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Jaxanyesterday at 9:46 AM1 replyview on HN

The deeply nested menu for entering the url, that’s bad, I agree. But why is a scrollbar on the other side better or worse?

I have the minimap configured on the left in vs code and use it as scrollbar. It’s quite nice actually.


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gapanyesterday at 10:45 AM

> The deeply nested menu for entering the url, that’s bad, I agree.

I'm not saying it is perfect, but it was not that bad, really. It's only one level down. And then you could also use a keyboard shortcut for it, which is always faster than anything mouse-driven if your hands are on the keyboard, which they would be, if you wanted to type a URL.

And even if you had to use the mouse, there is an interface feature we have lost: tear-off menus. If you found that you needed something in a nested menu often, you could simply tear-off that submenu and pin it on your desktop so you can always have direct access.