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Sorry, I don't like to gripe but I have to whine about the site design. I scroll while reading. As a habit I typically keep my focus toward the top of the page. With your page the stuff I'm about to read disappears just before I want to read it. It's incredibly frustrating.

Then when I scroll back up to try to make the text reappear it doesn't unless I either wait for the fade transition to finish before scrolling up or scroll up an additional segment. Except when this happened on the first segment I couldn't scroll up an additional segment so I needed to refresh the page.

You can probably fix this by adding a bunch of whitespace between scroll transitions, or by fixing the animation step to the scroll event rather than using a timeout event (I didn't look at your source, but I assume at some level that's what's happening).

Either way the nontraditional design is superfluous, frustrating, and distracting from your goal. I assume you want people focused on your content and ultimately your goal rather than your design. You might have better luck with a traditional blog layout.

[Edit: I'm on Chrome on a 13" Retina Macbook Pro.]



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