I think a website is similar to a painting. Some will make you dizzy by just looking at them, and others will be a minimalist dream.
Don’t hate me HN, but I say keep messing with the scroll bar, keep making annoying blinking banners, have your way with scroll fade.
Don’t listen to these web dev veterans, they are just like snobby movie critics!
Reminds me of me the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com.
> Shit's legible and gets your fucking point across (if you had one instead of just 5mb pics of hipsters drinking coffee)
First time I'm seeing a "no AI" used to differentiate a work for hire.
Can't say this wasn't obviously coming. Boutique hand-coded consultancies/software-houses are probably going to spring up a lot.
I truly don't know how this is possible or how should I turn it off completely. There are some settings in Firefox but the ones I have tried do not work.
This is one of the worst things I have seen in many years, along with all the other aberrations that are already spread on the net.
Scrolling to the bottom then forcing me to click "show more"? Lazy. A truly horrible experience. I don't know how anyone could think that is a good idea. The worst offenders are the ones showing me products. You might as well not have pages of products at all. Just tell me these 12 are the only ones you have because I've already lost interest. Not that most web stores are any good - most have no useful ability to search or browse so finding anything is like digging through a junk drawer. It all screams "we hate selling product, please go away".
Next worst? Everything Google makes and all the fools who copied them: scroll down, scrolling hard stops, then a few seconds later the next segment of content loads. The scrollbar position is naught but lies. WHY??? Are you proud of that? Because you shouldn't be. You should be ashamed. Demand-load the content behind the scenes so scrolling is continuous and smooth. If the user scrolls fast then skip pages and/or cancel prior requests. The scrolling is the priority, lazy-load the content as needed... but for f*k sake don't do what Google does.
The top worst: hijacking scrolling for any form of animation or to change direction. Absolutely horrid and I leave any webpage that does this out of spite. This just screams "I'M A DESIGNER, LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!!!". It is code equivalent of being "too clever", but for UX. If you don't want people to buy your product or signup for your service but instead be impressed by your ability to vomit out D-E-S-I-G-N then by all means proceed. Everyone is guilty of this, even those who should know better.
Fading the entire content very fast, so fast that it's barely perceptible is actually better on the eyes.
Blinking hurts. Fast changing contrast hurts. The fade is a natural effect I use everywhere almost. My eyes never complained, rather are grateful for the small effort it takes to get right
Its like anything though. I think people just thought it was a cool effect and so it wasn't about page speed any more, it was just about something people used to add some panache to their sites.
Kind of like people who've been abusing modals for the last decade or so. lol
And also completely functional and accessible but where's the fun in that?