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Re: Square Banking

#11

Post by imstil3earning » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:21 PM UTC

Jeez this was hard to read with the annoying scrolling

Re: Square Banking

#12

Post by circa » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

mario_lopez wrote: post #4

I think we really have to take a step back away from this annoying scrolling / auto-moving element behavior for product info pages. I had a moment where my mouse was chasing a moving 'Loans' tile.

I feel like everything these days is "optimized" for mobile sites. When viewing on a desktop they all look horrible.

Re: Square Banking

#13

Post by circa » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

kylec wrote: post #3

This seems like a promising alternative to Simple, which shut down a few months ago

Yes it does. I loved Simple and I can't stand the new BBVA app. its so awful.

Re: Square Banking

#14

Post by fumblebee » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:26 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #5

Yeah, another app-only bank. Or at least that what it seems. The desktop site in unreadable. Giant fonts. So I'll assume they're like the rest - shitty / no customer support outsourced to god who knows, and they'll change "shifts" every 10 minutes. No thank you, I'll stay with the good old, dinosaur banks.

My experience with dinosaur banks (specifically HSBC and TSB) has been one of pure frustration. I can generally tolerate some friction in the system, but just dumb things like "to change your address we need to send you a letter that you need to sign and return to us" make using the dinosaur banks totally radioactive to me relative to using the new generation of fintech apps.

Re: Square Banking

#15

Post by bingdig » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

2021 is a great time to own a small regional / community bank. All the mature FinTech companies are trying to buy a bank to expedite the cumbersome bank chartering process (+ mortgage origination and servicing companies are too)

Re: Square Banking

#16

Post by sergiotapia » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:33 PM UTC

The brutalist website design for this new product is suffocating. Tried it on many browser widths on my desktop.

Re: Square Banking

#17

Post by bdcravens » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:37 PM UTC

Looking for a new business bank for the small reselling business I run with my wife, so I thought I'd sign up.

All attempts are erroring out; signup endpoint is returning a 500.

Re: Square Banking

#18

Post by bdcravens » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:40 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #5

Yeah, another app-only bank. Or at least that what it seems. The desktop site in unreadable. Giant fonts. So I'll assume they're like the rest - shitty / no customer support outsourced to god who knows, and they'll change "shifts" every 10 minutes. No thank you, I'll stay with the good old, dinosaur banks.

After a really bad experience with Chase (and negative experiences with other big banks) I decided to try something different. I ended up settling on Capital One - they have branches, but depending on your area, it may as well be an online only bank.

Re: Square Banking

#19

Post by vmception » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:43 PM UTC

Does it allow business sign up? Like for accounting and limited liability?

Re: Square Banking

#20

Post by repsilat » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 2:44 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #16

The brutalist website design for this new product is suffocating. Tried it on many browser widths on my desktop.

Huh, I always think of "Brutalism" in the context of web design as "no CSS, no JS, lots of ." I guess maybe it needn't be unstyled, but certainly is unsubtle.

To me this page is architecturally would be something overloaded with pointless decorative elements. Baroque?