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I'm a UNIX geek and I too love "well designed websites" - and imho that site isn't a well designed website.

The majority of us are probably using a touchpad on our laptops and the scrolling thing is just horrible in that case.

The target customer will expect easily laid out information (as this is a web-based monitoring service) and if they see this "at the front door" then they'll run a mile.

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I'm also a UNIX geek, and I would have to disagree with your opinion.

The design looks solid. I don't know anyone that has troubles scrolling on their laptop these days. I found that quite bizarre to hear. With daily use, you can be nearly as nimble as using a real mouse.

Could you give some suggestions on what you would change? I'm curious how you would display that much data on the screen in a clean manner.

Not trying to argue here, genuinely interested in improving my UI/UX knowledge. Quite useful when building webapps these days.

I agree. I opened it on my mobile device and the page was immediately moving and making all kinds of transitions. There's not really any instructions, nor are there any visible controls. It barely even registers as a functional website, so I don't even get to read about the product.

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