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I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content tha

I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.

MaxikCZ 2y ago
I guess it looks nice when cached, but i am just scrolling empty page and when I stop, after a second I get random picture. An epitome of atrocious design
OvbiousError 2y ago
Agreed, at this point a lot of websites have become laggy human-powered movies.
bschwindHN 2y ago
It's funny, you can basically play back the first animation in dev tools by just scrolling through all the media requests. Each frame of the animation is a separate PNG.
- niutech 2y ago
  Why don't they provide an MP4 and show it frame-by-frame on scroll? It would be much more efficient than hundreds of PNGs.
- jagged-chisel 2y ago
  this pains me :-(
lopis 2y ago
Rest assured the website is as smooth as gravel on desktop too.
- agmater 2y ago
  Almost gave myself a seizure trying to scroll down.
beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
I agree, but I also enjoy the way that they've emulated the apple website experience for product pages.
- caseyohara 2y ago
  Except Apple's product pages are smooth and performant.
fkyoureadthedoc 2y ago
Wouldn't be hacker news without a comment shedding the bike to talk about the design of the page and make no mention of the actual product. The scrolling worked fine for me for what it's worth, and is obviously a knockoff of apple product pages. Satirical even I'd say.
- wmeredith 2y ago
  Bike shedding is bike shedding because the color we paint the bike shed at the nuclear power plant doesn't matter. If people can't use your scroll-jacked website to even learn about your product, that matters.
  - fkyoureadthedoc 2y ago
    Wouldn't be hacker news without a comment explaining why their bike shedding is actually good and necessary.

MaxikCZ 2y ago

I guess it looks nice when cached, but i am just scrolling empty page and when I stop, after a second I get random picture. An epitome of atrocious design

OvbiousError 2y ago

Agreed, at this point a lot of websites have become laggy human-powered movies.

bschwindHN 2y ago

It's funny, you can basically play back the first animation in dev tools by just scrolling through all the media requests. Each frame of the animation is a separate PNG.

niutech 2y ago
Why don't they provide an MP4 and show it frame-by-frame on scroll? It would be much more efficient than hundreds of PNGs.
jagged-chisel 2y ago
this pains me :-(

lopis 2y ago

Rest assured the website is as smooth as gravel on desktop too.

agmater 2y ago
Almost gave myself a seizure trying to scroll down.

beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago

I agree, but I also enjoy the way that they've emulated the apple website experience for product pages.

caseyohara 2y ago
Except Apple's product pages are smooth and performant.

fkyoureadthedoc 2y ago

Wouldn't be hacker news without a comment shedding the bike to talk about the design of the page and make no mention of the actual product. The scrolling worked fine for me for what it's worth, and is obviously a knockoff of apple product pages. Satirical even I'd say.

wmeredith 2y ago
Bike shedding is bike shedding because the color we paint the bike shed at the nuclear power plant doesn't matter. If people can't use your scroll-jacked website to even learn about your product, that matters.
- fkyoureadthedoc 2y ago
  Wouldn't be hacker news without a comment explaining why their bike shedding is actually good and necessary.