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Yep, I reached out five months ago asking for this feature. I have respect for the SquSpa team, but this is such a massive omission/oversight from 7.1, that I find myself thinking there is some other motivation that I'm missing. I'm torn between sticking with 7.0 or paying for the workaround four outside developers... which is exactly what I try to avoid by using this platform.
Come on, team. It's time.

Yep, I reached out five months ago asking for this feature. I have respect for the SquSpa team, but this is such a massive omission/oversight from 7.1, that I find myself thinking there is some other motivation that I'm missing. I'm torn between sticking with 7.0 or paying for the workaround four outside developers... which is exactly what I try to avoid by using this platform.
Come on, team. It's time.

Hey guys,
Ive been trolling for a solution to this myself. I finalllllyyy was able to get a slideshow carousel to appear with my header/navigation over it using a combination of Squarespace features and code.
 
I dropped in a gallery at the top of my page and selected the single large photo full screen gallery image option. I then uploaded my own photos, hit autoplay and adjusted the speed with the square space controls. 
 
In custom CSS I put in the following code - this got my images to lay under the header and is applied to your full site. Now just trying to figure out how to add text over it. Hope this helps!
 

// Transparent gallery over header
.page-section.gallery-section {
padding-top: 0px !important;
}
@media screen and (min-width: 640px) {
.gallery-fullscreen-slideshow {
height: 120vh !important;
}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 640px) {
.gallery-fullscreen-slideshow {
height: 60vh !important; // Change this value to modify gallery height on mobile
}
}
.gallery-fullscreen-slideshow[data-show-captions="true"][data-width="full-bleed"] {
margin-bottom: 0;
}
 

Dear Squarespace team,
Full-width sliding images with the ability to place the same or different text and buttons on each image is absolutely a feature we need. I get this request on literally almost every site I build. 
I believe it is a feature that would get used  millions of times over. I love what you have built and the more I get used to 7.1, I can see it's advantages. Adding this feature would make 7.1 an absolute no-brainer. Please acknowledge our collective desire to have this implemented as soon as possible.
Thank you for all you do!