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You can tell this site got banned from vibing to completion because it doesn’t load on my mobile

I just used the site on Firefox Mobile. And it works BTW.

30+ second load on Safari and Firefox Focus and neither load. The initial loading animation shows up, followed by a blank page.

It works on Firefox Focus as well. No lag or 30secs wait. Maybe it's the internet? Wait, am using Android. You said safari - 30+ secs. Do you use iPhone as well? Then it could be safari browser engine's issue.

I check by curl the JS, It looks like this tries to load a massive amount of GPU code, badly ("WARNING: Multiple instances of Three.js being imported.") to provide background animations after downloading 3MB of scripts.

I test in Chrome on Mac; Sometimes when I reload there are Three.js conflicts, like if one loads before another and clobbers it, sometimes it works but rarely.

Same for me on mobile Safari. Loading animation then blank screen. How does one screw this up?

Nor does it work on my Firefox (Linux 128.12 with uBlock Origin and strict protection settings, FWIW).

And it probably goes without saying, but no dice on w3m either.

It is sooooo laggy for me.

Runs nicely on my M4 Max Mac Studio - which, going by the PassMark numbers, is about the same speed as an iPhone 17. Testament, I think, to how well this site is optimised for the sort of underpowered device, hopelessly inadequate for modern workflows, that many sites would not bother to cater for.

It loads on mine.

After getting to the point where vibe coded slop is getting pushed to production it's not clear to me if a future where AI can replace me is a worse future than we have now.

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