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Longer explanation: I originally came up with the idea when I was looking for a new mouse for my WFH setup. There are hundreds of product review sites, but nothing like seeing what other people use. I know there are many popular subreddits like r/battlestations or r/workspaces, and even sites like deskhunt.com, mysetup.co, yourstack.com and kit.co, but I thought it be nice to have a dedicated site for this kind of thing. Not really sure what the differentiating factor is right now, but just wanted to get this prototype out there :)

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OK, positive part first :)

I really like the concept and it seems you have something interesting for start to see, which is always good. Nice to see a rather clean way to comment on designs.

Could use a nice way to zoom images on site, plus a link to more details if there's some (for example, in the entry about desk found on medium).

Now for slightly less cheery part :(

Please, please change the implementation.

The page is really, really slow on a fscking 300 MBit/s connection, seems to prevent opening specific desks in new tab, and most of the time seems to have no content because some JS code haven't finished whatever it is doing.

It's also non-navigable using keyboard.

Thanks so much for the detailed feedback!

The less cheery stuff is certainly hard to hear, but is what I need to hear, so I appreciate it. There is clearly something really really wrong with either the GraphQL server hosted on GCP or with how I'm fetching it from the frontend. Really need to dig into this.

What do you mean by non-navigable using keyboard?

EDIT: Just checked in DevTools, it hangs on query to the graphql server for a really long time. I mean, sure, the page is probably slashdotted right now, but it seems a bit too prevalent - and definitely doesn't have a good UX when doing so.

Maybe server-side generation with cache would help initial load?

Still a problem when I don't remove uBlock.

As for keyboard, there seems to be some unclear to me focus grab which meant that I couldn't even attempt to scroll the page using arrow keys. Mind you, it's not just your site that does it, usually it's related to someone being a bit too fancy with autofocus on a searchbox. Not sure how to help there, web frontend is not exactly my forte :)

I think the problem was actually my free tier MongoDB Atlas cluster which only allowed 500 connections at a time lol. Just upgraded it and I'm hoping it helps these damn GraphQL queries

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