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by KevinBongart 4142 days ago
The concept is really nice!

BUT WHY OH WHY THE SCROLL HIJACKING?

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This isn't scroll hijacking. This -> http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com/#menu=source-page is scroll hijacking. Just because it's animating when you scroll doesn't mean it's hijacking.

Hijacking is specifically altering the speed and or movement of the scroll.

Oh my god. Why
That's going to look so retro in 2020 when they get the budget to replace it!
Agreed. I spent too long staring dumbly at the page, finding nothing to click on, wondering how to get more information.

I hate this trend towards elimination of affordances.

But you scroll this page the exact same way you do any other page. The visual treatment is different, but the scrollbar is exactly the same. This certainly isn't scrolljacking in the normally accepted sense.
Yeah,this site is barely functional on my Nexus 5.
Guilty.
I actually really liked the scrolling effect on this website.
It's utterly broken on mobiles, will fix that hopefully soon, feel free to fork at https://github.com/brunohaid/houseofcards