alt Hacker NewsSomething else scroll-related I personally hate:
Sticky 'headers' that disappear when you scroll down, and appear when you scroll up. I hate them so much. It hurts my brain to see the stupid thing appear and disappear constantly if I scroll around a page.
The worst part is you can't even zap them out of the way with something like uBlock, because then there's no header even when you're at the top of the page. >:(
EDIT: Whoops, flipped the directions. Complaint still stands though.
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This only really works easily on desktop and requires a click, but is very satisfying to use:
Also if anything it should disappear when scrolling down and appear when scrolling up.
Oh god yes I absolutely hate those. Who on earth thought that was a good idea.
There is a special circle in hell where designers of such sites have to actually use the sites they design.
Interesting, I find sticky headers to be the bane of my existence, and the ones that disappear but reappear on scroll up are a lesser evil
same thing intersects with ios safari when it hides top and bottom tool bars, hate that too.
and with the website doing the same thing, it's a mess.
Screen real-estate for legitimate content is often at a premium and then they go and steal some of that land with sticky headers and or footers. I occasionally run across mobile sites that use both at the same time, while throwing in ads here and there, it's an atrocious experience.
This is literally the best ux pattern you can have. It is intuitive - user immediately discovers it when performing the obvious action, it increases the user experience (more text to read) without any real downside.
It is the first thing I suggest to anyone when I see someone didn't implement it.
I've never heard a complaint about it until now.
God yes. For some reason, I automatically scroll in such a way that I always keep what I'm reading at the very top of the screen. Which means that every time I want to reread a sentence I first have to scroll past the header.