diff --git a/site/src/components/landing/ScrollBackHome.tsx b/site/src/components/landing/ScrollBackHome.tsx
index 21c57c438..7a393b6f6 100644
--- a/site/src/components/landing/ScrollBackHome.tsx
+++ b/site/src/components/landing/ScrollBackHome.tsx
@@ -1,21 +1,10 @@
-import {useEffect} from 'react';
+import {useEffect, useRef} from 'react';
 import {useHistory} from '@docusaurus/router';
-import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';
 import {useRoutePath} from '@site/src/config/navigation';
 
 /** The page the landing hero hands off to, and the page it hands back from. */
 const API_REFERENCE = '/docs/hiecm/v3/api';
 
-/**
- * A new gesture is one that starts after a pause. Momentum from a flick keeps
- * delivering `wheel` events at frame rate, so a gap this long never appears
- * inside one gesture, and always appears before the next one.
- */
-const NEW_GESTURE_MS = 350;
-
-/** How far a finger has to travel down, measured from the top, to leave. */
-const TOUCH_TRAVEL = 70;
-
 /**
  * The other half of the landing page's scroll handoff: at the very top of the
  * API references, scrolling up returns to the landing page.
@@ -23,22 +12,17 @@ const TOUCH_TRAVEL = 70;
  * `wheel` and `touchmove` here, not `scroll`, and this is the one place that
  * is right. At scrollY 0 the page cannot scroll up any further, so no
  * `scroll` event ever fires; the gesture has to be read before the browser
- * discards it.
+ * discards it. The intent threshold is on the wheel delta rather than on
+ * position for the same reason.
  *
  * Only from the reference page, and only from its very top, so an ordinary
  * scroll back up through a long page ends at the top and stops there. A
- * second, deliberate upward gesture is what leaves. What separates the two is
- * the pause between them: an upward flick that runs to the top keeps sending
- * momentum events after it arrives, and those events are indistinguishable
- * from a deliberate push except by their timing.
+ * second, deliberate upward gesture is what leaves.
  */
 export default function ScrollBackHome(): null {
   const history = useHistory();
   const pathname = useRoutePath();
-  // The landing page sits at the site root, which is the base URL and not
-  // necessarily '/'. `history.push` is given a browser path and applies no
-  // base of its own, so the base has to be on the path already.
-  const home = useBaseUrl('/');
+  const armed = useRef(false);
 
   useEffect(() => {
     const onReference =
@@ -54,58 +38,48 @@ export default function ScrollBackHome(): null {
       document.documentElement.dataset.leavingBack = 'true';
       window.setTimeout(() => {
         delete document.documentElement.dataset.leavingBack;
-        history.push(home);
+        history.push('/');
       }, 220);
     };
 
-    let lastWheel = 0;
     const onWheel = (event: WheelEvent) => {
-      const now = event.timeStamp;
-      const sinceLast = now - lastWheel;
-      lastWheel = now;
-
-      if (!atTop()) return;
-      if (event.deltaY > 0) return;
-      // Still the flick that brought the page up here, or its momentum. The
-      // reader asked to reach the top, not to go past it.
-      if (sinceLast < NEW_GESTURE_MS) return;
-      if (event.deltaY < -8) go();
-    };
-
-    // Measured from where the finger was when the page reached the top, not
-    // from where the touch began: a long swipe up through the page would
-    // otherwise arrive at the top with the full distance already travelled.
-    let travelFrom: number | null = null;
-    const onTouchStart = () => {
-      travelFrom = null;
-    };
-    const onTouchMove = (event: TouchEvent) => {
-      const y = event.touches[0]?.clientY ?? 0;
       if (!atTop()) {
-        travelFrom = null;
+        armed.current = false;
         return;
       }
-      if (travelFrom === null) {
-        travelFrom = y;
+      // Arm on reaching the top, fire on the next upward push. Without the
+      // arming step, momentum left over from scrolling up through the page
+      // carries straight past the top and leaves without being asked to.
+      if (event.deltaY > 0) {
+        armed.current = false;
         return;
       }
-      if (y - travelFrom > TOUCH_TRAVEL) go();
+      if (!armed.current) {
+        armed.current = true;
+        return;
+      }
+      if (event.deltaY < -8) go();
     };
-    const onTouchEnd = () => {
-      travelFrom = null;
+
+    let touchStart = 0;
+    const onTouchStart = (event: TouchEvent) => {
+      touchStart = event.touches[0]?.clientY ?? 0;
+    };
+    const onTouchMove = (event: TouchEvent) => {
+      if (!atTop()) return;
+      const dy = (event.touches[0]?.clientY ?? 0) - touchStart;
+      if (dy > 70) go();
     };
 
     window.addEventListener('wheel', onWheel, {passive: true});
     window.addEventListener('touchstart', onTouchStart, {passive: true});
     window.addEventListener('touchmove', onTouchMove, {passive: true});
-    window.addEventListener('touchend', onTouchEnd, {passive: true});
     return () => {
       window.removeEventListener('wheel', onWheel);
       window.removeEventListener('touchstart', onTouchStart);
       window.removeEventListener('touchmove', onTouchMove);
-      window.removeEventListener('touchend', onTouchEnd);
     };
-  }, [history, home, pathname]);
+  }, [history, pathname]);
 
   return null;
 }