This website has a slow and laggy implementation which unfairly shows off the effect.
Death to Scroll Fade
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#52The poster seems to be implying that this effect is prevalent across the web, yet i'm seeing it for the very first time on that post. (And, indeed, it's annoying. My eyes can't read when there's animation going on nearby.) The goldfish animation along the bottom is epic and i will have to mine that bit for reuse somewhere :).
Anthropic uses it across all their websites, here's a typical example where the effect is obvious as you scroll down: https://claude.com/solutions/agents I could be wrong, but my simple guess is that it's become widespread in LLM-generated websites partly because of Anthropic's own style guides getting adopted through Claude-bundled skills and such.
Parts also seem to ignore prefers-reduced-motion.
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#53The poster seems to be implying that this effect is prevalent across the web, yet i'm seeing it for the very first time on that post. (And, indeed, it's annoying. My eyes can't read when there's animation going on nearby.) The goldfish animation along the bottom is epic and i will have to mine that bit for reuse somewhere :).
Are you sure you don't have prefers-reduced-motion enabled? I just found out I already have it enabled when I went to look for how to enable it...
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#54Originally read the URL as “D-Bus Hell dot com” and was like… yup.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scrolling should just move a fixed size view up and down a fixed sized page. Why on earth must everyone complicate it so much?
I don't understand why browsers ever let designers fuck up the scrolling mechanism in the first place. Why is that even possible?
Browsers have handed way too much control to web developers. "The web as a software SDK" was a terrible idea.
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#56I thought this was going to be about iOS and how now (as of iOS 26) there is a "fade out" at the top of every web page (around the notch/top-edge area). When scrolling/reading a web page, it literally changes that section of the text so that it fades to gray. So, "everything scroll fades". I couldn't find a way to turn it off. Quite irritating, IMHO. EDITED TO ADD ELABORATION: The issue with iOS "scroll fade" text co…
I turned on "Reduce Transparency", and instead of a fade, it turns the top and bottom sections of the screen into blank white space.
My "edge to edge screen" iPhone now resembles the last generation of iPhones with home button from 2017.
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#57The poster seems to be implying that this effect is prevalent across the web, yet i'm seeing it for the very first time on that post. (And, indeed, it's annoying. My eyes can't read when there's animation going on nearby.) The goldfish animation along the bottom is epic and i will have to mine that bit for reuse somewhere :).
It definitely isn't prevalent, and usually is for "feature" pieces (like an expose on the Washington Post back when they were a real newspaper), along with product pages. Apple uses it for their various pages, and it is legitimately annoying- https://www.apple.com/iphone/ Tesla is a fan as well- https://www.tesla.com/models Occasionally sites use lazy loaded images, and do a "fade in" effect when they're actually loa…
> https://www.tesla.com/models
Love how that page takes almost 10 seconds to load for the first time on a 200Mbps connection
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
The scroll fade on that site is comparatively inoffensive ( comparatively ), because you messed with scrolling itself, which is one of the worst things you can do, taking over and ruining inertia. You’re literally going out of your way to make things worse . The ONLY time scrolljacking of any kind is acceptable is for things like maps where there is no “normal”.
Or for a game, where it's part of the interface.
Got an example of what you mean? Because if you mean the only thing I can think of, I very strongly disagree.
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#59Amen. So cathartic to see someone publish the post I've been wanting to write for a while, and with a much better title.
Also: I've noticed a new abuse recently of sites implementing scroll momentum on desktop — has anyone else seen this? I couldn't believe it, but there it was.
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#60Death to Scroll Bar size change!!!