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0 pointsdredmorbius4y ago0 comments

Presently the fashion appears to be none.

Worse: the scrollbars which do exist are indicator-only, they cannot be used to actually navigate on the page.

On the four mobile devices I routinely have access to, none has an actual grabbable persistent scrollbar for navigation.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356511

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paulcapewell4y ago

Amusingly, given this topic, when I clicked your ello link, I had to accept a cookie consent, ignore a request to 'join the creators network' (whatever that means), and the page itself has a floating header.

Oh, and yes, on Chrome on Android I can see a tiny scrollbar when scrolling, but I can't interact with it.

dredmorbiusOP4y ago

You'll find that I no longer post to Ello due to numerous issues, including those rather annoying elements you describe.

It's unfortunate as the platform was clean and does do some things well (Markdown and quite nice image display).

It managed to kill off an active discussion community quite effectively however. With an effectiveness that strongly suggests intent.

Believe me, it's annoying for me as well even to visit and link back my old content from there.

More, if you can take the pain ;-)

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/8yvblh2kk33or_oz5nvmhw

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