Scrolljacking Complaints

The cluster centers on users' widespread frustration with websites that hijack or manipulate standard scrolling behavior, making navigation disorienting, slow, and hard to skim content.

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danwin.com OP UI IIRC scrolling scroll page content infinite footer hijack site clicking experience

Sample Comments

advocaat23 β€’ Sep 25, 2014 β€’ View on HN

Wow, again a page that messes with the scrolling experience? What's up with that? Terrible user experience.

randyrand β€’ Oct 3, 2021 β€’ View on HN

wow that is truly awful scrolling. why would they ever implement this?

kcbanner β€’ Sep 2, 2015 β€’ View on HN

Your strange scrolling webpage makes it hard to read the actual content without scrolling past. Why do people insist on using this broken scrolling behaviour.

hartator β€’ Apr 12, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Thanks for hijacking my scrolling. I really don't like having a consistent experience across pages.

alfanick β€’ Sep 28, 2016 β€’ View on HN

don't ever mess with my scrolling experience

__xtrimsky β€’ Jul 18, 2014 β€’ View on HN

agreed, scrolling is unpleasant.

dudu24 β€’ Nov 18, 2025 β€’ View on HN

I cannot stand webpages that hijack scrolling like that.

xorvoid β€’ Apr 3, 2025 β€’ View on HN

The scrolling effect is very disorienting for me. I want the read the article, but it’s disrupting my focus significantly. Is there a version without all to fancy effects?

VectorLock β€’ Apr 3, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Was about to post the same. This might be the most frustrating scrolling I've ever encountered.

radagaisus β€’ Apr 11, 2012 β€’ View on HN

Constant scrolling feels awful. It if would just jump ahead every few seconds or so it will be less painful.