Yeah, I while ago I built what I thought was a site with really neat content (I thought) but 50% of the comments were about scrolling behavior. WTF HN?
The quality of your content is irrelevant if your website doesn't work at all or annoys me into closing it before I've read any significant amount of it. Should I not complain about the scrolling when I literally can't read past the first two paragraphs because every time I try to scroll down it instead switches to some other article or does nothing at all? It's like having a book where the pages are all glued together and then complaining that people only talk about the glue.
Don't screw over your content with design. Look at this place, Hacker News. Text, lots of it, all of which is perfectly readable without pagination, a fancy javscript scroller, or even images.