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by bierjunge 1381 days ago
Can you please explain why are you faking the signup popups? They repeat every few minutes with the same names and cities (e.g. I saw the popup for "Sg from Hamden, Conneticut signed up for Boostly" at least 3 times now). This looks very sketchy to me.

And a second, more technical question. Why are you loading "font-awesome.min.css" (Cloudflare) and the IBM Plex font (font.google.com) every time you show the popup?

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(Technical founder here)

Pretty boring answer here: Shane (non-technical) was left to put together the website and I think he just picked a wix template that happens to do this.

We are b2b and a majority of interactions with customers take place over the phone, including signing up to be a customer. The website, up to this point, has relatively little utility compared to other company websites. We've prioritized placing technical time and energy on the actual product. We did have a designer spend an hour on making it look better than it use to though.

Thanks for the answer. I'm no webdev, but deleting this line will fix it.

<script> (function(w,n) { if (typeof(w[n]) == 'undefined'){ob=n+'Obj';w[ob]=[];w[n]=function(){w[ob].push(arguments);}; d=document.createElement('script');d.type = 'text/javascript';d.async=1; d.src='https://s3.amazonaws.com/provely-public/w/provely-2.0.js';x=...} })(window, 'provelys', ''); provelys('config', 'baseUrl', 'app.provely.io'); provelys('config', 'https', 1); provelys('data', 'campaignId', '6555'); provelys('config', 'widget', 1); </script>

If a guy like me, without any experience in JS can find it in less than a minute, it shouldn't be a problem for you to fix it.

You keep up the good work here and you'll have to add "webdev" to your linked in before long