Anyone have any idea who the devs are? According to the owner tag in the code, it's: https://devfortyfive.com/ but there's no information on the people behind it.
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Yeah, having the real people behind it hidden is basically the norm for Trump admin.
It's good information about how bad the app really is. People should not dismiss the information because of the crappy website complaints.
It seems like it's only crappy on mobile, no isues on desktop here.
same, worked fine in Firefox on linux, with no-script and uBlock
Omg, another person who’s crazy enough to run noscript still, I thought I was the only one.
I run no script on both Firefox desktop and mobile. I'd much rather have to approve things to run, than have them run by default.
What's wrong with no-script? I've been running it for years. It's a lifesaver.
If one has it set to default-deny Javascript, a lot of websites don't work, because many web developers don't develop websites that work without Javascript today.
Historically, websites did a better job of falling back.
There's dozens of us. Works great on mobile with NoScript, although the source code snippets don't load. Since the article describes what they do anyway it's still readable without them, and the excellent performance is worth leaving JS blocked.
I'm on my Pixel 9a and had zero problems with scrolling.
It works perfectly on mobile (Pixel 7) for me.
I can't say anything about the content of this blog. It was horribly laggy to scroll on mobile device. And by horribly laggy, I mean like aunt's 1986 vacation slide show on a projector while having dry cookies and tasteless off brand earl grey.
I'm sorry if it sounds rude but I had to bring this on out in the open. What even runs under the hood on that blog..
Even if the effect didn't lag, there's almost no added benefit to it. The title is cut off, and the description is even worse.
If the author wanted to, they could have done something like this with no scripts, minimum effort, and probably zero lag.
(If OP's website chucked for you, I'm curious whether this demo is seamlessly smooth. It is for me.)
Smooth as cub's fur.
It's a bit funny that it's completely at odds with how they describe their goals (emphasis mine):
I am thereallo, a web developer who makes things look pretty and work smoothly >w< been building stuff since 2020, mostly frontend but i can do fullstack too! i use react, next.js, and tailwind css because they just work, and motion for animations that don't feel plastic. i prototype in figma, steal components from shadcn/ui when i'm lazy, and deploy to vercel or cloudflare depending on the vibe~ i used to reverse engineer games (genshin leaks era lol) but now i just make websites that don't suck. i know typescript, python, go, and dabbled in rust and lua. my goal is making ui that feels human such as smooth feedback, clear buttons, keyboard accessible, no confusing bs. mobile first always! outside coding i listen to vocaloid and play project sekai, which definitely influences my color choices uwu. oh and i care way too much about bundle sizes and performance. currently learning native ios/android development. hmu on discord or github if u wanna chat! ♡
I didn't have any problem on my Android phone
It wasn't horribly laggy on my Pixel but it definitely was less performant than a page like this should be.
Holy shit, i thought i was gonna have a seizure first time i scrolled
Worked fine for me, but I block ads and trackers on my home network so that probably helped.
Like its locked to 10fps
runs perfectly fine on my laptop with firefox
Yea for me too, it appears to be something we the title header following your scroll. It's super smooth just until it tries to pin it to the top.
Reader mode works until I realised that they did explain the pictures, so just referenced text I didn't see.
Not a performance problem. My guess is, they (poorly) emulate native scrolling via JS on mobile. Probably for some progress feature or something.
JS disabled, scrolling works. Though it was only slightly laggy for me.
Unfortunately all of the code blocks are loaded after-the-fact with JS for some asinine reason (highlighting I'd understand... but why the actual text?), so disabling JS also disables all the code snippets on the page.
Definitely a performance problem, no HW acceleration on PC produces the same insanely stuttery scroll.
Btw, this site has no business doing (laggy) scrolling via JS on a fucking blog.
No JavaScript for you.
AI vibe coded slop.
Pretty much exactly what I expected.