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Way too much writing, it needs to be simpler. You have around 10 seconds to catch the interest and anything from there is a bonus...i couldnt instantly get it, took me around 30-45 seconds to really know whats going on and even then i didnt know what to do next.

Changes i would suggest:

- Remove as much text a you can

- Give me instructions. i.e. Step 1 blah blah, Step 2 blah blah blah...i need to know what i need to do to make it work for me

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One more, on the signup page...auto select my timezone for me. There are a bunch of ways:

- get the time offset from my browser and just pick one thats "close"

- get the timezone based on my IP (best way is to get the lat and long, and then pick the nearest timezone)

second option is the most accurate, but having to scroll the list almost caused me to bail.

Thanks for the feedback! Will make those changes asap!

Visual design whose goal is to sign people up needs some work. Agree with too much text comment.

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