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Comment by Khao | Hacker News Reader

This page has by far the worst scrolling interaction I've ever experienced.

First up : no scroll bar so there is literally no visual cue that I need to scroll. Scrolling "activates" the next portion of content.

Somewhere around the middle part : I can scroll and see the scrollbar, but WAIT! Another portion of the page starts hiding the scroll and hijacking the scrolling to show something. Uggggh again?

Scroll some more : Scroll bar appears once more! I am free to scroll to the bottom of the page. Nothing makes me hate a webpage more than some shenanigans like this that breaks what a webpage should be.

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I agree. If I remember suddenly that there is information at the top or bottom of the page that I want to access now I can't just click on the scrollbar to redirect me, but I have to wait an extra good five to ten seconds just to get back to it.

Wasn't there an article on HN recently that said something along the lines of "just because Apple does it doesn't mean you should"?

holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.

Here's what dang said, over a year ago, agreeing with you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

It's a good point.

> every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling.

Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.

When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.

There may be a message in that.

> It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about.

IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.

> very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about

If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.

This one is way worse than most because it's so inconsistent.

I can only see top menu, page is blank. I have malware filters.

Which filters? I have ghostery, ublock origin, and a corporate firewall, all of which usually cause me some trouble, but I didn't have any issues with this site.

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