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Anyone else finding that it scrolls in a really jumpy way that makes it hard to use on mobile?

It's doing lazy loading. On my faster mobile devices it's not too jarring. On the slower ones... yeah it's a jumpy mess. Would imagine it's really bad on slower connections.

EDIT: To be clear I'm talking about the font page not the post announcing it.

I have a consistent 150 Mbps and it’s jumpy as hell, how fast does my connection have to be to scroll properly according to the Google standard?

The limiting factor is your browser's performance more than anything. Dynamically loading in a hundred fonts isn't something most browsers are optimised for. The jumping around is the text boxes resizing when a font loads.

The alternative would be preloaded all fonts which would simply crash slow devices and waste bandwidth.

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