Look this is a pet project, we're experimenting with different things, I happen to like it the way it is. Last time we were on the top of HN earlier this month our font was too light; I liked it as is, but I was wrong. It changed. If we're wrong on this, it'll change too.
For me the worst thing was not to see where in the article I am and how long the article is. I am using the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the text.
I have a trackpad and scrollbars hidden by default. It still sucks that I don't get the thumb showing up when I scroll. I have no way of knowing how far along I am.
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I wrote the post and made the site it's on. There are really people who don't have either of those?
But really, we just don't have everything done yet, I wrote everything on my own. We'll fix it in an upcoming update, sorry for the issues.
Scrollbars work perfectly when you don't write anything.
Look this is a pet project, we're experimenting with different things, I happen to like it the way it is. Last time we were on the top of HN earlier this month our font was too light; I liked it as is, but I was wrong. It changed. If we're wrong on this, it'll change too.
There are really people who don't have either of those?
Ummm, yeah, lots of them.
it's a joke (a bad one?)
I have a touch screen, a scroll wheel, arrow keys, space bar etc etc.
I use the scroll bar as my first choice, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Note to web-devs. If you modify scrolling, you're doing it wrong.
I'd even go so far as to say browser-devs shouldn't allow scrolling to be modified. It's an OS feature, not an application feature.
For me the worst thing was not to see where in the article I am and how long the article is. I am using the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the text.
I have a trackpad and scrollbars hidden by default. It still sucks that I don't get the thumb showing up when I scroll. I have no way of knowing how far along I am.