# Scroll jank when scrolling up

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/scroll-jank-when-scrolling-up/108381>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 4:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scroll-jank-when-scrolling-up/108381 "2019-02-05T04:48:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/scroll-jank-when-scrolling-up/108381/8 "2019-02-05T11:18:47Z")

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For the record, this is a very difficult problem. And scrolling down is fundamentally different because you’re not stacking things on top of the viewport. A variable height post causes no problems when added to the bottom, but consider what it does when stacked on top.

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