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Parallax scrolling
Raised as a usability problem by 22 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Scrolling moves animation slowly, so Page Up/Down and wheel barely move contentUnreviewed
20122026- Scrolling jumps around, making it nearly impossible to stop at a specific frame2015-07-03
- Scroll wheel breaks and stuttering makes navigating to anything accurately nearly impossible2015-07-03
- Scrolling advances the animation slowly, so Page Up/Down and mouse wheel barely move content2014-05-14
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 22 complaints
- Text covers the image on a tablet, so the reader cannot read and view both together2025-09-25
- Users couldn't find content or reach the contact page because motion distracted from tasks2024-07-23
- Scrolling unexpectedly loads the previous or next article instead of a normal link2020-02-03
- Parallax scrolling sites are hard to navigate for customers trying to learn about or buy a product2017-04-17
- Scrolling jumps around, making it nearly impossible to stop at a specific frame2015-07-03
- Scroll wheel breaks and stuttering makes navigating to anything accurately nearly impossible2015-07-03
- Parallax and scroll animations make web pages slow and hard to use on mobile2015-04-19
- JS parallax bogs down the browser and hijacks the scrollbar2015-02-16
- Scrolling appears to do nothing, so users think the page ended and nearly close it2014-08-08
- Scrolling advances the animation slowly, so Page Up/Down and mouse wheel barely move content2014-05-14
- Animations need a forceful swipe to get through, unlike normal scrolling2014-05-14
- Inertial scrolling stutters and stops partway through animations on MacBook2014-05-14
- Scrolling is unbearably slow on Ubuntu with Chrome2014-05-13
- Scroll speed varies wildly by device, unusable for many users2014-05-13
- Effects are unusable on a trackpad unless scrolling very rapidly2014-05-13
- The motion-driven parallax effect is confusing to interact with2014-04-02
- Causes jerky or laggy scrolling that makes pages hard to use2014-02-15
- Simple sites are almost impossible to use due to slowdown from page effects2013-11-12
- Scrolling makes text, images and backgrounds fly around unpredictably, over-complicating a simple scroll2013-06-18
- Scrolling is slowed and blocked by moving decoys before reaching content2013-06-17
- Parallax scrolling can be very disorienting for users2013-04-17
- Scrolling is jerky and low frame rate, forcing excessive scroll wheel use2012-07-04