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by danielhunt 5388 days ago
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Nice twist on not collecting email addresses into some bucket that will sit dormant for 2 years - pretty clever of you to poke twitter & facebook instead (which, I imagine, would result in more 'OMGVIRALZ' too).

I had actually had a very similar idea to this myself, but never got around to implementing it.

The design looks clean and very appealing, but why did you create it with a hashbang link approach? It doesn't appear to gain anything by doing that (click on the 'about' link)

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Thanks for the feedback.

It's using hashbang links simply because the mobile web application uses a similar approach in order to reduce the assets being transferred over 3g connections.

The desktop web application is bootstrapping the same JavaScript at the moment so it uses a similar approach in requesting the assets that change.

The idea is so the desktop can easily inherit most of the functionality of the mobile web application with minimal modifications.