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I really am over the stupid scroll hijacking sites.

by leetrout 2y ago

MathMonkeyMan 2y ago
Fucked up my phone jeez.
king_magic 2y ago
Seriously. This page looks and interacts like shit on my iPhone. Gave up and went to reader mode. Still sucks.
bmitc 2y ago
Agreed. Quanta has great content, but man alive, this particular "article" (?) is completely unbearable. I wish they'd just release these special issues as actual print magazines. I'd love to have them in the flesh, but Quanta very rarely publishes their stuff on paper.
jazzypants 2y ago
It's just gonna get worse now that it's easy to implement with CSS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll-driven_animations https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll-...
- leptons 2y ago
  Firefox and Safari don't support it. https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_animation-timeline_scroll https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_animation-timeline_sc...
  - jazzypants 2y ago
    That link mentions that Firefox already supports it if you change a setting, and Apple is literally currently implementing it. https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-June/031228.html https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-June/0312... https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=Scroll+animations https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=Scroll+animations
julianeon 2y ago
This "stupid site" is a national treasure. This is Quanta Magazine, which is printing high quality science stories that no one else approaches. If they went under those stories, like this one, would simply be lost. How can Quanta Magazine do that, when no other magazine can? It's because they're bankrolled by Jim Simons, the MIT-trained mathematician who co-founded Renaissance technologies and was called the "greatest hedge fund manager of all time" (he died this year). It's basically his gift to the world. We are lucky to have it.
- chamomeal 2y ago
  I love quanta magazine!! Always exciting to see quanta articles pop up on hacker news. They’re usually technical enough to be fascinating, but also accessible (and well-explained) enough that I can send them to my dad lol. I had no idea about Jim Simons. What a legend. I recently was looking to see if they had a physical subscription, and couldn’t find one. I actually didn’t even see anywhere to donate on the site!
- patcon 2y ago
  Thanks for this context!
tonfry 2y ago
After waiting for a few seconds I gave up and came here to determine if it was just me… nope. The site just sucks on mobile.
dang 2y ago
Personally I agree; however: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I really am over the stupid scroll hijacking sites.

MathMonkeyMan 2y ago

Fucked up my phone jeez.

king_magic 2y ago

Seriously. This page looks and interacts like shit on my iPhone. Gave up and went to reader mode. Still sucks.

bmitc 2y ago

Agreed. Quanta has great content, but man alive, this particular "article" (?) is completely unbearable. I wish they'd just release these special issues as actual print magazines. I'd love to have them in the flesh, but Quanta very rarely publishes their stuff on paper.

jazzypants 2y ago

It's just gonna get worse now that it's easy to implement with CSS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll-driven_animations https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_scroll-...

leptons 2y ago
Firefox and Safari don't support it. https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_animation-timeline_scroll https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_animation-timeline_sc...
- jazzypants 2y ago
  That link mentions that Firefox already supports it if you change a setting, and Apple is literally currently implementing it. https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-June/031228.html https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-June/0312... https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=Scroll+animations https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=Scroll+animations

julianeon 2y ago

This "stupid site" is a national treasure. This is Quanta Magazine, which is printing high quality science stories that no one else approaches. If they went under those stories, like this one, would simply be lost. How can Quanta Magazine do that, when no other magazine can? It's because they're bankrolled by Jim Simons, the MIT-trained mathematician who co-founded Renaissance technologies and was called the "greatest hedge fund manager of all time" (he died this year). It's basically his gift to the world. We are lucky to have it.

chamomeal 2y ago
I love quanta magazine!! Always exciting to see quanta articles pop up on hacker news. They’re usually technical enough to be fascinating, but also accessible (and well-explained) enough that I can send them to my dad lol. I had no idea about Jim Simons. What a legend. I recently was looking to see if they had a physical subscription, and couldn’t find one. I actually didn’t even see anywhere to donate on the site!
patcon 2y ago
Thanks for this context!

tonfry 2y ago

After waiting for a few seconds I gave up and came here to determine if it was just me… nope. The site just sucks on mobile.

dang 2y ago

Personally I agree; however: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html