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Comment by otherstark | Hacker News Reader

fuckin scroll-assisted JS ...

Why do people do this? Does it look better on systems that don't have smooth scrolling or something?

my only guess is the dev // designer have this notion it "feels" better. although it may look smoother, you've got to make sure your users are more comfortable with how they feel using your site vs. them viewing your site

I think if you're using a traditional clicky mousewheel it might be less awful.

Not at all. I'm used to my "awful" clicky scroll. I know subconciously that a scroll click is equal to a certain distance down the page.

When I then scroll 3 clicks and I've almost cleared the entire page because of smooth scrolling, that's no fun.

I'd much much rather janky jerky scrolling consistently across all sites than the odd one or two smooth scrollers

Don't even get me started on smooth scrolling when it comes to using a bit of a dated computer. Scroll... wait for the js to catch up and the page actually scrolls.

Edit: may have misinterpreted where the awful was directed. I deal with a lot of Mac users. Apologies if I did misread it, leaving comment intact for posterity

Glad to see someone else who hates smoothscroll. I absolutely despise smooth scroll - especially since it is a browser option FFS. If I wanted it, I'd enable the option. I don't want it - which is why I disabled the option.

As a developer, a sincere "Fuck you" to every developer who adds this to their sites. I shouldn't need to add this to my 3rd party filters:

    !Disable Smoothscroll 
    */smoothscroll.js

ps: I find the above rule blocks maybe 80% of all smoothscrolling on websites, thankfully.

Unfortunately not this site as it uses a Jquery plugin called niceScroll() which is anything but...Running this in the console will remove it.

     jQuery('html').getNiceScroll().remove()

I have to agree. The scrolling on that page was implemented very poorly.

At least it's not the Medium banner that slides down over top of whatever you were trying to read when you scroll. I've never seen such a bad UI idea spread so quickly.

You can remove it by running this in the console:

    jQuery('html').getNiceScroll().remove()

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