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Agreed, the design overwhelmed the quotes.

Whoops! I had planned on fixing that before I shared. Thanks for the heads up.

Do the 2.33mb background make his concept suffer. Don't think so. Keep that up, as gp said you've got something there

Yes, it does make the concept suffer because the concept is the power of the (crowd-sourced) quote. The slow-loading background is a strong visual distraction from that, detracting from the vistor's first impression.

(I'd even argue that the background, content-wise, overpowers the quote...and that's somewhat related to its byte-size)