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huem0n 1y ago
It works well for me on mobile
Normal_gaussian 1y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the author does not in fact specialise in web design, and thus its quite expected that when they do something unusual that it won't work for some portion of the audience. It works fine on some mobiles.
rzwitserloot 1y ago
This could have easily been a youtube short or whatever 'vine offshoot' is your particular favourite flavour. On one hand, videos are terrible for accessibility. On the other hand, by being a website, in theory this stands a better shot. And yet, someone on a mobile phone probably has a much worse experience trying to consume this content than the equivalent as a series of shorts, one for each letter. I don't know what conclusions we are meant to draw. I just found it an interesting realisation.
blahgeek 1y ago
This page works beautifully in my iPhone. As I scroll down, the content slides and animates. I actually came here to say that I’m stunned that this effect can be good in mobile, only to find out your comment :D
- niek_pas 1y ago
  I'm on iPhone too; I'm referring to the way scrolling down with your finger animates the content sideways, which I really don't think works well — it would have been better to just be able to scroll sideways.
- wpm 1y ago
  As I scroll down, the content moves side to side which is vomitous and disorienting.
dfee 1y ago
I tried scrolling right and left and reloaded the page a couple times. Turns out scrolling down is translated to scrolling left.
RHSeeger 1y ago
Its not even just mobile. Scrolling down on my desktop using the scroll wheel... Page goes down, then right, then down. I find it disorienting and completely turns me away from the site. I've seen it before and every time, it's a net negative to the site in question; sometimes a lot.
jeroenhd 1y ago
It's not immediately intuitive but hardly unusable. Reminds me of apple.com (and that's not a compliment).
dang 1y ago
"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

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It works well for me on mobile

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the author does not in fact specialise in web design, and thus its quite expected that when they do something unusual that it won't work for some portion of the audience. It works fine on some mobiles.

rzwitserloot 1y ago

This could have easily been a youtube short or whatever 'vine offshoot' is your particular favourite flavour. On one hand, videos are terrible for accessibility. On the other hand, by being a website, in theory this stands a better shot. And yet, someone on a mobile phone probably has a much worse experience trying to consume this content than the equivalent as a series of shorts, one for each letter. I don't know what conclusions we are meant to draw. I just found it an interesting realisation.

blahgeek 1y ago

This page works beautifully in my iPhone. As I scroll down, the content slides and animates. I actually came here to say that I’m stunned that this effect can be good in mobile, only to find out your comment :D

niek_pas 1y ago
I'm on iPhone too; I'm referring to the way scrolling down with your finger animates the content sideways, which I really don't think works well — it would have been better to just be able to scroll sideways.
wpm 1y ago
As I scroll down, the content moves side to side which is vomitous and disorienting.

dfee 1y ago

I tried scrolling right and left and reloaded the page a couple times. Turns out scrolling down is translated to scrolling left.

RHSeeger 1y ago

Its not even just mobile. Scrolling down on my desktop using the scroll wheel... Page goes down, then right, then down. I find it disorienting and completely turns me away from the site. I've seen it before and every time, it's a net negative to the site in question; sometimes a lot.

jeroenhd 1y ago

It's not immediately intuitive but hardly unusable. Reminds me of apple.com (and that's not a compliment).

dang 1y ago

"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