I also had to just press the back button 8 times to get back here.

Agreed. Since when did scrolling become a page navigation? If I'd clicked a title, then sure do a hash change, but otherwise leave my URL alone.

On top of that, clicking an anchor (which on any normal website would take me _instantly_ to that point in the page) scrolls slowly from top to bottom. Do that a couple of times and watch what happens when you hit the back button a few times... shoot me now.

to whomever is building website thinking "oh, I know where my user wants to be in the page": please take a deep breath and rethink your assumptions.

Sadly I only have one up-vote to give. I compulsively scroll up-down and the page keeps scrolling me back to the viewport it thinks i want. While this take over the user's scroll thing is a neat trick it reminds me of when much of the internet was flash. It's my fcking browser, let me control the fcking scroll.

Thanks to noscript, I never even noticed.

You also wouldn't have noticed much of the content and interactivity you missed out on. Pages such as Comparison, and History are blank without javascript. Noscript is like leaving your TV on VHF even when digital works fine.

Ok, so anyway, people complaining about bad design should blame the bad design rather than the platform it uses. Happened with Flash when people said "let's say no to annoying ads on websites, and poorly made multimedia sites with intro screens, by hating on the technology they're made with!"

>interactivity

Actually this is one of the reasons I use noscript. A lot of web site interactivity is completely annoying, so I only turn it on when the site is interesting enough - which is not the case here.

Yes, this is going to far. And I am not blaming the web designer for this, I am blaming the html standard that still hasn't decided whether web pages are documents or applications.

Why does it even have a scroll bar if the behavior can be redefined at will.

You can redefine the scrolling behavior in other applications as well. The same thing as this page exists on an excel sheet scroll which adjusts to rows. Conclusion: I still blame the designer.

chrome console: window.onscroll is null, so it's probably buried somewhere in a setInterval. Couldn't work out how to stop it, so I just closed the darn tab.

to whoever wrote this: let me decide the vertical position of your paragraph of text on my screen! :p

I wonder what you are talking about because ... A ye, must be something that Ghostery or No script (js enabled) is preventing. Or ad block.

I guess I don't know what is preventing me for having a bad experience, but I guess one of those 3.

update Found the issue. JavaScript was disabled on the page. Sorry if my post mislead.

Not AdBlock nor Ghostery. Have both and page is moving alone.

It just fits the current section of the page to the screen

It's not adblock. I have in on and it jumps around.