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by Cenk 3283 days ago
I like the look of the GIF on the front page (http://upstart.me/img/preview.gif) but it’s 3.3MB — I believe you could cut that down significantly. I have a similar GIF on Citationsy’s frontpage (https://citationsy.com/) and it’s only 1.1MB.

Apart from that (and the unnecessary social media logos on the left) I really like the way the website looks. Fun animation on the Try it button!
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kowdermeister 3283 days ago
Why GIF at all? There are crossbrowser compressed video formats out there.
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Cenk 3283 days ago
For me, it was mainly that the GIF would autoplay (so to speak) on mobile, whereas video would not. I’m also adding the top part of the window as an SVG and the shadow in CSS, and the whitespace left and right of the content in the window varies based on screen size, that seemed easier to do with a GIF.
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