Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Scrolljacking
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 17 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Hijacked page scrolling makes the site borderline unusableUnreviewed
20092026- Scrolling is hijacked and paragraphs jump or fade in while reading, making text hard to follow2025-05-29
- Site hijacks scrolling, so reader loses their place when reading near window edges2023-10-04
- Page scrolling is hijacked, making the site borderline unusable and degrading the experience2022-02-10
Hijacked scrolling stops only at predefined positions, needing more wheel turnsUnreviewed
20092026- Smallest scroll gesture moves the page more than intended, making scrolling frustrating2016-04-19
- Scrolling triggers section changes, so it is harder to navigate and hard to tell how much is left2015-07-03
- Scrolling is hijacked, so you can only stop at predefined positions and must turn the wheel far more2013-11-04
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 18 complaints
- Scrolling is hijacked and paragraphs jump or fade in while reading, making text hard to follow2025-05-29
- Site hijacks scrolling, so reader loses their place when reading near window edges2023-10-04
- Sticky banners make scrolling take unintuitive amounts of movement at certain points2022-10-11
- Page scrolling is hijacked, making the site borderline unusable and degrading the experience2022-02-10
- Scrolling hijacked by JavaScript; page cannot be scrolled without JavaScript2021-02-18
- Scroll hijacking wastes seconds and defies expectations, hurting usability2020-08-03
- Scrolling is broken or barely usable in Firefox and Chrome on high-DPI screens2020-04-28
- Hijacked scrolling feels jarring, making readers reconsider reading the content2020-02-03
- Smallest scroll gesture moves the page more than intended, making scrolling frustrating2016-04-19
- Scrolljacking breaks inertial scrolling on touchscreen laptops2015-11-30
- Scrolling is overridden, so pages don't scroll normally and reading is interrupted2015-11-30
- Sites hijack scrolling, forcing full-page jumps instead of normal scrolling2015-11-07
- Scrolling is hijacked, so the page is unusable in Safari2015-09-07
- Scrolling triggers section changes, so it is harder to navigate and hard to tell how much is left2015-07-03
- Scroll effects on websites are horrible to use and won't advance past a point2014-11-03
- Scrolling is hijacked, so you can only stop at predefined positions and must turn the wheel far more2013-11-04
- On touch devices only tiny forward and backward arrows and very little text per page2013-01-11
- Scrolling behaves confusingly, making the site hard to navigate2009-12-11