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BountySource (https://www.bountysource.com/) is a similar thing which is well established and doesn't mess up my browser's scrolling.

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Having sane browser-scrolling should be HN 101 submission etiquette.

I read this a lot but I don't get it. Can you explain to me what the problem is? I scrolled the site both with my touchpad (2-finger gesture) and with the touchscreen and it just, well... scrolled. What is wrong here?

It doesn't scroll in the same way to other pages on your browser.

It's some bizarre trend these days where people feel the need to customise how the scroll behaviour works.

Perhaps HN could implement this. I'm not sure we can ever expect submitters to test a site's scrolling functionality out of all the browsers out there or even say 3 of them. This site for example is working just fine for me in Chrome.

There is nothing for HN to implement. The problem is not that scrolling needs to be tested and fixed in multiple browsers. The problem is that this site uses a JS plugin to modify the browser's default scrolling behaviour, and this plugin provides a poor experience for some users (myself included).

Agreed. My Macbook Pro with Chrome scrolls like shit on this.

Too slow at the top, then too fast in the middle, then too slow again further down.

I'd tweet to them but I don't see an account on Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?f=users&vertical=default&q=codemi...

Chrome 49 / Linux: scroll wheel doesn't work, page up/down keys don't work.

It's using an old (v0.9.9) version of smoothscroll plugin. This issue was actually raised in its Github Repo [1]. Reportedly new version detects if the input device does inertial scrolling and disables itself in that case.

Of course a better solution would be to just remove the plugin ;).

[1] https://github.com/galambalazs/smoothscroll/issues/85

Does BountySource give bounties for itself?

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