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Web animations
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 7 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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Excessive animation distracts users and adds cognitive loadUnreviewed
20112026- Excessive animation distracts users and adds cognitive load, especially for sensitive users2025-04-16
- Flashy animations distract, slow responsiveness, and behave unexpectedly for users2017-01-09
- Animations distract users from the call to action button2013-03-13
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
- Excessive animation distracts users and adds cognitive load, especially for sensitive users2025-04-16
- Web pages reload and lose scroll position and state when user goes back2022-05-23
- Scroll animations are janky and low frame rate, causing headaches and nausea2020-10-01
- Designers can't use animation libraries because they lack an intuitive authoring interface2017-01-17
- Flashy animations distract, slow responsiveness, and behave unexpectedly for users2017-01-09
- Animations distract users from the call to action button2013-03-13
- Fade-in animation takes very long to load and display content2011-05-11