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Well, they just became my worst design company. The noise the fan of my laptop made after 10s of that connect page. OMG. I do not approve of these useless anim

Well, they just became my worst design company. The noise the fan of my laptop made after 10s of that connect page. OMG. I do not approve of these useless animations. Lucky I'm not running on low power mode or that would probably have frozen my browser for some time.

sotojuan 10y ago
The good old case of developers and designers only testing their sites on a maxed out Macbook Pro running Chrome with super fast fiber.
- yen223 10y ago
  Everyone knows their target audience are folks using 5-year-old android tablets in places with only spotty 3G connections.
  - user5994461 10y ago
    When you'll send a link to that new payment provider you're interested in (Stripe) to your manager/boss/coworker. He might very well open that on the move on a tablet with a 3G connection. You're not making a good first impression if the only feedback you have is the site didn't load, and I speak from experience ;)
    - Veen 10y ago
      I loaded it on my iPad Air 2 over a 3G connection and it was perfectly fine.
mhotchen 10y ago
I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load. That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop. The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.
- nebabyte 10y ago
  > probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation) Tbf, I think their target for Connect is services that would be built to target those sellers by SV brats running mid/high-end laptops, but it's a good point nontheless.
  - user5994461 10y ago
    Mid and high end laptops struggle just as much. Do you have an i3 or better? If not, it's slow. You have an expensive intel core? If you're running in battery mode, it's slow. Real case story: I have 10 cores Xeon at work with 32 GB of memory and the highest quality of IPS screens. Same thing for designers. They will never ship an application suitable to mobile/tablets/laptop. The gap in processing between mobile, desktop, workstations and servers is tremendous.
- davidjnelson 10y ago
  > I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. And people hate on table based layout ;-) Edit: context

sotojuan 10y ago

The good old case of developers and designers only testing their sites on a maxed out Macbook Pro running Chrome with super fast fiber.

yen223 10y ago
Everyone knows their target audience are folks using 5-year-old android tablets in places with only spotty 3G connections.
- user5994461 10y ago
  When you'll send a link to that new payment provider you're interested in (Stripe) to your manager/boss/coworker. He might very well open that on the move on a tablet with a 3G connection. You're not making a good first impression if the only feedback you have is the site didn't load, and I speak from experience ;)
  - Veen 10y ago
    I loaded it on my iPad Air 2 over a 3G connection and it was perfectly fine.

mhotchen 10y ago

I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load. That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop. The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.

nebabyte 10y ago
> probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation) Tbf, I think their target for Connect is services that would be built to target those sellers by SV brats running mid/high-end laptops, but it's a good point nontheless.
- user5994461 10y ago
  Mid and high end laptops struggle just as much. Do you have an i3 or better? If not, it's slow. You have an expensive intel core? If you're running in battery mode, it's slow. Real case story: I have 10 cores Xeon at work with 32 GB of memory and the highest quality of IPS screens. Same thing for designers. They will never ship an application suitable to mobile/tablets/laptop. The gap in processing between mobile, desktop, workstations and servers is tremendous.
davidjnelson 10y ago
> I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content. And people hate on table based layout ;-) Edit: context