Comment by delbronski
4 hours ago
Why do web animations get so much hate with the HN crowd?
I think a website is similar to a painting. Some will make you dizzy by just looking at them, and others will be a minimalist dream.
Don’t hate me HN, but I say keep messing with the scroll bar, keep making annoying blinking banners, have your way with scroll fade.
Don’t listen to these web dev veterans, they are just like snobby movie critics!
Because it's just as tasteless as the beginner who discovered the font dropdown and chose Papyrus. Yeah we're all marvelling at your web coding prowess -- has the actual content shown up on screen yet?
Reminds me of me the https://motherfuckingwebsite.com.
> Shit's legible and gets your fucking point across (if you had one instead of just 5mb pics of hipsters drinking coffee)
They get hate because they are almost always annoying and distract from the actual content. Nobody cares how creative your web page design is if it sucks to use so badly that a plain text page would be better.
But do they really suck to use so badly? Like for real? The examples that have been listed in the comments (Apple and Claude sites) look totally fine to me. People here are talking about them like they are the worse websites ever.