Lenis – Get smooth or die trying • Hacker News Board

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by rco8786 » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

IMMEDIATELY notice that it breaks two finger swipe back on Mac.

Stop. Hijacking. Scrollbars.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by gw98 » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine.

But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen of content surrounded in an ocean of bollocks.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by jkingsman » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:03 PM UTC

high_pathetic wrote: post #18

And nobody is going to comment on the name? I think they really missed an opportunity here. Why not Scrotul?

I think you're joking, but if you're not, Lenis is a latin word meaning calm or smooth.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lenis#Latin

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by luckylion » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:07 PM UTC

Aldipower wrote: post #13

I went on the website and thought: "Wow, this is great. I really like. Maybe I could use it for my next project." Then I came to the HN comment section, read only negative comments and now I do not want to use it anymore. Sad saturated world.

Don't let HNers dictate what you use, this is a very special audience and the overlap with the vast majority of the population is very small. Don't get me wrong, I hate these smooth-scrolling things and I wish Google would penalize it, but it won't matter to the majority of people, and they might actually find it neat.

If your project isn't targeting this very niche audience, include it. Add a cat that chases the cursor. Have a loading animation that assembles the site from blocks. Be bold and brave and enjoy yourself.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by cweagans » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

snapcaster wrote: post #17

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

Glad this comment was here haha, I'm on an m1 ultra macbook pro (the m2s haven't shipped yet?) and it does scroll really smoothly

M2 Macbook Pros are definitely available: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by i_am_jl » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:09 PM UTC

rco8786 wrote: post #21

IMMEDIATELY notice that it breaks two finger swipe back on Mac. Stop. Hijacking. Scrollbars.

>...it breaks two finger swipe back on Mac.

2-finger swipe as in swiping left or right to navigate forward and back? Isn't that a hardware or OS function so it can be differentiated from opening/closing the notification center?

Or are browsers really monitoring for scroll left/scroll right inputs to infer two finger swipe?

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by cweagans » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:12 PM UTC

Ugh.

I haven't bothered to search yet, but I wonder if there's a browser extension that can completely disable the browser APIs for monitoring scroll position. If websites were simply unable to hijack my scrollbar, the web would be a better place.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by unwind » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

gw98 wrote: post #22

quanticle wrote: post #10

It's not actually all that smooth. Oh, I'm sure on a top-of-the-line M2 Macbook Pro, running Safari or Chrome, it's like butter. But on a slightly less capable (Core i5U, 24GB RAM) Thinkpad, running Firefox, I can hear the fans spin up and the scroll feels a bit laggy. Certainly not as smooth as scrolling a relatively static website, such as Hacker News.

i5-12400, Firefox here. Smooth as butter. No fans. Then again this is a desktop machine. But I find these sites 100% unnecessary. Just put all your shit in the first section so I don't have to scroll. There's about half a screen of content surrounded in an ocean of bollocks.

I agree (scrolling to "immerse the reader" is unnecessary, let your content speak), but it would be equally annoying to have a site about a new scrolling library refuse to use it.

That would be like all those news articles that talk about interesting would-be visual things without providing images.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by nufflee » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

Very stuttery at times with Chrome 107 on Windows, i9 9900k.

Re: Lenis – Get smooth or die trying

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Post by pliuchkin » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

Reminded me of old Macromedia Flash webpages