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I'd rather like to see a movement against websites that force users to vertically scroll down page after page to read three paragraphs of text.
by JohnStrange 10y ago
I'd rather like to see a movement against websites that force users to vertically scroll down page after page to read three paragraphs of text.
- eyelidlessness 10y agoThat's interesting. Because clearly separating parts of content too far presents a usability challenge of its own, but failing to separate them enough presents a similar set of usability challenges. I personally tend toward the "users do scroll, it's okay to make long pages" school of thought. But certain extreme cases are extremely unpleasant to use. That said, I don't consider this one case so extreme, because it at least does not take over my ability to scroll at the pace I expect.
- derefr 10y agoI think the problem here might be that, if you're skimming the text of these "slides" and not looking at the illustrations, you can actually read faster than it's possible to scroll on most computers, and thus "stall your [visual] pipeline." Normally, with scrolling, I can still read while I'm scrolling. In this case, I have to read-THEN-scroll-THEN-read-THEN-scroll, etc.