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Sounds interesting, but if I may: the website is exceedingly sluggish, something like 1-2s interval between re-renders when trying to scroll the page (Firefox Linux). Not seeing any reason to explain this based on the page content but it's not happening with anything else on my system atm

edit: maybe `WARNING: Falling back to CPU-only rendering. Reason: webGLVersion is -1` from the console explains why, although I don't get why the page would need webGL

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I took another look at this and it seem like the issue is a bug where firefox on linux for some reason fails to enable hardware acceleration when using WebGL. The landing page requires WebGL to function properly and will fall back to non accelerated rendering if it fails. I could not reproduce this on arch Linux with latest firefox build, plain default install. So it could be that some setting or extension in your browser triggers this issue. But thank you for letting me know about this :)

Probably explains it, but one wonders why this page would need WebGL at all. It's not like it's a rich graphical application... is it? :)

I can't reproduce this on stock firefox on linux. Will have to take a deeper look into this. Thank you for letting me know about it!

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