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Does anyone actually like websites that mess with scrolling like that?
Marketing consultants and web designers, mostly. It's a cash cow for them. Companies will inexplicably pay large sums of money for a dynamic website with such ass user experience.
It must look really good in board meetings when they run it on commercial-grade hardware to show their bosses, otherwise I can't imagine anyone involved has actually tried using those websites.
CEOs and shareholders seem to like them too for some reason. Maybe it bumps up their company valuation or something? Or gives them a reason to give lucrative contracts to their cousin's brother-in-law's nephew's freelance business?
I do. It looks neat. Note that I am a hobbyist web dev and I automatically like all shiny web stuff :)
When it's badly made, like this, yeah. A recent example that I did like is the website for the Dragons Dogma 2 expansion:
https://www.dragonsdogma.com/2da/en-us/
I don't like it on desktop but goddamn, it sucks even more on mobile. I was swiping to scroll through the stupid horizontal menu and then when I got to the bottom of it, turns out I was scrolling so fast I basically teleported to the bottom of the page.
I automatically assume their 'ui update' is bad based on their website alone.
NO. Especially on mobile, it really sucks
I guess some people consider it cool. I'm not one of them.
Hate it on desktop, especially with a mouse. On mobile/trackpad it can be ‘ok’, I thought this worked well enough (not laggy or buggy) for me on mobile. But yeah, I do wish this “design” would end, just let me scroll at my own pace god damn it
Page up/down works just fine.
Not on a phone they don't.