Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by thirdtry on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:04PM
(#24295780)
I got bit by infinite scrolling yesterday. I liked an article, clicked in the URL, copied and pasted it into a group chat with my team... and then noticed it was the wrong URL. The fine website had "helpfully" autoscrolled a smidge into the next article, so it updated the URL box to the next article. Lesson learned-- read before pasting...
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You might resent the autoscroll on the website, but did you consider that the group chat program also has an infinite scroll, for chat history? Imagine what a hypothetical scrollbar for the group-chat program would look like if it had one, and if that scrollbar actually represented your relative position in a complete timeline going back to when the chat-group was created. :)
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by pseudalopex on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:08PM
(#24297393)
Consider that an actual timeline is a better interface for chat history than an infinitely scrolling log.