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Website scrolling
Raised as a usability problem by 36 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 38 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Scrolling responds slowly and tops out at an oddly low speedUnreviewed
20102026- Scrolling responds slowly and has a weirdly low maximum speed2026-07-01
- Scrolling is altered by added smoothing, interfering with normal page scrolling2025-04-03
- Mouse wheel scroll moves unpredictably; extra clicks produce no extra movement unless paused2022-03-17
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 38 complaints
- Scrolling responds slowly and has a weirdly low maximum speed2026-07-01
- Scrollbar sits one pixel off the edge, so clicking it at the edge misses2025-10-07
- Scrolling is altered by added smoothing, interfering with normal page scrolling2025-04-03
- 3-pixel-wide scrollbar requires very exact pointing to use2024-10-29
- Thin scrollbar is hard to hover over and click on2024-07-12
- Sites hide the default scrollbar and replace it with something that doesn't always show or is barely obvious2024-06-24
- Redundant on-page scroll indicator duplicates the browser scroll bar and adds clutter2023-12-02
- Browsers hide the regular scroll bar, so the page has to add its own progress bar2023-01-26
- Scrollbar is made very skinny, hard to grab and use2022-08-06
- Mouse wheel scroll moves unpredictably; extra clicks produce no extra movement unless paused2022-03-17
- Scrolling keeps running after the wheel stops, so users overshoot and must scroll back2022-01-18
- Hijacked scrolling breaks expected behavior and breaks in-page text search2021-12-22
- Page scrolling broke when using keyboard scroll commands, so it felt wrong2021-11-26
- The page's scrolling is horrible to use on phones and touchpads2021-10-02
- Custom scroll speed makes scrolling faster or slower than normal2021-04-03
- Page scrolls too far on tiny trackpad movements, hijacking scroll control2021-03-26
- Website hijacks scrolling, making the page hard to read2020-06-12
- Page stops scrolling after JS pins the menu to the top on Android2019-09-12
- Custom scrolling is laggy, adds unwanted smoothing, and lacks middle-click and autoscroll2019-08-13
- Pages hijack scrolling, making the experience jerky and buggy2019-03-15
- Scrolling was altered, making page navigation unbearably slow2018-10-02
- Page breaks the scrollbar, so scrolling behaves unpredictably and inconsistently2017-12-12
- Page scrolls oddly on iPhone Chrome, losing smooth scrolling and bouncing back2017-11-22
- Page scrolling stutters constantly, even on a fast computer2016-09-28
- Scrolling behaves unexpectedly, forcing users to pay active attention2016-03-01
- Page scrolling is broken, so the reader switches to reader mode2016-02-11
- Sites reimplementing scrolling behave worse than native scrolling2015-10-09
- Page scrolls to the top after loading, unlike normal browser behaviour, making it unpleasant with a mouse2015-09-09
- Scrolling is hijacked by an animation, making the page annoying to navigate2015-07-24
- Scrolling switches to another article or does nothing, so the text can't be read2015-07-10
- Horizontal arrow keys change articles instead of normal browser behavior2014-11-01
- Overridden trackpad scrolling lands somewhere unexpected, feeling disorienting2014-10-11
- Custom scrolling feels bad on high-speed trackpads and free-scroll mouse wheels2014-09-13
- Redesigned scroll behavior makes websites worse to use in most cases2014-06-26
- Dragging the scroll thumb makes long pages jump and skip sections2014-04-09
- Scroll keys like arrows, PgDn and spacebar stop working on the page2013-08-25
- Hard for people with poor mouse skills to hit the tiny scroll arrows2013-04-01
- Replaces native scrollbars so scrolling needs clicking a button instead of scroll wheel2010-03-10