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Comment by riidom | Hacker News Reader

This website is impressive somehow, but also crazy to parse. Always at least two things going on at same time, the viewers' attention constantly split instead of being guided.

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Also it does that thing where it hijacks scrolling and uses your scrolls to control an animation speed. Which probably felt really clever to invent, but it is just super annoying and distracting. Like who are the people scrolling back up to replay bits of these silly little animations?

What is the point? I think they put them in there as little speedbumps to catch the attention of people who are flicking boredly through the site on a tablet or phone or whatever. They should be more confident in their ability to keep their users' attention.

> Like who are the people scrolling back up to replay bits of these silly little animations?

There are people like that. I did it a couple of times. I'm more annoyed when the scroll is hijacked but it won't let you replay an animation.

Yep. Some of us still use the PgUp/PgDn keys, even! I don't ever remember encountering a scrolling animation that handled them sensibly.

I like it, looks nice. I know Apple does it as well and it's always impressive to me when they launch a new product and make a new webpage for it. That being said, those are just marketing pages, for critical behavior like buying a new product, those are all static pages with no animation.

I found it incredibly annoying to read/parse personally. Huge fonts, stuttering animations interrupting my scrolling, and way too many colour/formatting changes to be able to smoothly read it. It's all very distracting and over-designed.

Exactly my thoughts. Impressive yet annoying. But I can understand their desire to do some magic show at the front page because it is an appropriate place to catch your eyes. More plain, traditional documentation could be found elsewhere.

It's almost an exact copy of reactrouter.com, which is also (IMO) hard to parse. I'm not actually sure what the difference is between this and RR, given the websites are so similar. It seems like the fundamental pitch of Remix is RR6, judging by the site.

I would have made this be /about or something like that and had the landing page be something more traditional. I don't think repeat visitors are going to want to scroll through a presentation like that all of the time. But that could be what they ultimately do, I wouldn't be surprised if they moved it.

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