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Adding explicit opening/closing would defeat much of the point of it being frictionless. It being so frictionless makes it easy to retrace your path in a split-
by gwern 5y ago
Adding explicit opening/closing would defeat much of the point of it being frictionless. It being so frictionless makes it easy to retrace your path in a split-second, which heavyweight browsing does not. (We do have explicit closing/opening for mobile popins because holding your finger in place would be ridiculous on mobile and break in many ways.) If you want a popup to stick around, you can simply 'pin' it using the pin icon, and also drag, resize, maximize etc.
- barrkel 5y agoI feel increasing fear doing any "frictionless" browsing, knowing that I'd need to retrace my steps if I have a muscle tick or something similar which causes the cursor to stray outside the allowable area. It's a jenga tower of stacked navigation. So it's not actually frictionless, it actually induces mental stress the deeper in the navigation path I go. And knowing that I'd feel stress makes me not want to look at the popups at all, for fear that I find something interesting and feel that stress with a nested navigation. I think it's an interesting experiment but it's not for me.