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by alphapapa 3695 days ago
Seriously, the entire first screen is empty space and "Common Lisp". Haven't these people heard of "the fold"? Please, someone, anyone, tell me what the point is of having no information on the entire first screen. This is a web page, not a PPT with an intro slide!

Whenever I see this pattern, I usually hit the back button, because it tells me that the site is a waste of time, put together by someone who doesn't critique their own work and has no attention to detail (not that something as enormous as the big, blue, empty first screen is a "detail").

The entire first page could be filled with useful information, key points to get people's attention, show Lisp's advantages, and convince people to give it a try. Instead it's useless, and visitors have to dig through screen after screen to find anything.

Most people will not bother. If they were interested enough to put that much effort into it, they'd probably already be using Lisp.