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LinuxAmbulance ◴[03 Apr 25 16:20 UTC] No.43571959[source]▶
As a backend person, sometimes I look at what's being done for front end stuff and pull back in ever so slight horror.

It's an excellent article, and the work within is very well done, but there's a part of me that screams "Why would you introduce this much complexity for what should be a simple scroll?" (overcoming technical hurdles to produce the desired end result aside).

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hombre_fatal ◴[04 Apr 25 02:55 UTC] No.43577887[source]▶
I don't get "as a backend engineer" comments like these.

OP is doing a basic analysis on what kind of solutions exist for a typical UX edge-case. They even provide the simple solution that most people use (margin-bottom).

And for fun they go on to see if they can solve it without the minor drawback of the simple solution.

We've got to stop acting like it's a badge of honor to avoid UX consideration. We might not be people who implement UIs, we use UIs all day and should be able to muster up a few opinions about how a UX interaction should work.

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xnickb ◴[04 Apr 25 07:00 UTC] No.43579136[source]▶
Looking at the UI of modern apps and websites, I think we're too late with this.

What the mass user finds "intuitive" is already formed and it's in a horrible place and it's hard to go back.

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1. softwreoutthere ◴[04 Apr 25 07:17 UTC] No.43579217[source]▶
More people use computer applications effectively now than at any previous point in history. You might want to check your priors and consider that taste does not inform usefulness.