Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/29/2022, 7:19 PM

squircular reasoning @spiders

squircular reasoning @spiders9/28/2022, 8:01 PM

a psa to ui developers about scrollbars:

PLEASE stop doing this thing where you hide the scroll bar when it's not being used, or make it invisible, or super thin and difficult to see. this post explains why. as an example of this...

colin @vogon9/28/2022, 8:08 PM

this is a great post that I 100% agree with, and also as someone with Brain Problems I find myself looking at the scroll bar on web pages a lot for reassurance about how far through a particular long read I am, and hidden-by-default scroll bars are infuriating to me

Shel @shel9/28/2022, 11:07 PM

Also

Hiding UI elements that are "assumed to be there because they always are" only works for people with very high tech literacy. To someone who doesn't use computers every single day or hasn't been doing it since before they started hiding the scroll bars, the UI has now become completely opaque with no way for them to figure out that there is more to see on screen or how to see more of it

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squircular reasoning @spiders9/28/2022, 8:07 PM

if you put developers in charge of a city they would be like "it's long since time that we removed these ugly and unsightly tactile pavers on our curb cuts, to better pursue the minimalist aesthetic which is the future of good design. and we should stop having walk signals announce out loud when it's safe to walk- good design should speak for itself!"

cassandra rose @cass9/28/2022, 8:33 PM

to be honest with you i would not be surprised if there are city planners/designers who are frustrated by those things. as a fan of city planning most city planners are the worst

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/29/2022, 7:18 PM

you almost certainly already have tried, but if you middle click a non-link in a page that scrolls, at least on windows and Linux scroll will follow the mouse, and might enable easier bindings than the scrollbar even if i think the scrollbar also shouldn't be hidden

squircular reasoning @spiders9/29/2022, 7:23 PM

this doesn't really work for me because it scrolls very fast and can be ~~erotic~~ erratic with eye tracking

talon has a similar mode where the scroll follows your gaze at a much more reasonable pace, which we also sometimes use, but it's situational and a lot of the time just clicking the scroll bar is better because its less vocal strain

edit: correction of extremely funny dictographic error

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/29/2022, 7:25 PM

oh i see, I thought you were describing clicking and holding the handle, not the empty "track", got it

squircular reasoning @spiders9/29/2022, 7:26 PM

oh no yeah dragging with eye tracking is a nightmare and we avoid doing it like the plague

squircular reasoning @spiders10/12/2022, 5:09 PM

https://cohost.org/spiders/post/133355-how-we-managed-to-di

an update on how we managed to disable it on our computer (firefox and linux)

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Keiya the Cyber-Kitty @keiya10/2/2022, 8:50 AM

Unfortunately it's useless for that most of the time because "infinite scroll" bullshit.

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