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Comment by Tomdarkness | Hacker News Reader

I think it could do with a little bit of information on the first page to tell you what it actually is. If it was not a highly voted link from HN I'd most likely not bothered to actually figure out what it is.

Also in Chrome canary it frequently crashed the tab or gives the "WebGL hit a snag" message, which requires you to click reload before the site works properly again.

Edit: Why is this been downvoted? All you get on the first page is a large photograph and a circle with more photos. Until you click a photo, or learn more, it is not clear what the site is about...

Also, think I'm missing something because I just get a HTML5 video of a scene.

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If you're using Chrome Canary, shouldn't you try regular Chrome first before you complain about bugs?

It's not a complaint and it might equally be a problem with Chrome Canary itself and have zero to do with the site.

However, I'd personally find it useful to know if my project was working in pre-release browsers, especially if it is more than your basic web app, to ensure future compatibility before that pre-release version makes it out as a stable version.

You've been downvoted because your criticism is unwarranted. On the front page, there is a large link "Learn more" to a page that very clearly explains what PhotoSynth is. There's also a menu with similar info.

That's not my point though, I'm talking about what you see when you visit for the first time.

If you visit the site for the first time, like I just have, you have no idea what it is. You are just looking at a large image with some additional photos in circles. Just a simple phrase, such as the first line from the Learn More page: "Capture [and view] the places you love in amazing resolution and full 3D.", and perhaps a "Try it, select a scene" on near the circles would make it much more obvious.

Or perhaps even better, when you visit for the time time give them a quick demo or walk through.

n.b. if you view in Firefox, it might not load correctly. I got a mostly blank page, but when I viewed it in Chrome, the page loaded fully.

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