The webpage linked is an example of everything I wish people would stop doing in web design.

Fortunately, at the bottom there is a link to the "technical documentation" (https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/) which is vastly improved (aside from being light-mode-only and linked from a dark-mode-only marketing page). It also gives me much more interesting information (specifically: models that can apparently run acceptably on a Pi 5).

Please let me read your content with a scrollbar that works the way scroll bars are supposed to, rather than turning everything into a weird slide show where you don't actually know when the next slide is coming. Please let me just click on buttons that look like links to more information, without JavaScript.

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alansaber 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why can't technical people appreciate that us, the silent majority, love having our scroll hijacked? I can't remember the last time I used a scroll bar to navigate a website, but using it to navigate between choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy.

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lelandfe 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn’t scroll hijacking

You can scroll normally, with all your favorite keys, or go super fast to the bottom

It’s just scroll animations. Bad ones, admittedly.

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mrandish 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> just scroll animations. Bad ones

Scroll animations, post-grid floating voids, bouncy house dampening, hyper rounded... everything. These are the 50s Chevy fins of today.

I've enjoyed working with some great designers over the years, Stanford D-School and even wild-raised. All the good ones intuitively steered clear of trends destined to be era-stamp tropes. They'd say, "I can already hear the ghosts of design-future mocking me: 'That's so early-AI' and 'Yo, the mid-20s called and wants their bento grid back.'"

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cj 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> You can scroll normally

Except you can’t.

I scroll down, and the content of the page doesn’t move as expected.

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ProllyInfamous 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just use your page_up/page_down keys, and you can skip all the stupid/excessive scrolling requirements.

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janderson215 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Now that iPhone has switched to USB-C, I can plug in my Apple Extended Keyboard directly without needing a dongle. It’s like magic.

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arethuza 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I now have visions of an Apple Extended Extended Keyboard that comes with a crank...

	▲	DrewADesign 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s nothing new. In fact, many of the comments on this site were made by keyboards with cranks. Er… I meant to say cranks with keyboards. Sorry. It was a rough weekend.

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TurkTurkleton an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Not even an ADB-to-USB dongle?

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Natfan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

how do i press these buttons on my android phone?

	▲	Joe_Cool 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Connect Keyboard, Press PgDn. Or what I actually use for ssh on the road: https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard Google kicked it from their store because it still supports older Androids but it still works just fine on the latest versions. It's on F-Droid.

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butlike an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If they're not scroll hijacking, then we're just jacking it ourselves. Think about it.

Thanks, web designers <3

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lukan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"love having our scroll hijacked? "

You are the silent majority?

No doubt non technical people have different UX experience than tech nerd, but I have seen plenty of "normal" people curse at artsy fluffy design, that made known navigation skills useless and nobody likes their time wasted.

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latexr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Pretty sure your parent comment was being sarcastic. Why else would they write “choppy javascript keyframes fills me with joy”?

	▲	lukan 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Well, I missed that word, but my irony/sarcasm detector has lately been a bit uncalibrated by the current zeitgeist.
	▲	psygn89 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The "choppy" JS keyframes helps give it a cinematic and authentic feel. /s

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SunshineTheCat 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Choosing "form over function" has been the hallmark of bad design since flash and I don't see that tradition changing anytime soon, even with AI.

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loire280 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I agree this type of web design sucks. It's been common for more than a decade - I remember Apple getting criticized for using this on the product page for the old "trash can" Mac Pro in 2013, and it was already widely used back then.

However, it seems pretty clear to me they did this in service of a joke - you have to "crank" your scroll wheel to get to the content, just like you have to crank this device. I think it's funny...

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niko323 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Great prop for a Black Mirror episode about AI use in a post-apocalyptic world. Everywhere you go, all you hear is brrrrr..brrr..brrrr followed by people mumbling.

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gchamonlive 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Calling this web design is giving it too much credit. This is just a glorified marketing pamphlet, which is fine for its purpose.

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Chrise_N 3 hours ago | parent [-]

boo wendy boo. i liked it.

	▲	gchamonlive an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Who's Wendy?

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squarefoot 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Totally agree on the atrocious landing page. The technical one is much better, although the power supply circuit by using a resistive balancer and a linear regulator wastes some good power for nothing.

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larodi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Twas probably also prompted… to pile irony over...

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pbronez 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah this is a better link https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/

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trueno 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

yea i can't stand this. im not so boomer i want every webpage to be like. times new roman white background and just using <p></p> and bulleted lists, but idk i cant even put a finger on what im not enjoying here. think it's possibly using scrolling as a way to try and force me to read through stuff. jokes on them, i can't read. not giving me the agency to click around into info that interests me drives me nuts, chances are im just gonna keep scrolling at 1000mph and eye scan until i see what im looking for virtually zero chance im going to sit through the experience of every carefully designed scroll-slide they've tried to present to me here.

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neonstatic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This website is satire, right?

P.S. I agree with you 100%