[endeavor]

I want to love this but I am really struggling with the UX:

- Takes a long time to load

- Runs fine on my newish MBP but runs like a dog on my Linux desktop

- I am having a hard time controlling the camera position using the trackpad. Maybe with a mouse it would be better. If the arrow keys worked that might help.

- Some instructions on how to use it would be great.

- As they are, the camera and style squares appear to be clickable buttons instead of just headings.

[pheelicks]

Thanks for the feedback. Lots of good points.

The loading time is due to it having to load the elevation data, although it will be cached on subsequent visits, and it is further slowed down by client side processing, which is currently done in JS, but in the future will be hardware accelerated

As for the controls, do you find it more difficult than something like Google Earth? I was hoping that people used to that would be at home with the controls. What exactly would you expect the arrow keys to do? Simulate a mouse movement in that direction by a constant?

As for instructions, were there any parts in particular that were tough to figure out. I think one needs to strike a balance between having no hints and pointing out the blatantly obvious.

[civilian]

I have no idea what the controls are for "click to ride", and pressing mouse buttons, arrow buttons, WASD, and spacebar don't clearly do anything. I did the Piste:Rochette run, if that helps. It seems like the camera was just slowly moving downhill on it's own.

[wahnfrieden]

Agreed with the OP, without even knowing what this site is for and just having a loading spinner, I ended up closing the tab after it was taking a long time to do anything and was slowing down my browser. If you could load in something incrementally it would go a long way.

[cogburnd02]

(1) Site takes too long to load on Chromium built for XP--so long that I gave up & exited the tab.

(2) Is the site name a homophone of 'pissed'?

[hobzy]

piste = slope in french

[TheHippo]

Also in German.