Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Web scrolling
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 15 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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Web scrollbars are poorly designed and lack standard controlsUnreviewed
20112026- Scrollbars are disabled, and the one that appears is black on black, so it's hard to see2025-04-02
- Thin static scrollbars on the web are annoyingly small and hard to grab, unlike overlay scrollbars2023-10-13
- Web scrollbars are poorly designed, and standardized controls for web interfaces are lacking2023-10-13
Mouse wheel scrolling is slow, with annoying easingUnreviewed
20112026- Page scrolling is very slow with an annoying easing effect on mouse wheel2026-08-31
- Page scroll stops or stutters when mouse hovers over a nested scrollable text box2020-08-28
- Scrolling feels laggy and unresponsive in Chrome, dropping frames2015-05-02
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
- Page scrolling is very slow with an annoying easing effect on mouse wheel2026-08-31
- Scrollbars are disabled, and the one that appears is black on black, so it's hard to see2025-04-02
- Thin static scrollbars on the web are annoyingly small and hard to grab, unlike overlay scrollbars2023-10-13
- Web scrollbars are poorly designed, and standardized controls for web interfaces are lacking2023-10-13
- Arrow keys change pages in a way the user finds counter-intuitive2023-09-19
- Scrolling webpages is imprecise and often causes accidental clicks on unintended links2023-09-15
- Custom smooth-scrolling overrides make scrolling feel sluggish like molasses2023-08-05
- Page scroll stops or stutters when mouse hovers over a nested scrollable text box2020-08-28
- Site-styled scrollbars look pretty but hurt usability, so users must hunt for settings2019-09-12
- Keyboard scrolling does not work until the user clicks or tabs into the page2018-04-25
- Default line-by-line scrolling misaligns with text lines and block elements, requiring tweaks2017-03-16
- Custom scroll implementations break PageUp, space bar, accessibility tools and other standard scrolling methods2015-05-05
- Scrolling feels laggy and unresponsive in Chrome, dropping frames2015-05-02
- Page forces scroll position so user cannot control it and can't find how to stop it2013-03-06
- No visual marker for current reading position, so readers lose their place while scrolling2013-01-12
- Scroll handlers fire dozens of events on trackpads, making scroll-triggered behaviour unusable2011-09-13