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I find the landing page overcrowded and thus confusing. The two slides on the blue background change too rapidly and the download button is ill-placed and looks somewhat ugly. Viewed on a 1366x760 notebook display which may be responsible for most of the bad feeling, but it's still probably something you may need to look into.

I have never used a service like this before, but that can change in the future. Still as a Windows user, this service does not stand out from the others for me.

Hope you find this useful.

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@quiark. Again, really appreciate the feedback. I'm actually on a similarly sized notebook right now so seeing the same issue you're experiencing. It is a little cluttered and I suppose in honesty because we'd had feedback in the past that users wanted to see as much content as possible we focused on squeezing in a lot.

The download graphic was a last addition so absolutely something we need to address.

Really useful, again thank you!

When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.

@bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this.

Cheers!

I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem:

http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi...

Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.

Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers.

Cheers.

Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.

Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms. Cheers.

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