Tell HN: In my entire life, I have never enjoyed a scrolljacking website

Not once.

I don't care how hard you worked on it, I don't care how many web technologies you abused to get it working, I don't care how many hits or views or conversions or whatchamacallits it got for you.

If I visit your website and I see a scrolljacking, window-breaking, bandwidth hogging accessibility nightmare, I'm either going to force it to open in Safari Reader or leave entirely.

No content is worth this crap.

My guess is that it originates with designers who build these web pages as basically Keynote / PowerPoint presentations.

It’s shown to management, everybody oohs and aahs at the clever transitions between slides… And then the developer is stuck trying to replicate that “unique experience” with the designer breathing down their neck.

Yea I don’t quite get it. You immediately annoy/alienate users

Yep, I worked as a front-end dev since forever and I can confirm that I've been routinely asked by designers and other product people to

    - Change how scrolling works, incl. arbitrary scrolling angles and non-linear scrolling speed
    - Change how the fonts (and SVGs) are rasterized by the browser
    - Disable browser features, such as zoom and back button
    - Take over the browser's UI in other disgusting ways

...I work as a backend dev now, it's a happy place where people genuinely care that the SQL query runs fast, but nobody ever asked in which font it renders in Firefox on macOS.

Define "jacking"

What site really prompted this Tell HN rant?