't take THAT much extra time to support IE7 & 8.

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You are probably wondering why you can't use the site with Internet Explorer. That's our bad. We're having some issues with making some of the advanced functionality work on the site. We are however working diligently to make this happen! We will be supporting Internet Explorer 7 and 8. (Sorry, no IE6 support, but there are options!) As soon as it's working you'll be the first to know.

They're working on it.

Ummmmm, on the point of beautiful design, are we seeing the same thing? This is what I see: http://imgur.com/0Jk8I.png

-Not high enough contrast for my liking,

-Bulks of text in low contrast = 'tl;dr',

-I keep clicking what looks like input field but it won't work. Oh, I have to click...

-...the 'I'm game' button below. That's practically invisible, due to being just outline, with the text hovering over another block of text.

Sure, it all goes away after you click the top layer off. But my initial reaction was 'What is this mess? What do they want from me? Why would I want to stay here?'.

Yep, we totally get that. We're changing out that intro page to something much better.

Thanks for your feedback! We have new homepage in the works which should hopefully clear up some of the confusion.

IE7/8 support is almost done. Almost! :/

Like Julia said, we're working on it. And for basic stuff, supporting IE is cake. Some of the features weren't cake and rather than release them non-functioning we made the call to get it working right. Soon!

Thank you for that! Check out our designer Sougwen's own website:

http://sougwen.com/

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