I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content.
I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load.
That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop.
The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.
> probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation)
Tbf, I think their target for Connect is services that would be built to target those sellers by SV brats running mid/high-end laptops, but it's a good point nontheless.
You have an expensive intel core? If you're running in battery mode, it's slow.
Real case story: I have 10 cores Xeon at work with 32 GB of memory and the highest quality of IPS screens. Same thing for designers. They will never ship an application suitable to mobile/tablets/laptop. The gap in processing between mobile, desktop, workstations and servers is tremendous.
> I've been travelling for a while in areas with slow internet and the best site for me has to be HN. No BS, it just loads and gets out of my way so I can access the content.
I'm in China atm, which is probably an area that Stripe would want to target with both atlas and connect (there's a ton of marketplace/ecommerce sellers based here, and a lot of tech innovation), and both those sites take a stupid amount of time to load.
That animation also destroys my mediocre laptop.
The pages look nice and are rich in content, but those animations and all the superfluous fonts and stuff cause them to be almost unusable if you're not on reasonably new hardware with a reasonably fast internet connection.