holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling.
Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.
When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.
There may be a message in that.
It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about.
IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.
very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about
If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.
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holy cow, every time there's a Show HN, there's always someone who shits on the web-page "hijacking" the scrolling. It's annoying commentary because you're looking at it through a very narrow lens that 99% of the people don't care about. For non-technical people, it's more intuitive having the screen-focused on the main content.
Only when the Show HN is of a website that hijacks scrolling.
When it doesn't, surprisingly, there are neither complaints about hijacking scrolling nor complaints that would be resolved by hijacking scrolling.
There may be a message in that.
IME, non-technical people are thrown even harder by violations of basic platform UI conventions like hijacking scrolling or having no indication that scrolling is necessary.
If I thought that was a really nice product and sent the link to my dad (he likes gadgets and cars, after all), he'd have no clue what to do after landing on the page. He usually drags the scroll bar to navigate a webpage. Good job on alienating a huge portion of your potential users.
Here's what dang said, over a year ago, agreeing with you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739
It's a good point.
This one is way worse than most because it's so inconsistent.