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by haversine 4573 days ago
It's interesting how often people talk about looking for the scrolling hint. Until (sort-of-)recently, the presence of the _scroll bar_ was the hint, and it worked well for the multiple decades it had been in use.

I had mostly gotten used to the new super scrolly pages, but this site breaks it by looking like a one-screen site with a footer and sidebar.
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rkangel 4573 days ago
I'd disagree - the hint was normally that content was disappearing off the bottom of the screen.

I had entirely missed that you were meant to scroll. And even when I found out it was irritating - I'm on a desktop with a mouse with a scrollwheel, and the distance I had to scroll was enormous.

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Semaphor 4573 days ago
> the hint was normally that content was disappearing off the bottom of the screen.

Which is another reason all those great looking but horrible to use single page sites that make it look like what you land on is all there is are an atrocity.

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jonknee 4573 days ago
At least on OS X there aren't scrollbars visible until you need them (start scrolling).

There is that small hint on the top right, but if the page is scrolled any amount--even an amount that doesn't move the page at all--the hint goes away and there are no visible scrollbars. It's a terrible UX.

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