Is it just me or does the parallax effect on the landing page need a bit of tuning? I had to scroll much more than similar sites to get a visual response.
When doing parallax, there's a simple rule that you should follow: something big has to be moving at the same exact speed/direction of the user's scrolling. The full-pauses just makes it seem like you're scrolling but nothing is happening.
Same here, felt like scrolling through molasses.
But it pops[0]! In 10 years I hope we look back at these ridiculous scrolling beasts and laugh at them the same way we scoff at the flash intros from not too long ago.
Using that website is like manually cranking an old movie projector.
It does seem a bit off, but I think it's tuned that way to avoid missing some of the animations that are coordinated with only the position of the scroll. Consider the other extreme:
https://onlycoin.com/
Coin's is so fast that a quick scroll down in effect skips the animations.
The modal doesn't fit on my screen(MBA) and under the masthead there's just a ton of empty space... gj dropbox.