Alex Frakt wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 4:56 pm
Hot Sauce wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2024 12:10 pm
Recently, I’ve started to experience a change in which quoted posts in yellow boxes now require scrolling. Anyone else? It is a real pain, makes it far less usable. Why oh why was this done? Everything was fine beforehand; this was definitely a change for the worse.
Why is it worse? It's either less scrolling if you don't stop the pointer in a scrollable box or literally the same amount of scrolling if you do. Remember that if the box wasn't there, you'd be scrolling across the full length of the quote.
On a laptop, before I could just read (or skim) the quote and scroll the whole screen as needed. Now if I want to read the quotes (I often want to at least skim them to see what in particular is being replied to in a longer thread), I have to pause and scroll the quote separately (mouse click, scroll wheel, etc). Whether I want to scroll the quote or not, I have to pay more attention to where I click and how I'm scrolling.
And on a phone, it's a lot more finger movements, and having to hit them in just the right spots to move what I want to move (e.g. scroll to read the quote or scroll to move the whole thread along). Maybe your fingers are long enough and accurate enough to easily reach whatever part of the screen you want over and over while reading a long thread and trying to relax. I have small hands and a big phone, so it's not that easy. Plus, the box to read the quote on my phone screen is tiny. So I can't even see a full sentence at a time if people are writing complex sentencees. Not easy for me to read and follow complicated text in small boxes like that. And yes, I do typically read (or skim) the quotes in place, rather than jumping back to the original place they were posted and then jumping back.
Thankfully, you gave us the option to turn it off in preferences, which I've done. But by no means is this easier for everyone. Some people will love it and some will not. Depends on how they like to read, how they like to scroll (mouse, arrow key, etc), what device they are using, etc. And not everyone will even realize they can change the preference.