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The expressed goal is emotionally impacting UX. They clearly got strong emotions out of you. Mission accomplished!

echelon 1y ago
It's not just a laggy mouse. I scrolled through half a page of a completely black screen. On a high powered machine with lots of bandwidth and low latency. The designers here have lost the plot.
- Ghoelian 1y ago
  Can't even move the mouse while scrolling lmao
- riffraff 1y ago
  I'm on mobile and scrolled through most of this waiting for images to load, and wondering why I didn't see any.
- jchw 1y ago
  Very unusually, everything is working and smooth on Fennec F-Droid for me. Usually it's the opposite but it happens more often these days.
  - jchw 1y ago
    I know you aren't supposed to comment on it, but man, you just never know what will set people off on this site, and god knows they won't tell you. Are people bothered that I chimed in to say "works for me" or that I insinuated Fennec F-Droid is usually less smooth than the Webkit-based mobile browsers? I'll never know for sure. Sometimes with Hacker News, whether a comment is actually well-received feels like a dice roll.
    - nomel 1y ago
      My naive guess is that it's a null hypothesis situation. You not seeing a problem isn't a useful indicator for if there is a problem. More than that, it probably hits too close to home for mostly software devs, with the dreaded "Well it works on my machine."
      - jchw 1y ago
        Must be something like that. More than anything, I'd love to know why Firefox seems to be winning on this page; practically the opposite of what you'd expect out of Google pages (because, even without a tinfoil hat on, it's clear they don't test on Firefox often). Maybe uBlock Origin is just cutting out some poorly-written script, who knows.
- radlad 1y ago
  Working perfectly fine in LibreWolf on macOS. Huh.
  - therein 1y ago
    The cursor was laggy for about 10-15 seconds on my M4 Max after the page loaded, my only sin is probably not using Chrome. 34% modernity, 32% subculture, 30% rebelliousness made me cringe.
billfor 1y ago
And they are very well paid for all that work!
- johnisgood 1y ago
  I could do way better and I am not even a web developer. Their talent is social networking and/or securing the job somehow. :P
Perepiska 1y ago
Macbook air M1 scrolls text in Firefox fast and smoothly...
- ryanwhitney 1y ago
  “then spend zero brainpower on systems without graphics acceleration”
  - ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
    I don't know what graphics acceleration mean in this context, but my 5-year old computer, with 4 Gb of RAM and no discreet graphics card didn't witness any lag.
- BHSPitMonkey 1y ago
  I don't think it's performance bottlenecking so much as that the site is capturing the cursor and taking over its physics/acceleration, I think? Which probably isn't noticeable as long as the acceleration is similar to how your OS shell is configured, but was definitely noticeable for me on GNOME.

It's not just a laggy mouse. I scrolled through half a page of a completely black screen. On a high powered machine with lots of bandwidth and low latency. The designers here have lost the plot.

Ghoelian 1y ago
Can't even move the mouse while scrolling lmao
riffraff 1y ago
I'm on mobile and scrolled through most of this waiting for images to load, and wondering why I didn't see any.
jchw 1y ago
Very unusually, everything is working and smooth on Fennec F-Droid for me. Usually it's the opposite but it happens more often these days.
- jchw 1y ago
  I know you aren't supposed to comment on it, but man, you just never know what will set people off on this site, and god knows they won't tell you. Are people bothered that I chimed in to say "works for me" or that I insinuated Fennec F-Droid is usually less smooth than the Webkit-based mobile browsers? I'll never know for sure. Sometimes with Hacker News, whether a comment is actually well-received feels like a dice roll.
  - nomel 1y ago
    My naive guess is that it's a null hypothesis situation. You not seeing a problem isn't a useful indicator for if there is a problem. More than that, it probably hits too close to home for mostly software devs, with the dreaded "Well it works on my machine."
    - jchw 1y ago
      Must be something like that. More than anything, I'd love to know why Firefox seems to be winning on this page; practically the opposite of what you'd expect out of Google pages (because, even without a tinfoil hat on, it's clear they don't test on Firefox often). Maybe uBlock Origin is just cutting out some poorly-written script, who knows.
radlad 1y ago
Working perfectly fine in LibreWolf on macOS. Huh.
- therein 1y ago
  The cursor was laggy for about 10-15 seconds on my M4 Max after the page loaded, my only sin is probably not using Chrome. 34% modernity, 32% subculture, 30% rebelliousness made me cringe.

billfor 1y ago

And they are very well paid for all that work!

johnisgood 1y ago
I could do way better and I am not even a web developer. Their talent is social networking and/or securing the job somehow. :P

Perepiska 1y ago

Macbook air M1 scrolls text in Firefox fast and smoothly...

ryanwhitney 1y ago
“then spend zero brainpower on systems without graphics acceleration”
- ahmedfromtunis 1y ago
  I don't know what graphics acceleration mean in this context, but my 5-year old computer, with 4 Gb of RAM and no discreet graphics card didn't witness any lag.
BHSPitMonkey 1y ago
I don't think it's performance bottlenecking so much as that the site is capturing the cursor and taking over its physics/acceleration, I think? Which probably isn't noticeable as long as the acceleration is similar to how your OS shell is configured, but was definitely noticeable for me on GNOME.