Agreed - if the author was trying to highlight the kinds of things available on archive.org, it didn't quite work for me. Instead it just was a jumbled pile of images...
Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.
Hi guys, thanks for the feedback. I haven't actually done any guerilla UI testing, I just shipped the code earlier today and went to bed haha.
I really want people to get "hooked" right off the bat on the homepage, so, I will try to come up with a better solution later tomorrow. I was initially gonna do mouseovers like above, but didn't feel that would work on mobile.
Maybe slower images with a link back to archive.org and let people navigate the timeline directly would be more appropriate.