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Smooth scrolling
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 15 threads.
People raised many different problems with Smooth scrolling, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 16 complaints
- Smooth scrolling text is a poor design choice that hurts usability2025-09-06
- Animated smooth scrolling feels janky and slows down interaction2024-07-11
- Smooth scrolling feels mushy and laggy when interacting2024-01-04
- Scroll input becomes a slow animation instead of jumping to the target position2024-01-04
- Animated scrolling adds latency so the view lags behind the user's wish to see the target2023-11-04
- Hijacked scroll experience feels more annoying than styled scrollbars2023-06-13
- Smooth scrolling overshoots and does not start or stop instantly2022-10-16
- Scroll animations are annoying and mostly a net negative in practice2020-05-27
- Scrolling snaps to set levels, making it hard to scroll freely2020-05-18
- Smooth scrolling feels slow and distracting, so the user turns it off2018-12-27
- Page-down waits about 250ms before scrolling, so the page doesn't move immediately2018-09-22
- Smooth scrolling causes horrible screen tearing on Linux, so users disable it2017-03-21
- Smooth scrolling overshoots distance per scroll click, so pages skip far past where the user intended2016-06-28
- Smooth bouncy scrolling causes motion sickness and erratic scroll speeds2016-04-20
- Page scrolls too fast on swipe, ignoring the user's preferred scrolling speed2014-08-11
- Smooth scrolling feels like a wasted, interrupting delay when trying to concentrate2013-02-06