Comment by niek_pas

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Its not even just mobile. Scrolling down on my desktop using the scroll wheel... Page goes down, then right, then down. I find it disorienting and completely turns me away from the site. I've seen it before and every time, it's a net negative to the site in question; sometimes a lot.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the author does not in fact specialise in web design, and thus its quite expected that when they do something unusual that it won't work for some portion of the audience.

It works fine on some mobiles.

I tried scrolling right and left and reloaded the page a couple times.

Turns out scrolling down is translated to scrolling left.

It works well for me on mobile

This could have easily been a youtube short or whatever 'vine offshoot' is your particular favourite flavour.

On one hand, videos are terrible for accessibility. On the other hand, by being a website, in theory this stands a better shot. And yet, someone on a mobile phone probably has a much worse experience trying to consume this content than the equivalent as a series of shorts, one for each letter.

I don't know what conclusions we are meant to draw. I just found it an interesting realisation.

It's not immediately intuitive but hardly unusable. Reminds me of apple.com (and that's not a compliment).

This page works beautifully in my iPhone. As I scroll down, the content slides and animates. I actually came here to say that I’m stunned that this effect can be good in mobile, only to find out your comment :D