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by Gring 4982 days ago
This site has the same issue 98% of all websites with a big overlay at the top have - every time you scroll using the page down key, the page jumps too far and you miss one or more lines of text. I hope this gets fixed quickly.

Interestingly enough, it's better on the iPad, where the top scrolls normally with the rest of the page.

This idea of having stuff fixed on the page goes back to the late 1990s, when frames were popular and tasteless big corp CEOs went "oh hey great, with frames we can ensure that certain parts of our branding are always in the face of the customer. Bring it on!".

A few years down the line, we grew up, refined our taste and trusted that if a visitor sees the logo in the top left and then scrolls down, he still remembers the branding. It's sad, really, that this lesson was lost again in the past year.

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In the age of infinite scrolling / non-pagination it's a huge pain to scroll back up for menu. Especially on mobile. Polygon obviously uses the fixed bar for improved user experience. It takes up precious screen space - but that's the tradeoff.
You do are aware that on iOS you can tap the top bar and scroll back to the top with 1 tap? And on non-mobile, there is a scroll-to-the-top key that does the same thing…?