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I had it for all of five minutes and during those few minutes I found it very bizarre. My first instinct was to scroll vertically, but doing so resulted in a b
by dhritzkiv 8y ago
I had it for all of five minutes and during those few minutes I found it very bizarre.
My first instinct was to scroll vertically, but doing so resulted in a behaviour akin to scroll-jacking on the web that is oft met with disdain. It first tried to get me to scroll horizontally (fine, on the first run, in order to teach me the new behaviour), but then it broke down the vertical scrolling into different subsections –photo, comments, more comments– that was highly unnatural.
Further, the horizontal scrolling didn't facilitate the fast-scrolling that I'm used to on the feed, which is helpful in finding a particular post, or when trying to quickly skip over posts I found uninteresting. Instead, it restricted scrolling to one-post-at-a-time.
I feel it was a big mistake to replace the smooth, natural vertical scrolling that comes for free on mobile devices.