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Why do we have to sign up for this? :(",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"12526612","amadeuspzs","Forcing a user to sign up before they've seen the content is a big miss. Strongly suggest you rearchitect this and offer sign up once users want to save progress\u002Fsign up for…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"12525855","CoolGuySteve","I think the problem is the \"Get Started\" button leads directly to a sign up page. I'd find it more useful if it used my geolocation to go straight to my representatives. After…",{"value":112,"source":74,"evidence":113},"Unclear what the site does and why to use it.",[114,118,122],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"12525347","Overtonwindow","I'm the Legislative Director for a nonprofit and my first observation of this tool is that I have no clue what it does. 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