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doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

okay what is with the recent trend of ๐Ÿ”ฌTiny Little Fucking Microscopic Scrollbars๐Ÿ” and why can websites do that to my browser now. fighting with this fiddly bullshit exacerbates my chronic pain and it's fucking annoying as shit. i have the world's most correct-able vision, an optometrist once told me my vision problems were boring, and multiple times a day i have to physically lean in and squint to see scrollbars on my Giant Fuck-Off Monitor. i can't think of anything that requires so much screen real estate that you would have to sacrifice Scrollbar Usability (except MAYBE something like Blender? idk!! Tool Panels Georg is a fucking outlier adn should not be counted!!). i have lived in front of PCs since 1994 and i have never once in my fucking life looked at any software or website and thought "damn, if only the scrollbar wasn't crowding this UI so bad, they should really shrink that down a bit". what is going on. if you make a scrollbar less than like 20px wide and don't at least let me easily override your bad decisions somehow, i'm going to come to your house while you're out grocery shopping and reduce the width of every doorway by exactly 51%. it'll take thousands of dollars to fix. you'll never understand how i did it.


wildweasel
@wildweasel

There is zero excuse why this can't still be a user-settable option. I know basically every damn window manager these days is vectorized for hi-DPI displays.


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in reply to @doodlemancy's post:

this particular design choice absolutely drives me up the wall. it's like they optimized for touch interfaces (by making them worse) and then added the world's smallest scrollbar for PCs so they wouldn't have to "compromise" their "vision" (yet another square-space-lookin-ass-site-that-sucks)

scrollbars were already made awful by making their contrast unimaginably bad, the tiny thing is even worse

it's real fun if you're stuck using something that doesn't have a scroll wheel. have fun clicking two pixels

on this very page it took me 6 seconds to find the scrollbar, because on this machine it is a light gray box on a light gray background surrounded by dark purple and dark gray.

the reason it took so long is that in addition to the fact its low contrast as fuck, its low contrast as fuck badly enough that with my eyesight i couldnt be sure if i was looking at the actual button part of the scrollbar or a ghost image.

I can only imagine the immediate response from the website designers being โ€œwell every mouse has a scroll wheel nowadays so why does it matter?โ€ but scroll wheels suck to use for some people! accessibility is always good and is a much better look in the long run than sanding all the edges off your website, and it prob takes more effort to make the less accessible option anyway!

this post prompted me to go see if i could set the size of the scroll bar, and there is an option in windows 11 "visual effects" accessibility page to "always show scroll bar" but it seems you can't change the size of it. enabling "always show scroll bar" made it bigger but it's still so thin.. hate this