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 4 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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TurkTurkleton an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Not even an ADB-to-USB dongle?

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arethuza 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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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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