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I thought something was wrong with my browser because it wouldn't scroll. How does a company with this much money fail so hard at web design?

I literally changed browsers thinking that something in my browser (nightly FFx) was breaking the site.

Kind of glad to see it's just another bad design decision and nothing else.

The alternating scrolling is especially bad on a touchscreen because the scrollable page area also alternates between the left and right sides of the page. You have to swipe on one side of the page until it stops, then deduce that you haven't hit the page end and then start swiping in the other side of the page.

It hurts my eyes...

Hit the down arrow key and some javascript is exposed. Was that intentional I wonder?

I don't often agree with statements like this on HN, but this site probably the worst designed I have ever encountered that wasn't made that way intentionally. Seriously terrible. I can't imagine it's all that accessible for people with disabilities as well.