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Can we have the link changed to be the Medium post[0] that this is copied from please? The site currently linked hijacks the scroll and has annoying popups trying to get you to subscribe.

[0] https://medium.com/art-marketing/being-a-female-developer-6f...

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Ok, we changed to that from http://www.andela.com/blog/being-a-female-developer/.

Hi Dang - can you please change back to the original link on Andela's blog? The scrolling issue should be fixed now.

Sure. Changed back from https://medium.com/art-marketing/being-a-female-developer-6f....

Unfortunately it isn't. It still jumps down about 300px per scroll, which is an awful experience.

It really isn't. I've never seen a site scroll so bad. Way to go, Andela!

Hey there - thanks for the feedback, and sorry about that! We're trying to locate the scrolling issue, replicate it, and fix it (thought we already had). Would you mind sharing what your OS/browser are? Thank you!

What do you mean by hijacks the scroll?

There's 12 trackers/widgets according to ghostery, guessing one of them is doing analytics reporting as you scroll, which can be particularly hellacious on mobile.

The page seems to have the code described here: http://blog.bassta.bg/2013/05/smooth-page-scrolling-with-twe... Basically it disables the browser's default scrolling behavior and handles the mouse scrollwheel events by itself via javascript. Which is usually annoying since the new behavior can be different to what the user is accustomed to, and for other reasons as well. You might find some more arguments in discussions like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/47n9ph/psa_dont_use...

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