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1103 points MaxLeiter | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.565s | source
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pavlov ◴[] No.45124523[source]
Really great design.

This is the unicorn of fancy websites because for once, it actually makes sense to override browser's standard scrolling behavior. The 30-minute timeline on the right provides an obvious context for what you're navigating with the scroll actions, and you wouldn't be able to do that with a regular scrollbar.

Usually scrolling overrides happen because the designers' mindset was that the site should be a sequence of beautiful slides. They might prototype it as a Keynote presentation that is approved by management. And then some poor web developer gets tasked with building a site that feels like the Keynote slide show that everyone loved, and the only way to do that is to turn scrolling into an annoying "next slide" action.

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1. RataNova ◴[] No.45125991[source]
But here the timeline gives the scroll a clear purpose
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2. ThePowerOfFuet ◴[] No.45127072[source]
That's exactly what they said, right at the beginning of their comment.