jacobheller

Yikes. Would you mind sending a screenshot of what you're seeing to jake (at) casetext.com?

Are you in Safari by any chance? I just heard someone else was experiencing this in the most recent version of Safari. We'll have to see what's up with it.

The yellow scroll bar (the "heatmap") is actually meant as a way of showing the most important parts of a document, and is meant primarily for other document types that we have on the site, for example, judicial opinions (see, e.g., https://www.casetext.com/case/ashcroft-v-iqbal-4). We need to do a better job of explaining what it is, making it more useful across all document types (e.g., by showing where all the annotations are in the document so you can quickly jump to them), and making scrolling easier.

I'll see if I can get a tax attorney to respond to Jose's comment. If any tax attorneys are reading this -- jump on in!

Thanks for the heads up. We definitely designed primarily for desktop use (where most people probably read legal docs), but definitely should do something for mobile as well. For the time being, we may just hide the annotations on small screens so it doesn't obscure the reading process (and then come up with a more elegant solution later).

One second everyone, someone's DOSing us... we'll be up again shortly.

We've heard that feedback from a few other people as well, and are working towards implementing it. You're right that this would require us to put spaces between each of the paragraphs, so this likely shouldn't be the default view, but it is something that we can have as an option for readers.

Perhaps we'll add the Class F next :) Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm not sure about the YCVC notes in particular, but if I had to guess, they are probably uncapped with a so-called "Most Favored Nation" clause that gives the YCVC safe-holders the benefit of the founders' most favorable (to the investor) terms.

The example of the safe we posted is specifically one with a valuation cap and no discount. But there are different options available, all available on YC's site: http://ycombinator.com/safe/

This should be fixed now. Thanks for the feedback.

This is awesome -- thank you for taking the time to write out this thoughtful feedback.

We just removed some of the animations, specifically the stuff zooming up and down the right-hand column.

We'll work through some of these other thoughts as well. For what it's worth, you should be able to click the text to close the annotation mode, and soon you'll be able to hit esc to close it.

One funny thing about the original design, where the text was all the way on the left, was that quite a few people complained that the text should be default in the middle. We're learning quickly that there will always be some trade-offs.

Thanks for these thoughts. Just pushed some changes that may fix things (i.e., the "Add Tag" button doesn't appear about the person's name anymore). They don't fade in/out yet, although that's something we can do.

You can actually close the annotations by clicking on the text. We'll be making it possible to close based on clicking anywhere outside or by hitting escape soon.

What do people think about the changes we just pushed? Do they address these issues, or is it still distracting?

This is something we'll be adding very soon. Although one thing we want to avoid is having the actual text one is reading cluttered by highlighting. The overall look and feel we may end up adopting is a lot like Medium, where you can mouse-over the annotation and the selected text they're discussing is highlighted.

This is absolutely something we can do. We'll try this out later today and see how it looks.

Thanks for the feedback -- this is definitely something we can fix quickly.

I'm the CEO of Casetext -- we'd also like to use this opportunity to get feedback on our new annotations interface.

To follow up on this -- we believe that over the long-run this will produce better results than Lexis and Westlaw. Because users can add any related cases (not just those that cite the case), you get a more complete picture of other cases you should be looking to in your research. For example, in some circuit splits, neither circuit cites the court that it is splitting from (and so doesn't appear in West/Lexis' database), but would appear on our site.

Users can also vote up or down a case based on relevance. Voting will help you quickly find the most relevant resources based on the thoughts of dozens or hundreds of other attorneys.

Good luck on getting into YC! We love innovation in the legal space and think we need more of it, so we'd be happy to advise you through the process -- shoot me an email or PM.