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Scrollbars are becoming a problem
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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And just straight up broken by idiocy like infinite scroll.
I would imagine the same designer who implements infinite scroll would also design bad scrollbars
Most fun are the infinite scroll pages with a footer.
Hey, it's difficult to figure out how to present large amounts of information in a usable fashion. So let's just NOT EVEN FUCKING BOTHER and just put everything into a gigantically long list instead.
It's not that it's difficult, this method encourages “doomscrolling” because the user doesn't actively decide to go to the next page.