This, I assume: (vertical scrolling moves horizontally, then vertically, later diagonally)

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816977

I’m so happy I was not the only person to notice that.

A bit quirky is exactly how I would have described it and once I accepted scrolling one direction would move the page wherever the designer wanted, I was fine.

I guess we found all the kids at Ender’s battle school that couldn’t imagine the enemy’s gate as “down”.

I do wonder how HN specific this is? Every site that has a quirky design or attempts something new gets absolutely blasted by surly people. But then someone posts a funny GeoCities style bootstrap theme and everyone goes on about how they miss when sites had a quirky touch?

I tried really hard to like that F1 website but just couldn't do it: terrible experience.

From the well aged book "Don't Make Me Think", people read the web differently than books. Almost always they are there to find information or get something accomplished, not for aesthetics or pleasure (though social media has likely skewed this since it's penning)

This is why consistent UX beats out cleaver design (churn)

See also, The Tyranny of the Marginal User: https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-margi...