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The fact that they hijack scrolling to artificially limit scroll speed is insane to me. Feels like I'm trying to navigate through molasses

lpcvoid 7mo ago
Imagine the MBA that had this idea. This is peak, distilled Microslop engineering right there.
- thunky 7mo ago
  It's the user's fault. They vote for this crap with their attention. Junk sites like this shouldn't exist but they do amd aren't going anywhere until people stop using them.
  - kalaksi 7mo ago
    Some users might enable these kind of features with their attention, but I don't think users actually want these features and any kind of "voting" is likely unintentional. It's manipulation. The fault lies mainly with the company and their carefully planned dark patterns. Ideally, users should punish them by e.g. leaving the platform but there's friction that may be a bigger problem than the dark patterns (depending on user). And I don't think there are any platforms that always guarantee good user experience now and in the future. Not sure if users even realize what the dark patterns are and do. Users aren't all-knowing, with endless time, carefully balancing their attention to try to provide markets with the optimal signal to wisely guide the misbehaving actors.
  - philistine 7mo ago
    Users are not perfect agents. How can you expect the average non-technical person to figure out what is happening? For most people, if they don't see visually see something happening on the screen, it doesn't exist. They simply have no frame of reference to figure out that LinkedIN is hijacking their scroll speed.
  - shimman 7mo ago
    Is it really the users fault when the apps are literally designed by neuroscientists that explicitly design it to be addictive toward humans all of which is being funded by monopolists companies whose leadership tend to have antidemocratic views about humanity? Maybe we should finally regulate these addict boxes as the dangerous substances they are.
- baal80spam 7mo ago
  Nah, it's just bad engineering, period. I "like" aljazeera too - they hijack your freaking PageDn and PageUp keys.
kjkjadksj 7mo ago
Scroll down through jobs, hit next page. Page reloads at bottom of list on next page. Have to scroll up then scroll down, every page. Baffles me ui like this exists in 2026.
- wiseowise 7mo ago
  VC money.
hrmtst93837 7mo ago
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koinedad 7mo ago
The scroll jacking drives me nuts
Banditoz 7mo ago
I recently found a bypass for this. Put this in your ublock origin custom rules: www.linkedin.com##main:style(font-size: 16px !important;)
ChrisRR 7mo ago
I hate sites that do that. I can only assume it's some webdev who ran out of tasks and is just trying to look busy

lpcvoid 7mo ago

Imagine the MBA that had this idea. This is peak, distilled Microslop engineering right there.

thunky 7mo ago
It's the user's fault. They vote for this crap with their attention. Junk sites like this shouldn't exist but they do amd aren't going anywhere until people stop using them.
- kalaksi 7mo ago
  Some users might enable these kind of features with their attention, but I don't think users actually want these features and any kind of "voting" is likely unintentional. It's manipulation. The fault lies mainly with the company and their carefully planned dark patterns. Ideally, users should punish them by e.g. leaving the platform but there's friction that may be a bigger problem than the dark patterns (depending on user). And I don't think there are any platforms that always guarantee good user experience now and in the future. Not sure if users even realize what the dark patterns are and do. Users aren't all-knowing, with endless time, carefully balancing their attention to try to provide markets with the optimal signal to wisely guide the misbehaving actors.
- philistine 7mo ago
  Users are not perfect agents. How can you expect the average non-technical person to figure out what is happening? For most people, if they don't see visually see something happening on the screen, it doesn't exist. They simply have no frame of reference to figure out that LinkedIN is hijacking their scroll speed.
- shimman 7mo ago
  Is it really the users fault when the apps are literally designed by neuroscientists that explicitly design it to be addictive toward humans all of which is being funded by monopolists companies whose leadership tend to have antidemocratic views about humanity? Maybe we should finally regulate these addict boxes as the dangerous substances they are.
baal80spam 7mo ago
Nah, it's just bad engineering, period. I "like" aljazeera too - they hijack your freaking PageDn and PageUp keys.

kjkjadksj 7mo ago

Scroll down through jobs, hit next page. Page reloads at bottom of list on next page. Have to scroll up then scroll down, every page. Baffles me ui like this exists in 2026.

wiseowise 7mo ago
VC money.

hrmtst93837 7mo ago

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koinedad 7mo ago

The scroll jacking drives me nuts

Banditoz 7mo ago

I recently found a bypass for this. Put this in your ublock origin custom rules: www.linkedin.com##main:style(font-size: 16px !important;)

ChrisRR 7mo ago

I hate sites that do that. I can only assume it's some webdev who ran out of tasks and is just trying to look busy