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    Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

    (rachelbythebay.com)
    569 points todsacerdoti | 14 comments | 05 Jan 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 1.223s | source | bottom
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    hackingonempty ◴[05 Jan 25 02:51 UTC] No.42599363[source]▶
    > I don't keep a "dick bar" that sticks to the top of the page to remind you which site you're on.

    I use an extension called "Bar Breaker" that hides these when you scroll away from the top/bottom of the page.[0] More people should know about it.

    [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bar-breaker/

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    1. xp84 ◴[05 Jan 25 02:56 UTC] No.42599387[source]▶
    Nice. This may be my pet peeve on the modern internet. Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is it breaks scrolling with spacebar, which is THE most comfortable way to read long content, it scrolls you a screen at a time. But a dickbar obscures the first 1 to…10? lines of the content, so you have to scroll back up. The only thing worse than the dickbar is the dickbar that appears and disappears depending on last direction scrolled, so that each move of the scrolling mechanism changes the viewport size. A pox on them all.
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    2. nayuki ◴[05 Jan 25 02:58 UTC] No.42599396[source]▶
    > Nearly EVERY site has a dick bar, and the reason I care is

    that when reading on my laptop screen, it takes up valuable vertical space on a small display that is in landscape mode. I want to use my screen's real estate to read the freaking content, not look at your stupid branding bar.

    And I don't need any on-page assistance to jump back to the top of the page and/or find the navigation. I have a "Home" key on my keyboard and use it frequently.

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    3. robertoandred ◴[05 Jan 25 03:47 UTC] No.42599602[source]▶
    Note to web devs: use scroll-padding to fix this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-padd...
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    4. dredmorbius ◴[05 Jan 25 06:39 UTC] No.42600183[source]▶
    No.

    Just kill the fucking dickbar.

    5. resonious ◴[05 Jan 25 07:01 UTC] No.42600237[source]▶
    Dick bar often breaks hash links as well. You click a link that scrolls you to a section, but you can't see the first few lines of it.
    6. Doctor_Fegg ◴[05 Jan 25 07:09 UTC] No.42600262[source]▶
    IIRC (as a fellow spacebar aficionado) position:fixed breaks spacebar scrolling but position:sticky generally doesn’t.
    7. oneeyedpigeon ◴[05 Jan 25 12:11 UTC] No.42601273[source]▶
    TBF, many people don't have that Home key. I agree with you, though - there should be a better solution. At the very least, just have an optional "Top of page" toolbar button in your browser.
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    8. P-Nuts ◴[05 Jan 25 13:23 UTC] No.42601573{3}[source]▶
    Ctrl+↑
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    9. oneeyedpigeon ◴[05 Jan 25 13:28 UTC] No.42601609{4}[source]▶
    That's one option. On macOS, it's fn + Left. On Android, I'm not sure there's anything.
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    10. philsnow ◴[05 Jan 25 21:52 UTC] No.42605364[source]▶
    I often scroll with the space bar instead of more modern contrivances like arrow keys, scroll wheels, trackpoints, or trackpads. Sites with these header bars always seem to scroll the entire viewport y size instead of (y - bar_height), so after I hit space I have to up-arrow some number of times to see the next line of text that should be visible but is hidden under the bar.
    11. cwillu ◴[06 Jan 25 03:35 UTC] No.42607396[source]▶
    NAK; stop doing stupid shit and then you don't need browser support to fix the things you break on a case-by-case basis.
    12. Y_Y ◴[06 Jan 25 06:36 UTC] No.42608268{5}[source]▶
    On Android I think the typical interaction if to "fling" the page downward which will rapidly scroll until you crash into the top. Seems adequate for all but the longest pages.
    13. wruza ◴[06 Jan 25 07:59 UTC] No.42608648{5}[source]▶
    Wasn’t it cmd-up on mac?
    14. carlosjobim ◴[06 Jan 25 12:08 UTC] No.42609893{3}[source]▶
    On iPhone: Touch the top bar

    On MacOS: Click the top part of the scroll bar