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I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

by pmdr 13d ago

amsterdorn 13d ago
+1, this bothers me more than it should.
landr0id 13d ago
I used to date a girl who was a designer and had to plead with her that breaking behaviors I'm used to is not a positive UX. "But it adds motion" was the classic reply.
- bluGill 13d ago
  The question is, are we doing this page for the sake of art or are we doing this for the sake of spreading and sharing information? These are two different domains with different requirements as to how the page works. There is nothing wrong with art. It is a great thing, I hope to see more art in the world. However, if the goal is sharing information, which is supposedly the goal of a fairly large number of websites, art needs to be secondary to sharing that information. And then those things that add motion, whatever: you're adding art and harming the real purpose.
  - PinkSheep 12d ago
    Allow me to put it more bluntly: if you are feeling like an artist, don't meddle with UX. The comment above shows this type of people don't understand it. Yet they are the ones getting hired due to formal qualification. Those who do are at the intersection of design, engineering and computer science. The latter give you enough experience to understand the culture to recreate familiar _look and feel_.
- ssl-3 12d ago
  That's exactly what I want from a website that's full of static information: Motion.
dotancohen 13d ago
After seeing a few comments about scrolling on that page, curiosity got the better of me and I dared open TFA. I found no problem scrolling. Either Firefox on Android doesn't support whatever trickery they are doing, or they reverted it.
- retsibsi 12d ago
  On desktop, it's basically forced heavy smoothscrolling, with an attempt to replicate real motion by gradually slowing to a stop. Horribly laggy for those of us sensitive to such things.
- PinkSheep 12d ago
  It's still there when Javascript is enabled. Firefox/154.0 on desktop.
nosioptar 12d ago
If I said what I really think should happen to designers and "devs" who fuck with scrolling, dang would have to delete it and ban me. Ublock on Firefox mobile seems to keep scrolling unfucked on this page for me. (Designer/"dev" of this page still sucks wet hobo socks.)
_rwo 12d ago
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I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

by pmdr 13d ago

I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

amsterdorn 13d ago

+1, this bothers me more than it should.

landr0id 13d ago

I used to date a girl who was a designer and had to plead with her that breaking behaviors I'm used to is not a positive UX. "But it adds motion" was the classic reply.

bluGill 13d ago
The question is, are we doing this page for the sake of art or are we doing this for the sake of spreading and sharing information? These are two different domains with different requirements as to how the page works. There is nothing wrong with art. It is a great thing, I hope to see more art in the world. However, if the goal is sharing information, which is supposedly the goal of a fairly large number of websites, art needs to be secondary to sharing that information. And then those things that add motion, whatever: you're adding art and harming the real purpose.
- PinkSheep 12d ago
  Allow me to put it more bluntly: if you are feeling like an artist, don't meddle with UX. The comment above shows this type of people don't understand it. Yet they are the ones getting hired due to formal qualification. Those who do are at the intersection of design, engineering and computer science. The latter give you enough experience to understand the culture to recreate familiar _look and feel_.
ssl-3 12d ago
That's exactly what I want from a website that's full of static information: Motion.

dotancohen 13d ago

After seeing a few comments about scrolling on that page, curiosity got the better of me and I dared open TFA. I found no problem scrolling. Either Firefox on Android doesn't support whatever trickery they are doing, or they reverted it.

retsibsi 12d ago
On desktop, it's basically forced heavy smoothscrolling, with an attempt to replicate real motion by gradually slowing to a stop. Horribly laggy for those of us sensitive to such things.
PinkSheep 12d ago
It's still there when Javascript is enabled. Firefox/154.0 on desktop.

nosioptar 12d ago

If I said what I really think should happen to designers and "devs" who fuck with scrolling, dang would have to delete it and ban me. Ublock on Firefox mobile seems to keep scrolling unfucked on this page for me. (Designer/"dev" of this page still sucks wet hobo socks.)

_rwo 12d ago

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