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Re:Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Sti... by adrianmacneil on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:10PM (#10429124)
Worst scrolling of any website of any website I've ever used. I can't get it to stop on the second slide.

Seriously people, when can we drop this obsession with landing pages that hijack the scroll bar and turn a document into some sort of slide show? I just want to scroll down and read your content, but instead I'm forced to try touching my trackpad in various spurts trying to get it to stop when needed.

Re:Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Sti... by david-given on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:42PM (#10429325)
At least it has a scroll bar. It works really badly, in that it doesn't actually scroll the page, but it's there. I have seen this kind of page which didn't.

The scroll wheel is interestingly broken, though. It looks like a single movement triggers a transition to the next slide, and then all input is ignored for a couple of seconds. The same applies to the keyboard, so pressing the down arrow key a couple of times will move once.

I know the people behind the site are here, reading these comments, so I don't want to sound rude, but... I'm really interested in lucid dreaming, not being able to do it myself, so I am precisely the target market for this device, and even I am finding myself turned off by this website. It's actively hampering marketing the product.

Re:Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Sti... by ghrifter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:14PM (#10429153)
Front end devs or some graphic designer.

Its good for marketing a product as long as its kept to like under 5 items.

For showing data/information, it is a terrible way to do it. I dont want to read a powerpoint presentation.

Re:Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Sti... by adrianmacneil on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:25PM (#10429222)
Even with 5 items, it's bad. It would be better if they just disabled scrolling altogether and gave me a big "next" button to click on - at least then it would be possible to reach a discrete slide.

I think this might have looked good on whatever device it was designed for (I'm guessing PC+mouse), but as soon as you try to interact with it using a trackpad or mobile the experience turns to shit.

Re:Luciding – Induce Lucid Dreaming Through Transcranial Sti... by mskylion on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:02PM (#10433772)
Thanks for all your feedback about the website. We have just fixed the scroll, so go ahead and explore it freely!