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by keldaris 4123 days ago
The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax.

However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, cookies, XSS, etc. by default and most new project announcements I see on HN I close immediately because they haven't demonstrated enough value for me to bother unblocking the ungodly mess of JS on their sites. Your site isn't just well designed, concise and readable, it actually works out of the box (the only thing I blocked were the social buttons), barely uses any resources and looks lovely. I wish more web developers thought this way.

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Having all fancy Javascript enabled I found the navigation of the page cumbersome. The only way I found to progress to the next slide (of what is essentially a fancy slideshow) was to click on the three lines to open the menu and then click on the next menu item. That's not fun at all.
Hey, I am sorry for you bad experience, but I guess you have seen the site through mobile. Unfortunately, our intention is for it to be seen on desktop (the system, when ready will be used on desktop as well).
No, I have seen the site on a 1080p monitor, on my desktop (Firefox on Linux). That's how it looks for me: http://imgur.com/aL1KxqZ

Edit: to be sure I just tested it with Chromium. It looks the same, but most animations aren't even fluent (about 5fps), making the whole thing worse. And this is by no means a slow computer.

Thank you for pointing this out! It's good to have that kind of feedback, so I can check it and fix it :)
Thank you very much for your kind comment!

Our intention is actually that there would be different levels of difficulty, but for the purpose of showing only the main idea we skipped all additional features. But it really remains to see if this kind of learning would be appropriate and functional.