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by sophacles 4948 days ago
In all honesty, the size requirement is terrible. I took one look at the page saying I need a bigger window and hit ctrl-w and thought: "well maybe that was a cool page, the headline sounded good. Oh well". I'm not against resizing my windows, it's just that with nothing but a headline to go on, I'll just move on to the next thing. Even if you don't show me the app, but instad a splash page and some screenshots that keep my interest, with an explanation of why I need to resize, I'll probably think, "Oh ok, and it's new, cut them some slack" and resize away.
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Agreed. That screen was my first impression, which hasn't made me at all curious enough to faff about with my browser to make it display properly. Since I use OS X, I have no reason to run my browser maximised.

Also, the mere presence of such a 'feature' just makes me think that the design wasn't thought through well enough. I actually don't know, because again there's no effort made to convince me otherwise.