alt Hacker NewsThere are no bad animations, only bad designs.
If you design the animation to be way over the top like this, and then design the page to use it on every line then of course it looks like shit.
This is like arguing against any amount of sugar in food and then shoveling it into someone's mouth to try to prove your point. It's disingenuous and you aren't proving anything. I don't even think the top agreeing comments here are coming from web devs or the target users.
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kbelder • today at 6:36 PM
If you sped this up, and minimized it to the point it was unnoticeable, it would not hurt the browsing experience.
But that raises the question...
Animations need to to serve a purpose.
Fading in is justifiable when you're adding new content on top of existing content, and need to draw attention to the fact that something changed in that part of the screen. None of that applies in the case of fade-in during scrolling. The user is already scrolling, everything on screen is moving, and new content is already expected to be coming in to view at the bottom of the window. Adding animations on top of all of that doesn't help anything, and just distracts from and delays presentation of the content the user was already trying to reveal.