Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Smooth scrolling on websites
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 6 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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Forced smooth scrolling overrides personal scroll preferenceUnreviewed
20132026- Scrolling feels sluggish, like wading through mud, due to site-imposed smooth scrolling2026-05-11
- Forced smooth scrolling overrides the user's own scroll preference and makes browsing worse2017-03-21
- Smooth scroll hijacks scrolling that users disabled in browser settings and is hard to turn off2016-06-28
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 6 complaints
- Scrolling feels sluggish, like wading through mud, due to site-imposed smooth scrolling2026-05-11
- Page scrolls far too sensitively on trackpads, jumping whole page lengths from light touches2019-02-11
- Forced smooth scrolling overrides the user's own scroll preference and makes browsing worse2017-03-21
- Smooth scroll hijacks scrolling that users disabled in browser settings and is hard to turn off2016-06-28
- Page keeps skidding after swipe, making precise scrolling to a position frustrating2016-02-17
- Slow scrolling animation to top is frustrating; users want it fast2013-02-06