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Lovely drag/drop bookmarklet tutorial w/ animated arrow and helpful prompts and everything.

Though, really, I would like to try the service out without having to drag/drop a bookmarklet and then going off to another website and then clicking tl;dr. Can't I just put in a URL to try it out? Or provide a demo URL for us to try out?

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Thanks for the feedback on the onboarding :)

It is not yet possible to try the service without the bookmarklet, but here is an example of a summary we created for the video of Anders Hejlsberg on Typescript that is on the frontpage so that you can see what it looks like : http://api.tldr.io/tldrs/506aee4ec8f814a2370004fa

Exactly. Especially if a site wants to get a permanent spot in my browser, it must demonstrate its value upfront. And without some good examples this is not going to happen.

sorry about that, we will make sure to work on showing the value more upfront

Cofounder here. We put such test URLs at the end of the onboarding process but it is true they may appear too late! Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I was expecting something on the homepage like a top 10 list of popular tl;drs that I could try out without doing anything else first.

hey, sorry about that, for now you can get them by following us on twitter!

You should always link to your twitter when mentioning it so I don't have to hunt it down.

oops, you're obviously right. our twitter handle is @tldrio

We are considering such a feature but don't want it to disrupt the onboarding flow, so it is a tough ongoing debate right now :)

I bounced without trying it because I couldn't figure out what it was going to actually give me. I would have been more likely to sign up or drag the button to my toolbar if you gave me a sample of what value I would get out of it.

For me, the bookmarklet tutorial pointed the arrow at the address bar and then congratulated me when I overwrote the page's URL with javascript by dropping the button. (Firefox 15.0.1 on Linux). But I do like the idea!

Yep, sorry about that! It is not possible (with Chrome nor Firefox) to detect if the link was correctly dropped on the bookmarks bar or above.

Thanks for the feedback!

This goes in an iframe on the page as an overlay.

http://tldr.io/iframe/iframe.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogmaver...

Yes I agree. Once I found that I had to install a bookmarklet into my browser in order to try it, I just exited the site altogether.

A demo without having to login/install anything extra would be nice.

>whithout [...] going off to another website and then clicking tl;dr.

I had the same feeling, but then I clicked tl;dr on the page where they show you how to add the bookmarklet !

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