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Scroll-triggered animations
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Content fades in late as you scroll, disrupting readingUnreviewed
20122026- Text fades in paragraph by paragraph as the user scrolls, slowing reading2026-08-14
- Elements fade in as you scroll, making content appear late and disrupting reading2026-08-06
- Content fades in as you scroll, disrupting the natural reading experience2022-07-14
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 10 complaints
- Text fades in paragraph by paragraph as the user scrolls, slowing reading2026-08-14
- Elements fade in as you scroll, making content appear late and disrupting reading2026-08-06
- Sites hijack the scroll bar with custom scrolling that doesn't fit the site2026-03-19
- Screen shudders and re-lays out, leaving phone users in a different place in the article2023-05-07
- Headers that appear and disappear on scroll are confusing and hard to grasp2022-09-28
- Content fades in as you scroll, disrupting the natural reading experience2022-07-14
- Blank gaps appear while scrolling, and text must be waited on before it can be read2022-02-13
- Scrolling is hijacked to play animations instead of just moving content2020-08-27
- Scroll-triggered animations and load splash screens distract users and slow things down2020-07-14
- Page jumps around when paging with spacebar, hiding parts of photos and confusing the reader2012-12-19