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Eternal forced scrolling "powerpoint" HTML slide-show? No, thank you. I have stopped after 3 pages. What is the point of doing this?

Designers, who think that this is a good idea to waste people's time like this, shouldn't be allowed anywhere near computers.

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I think it was good in this case. They wanted to present a guided tour. May be they could have added buttons but this journey was nice overall.

Then just record a video.

Presenting an interactive experience and then taking away all control from the user and replacing it with an extremely frustrating navigation mode (hint, not everyone is using a phone/tablet or laptop touchpad - try to scroll that much with a mouse!) is just stupid and completely wasting the potential of the medium.

Good lord. Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this? What makes you feel equipped to call its creators "stupid"?

Have you ever made anything that explored "the potential of the medium" as much as this?

Yes. Does that matter? This particular work has terrible, user-hostile navigation controls, and needs to support free movement.

We could play Quake 2 in the browser several years ago, so it's not an unreasonable thing to ask for.

The UI could have been better, but it worked and it was something I’d never seen before and it made my day. Rich web experiences like this are difficult to pull off at all. I’m glad they made it. People who write empty, sneering comments about other people’s hard work shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near computers.

Not for people on mobile phones, none of my Android devices go past the first screen, paging doesn't work at all.

Works super smoothly on my Pixel 5 4G.

Excellent work in general!

My Android phone was fairly mid range when I bought it, and that was a few years ago (long enough that I don't remember now!) and it works fine for me.

Edit: I should mention that I only tried Chrome

Edit 2: Also tried Firefox on my Android device. It was noticeably slower but still worked.

It needs very unreasonable amount of scrolling.

I keep thinking something must be "wrong" with my scrollwheel, as all those experiences are super annoying but keep getting published by some people. I think it's not as bad if you're on a Mac or something. Anyway, I agree, it's just bad ux

Worked great on Linux/Firefox/Intel graphics with a trackpad for scrolling.

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