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The slowness is due to the tons of non-minified javascript loaded, to the not-yet optimized number of requests to the back-end, and also to the fact that my VPS is not a competition server.
It's actually a miracle already that it renders the way it does. I understand only now how sensitive the HN community is to these aspects, I should have understood it already I guess ... hackers like clean efficient code, and it's all good feedback.
But let's get it straight ... Symbyoz is far from being Wave.
Wave is an awesome brute force of technology. We're not even close. Wave intent was to replace email. We don't (meh ... Google is a legend, I'm a lone hacker). Wave was a self sufficient (closed?) communication and collaboration tool. We aren't. We talk to Facebook, Twitter and GMail right off the bat. Wave target was to rack up every e-mail users out there. We obviously would like to dream about it, but ... :)
If Symbyoz grows, it can become a lot more like Wave. For now, it's just a social platform to quickly jot down ideas and share with friends.
I think of it more as the secret child of 43things and Evernote who's being raised by Facebook.
(And for the rotating comic, I'll definitely take care of it :))
Thanks for the feedback !
2. As I stated, the site is still in development (as you stated, there's still a lot of work on the design). I'll clean it up.