Personally I agree; however:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This "stupid site" is a national treasure.

This is Quanta Magazine, which is printing high quality science stories that no one else approaches. If they went under those stories, like this one, would simply be lost.

How can Quanta Magazine do that, when no other magazine can? It's because they're bankrolled by Jim Simons, the MIT-trained mathematician who co-founded Renaissance technologies and was called the "greatest hedge fund manager of all time" (he died this year). It's basically his gift to the world. We are lucky to have it.

Agreed. Quanta has great content, but man alive, this particular "article" (?) is completely unbearable. I wish they'd just release these special issues as actual print magazines. I'd love to have them in the flesh, but Quanta very rarely publishes their stuff on paper.

It's just gonna get worse now that it's easy to implement with CSS.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll-...

Seriously. This page looks and interacts like shit on my iPhone. Gave up and went to reader mode. Still sucks.

After waiting for a few seconds I gave up and came here to determine if it was just me… nope. The site just sucks on mobile.

Fucked up my phone jeez.