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It took me a while to figure out how to minimize the share via social media bar that pops up on the left. Which for me seems to block the first 4 letters on the left hand side at my current screen width. Just a heads up. When I move to a larger 1080p monitor there is a space on the left so it doesn't block it. Look at your page with 1600 x 900. Not sure if this is an issue for you but I thought I'd mention it.

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These things drive me insane. It's ridiculous. Do these people only check their sites on huge monitors?

Almost nobody checks their pages at 125% or 150%. Even though with higher resolution monitors these DPI settings are becoming more widely used.

When I loaded the page the first thing I did was highlight that stupid box and kill it with the developer bar. I'm at 1080p and 125% DPI.

As a general rule, anything that can hover over other content on the page (from share buttons to menus and beyond) are going to annoy someone and break someone's experience. No exceptions. If it isn't happening today it will happen tomorrow.

Do these people only check their sites on huge monitors?

Based on my experience with a portrait-oriented monitor for document editing, nobody bothers making websites work at viewport sizes other than "maximized on the designer's screen."

Thanks for the heads up, I'll look into making that less annoying.

We changed the size of the social share widget to be smaller, hope it helps.

Holy crap that was a quick fix, and well done. If you want to dive into it further in the future there is room for improvement but bravo on the quick reaction!

If you want me to put on my pedantic hat I'd that it's distracting still without the white space provided by 1080p. I really hate being overly picky like this but I want you to get valuable feedback. Ignore it, or take it but I applaud how quickly you fixed the issue to get this.

EDIT: I went back and checked closer and no there are no pixels that I can't see.

Thanks for the appreciation :) I may just nuke the social share thing altogether, but I think I'll sleep on that decision.

How many people actually use these things? I would normally just copy the link and paste it into Reddit/Twitter/wherever instead of clicking any social media widget.

Please do nuke it. I've got it on my blog so I need to nuke it as well (although my blog is pretty much "abandoned" at this point), I've received lots of complaints before about it also getting in the way.

FYI, it's still "in the way" on my iPad.

Not completely on topic, but is your product essentially kind of like Docker Cloud (formerly Tutum)?

I loved Tutum until they became Docker Cloud and started charging per node. The flat monthly price on your product is way more attractive to me.

Yep we have a lot of similarities to Docker Cloud/Tutum. Per-seat pricing, unlimited servers/clusters. We have a free tier you can try out.

I'll definitely check it out!

There is also Carina docker cloud ( https://getcarina.com/ ) from Rackspace which is currently in free Beta.

Here is a bookmarklet that I have saved from a previous discussion on HN that will delete those kinds of things from the page:

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

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