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by ashark 3214 days ago
#1 complaint on every platform, for me. Sticky is very bad. Disappearing on scroll down but reappearing on scroll up is even worse. Just let the things scroll off screen, I can scroll to the top if I want to see anything on the header (spoiler alert: I won't). Old-school sticky sidebars (as in old frame layouts, for example) were totally fine on desktop, but are out of fashion now because they don't translate well to mobile.

I remove sticky elements with the dev console on anything I actually want to read that's longer than a few lines of text—though I can't do that on mobile, so it's worse there.

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I even dislike that the URL bar on chrome mobile acts like this, even though I can't think of any good alternative.

> Old-school sticky sidebars (as in old frame layouts, for example) were totally fine on desktop, but are out of fashion now because they don't translate well to mobile.

What we need is the ability to focus on a div.