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[–] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

@pmjv Is anyone willing to put their head over the parapet and explain why scrollbars were taken from us? Like, we know why the web has to be entirely light grey on slightly lighter grey - it's to protect us from "eye strain". Is there an equivalent rationalisation for scrollbar erasure?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Because everything is being designed as a narrow webpage with infinite scroll served up by the algorithm. The bottom of the page no longer exists so there's no definable range for a scrollbar.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    @Couldbealeotard Yeah, that explains substack, which is where I notice this the most. There's supposed to be a huge scrum of comments continually popping up at the bottom for the algorithm to helpfully sift for you. The fact that nothing is actually there on any blog I read is not a factor in design decisions.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    My guess is the mouse wheel made them less necessary to the point where form over function folks won out.

    Though I do still see a scroll bars in Firefox and steam. Some auto hide when the mouse isn't hovering over the pane they scroll, but they are there. Similar on my windows work machine.

    Might be more of a phone thing where accelerated swipe scrolling is a thing. And because they decided to get rid of the back button on the pixel, they made interactions with the side of the screen mean back, which would make interacting with scroll bars annoying (though I'd rather have a fucking back button and not have that annoying behaviour when I do a movement that looks like swiping from the edge, which happens a lot in chess whenever I want to move a piece on the edge of the board.

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