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1103 points MaxLeiter | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 05:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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saberience ◴[04 Sep 25 09:14 UTC] No.45125234[source]▶
I know it's supposed to be fancy and cool looking but this sort of website design where you have to scroll and then the whole screen animates really bothers me. It actually gives me a headache to try and follow it versus normal scrolling behaviour and text.

As soon as I start scrolling down and I can't scroll normally and images and text start flying around I feel a disturbing feeling in my head and lose concentration and almost get brain-fog from the distracting content moving around.

Please provide more accessible versions of websites if you're going to override the default behavior. I couldn't make it 10 seconds before having to close the tab.

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1. qnpnp ◴[04 Sep 25 09:25 UTC] No.45125298[source]▶
Sometimes this is indeed merely "fancy" and vacuous, but other times it is a meaningful and more engaging way to present the content. I feel like this is an example of the latter.

Even if you're not a fan and would have done it differently, it seems a bit hard to understand what could be so bothersome that you have to close it in 10s...

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2. saberience ◴[04 Sep 25 10:02 UTC] No.45125506[source]▶
Well, it literally makes me feel almost nauseous, i.e. I felt physically unwell from the images and text moving around the screen.

Note: this doesnt happen from a regular video, or normal scrolling text behaviour. Just sites like this that combine overriding the scroll bar with moving text and images.

3. llm_nerd ◴[04 Sep 25 12:13 UTC] No.45126363[source]▶
I often like the use of advanced media. The NYT and Washington Post have done some amazing advanced media that fully exploits the richness possible with the web.

Not so sure about this one, though. Like others, I was more annoyed with the constant scrolling to get tiny niblets of information and didn't even make it through. It makes it feel like work and the mechanisms completely overwhelms the message.

Also weird that it's hogging CPU even when you're sitting on a completely static portion of the page.