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by Bahamut 2089 days ago
On a side note, anyone else get janky behavior trying to scroll on the homepage here? It feels like a janky/simpler version of what you see for the Apple product pages.
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Yeah, the initial scrolling experience was insufferable. I had to resort to using pagedown and eventually just grabbing the tiny scrollbar instead of my mouse scrollwheel to make any sort of useful progress, and even then it was made difficult by absurdly "long" animations and visuals instead of actual information. The thing that really got my goat is how areas shifted in contrast for entire pages for single sentences of text.

It feels like there were maybe two to three paragraphs of text total on that page. I want to read the text. I do not want flying, fading out images all over the place.

This low-information-density design trend is an incredibly user-unfriendly experience for desktop users.

Yeah, the scrolljacking performance on Linux Firefox it atrocious for me.
Yes, that page was brutal, I really struggled. Took waaaay too long to figure out what the heck they were even trying to sell there.
Yes. It jerks based on the scroll wheel.

If you use smooth scrolling by middle mouse click then movement it works OK.