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27 points·dmor··6 comments

I would recommend randomizing the initial condition for the images you are showing.

Right now you say 'items being referred now' but I refresh the page and it shows the same items sliding of the page again and again... Makes the activity on the site appear fake...

Yeah, we wanted to do something cooler. Right now it takes a snapshot of the 200 most recent products and shows them to you, based on when you first hit the site. If you were to clear your cookies and refresh, you'd see something different. I agree randomizing them would go a long way to make it more believable if people do referesh

Oh god. Showing old versions of my designs is like showing the world my underwear. This thing was clutter city just 6 weeks ago.

Thanks for keeping today interesting, Danielle :)

The current design doesn't look the same on my computer (Chrome 20) as your screenshot. The form wraps to a second line:

http://i.imgur.com/EjV2n.png

Solid improvements.

I suggest placing a cookie in the browser to remember what link I created and I "log" back in to my "account" with links I shared.

Thanks! We currently cookie you and remember links you created when logged out (or not signed up) and merge them to your account when you create OR login again. Is this what you meant, or is there another case I am not thinking of?

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