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It looks gorgeous, but it's totally inadequate to show the data. Plus the way the scrolling gets hijacked is frustrating.

Silhouette 5y ago
It was very hard for me to read. On a large screen, there are several animations visible at once all competing for my attention. A lot of the big caption text is invisible after the first line or two so I had to open browser dev tools to work out what it was supposed to say. All the effects on the visuals mean it's difficult to read meaningful data from them either.
- jfk13 5y ago
  You're not supposed to "read meaningful data". You're supposed to be overwhelmed by the slick, professional, glamorous world and lifestyle of freelancing, and sign up for their service.
logifail 5y ago
> It looks gorgeous Is it a modern art installation? I found the opening mildly annoying but on "slide 2" the counter-scrolling pink headlines were so distracting that was it, I stopped reading. Life's short and I only have one pair of eyeballs.
uberswe 5y ago
Yea, I stopped trying to read and understand the data after I got annoyed by the scrolling.
Asraelite 5y ago
Nevermind that when viewed on an even slightly underpowered device if almost turns into a slideshow.
gentleman11 5y ago
Personally, I found it didn’t hijack my scrolling and ran very smoothly but my phone is only 2 years old. It’s the only site of its sort that didn’t run awfully, it’s the only 100% smooth one of these I’ve see. I was impressed with the programmer. Design/Presentation wise though, I didn’t know when I was looking at abstract art and when it was a chart. The height of the sections also made it hard know where to line up your view or to know what a caption referred to I wonder why other devices ran it slower. iOS here. From the chat, it seems like desktop is borked and they never tested on Firefox?

18 ms·

It looks gorgeous, but it's totally inadequate to show the data. Plus the way the scrolling gets hijacked is frustrating.

by raphaelj 5y ago

Silhouette 5y ago
It was very hard for me to read. On a large screen, there are several animations visible at once all competing for my attention. A lot of the big caption text is invisible after the first line or two so I had to open browser dev tools to work out what it was supposed to say. All the effects on the visuals mean it's difficult to read meaningful data from them either.
- jfk13 5y ago
  You're not supposed to "read meaningful data". You're supposed to be overwhelmed by the slick, professional, glamorous world and lifestyle of freelancing, and sign up for their service.
logifail 5y ago
> It looks gorgeous Is it a modern art installation? I found the opening mildly annoying but on "slide 2" the counter-scrolling pink headlines were so distracting that was it, I stopped reading. Life's short and I only have one pair of eyeballs.
uberswe 5y ago
Yea, I stopped trying to read and understand the data after I got annoyed by the scrolling.
Asraelite 5y ago
Nevermind that when viewed on an even slightly underpowered device if almost turns into a slideshow.
gentleman11 5y ago
Personally, I found it didn’t hijack my scrolling and ran very smoothly but my phone is only 2 years old. It’s the only site of its sort that didn’t run awfully, it’s the only 100% smooth one of these I’ve see. I was impressed with the programmer. Design/Presentation wise though, I didn’t know when I was looking at abstract art and when it was a chart. The height of the sections also made it hard know where to line up your view or to know what a caption referred to I wonder why other devices ran it slower. iOS here. From the chat, it seems like desktop is borked and they never tested on Firefox?