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Although it's great to see Twilio branching out into this space, with their recent product releases they do seem to be losing focus on their original Twilio Voice product. Compared to other prodividers their prices really aren't conpetitive, but Twiml is so much more flexible and easier to use than VoiceXML. What to do? :/

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Rob from Twilio here - appreciate the feedback.

Have you had an opportunity to check out TaskRouter yet? We released it a few weeks ago - definitely my favorite recent product that works with Twilio Voice:

https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter

I saw this a while back and then forgot to go back and check it out. This looks interesting. Thanks for posting.

Interesting; however in my opinion I'd redesign that page. Having a lot of the information behind the interactive scrolling will cause it to be lost. Personally, and I know a lot of others, just scroll the page and look for the relevant information in paragraph form. Much easier to digest. This implementation forces me to stay on the page and is a bit frustrating.

I just posted the exact opposite of what you said :) Usually these "scroll hacks" are annoying. In this particular case the "flow" of calls is captured really well this way, IMHO.

Heheh, to each their own :)

Thats a pretty cool use of scroll to explain the product. Any details on how you guys built that? Is it completely custom or did you use some known JS/CSS lib/tricks?

Thanks for the kind words! We used a library called ScrollMagic (https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic) to handle the scroll listening and event triggering.

FWIW the scrolling effect is all jittery (and pretty much unusable) in Safari.

Shameless plug here, but if you're interested in voice platforms and are growing weary of Twilio, I'm working on a new hosted telephony platform that uses embedded lua executing directly on our hosted servers. Check it out - https://developers.corvisa.com/

Why did you choose Lua?

It was designed to be embedded, has a very small footprint, is relatively fast ( we use luajit ), and has few opinions as a language. That said, there is nothing locking us in to lua permanently as we would just need to implement a small-ish set of language bindings and docker configs to execute the language du jour.

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