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Don't remember a specific instance, but I've seen this used in a couple of sites. Kind of mind numbing. Try to read the text or click on a link in the footer,
by lobo_tuerto 4y ago
Don't remember a specific instance, but I've seen this used in a couple of sites. Kind of mind numbing.
Try to read the text or click on a link in the footer, and if you're lucky the request will be slow enough.
- ptk 4y agoNot exactly the same, but theverge.com has recently decided to shove about 50 Outbrain ads, across 3-4 loads, in between the end of the article and the comment section. It makes me livid every time, yet still I go back :(.
- HPsquared 4y agoThey need to make you carefully look through the ads somehow!
- vgel 4y agoI'm fairly convinced sites do this because someone there is sick of having to moderate their comment section, but doesn't have the buy-in to get rid of it entirely. So instead they stick a bunch of ads above it, hide it behind a button, etc. in hopes of annoying people into not commenting.
- tiahura 4y agoMcClatchy owned newspapers do this.
- jayd16 4y agoGotta use the ol' turn off wifi to hit the bottom trick.
- TheFreim 4y agoI've experienced sites with infinites scoll footers where the disable button is... on the footer.
- totetsu 4y agoGoogle images page is an example
- dspillett 4y agoI've seen this a number of times, though I can't remember a recent example. One site attempted to do it more intelligently, and the footer floated via z-index and pinned to the bottom of the window such that it was always visible despite the infinite scroll. Though they got it a little wrong and didn't account for the footer height in scroll calculations so if the content wasn't infinite so you could get to the end of the scroll, the last couple of lines were obscured by the footer. There must be quite a few ways to do this “properly” and smoothly (just thought of a couple right now, and I'm no front-end guy), assuming you consider automatic infinite scroll to ever be considered doing design “properly”.
- mattnewton 4y agoIt’s not a hard problem to notice or fix, probably just comes from people not using their site a lot. All you need to do is insert your content in a fib before a final “filler” div that has the same height as the floating footer. If your floating footer doesn’t have a fixed height (and there is some really good reason for that) a further hack is to measure it and then set the height of the filler div in js.
- ushakov 4y agoor just display the scrollable content in a container with overflow: scroll you can then make the container fill the height/width with flexbox
- mattnewton 4y agoAlso works well, but that might introduce janky behavior with iOS safari’s title bar and tapping the top to scroll to top in my experience. I don’t know if this has been fixed, it’s been a while since I wore a CSS hat, but I vaguely remember fighting with mobile safari and overflow divs a lot.
- ushakov 4y agoah, yes in that case you can just add position: sticky and bottom: 0 to the footer with this trick you get the same behavior as with position: fixed but won’t need a wrapper div as in the comment i replied to
- bmacho 4y agoMe too, I needed the contacts or the legals or something from the footer, but couldn't get it, it was super weird.
- Aeolun 4y agoThis is a chance to add a browser plugin to saturate the website with requests so the loading is shower.
- wruza 4y agoA desktop recipe is to press End and hit Esc immediately. On mobile: set flight mode, open in new tab, unset flight mode, refresh.