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Scroll-driven animations
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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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 7 complaints
- Links are hidden behind scrolling animation, so visitors must scroll to reach them2025-02-11
- Scroll-linked animations distract from reading and break accessibility2024-04-16
- Scroll-scrubbed animations make it impossible to navigate normally or jump to content2022-11-09
- Clicking the scrollbar to jump ahead breaks the scroll-effect presentation2014-11-03
- Flick-scrolling doesn't scroll the page normally, slides animate instead2014-09-05
- Scrolling overshoots or fails to advance, so users skip steps they cannot see2014-07-28
- Must scroll a long way to find any useful information on the landing page2014-01-13