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Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by jb1991 on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:56PM (#27425770)
Interesting, I went through it, but then it got to this slide:

> look at the image of the circle at the top of the page.

And there is no circle whatsoever on that page, so I didn't know if it was a typo, a browser problem... or my eyes went blind!

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by 100kristine on Monday June 07, 2021 @02:16PM (#27426041)
Hmm, we have actually never gotten that! Can dig into it.

What browser/device are you on? We don't support mobile (added this to post!) because the vision charts need to be displayed at a certain size. There's usually a warning that pops up for mobile, but it's earlier in the flow than what we posted to HKN.

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by wrycoder on Monday June 07, 2021 @09:03PM (#27429445)
I'm using Mac OS 10.15.7

I don't see any circles.

As a general comment, this whole test procedure seems very crude. If I saw overlapping circles with my glasses on, like in some of your tests, I would say that my prescription was way off. A better prescription is necessary long before you get to that point.

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by Killakwinn on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:55PM (#27430152)
We're looking into this circle bug -- very sorry about that!

I won't argue that the current test isn't crude. We're rolling out increasingly sophisticated versions with each update, but I agree that in its current state our exam has a ton of room for improvement.

I do have to mention that the 1) vision check (e.g. do you see 20/20 with you current/expired prescription) and 2) the eye health tests are two different portions of our exam and serve two different purposes.

These latter set of "low-tech" maneuvers (double vision, amsler grid, red desaturation) are very high-level screening mechanisms for more serious underlying issues and do not have much to do with the numbers on a person's prescription. To be more specific, the overlapping circles are meant to assess if someone is having double vision, which in a worst case scenario could be a symptom of acute cranial nerve palsy.

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by ars on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:25PM (#27429972)
I also had no circle, just a red square.
Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by 100kristine on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:51AM (#27431048)
Thank you, really appreciate the detailed feedback! It seems like it is likely the no-script, will look into this soon.

The exam we provided is just a free sample for folks to play with - contact information is collected for paying customers (in a slightly different flow).

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by Killakwinn on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:56PM (#27430155)
Did you do the exam on mobile or desktop? Also, what browser were you using?
Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by ars on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @12:04AM (#27430544)
Desktop, using Firefox on Windows, with no-script active. That last part might be the issue - everything seemed to work until the end - it would not let me submit, then I disabled no-script, and I submitted, but it never asked me for contact info?

Not sure how you'll get back to me, it never asked for an email or anything.

The no-script might be at fault though. You might consider not using any CDN for scripts, only host locally.

I did not try again because I don't have a prescription (I submitted an image saying "no prescription"), and I realized it can't do anything for me (I just wanted a checkup basically - just tell me how I did on the various sized letter thing).

Re:Launch HN: Quadrant Eye (YC W21) – Tackling online eye ex... by jb1991 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:32AM (#27430959)
I’m on a Mac desktop with Firefox.