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by arkitaip 1860 days ago
The mobile design: layout and margins look out of place on Firefox Android. The lists with red crosses look disjointed.

Header: why do the Sign In and Get Started links point to the same URL? Do you need a Home link for what's essentially a single page site?

The Steps section: could probably be better presented by a video above fold in the future to take far less space.

The Newsletter section: the white background and wide margins makes the section seem like it belongs to the previous section (Step 3).

I think you could use a WP performance/caching plugin to easily improve site performance. My favorite combo right now is Breeze and Cloudflare.

1 comments

Thanks for the great feedback, I’ll try to cover it all:

The mobile design: I absolutely agree, I didn’t expect so many of our users to come from mobile as the target demographic is desktop developers. I see now that I may have misjudged things a bit. Future plans definitely include a nicer website with better mobile support.

Header: They won’t very soon, Pakkly’s still in Beta, some things are placeholders for future functionality.

The Steps section: Absolutely agreed, we are already working on a video explainer.

The Newsletter section: I thought it fitting into 100% of the viewport height made it distinct.

In regard to caching, we had a caching plugin but it caused some strange layout bugs so we disabled it, I’ll look into those, thanks!

As a desktop developer, I would like you to know that I also have a mobile phone and I use it to read Hacker News during my breaks.

This looks like a very cool project. I wish it was around before I glued together my current hellish multi-platform release system. I will dig into it before I require it again.