Unlike y'all, I actually love the website! I mean, yeah, it could use some extra opaqueness and padding, but it looks cool. Rad, even.
Most of personal blogs in HN that I see on the top page usually look like they were made in the 90's, with either no CSS at all or simple CSS with just big paragraphs of text and no substance in between. I cannot stand them. My zoomer ass needs to be stimulated by getting eye candy while reading the content.
"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."
That website is poorly made. What's with the scrolling.
Anyway. Yes. It's a very very complicated software with hooks decades back. That's a feature not a bug. He's mad that it's complicated to customize, or really, understand and build UI customization for, including third-party applications implementations of them? What?
People still use mission critical software from 30 years ago that relies on their old implementations of context menus. So what?
I've never seen a good, reasonable use for scrollbars being made available to screw around with. If you build websites, don't muck up basic UI elements like the scrollbar, or go full screen, or do horizontal scrolling, or take over scrolling behaviors. Stuff like this site seems like half art project, half social experiment.
I'm not sure the article author should be speaking with such certainty and authority on the subject of what constitutes "good" UI.
A lot of what makes interface elements effective is predictability. Context menus are boring, consistent, and predictable - or they should be. You shouldn't ever be in a situation where you right click on something and say "wow! that's beautiful! that menu is so amazingly well done!"
Software is intended to do things. If your interface gets in the way of things being done, then the interface is the wrong tool for the job. Making things flashy or prioritizing aesthetics over functionality for the sake of appearances makes every element you co-opt automatically the wrong tool for the job, regardless of how "pretty" it might be.
If your site takes over scrollbars, the correct response to "what do you think of the custom scrollbars?" should be "wow, I didn't even notice a thing."
How true is that considering the older, complete context menu is basically hidden behind the newer context menu in win11? Clearly, they have no issues with over riding "mission critical implementations" (if they exist) of the older context menu so why not allow actually customizing it even more?
It's a very very complicated software with hooks decades back. That's a feature not a bug
That's never a feature, and I'm curious what amount of stockholm syndrome can make one say so. It's the bullshit-est menu implementation ever made and everyone has to suffer from it since 30 years ago.